Because it's Charlie. And you love him.
Didn't you cheer when he started to walk? I bet you did, even though it is reasonable to presume he would, right?
It's not sports, it's the irresistableness of Charlie :)

Now my highschool not only didn't have the cheerleaders, I'm pretty sure we weren't high on the levels of poets/artistic people too - unless you count the drunken poets. Than we had plenty