I don’t doubt that.
Now, give them a fair introduction to real, modern sports, however...
Whats a real sport though.
In the UK and Ireland, and also in NZ, Australia and S Africa, the NFL is seen by most people as a joke, a long, boring, padded up and therefore pathetically pansified version of rugby, a real man’s sport, where the only thing of any excitement is the cheerleaders.
And baseball is seen as so boring its not even worth arguing about.
Yet both are almost god-like to your people.