re: Why do we watch sports?

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Might be the best "evolutionary "answer. Maybe it's a subconscious ranking of the competition, learning who sets the bar and how high or low it is.

By being innately compelled to watch others, we learn who is the strongest, fastest, smartest, prettiest, funniest, most-talented, etc and we subconsciously learn what is needed to compete for another's attention.

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I can't say there's a best "evolutionary" answer to this question. While the theory of evolution certainly relies on biological superiority as foundation, I also believe our abilility as humans to solve problems and develop language distinguishes our evolution from other species. Watching sports provides us with an opportunity to improve our problem-solving skills, and maybe impacts our evolution in a more immediate way, as observation and identification in certain situations can help us change tactics in real-life situations.

Maybe I'm overthinking this or leaning too much on individualism but I believe it's more complex than we think.