Who cares? Thread policing is pointless. It's a message board, not a sacred text.
The discussions that people are most interested in will always have the most engagement, regardless of your opinion. I don't like the rumor threads at all, but if the majority of the people do, then let them discuss it. I don't have an issue with your thread either, it's just that you are often the one to call people out for discussing something that you find uninteresting, so let us have our fun when you start a topic on a random lineman for the giants. I'm sure you can see the hypocrisy there, no?