My guess is it's something to do with how older folks seem to just give less of a shit about what people think as they get older 😂

That said, one of my dad's slightly older friends (who was 70 at the time, ten years ago, when my dad was about 60) once brought his laptop over asking if I could help him save it because he had a virus that wouldn't let him log in. Turned out to be just a basic ransomware virus, solved by logging in on safe mode and downloading malware bytes. It's going through his files, and as he asks "it doesn't bring up my history, does it?" (Or something similar to that) I glance at the screen and it's currently showing the cookies for a bunch of porn sites... I just said "nope" and stared out the window trying not to see the various site names flashing on the screen while it checked all the items on his computer. 😂😅

Misread this as "some rando who dislikes shorts" and kinda went "weird reason to know about/dislike college basketball, but sure" 😂😂

I do find the American obsession with college and high school sports a bit odd, though. But I also have a big thing for flat track roller derby.