What is the big attraction to sports?

Being a sportswriter, I can see there are a few basic human characteristics that sports play to. There's the obvious competitive nature that most people have. Even if it is extremely strong, or a faint feeling inside of you, everyone has a bit of the competitive spirit in them. Sports brings that our of us, and help us at times from getting overboard with those feelings. I know that I get competitive when I am playing basketball or football, even with friends. I am sure there are many others who get like that, too. This applies to being fans of teams, because a lot of us invest emotionally to those teams and get as competitive just cheering for them as we do actually playing. Also, I think that as human beings, we like good stories and underdogs. we get that at times, for instance the college basketball tournament, when we root for the underdogs and cheer for those good stories in sports. There is a bit of envy there for some people; they want to be able to be as good as those people, and there are some who just marvel at the athletic ability that these athletes seem to possess naturally.