The fact of the matter is, one sees just as many fluff articles about practically any other sport. Remember when the Cowboys were "America's Team?" How patronizing.
Nonetheless, I stick to my original point: if there are writers out there trying to "force" anything on anyone, I haven't seen them yet. A few more threads such as this one, and I probably will. And I won't accept some sort of half-assed "I told you so" (not speaking to you specifically).
What comments such as mine? Quote where I've said anything bad about soccer or actual soccer fans (not counting libs who just use soccer as a way to bash America as fans, I'm probably going to watch more World Cup than all of them will combined) Mitch is a loser, he's a weak writer who regularly inflicts his idiotic liberal world views on sports where they don't belong, the only good thing I can say about Mitch is that he's not as addicted to inflicting his politics on sports as Jason Whitlock who can't seem to see anything happen in any sport without it being racist.
Actually the "America's Team" thing for the Cowboys was much more the result of their marketing people than sports writers, the sports writers jumped on it. But it was people in the Cowboys organization who pushed it, and Cowboys ownership has laughed all the way to the bank because of it.
Where did I say "force"? I don't think anybody is forcing soccer (or any other sport) on anybody else. The libs certainly don't want America to suddenly start watching soccer, then they'd lose something to complain about. The worst thing that can happen to a profesional whiner (which, let's face it, is what most lib columnists are, sports or otherwise... yes and many conservative columnists too) is to actually have some of their whining "result" in change, then they gotta go through all the trouble of finding a new axe to grind, which might involve work.