No. But my mother didn't watch much tv at all, let alone sports, and my father usually was at work (at 80 he still works 6 days a week), so he never had time to watch tv (or any interest in sports, I think I watched him watch one football game in my life, and I still don't know why he did). As a child I was allowed very little tv, I wasn't about to blow all of it on watching a sport I didn't understand.
I've never had great hand-eye coordination, so while I did attempt basketball (I was taller than most of the children) I wasn't good at it. And I was terrible at soccer. But I was very good at swimming. By the time I was old enough for school related sports (jr high?) I was training every evening and had 3x a week 5am practices. By high school I had 3 different practices to go to some day. And by then, I looked at football as being slow and lazy. they stopped to rest every couple seconds, while my main event was a mile swim. Of course, I also wouldn't have been of any interest to a football team. Because of the training I had to eat 5,000 calories a day just to maintain my 5% bodyfat. I was just under 6'2" and 185lbs.
Contrast that to 220lbs now, something I consider way too fat.
Long story short.... I wasn't exposed to the idea of watching sports as a child. By the time I got old enough to have done it myself, I simply had no time or desire to watch someone else exercise. Between swimming, orchestra and homework, and the occasional lifeguard job, there were many days I would be in 3 different pools until 10pm, finally get home, practice my cello until 11, do homework until 12 and then be up at 4:30am for training. My weekends were always busy wtih something....
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