It sounds like a cliche but it... you do sing about what you know about. And I grew up in a small town and I grew up in a place where your whole world revolved around friends family school and church and sports.
Football taught me how hard you had to work to achieve something.
I don't pay much attention to sports.
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.