Because they're low iq retards, literally. It has nothing to do with race because anyone who's equally as invested in hockey or nasqar or whatever the fuck is equally as stupid. Sports are entertainment, nothing more nothing less. It's basically reality, unscripted TV where the stronger team of men or women beat the other. So when you have a bunch of these assholes trying to be political or pretend they care about certain causes and what not it puts people off. That said why people get so invested and emotional over sports when they have no actual stake in it(besides gambling) is something I seriously do not understand.