This is the reason I've always found feminism laughable and intellectually lazy, you couch your entire world view in the lens of misogyny, and use it to explain every aspect of our society. Sports always have and always will be a male centered interest, because they channel the masculine drive for excellence, and inspire men in all aspects of their life. Sports are an artistic(yes artistic) expression of male virtues, and mans want for recognition among his peers. Strength, agility, and overall physical prowess have been masculine virtues since the beginning of our species and, and are an intrinsic aspect of the male archetype, typically manifesting in competition.
Sports are a showcase of the most base masculine virtues while also incorporating those that we picked up as human civilization progressed such as ambition, bravery, determination, discipline, etc.... You have to have determination, discipline, and ambition to be a Michael Jordan, in fact you almost have to have these oozing out of your pores to achieve at the highest level of sports. If you even want to be a running back on your high school football team you need a level of bravery that is admirable.
It's through the viewing of these artistic expressions of masculine virtue we call sports that many men derive the inspiration to achieve in their own pursuits of interest. Sports are art in motion, go watch Michael Jordan highlights and tell me this man isn't practicing an art form at the highest level. Its through the viewing of these artists practicing their artform at the highest level that many men derive inspiration to achieve in their own lives, which is why sports stars are often their childhood heros.
Would most sports fans be able to articulate this point to you (as I probably sloppily have), or even recognize it themselves on a conscious level? No probably not, because they don't need to they understand what is occurring on a subconscious level. Nor is this the sole reason that people watch sports I might add, Nor do all men derive inspiration from them obviously. Sports are not given undo importance, they're given the importance that individuals in our society deem them to have, whether you understand why men deem them important or not is another point.
As many women in this thread have pointed out women are physically weak in comparison to men, this is obvious to anyone with a pair of eyeballs. Yet feminists fail to make the logical connections as to why masculine virtues and the masculine archetype are rightly seen as stronger and take the label weak as purely an insult. They are threatened by the male virtues because they see themselves as competing with men now instead of simply competing with other women like in the past. They fail to see the value in traditionally feminine virtues, and so seek to demonize masculine virtues in turn. Obviously not all men possess every masculine virtue and not all women possess every feminine virtue, and there are those that may pick up a virtue or two from the other half. This however is not the norm and such is the reason these virtues have been divided up between the sexes to create archetypal pictures of both.
There's no place in traditional society for feminine men, other men will not respect them or accept them because they lack any respectable qualities a man should possess while adopting feminine one's instead. Women will not respect them or find them a suitable partner as they're attracted to masculine virtues. The reason this isn't the case the other way around is because outside of butch lesbians hardly any women try to shed feminine virtues in an attempt to emulate masculine ones, they'll instead adopt one, two or however many while retaining most of the feminine virtues they already were going to have. Some men are threatened by ambitious women, but thats why these women usually end up marrying more ambitious or successful men then themselves or their equals if they are near the top of their field.
sufficive to say this is why when a man sees his son in a dress he's quick to shut it down, he makes all the logical connections in his head of the implications it might have on his sons future subconsciously, and deems it inappropriate. It's not from a place of malice for women or feminine virtues that he tells his son he's being a faggot, but rather a concern for his sons ability to succeed in life that he tells him to stop acting like a sissy.