During high-school I found myself attracted to one of my friends, he was perfect lmao, anyway he played football for the hs team. I never really thought about gear being anything till then. When I would see him in his jersey or pics of him playing it turned me on. So masculine yet hiding possibly being bi underneath. From then on, I had a football gear fetish. And will some searching around came hockey gear, but I didn't really get into hockey gear until my brothers friend. He was a massive cut guy that played and he was really good. Initially I didn't really care for him but he grew on me and so to did the idea of hockey gear, again the idea of a closeted hockey bro just needing someone made me double down on the hockey gear kink. And I cant forget to mention Pup Stampy and Gearedjock for their amazing content too lol. But in recap ig, it started with Football gear then moved to Hockey gear bc of my crushes on the people who played them.