yep, completely agree with that.

they grow up with it and they are usually good in the sports they grow up with. so there are high quality games to watch on tv, the kids are inspired and the next generation will grow up with the same sport. no reason for any change.

in our class we had an american exchange student who could beat us all in basketball, even so he said he wasn't really good and in the US he got kicked out of a team because he was "too bad". on the other hand our exchange student who went to america was top scorer in the soccer team of his collage, even so i have to say he was probably one of the worst soccer players in our class. it's simply what they/we always play, already when we are 4 or 5 years old. and because of that, we won't change our prefered sports probably in the next decades...

and because we will never completely look the same at a "new" sport like we look at a sport we grow up with, we will never completely understand the enthusiasm of another nation for a different sport.