It is their sanctimonious "curating" of the message boards that make it so pathetic.
If you dare to disagree with what has become the board raison d'etre, you are quickly suppressed with posts by board mods or their proxies(yep no one there is allowed more than one handle....yeah right!!!!) that frequently violate their sacred rules. Heck if you dare to even disagree/pose an alternate theory involving one of the board gods..oops sorry I meant Mods, on one of the non-football boards (which can be somewhat interesting), you can get what amounts to a stare down. so if you want to post there you quickly learn who to stay away from them..
And while attacks by board minions are tolerated with "if you don't like what they say, block them..," the disagreeable heretics are frequently eradicated.
As I posted, it is their site and they can run it however they like.