I have typically felt the opposite. Most of the devs/IT people I worked with in the past were not much into gaming and many were sports fans. My current dev team does play some of the same games I do. I have met very few people who play games as much as I do, lol. (So for the purposes of the original post, I am quite biased.) Not to say I don't do other things. But my free time has a consistent theme.
I have typically felt the opposite. Most of the devs/IT people I worked with in the past were not much into gaming and many were sports fans. My current dev team does play some of the same games I do. I have met very few people who play games as much as I do, lol. (So for the purposes of the original post, I am quite biased.) Not to say I don't do other things. But my free time has a consistent theme.
Having a fantasy football team technically counts as gaming too in a way :)