Oh stop it with the insecurity baloney. Here we are in a thread about the NFL moving to London and soccer fans need it to become another soccer advertisement. It's pretty damn obvious that soccer fans are the most insecure of them all.
Also, I think that having a World Cup thread closed to negative threads about the game of soccer is the epitome of insecurity. I think anyone can see that.
In a nutshell, soccer is boring to me, and the word great never comes to mind on the rare occasion that I think about the game. I was hoping that it wouldn't come up in this football thread, but like I said earlier, I don't have a guardian angel or a Mighty Mouse to protect me from the soccerphants.
And let me ask again, and maybe you can avoid dancing around the answer this time. What makes soccer fans feel so special that their game is above criticism?
This thread is about taking the NFL to a city that has numerous major soccer franchises so it is understandable the game would be brought into the discussion, and anyone who actually read the World Cup thread, which you clearly didn't, knows that it is the soccer fans who are most critical of the game and the body that runs it. FIFA is one of the most corrupt sports organizations on earth and the diving and acting in soccer really harms the game and needs to be dealt with. As far as "boring" goes that is simply a nationalistic bent on the game, because in truth while americans consider Football the most exciting sport the rest of the world considers it to be Soccer. And if the Germany/Brazil game were scored by american football rules then the result would have been 49-7.
IN short 1960, your wish that soccer would not enter into a discussion about putting an NFL franchise in London is much the same as your hilarious post about the problem with pro sporting events being the noise and all the people, completely unrealistic and truly bizarre.
And for the record, shmessy was right to tell you that he was going to bar those who had absolutely no interest in the World Cup from posting their anti soccer comments in it, in case you haven't figured it out yet that kind of behavior is called trolling, and as a moderator it's his job to keep it out of as many threads as he can. You hate soccer and didn't care about the World Cup so you had no business coming into a discussion of it to yell at everyone to GET OFF YOUR LAWN.