Textbook strawman. Well done. If you ever see an article that tells you the same, please post it.
There's not a strawman in there. For one thing I'm not trying to prove anything one way or the other. I'm not anti or pro-soccer, I watch some but it's not on my favorites list, my level of interest has increased since the American team started having a chance in the World Cup but still remains vauge at best, and given that the vast majority of the games this year are taking place at times that aren't convenient (the late games are starting at noon local time, might catch a couple during the weekends but that'll be it) for me that doesn't look to be changing. We've all seen the idiot stories by whiny doofuses like Mitch Albom that classify America's lack of fondness for soccer as some deep character flaw, and since frankly the list of writers that that write that crap has a nearly 1:1 relationship with the list of sports writers I think are a waste of ink, bits, and time I'm not going to go look them up. Of course since I'm criticizing THEM and not the game or the fans there's really no reason anybody on FR should care, unless you have some sick facination with Albom or Whitlock or the other really bad sports writers out there.