We've decided to just leave things as is. The reasoning is that there would be too many mouse clicks to get to a forum, and I'd have to change the menu options in order to get people back to where they were without clicking all over the place. I tried a NCAA forum, but it got very little play. There's still not much of it to this day. A sub-forum, or two, wouldn't get a lot of action either. The Off-Topic forum, the way it is, seems to run pretty smoothly, so I don't want to complicate it further. Even if it's only a little.
That said, if there suddenly appears to be dozens of NFL related topics, I might reconsider.
I do appreciate the feedback though, so thanks for that.