Calling all Sports fans (doesn't matter which sport)! Help a poor and clueless writer

I just opened the flyer announcing the next The Art Garden (a sort of literary magazine, except the writers read their work before a live audience, instead of having it printed and mailed). The performance date is April 22, the submission deadline is April 14th, the theme is "Sports," and I have no idea what to write.

The Art Garden's general tone is to find the spiritual and enlightening in seemingly mundane subjects (I think my best recent Art Garden piece was the one I wrote for "Shoes," for example). But my attitude toward sports, in general, is decidedly "Meh." I neither like nor dislike them, and I really don't understand what all the fuss is about.

So -- if you are the fan of a sport (really doesn't matter which one), could you please tell me why you like playing, or watching, it? Maybe that would jiggle some braincells loose.

Thanks so much!