Rename football in America, Trump says, because soccer owns that title
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/soccer/2025/12/05/trump-football-soccer-name-debate-united-states-fifa-world-cup-draw/87626079007/
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EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com · 67 pts · 240d
Hahaha! FIFA game him a peace prize to get this to happen.
This timeline is ridiculous.
drmoose@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 239d
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.
dumbass@piefed.social · 54 pts · 241d
This will be what gets him shot.
gothic_lemons@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 241d
Again you mean
paranoid@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 241d
"again"
hemmes@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 241d
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.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 240d
Cartilage doesn't regrow.
Serinus@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 241d
He was shot? I don't remember that.
He was shot near, maybe.
MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 240d
Nah he's gone after the NFL before. He's a pedophile convicted felon, I don't think his dumb musing about football will be his downfall.
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 240d
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.
ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 241d
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.
MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 240d
Rugby players don't get hit like football players do. The lack of padding changes the game.
MurrayL@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 240d
Most people who mock American football as ‘rugby for wusses’ (or similar) don’t even know how the game works, let alone what the legitimate differences are.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 240d
In fact handegg players are more likely to suffer serious injuries because of it AFAIK. Particularly brain damage.
adespoton@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 240d
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.
GraniteM@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 239d
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.
anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 239d
While the most accurate description is probably Addball, I think turn based based rugby might be an acceptable compromise.
FEIN@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 239d
"rugby for pansies" until you get CTE or some irreversible brain injury...
olympicyes@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 239d
You can get CTE playing rugby or soccer too.
D_C@sh.itjust.works · 34 pts · 240d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbreaking:_The_Worst_Person_You_Know_Just_Made_a_Great_Point
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!!
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 240d
If it helps, he doesn't actually believe this, or care either way, he's just extremely bribable.
ryathal@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 238d
He also has a grudge against the NFL because Jerry Jones kept him from getting a team.
Quilotoa@lemmy.ca · 22 pts · 240d
He's absolutely right. And while we're at it, can we rename the "World" Series?
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 240d
Canada has a team in the league. It counts.
Quilotoa@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 239d
So, the National Basketball League of Australia could call their championship the World Cup of Basketball? It has two countries in it.
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 239d
Anyone can call anything anything they want! Names mean fuck all
REDACTED@infosec.pub · 0 pts · 238d
So, American (continent) league?
MyOpinion@lemmy.today · 20 pts · 241d
I am recommending we call it concussion ball.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today · 19 pts · 241d
Gridiron.
It's known as Gridiron Football already, just use the other half...
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 241d
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
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 240d
Georgia is also a country. Gets confusing because some Americans will tell your their state when asked where they're from, even when overseas. I've complimented someone who'd said they're from Georgia on their English before.
(On a side note, can you imagine travelling to the US, being asked where you're from, then going 'oh I'm from alto adige originally')
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 240d
Georgia? You mean Russia? /s. Sorry, figured we'd have a nice Russian invasion joke.. come to think of it, not a good joke. Just a shit country invading borders
winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 240d
Don't forget all of new england
Soggy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 239d
https://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.
Daerun@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 240d
I can't believe he said something the entire world outside US agree with 🤣
VlerrieBR@lemmy.world · -7 pts · 240d
He saya quite a few things we agree on, and surely there should be for you as well, but hatred blinds.
ilinamorato@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 239d
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.
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 240d
He's bribed to say things people agree with otherwise no he says nothing any sane reasonable person agree with like ever.
VlerrieBR@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 238d
Like I said: blinded. Any 2 people in the world no matter their differences agree on something.
Bot@sub.community · 19 pts · 241d
Now he annoyed his voters I think
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 14 pts · 240d
also the head of the football commision, of fifa, gave him him a "fifa peace prize"
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 239d
This is because FIFA just sucked him off.
_Nico198X_@europe.pub · 9 pts · 240d
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.
adespoton@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 240d
US football dispensed with most of the rules of international rugby years ago. Gridiron would make sense though.
_Nico198X_@europe.pub · 1 pts · 239d
fair enough!
MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 240d
We all know he wants to call it "Trump Ball". Hell, why only replace one word, let's call the game "Trump Trump".
Johnmannesca@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 241d
Feetballs
Supervisor194@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 241d
Handegg
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 240d
We can call it the NHL. Perfect!
limelight79@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 240d
So now we do care what other countries think?
thenoirwolfess@lemmynsfw.com · 7 pts · 241d
I guess that's another tally for the times Trump has said something I agree with
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 240d
He should rename "the gulf of America" back to "the gulf of mexico" while he's at it
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 240d
Trumpball?
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 239d
Do it, slut.
callyral@pawb.social · 2 pts · 239d
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.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 1 pts · 241d
Gladiatorial Football
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 1 pts · 239d
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.
Lodespawn@aussie.zone · -2 pts · 241d
Piss off Trump, Aussie Rules is football and nothing else, soccer will always be soccer.
Lodespawn@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 241d
Although .. to be fair Aussie Rules can also be just Footy.
Diddlydee@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 240d
Except it references within its name that it's a sub group of football.
Soggy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 239d
As does Association Football but people tend to drop extraneous words when context fills in the gaps.