This is a bit tangential to your post, but I think there's an important distinction that's being missed in most of the comments on this thread: Not liking watc

This is a bit tangential to your post, but I think there's an important distinction that's being missed in most of the comments on this thread: Not liking watching sports and not liking _sports_ (i.e. playing) are very different things with very different causes (though they are, to a degree, correlated). The article is primarily talking about watching pro sports, so IMO what you're describing doesn't really give a complete picture of the topic at hand. As a single example, playing sports is one of my favorite things to do, despite finding watching pro sports to be extremely, extremely boring (regardless of the context: Soccer is my single favorite sport and even at a World Cup party I found myself bored out of my mind).