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Message: [QUOTE="KnightBridgeAZ, post: 2710152, member: 591"] Male in my 60's. I have always enjoyed watching sports, I didn't have an athletic bone in my body. Baseball, mostly, growing up. Introduced to Hockey in high school which continued into college. Always watched (some) football. Never basketball, oddly enough. After my marriage (in my mid 30's) I kind of cooled on watching baseball (the length of games, I'm not complaining about it, life just was busier in a fun way), watched a lot of football (my wife was a big fan) and continued with hockey. I went through a (short) period where I wasn't sleeping well, and would wake up during the night and throw on the tiny bedroom TV (how times have changed) and I came across my alma mater, Rutgers, playing women's basketball on a local station (3 AM replay). And, oddly enough, I actually enjoyed the game in a way that brief watching of men's bb hadn't enticed me. Can't explain it, but it was interesting. Fast forward a few years and the NHL was on strike when my wife went to buy my "annual" Christmas present of Ranger's tickets (although, again due to time constraints, I didn't watch much hockey - but I rooted) so she went for front row seats to Rutgers Women's Basketball. Seeing the game in person, being excited and able to root, sold me. As time went on, we became devoted fans, watched a lot more games on TV, etc. An interesting side-light is that we added softball and women's volleyball to the sports we watch over time. I'm quite unable to say why we prefer women's sports (if you could say that, we still root hard for baseball and watch endless football, both NFL and college), but we do tend to consider ourselves women's sports fans. I enjoy the competition. Unlike many who are addicted to the relative high level UConn style, I enjoy virtually any competitive game between decent level teams. No, low level conferences don't hold a lot of appeal, nor other divisions, but - if competitive - I don't have a problem watching teams from the better conferences playing their equals. If the game isn't competitive (sorry, UConn fans) I lose interest unless the game features "my" team - currently Rutgers and Arizona - winning or losing. [/QUOTE]

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