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Rename football in America, Trump says, because soccer owns that title

https://lemmy.world/post/39778801

Rename football in America, Trump says, because soccer owns that title - Lemmy.World

Lemmy

Dec 6 at 12:17amWeb
Show threadThePowerOfGeekDec 6

this is football, there is no question. We have to come up with another name for the other one.

I suggest remaining American football to “rugby for pansies”.

Or maybe “handegg”.

On a side note, this seems like a great way for him to piss off a big chunk of his voter base.

Show threadMiddleAgesModemDec 6
Rugby players don’t get hit like football players do. The lack of padding changes the game.
Show threadEm AdespotonDec 6
The passing and scrum rules also change the game. There’s less chance for an unexpected and dangerous hit in rugby. More shove, less hard contact.
Show threadGraniteMDec 7
Different kinds of hits, but… goddamn. I saw a guy in a rugby game take a full-on elbow to the face while running full tilt and go pinwheeling to the ground… and the game continued without so much as a comment from the announcer.
Show threadFEINDec 7
“rugby for pansies” until you get CTE or some irreversible brain injury…
Show threadolympicyesDec 7
You can get CTE playing rugby or soccer too.
Show threadantonDec 7
While the most accurate description is probably Addball, I think turn based based rugby might be an acceptable compromise.
Show threaddumbassDec 6
This will be what gets him shot.
Show threadgothic_lemonsDec 6
Again you mean
Show threadparanoidDec 6
“again”
Show threadhemmesDec 6

Where’s the missing piece of ear?? Can’t find it, right?

If he really got shot in the ear there should be a chuck misting from the top rim but it’s clean as a baby orangutan’s ass.

Show threada_non_monotonic_functionDec 7
Cartilage doesn’t regrow.
Show threadBronzebeardDec 6
He wasn’t shot. His guard hip checked his head mid tackle. That’s why they had to get a second opinion from their favorite lying doctor before releasing the medical report.
Show threadAllNewTypeFaceDec 6
Gladiatorial Football
Show threadouRKaoSDec 6

Gridiron.

It’s known as Gridiron Football already, just use the other half…

Show threadLifeInMultipleChoiceDec 6
While we are at it we should rename the hundreds of cities named the same as European cities. Maybe even consider renaming Georgia, why would they want to be named after King George
Show threadwinkerjadamsDec 6
Don’t forget all of new england
Show threadSoggyDec 7

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_types_of_football

Good grief, there’s more! Absolutely unacceptable that something could develop from an earlier version and keep any fragment of identity.

List of types of football - Wikipedia

Show threadLodespawnDec 6
Piss off Trump, Aussie Rules is football and nothing else, soccer will always be soccer.
Show threadDiddlydeeDec 6
Except it references within its name that it’s a sub group of football.
Show threadSoggyDec 7
As does Association Football but people tend to drop extraneous words when context fills in the gaps.
Show threadJohnmannescaDec 6
Feetballs
Show threadSupervisor194Dec 6
Handegg
Show threadpotoooooooo ✅️Dec 6
We can call it the NHL. Perfect!
Show threadDaerunDec 6
I can’t believe he said something the entire world outside US agree with 🤣
Show threadVlerrieBRDec 7
He saya quite a few this we agree on, and surely there should be for you as well, but hatred blinds.
Show threadHolytimesDec 7
He’s bribed to say things people agree with otherwise no he says nothing any sane reasonable person agree with like ever.
Show threadVlerrieBRDec 9
Like I said: blinded. Any 2 people in the world no matter their differences agree on something.
Show threadilinamoratoDec 7

You’ve got your cause and effect reversed. He says vile things, so we point out that he is a vile person.

It’s his hatred that makes him say hateful things, not ours.

Show threadD_CDec 6

en.wikipedia.org/…/Heartbreaking:_The_Worst_Perso…

I fucking hate that I actually agree with the fat child rapist. I’m now going to go and scrub my skin off with bleach!!

Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Point - Wikipedia

Show threadVoroxpeteDec 6
If it helps, he doesn’t actually believe this, or care either way, he’s just extremely bribable.
Show threadryathalDec 9
He also has a grudge against the NFL because Jerry Jones kept him from getting a team.
Show threadEndlessNightmareDec 6

Hahaha! FIFA game him a peace prize to get this to happen.

This timeline is ridiculous.

Show threadDr. MooseDec 7
I’m surprised it took that long. Football is missing one of the biggest markets in the world and they’d award that dumbass with a trophy daily if that got them any closer to football in the US.
Show threadNico198XDec 6

Rugby or Gridiron would be great!

otherwise i hate everything about this. i need to take a break from football because FIFA is just too overtly disgusting lately.

Show threadEm AdespotonDec 6
US football dispensed with most of the rules of international rugby years ago. Gridiron would make sense though.
Show threadNico198XDec 7
fair enough!
Show threadQuilotoaDec 6
He’s absolutely right. And while we’re at it, can we rename the “World” Series?
Show threadBronzebeardDec 6
Canada has a team in the league. It counts.
Show threadQuilotoaDec 7
So, the National Basketball League of Australia could call their championship the World Cup of Basketball? It has two countries in it.
Show threadBronzebeardDec 8
Anyone can call anything anything they want! Names mean fuck all
Show threadREDACTEDDec 8
So, American (continent) league?
Show threadlimelight79Dec 6
So now we do care what other countries think?
Show threadyeehawDec 7
He should rename “the gulf of America” back to “the gulf of mexico” while he’s at it
Show threadSnarkoPoloDec 7
Trumpball?
Show threadphutatoriusDec 7
This is because FIFA just sucked him off.
Show threadcally [he/they]Dec 7

What’s next? 'Murica starts using the metric system?

It’s weird that the US calls “football” “soccer” and “american football” “football” but it is what it is and a president shouldn’t be able to rename things on a whim.

Show threadabbiistabbiiDec 7
Do it, slut.
Show thread🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 Dec 7
I’ve been saying we should go back to calling it Grid Iron because it sounds cooler. But now we have to keep it so this motherfucker isn’t made happy.