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Sure, that's true; one tends to like the sports that one grows-up with. When I was growing-up, soccer was virtually unknown in this country. We had baseball, football, and basketball, and that was about it for team sports. When I was in high-school I played a couple of seasons of football, and I played baseball every season. I never did care much about football, I mostly played to please my dad. But I thoroughly enjoyed baseball and even thought about playing in the major leagues. Only one thing stopped me..... no talent! I was OK in a sand-lot sort of way, good enough to make the team every year, but certainly I was no high-school baseball star, just an enthusiastic left-fielder. But playing did give me a life-long affection for the game, an affection that I never formed for football (at which I was actually better!). To this day, I don't follow football and I watch only one football game a year - the Super Bowl and I'll admit that I watch that more for the camaraderie of my buddies (and the party) and the special Super Bowl commercials than I do for the game. So, its probably more complicated than just familiarity, but that's definitely a part of it.

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