But no one cares about the Tour de France--America doesn't celebrate it, and we've been winning it a lot lately.
America celebrates sports it LIKES. Soccer fans can cry and insult all they want, but if America liked the sport it would be on a national level akin to football or baseball, instead of being largely ignored--and yes, we could certainly win it with an American league, so that's grasping at straws.
As if I feel obligated to appear on a water polo thread just to tell the folks there that a sport they simply enjoy is "inferior" in some way. (That's called "trolling," btw). Or that something is being held against me because I don't watch . . . a completely laughable proposition. And then whimper "look, soccer fans are insulting." It's comic.
Please understand that I do not object to troll-like comments. But don't claim to be a victim of the tactics you yourself employ.
And my original point stands. If you want to insult an entire sport simply because you dislike it, then the insult would actually have some weight if you were good at it.