in Ireland it often will get called soccer a lot of the time because football means Gaelic Football (depending on some context), but then sometimes they definitely say football for english football and gaelic for gaelic
Sure, but how often does foot-“ball” contact occur? (And I don't mean the players' testicles, I mean that oblong thing the players carry around the field and occasionally throw around).
At some point you've got to be honest with yourself and admit that football isn't an appropriate name for the sport.
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word football generally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly called football include association football (known as soccer in Australia, Canada, South Africa, the United States, and sometimes in Ireland and New Zealand); Australian rules football; Gaelic football; gridiron football (specifically American football, arena football, or Canadian football); International rules football; rugby league football; and rugby union football.[1] These various forms of football share, to varying degrees, common origins and are known as "football codes".
And though the jokes about gridiron not actually using your feet much are understandable, kicking the ball might not be the reason any of these sports are called "football". It's actually possible it's because they are played on foot, to distinguish them from horseback sports like polo, which were more of a thing at the time they were named.
There are conflicting explanations of the origin of the word "football". It is widely assumed that the word "football" (or the phrase "foot ball") refers to the action of the foot kicking a ball.[13] There is an alternative explanation, which is that football originally referred to a variety of games in medieval Europe that were played on foot.[14] There is little conclusive evidence for either explanation.
He's being managed. Apparently, his brand of dementia can't be treated, only slowed. A big symptom is him losing his circadian rhythm, and sleep deprivation hastens the disease. I've heard he's only got a few months before the big dirtnap. Then we'll have President Vance.
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BradleyUffner@lemmy.world · 77 pts · 257d
Is this all because that guy gave him a fake peace prize?
MuskyMelon@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 257d
We should give him a fake peace prize
Mrselfdestruct25@lemmynsfw.com · 9 pts · 257d
Here's your peas prize.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 257d
And let him keep the gold trophy he stole. And licked his poo hole real good. Yeah.
That's how politics works man!
. . . wait.
20cello@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 257d
Trump is a FIFA asset
TomMasz@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 257d
Focusing on the real problems.
IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 257d
He wants his own Super Bowl trophy for his personal collection.
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 257d
I want FIFA to go all in on nonsensical awards. Need a FIFA Chef of the Year award, FIFA’s best new artist, or FIFA Best Original Screenplay
AA5B@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 257d
They have a World Cup coming up and not enough time to switch to a sane country. Fake trophy is a cheap bribe to keep that going
falseWhite@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 257d
Zamboni_Driver@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 257d
Seems like you have a pretty strong opinion for someone who doesn't give a shit 😂
sauerkrautsaul@lemmus.org · 3 pts · 257d
in Ireland it often will get called soccer a lot of the time because football means Gaelic Football (depending on some context), but then sometimes they definitely say football for english football and gaelic for gaelic
x00z@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 257d
Well there's rugby.
Maybe they should call it American rugby.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk · 7 pts · 257d
Too much body armour to be called rugby.
qupada@fedia.io · 7 pts · 257d
Also far too many clock stoppages.
Rugby: an 80-minute game that completes in around 100 minutes, inclusive of the 15 minute break between halves.
Gridiron: a 60-minute game that inexplicably takes 3.5 hours.
Very little fucking about in rugby, they just get on with it.
4am@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 257d
*angry metric noises*
Jumbie@lemmy.zip · 18 pts · 257d
There is no fucking way in hell I am clicking a Fox News link. It’s like dipping my phone in raw shit.
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 15 pts · 257d
It's called gridiron, it's always been called gridiron, no need to change its name, just stop calling it football. 🤷♂️
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 257d
Gridiron: a structure above the stage of a theater, from which hung scenery and the like are manipulated.
I always suspected that under all that padded costume these guys were really theatre geeks.
Star@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 257d
What a metal name! I wonder how that mixup even started. That one just sounds cooler...
Rhoeri@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 256d
I’ve never heard anyone ever say I’m going down to the bar to watch gridiron.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 256d
Technically… gridiron football…
Just saying.
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 256d
Sure, but how often does foot-“ball” contact occur? (And I don't mean the players' testicles, I mean that oblong thing the players carry around the field and occasionally throw around).
At some point you've got to be honest with yourself and admit that football isn't an appropriate name for the sport.
Rugby did it, gridiron can too.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 256d
Just for the record, and with making no value judgements…to me, gridiron football is just a bunch of dudes in tights chasing other dudes in tights.
Don’t ask me where the “football” comes from.
Grace_Schlick@lemmynsfw.com · 2 pts · 256d
RFU = Rugby Football Union
WanderWisley@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 257d
Whatever it take to distract from the Epstein files sir!
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · 12 pts · 257d
He's finally making sense. Things will get better now.
SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 257d
'soccer' is Oxford slang anyways. Funny that it caught on in the US.
kata1yst@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 257d
Yep! https://time.com/5335799/soccer-word-origin-england/
Etymology is fun
Raglesnarf@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 257d
I'm probably just dumb but I thought the technical name was Gridiron Football, doesn't that count?
human@slrpnk.net · 9 pts · 257d
Yep.
And though the jokes about gridiron not actually using your feet much are understandable, kicking the ball might not be the reason any of these sports are called "football". It's actually possible it's because they are played on foot, to distinguish them from horseback sports like polo, which were more of a thing at the time they were named.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football
Raglesnarf@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 244d
id bet you a cool 2 cents that most of the people that play those sports don't know any of the interesting history behind their names
Lembot_0005@lemy.lol · 8 pts · 257d
Succer Trump wants some balls, huh? It doesn't make sense.
OfficeMonkey@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 257d
He's still sore about the XFL, isn't he.
Doomsider@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 257d
Are we talking about what the dementia patient says again!?
FinalRemix@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 257d
"Dementia patient" makes it sound like he's being treated.
EtAl@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 257d
He's being managed. Apparently, his brand of dementia can't be treated, only slowed. A big symptom is him losing his circadian rhythm, and sleep deprivation hastens the disease. I've heard he's only got a few months before the big dirtnap. Then we'll have President Vance.
Rhoeri@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 256d
Get ready for Trumpball, where the points don’t matter because whoever pays the most wins!
sturmblast@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 257d
Trump is such a tool
MuskyMelon@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 257d
A useful tool for those who pay him or give him fake peace awards
andMoonsValue@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 257d
How bout them Epstein files?...
iThinkDifferentThanU@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 257d
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 256d
You would think that this would annoy a good portion of the US, particularly the ones who voted for him.
Football renamed so third world countries that play mindless games chasing a ball around can use it?
Blasphemy!
uberdroog@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 256d
Because America First? I guess...
MolochHorridus@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 257d
It should be changed to weakling rugby.
Grace_Schlick@lemmynsfw.com · 1 pts · 256d
Rugby Gridiron / griddie / gridder
Kage520@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 256d
If it's named after Trump can we call it Fatball? It kind of sounds similar and the F is the same so it can still be the NFL.
Rhoeri@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 256d
Doucheball.
Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf · 2 pts · 256d
Or what about pedoball?
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 256d
Felonball!
janewaydidnothingwrong@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 257d
Name idea: Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Ball
Edit: NFL < NCTEBL
BorgDrone@feddit.nl · 4 pts · 257d
I always liked “American Armored Handegg”
rezad@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 257d
Is it bad that I agree?
angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 257d
Of all the things to adopt from the damn Euroids...
Rhaedas@fedia.io · 2 pts · 257d
He's tackling the big issues first.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 1 pts · 257d
They can call it Extreme Football or Gladiatorial Football to differentiate it from the slow-moving low-impact variety
reev@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 257d
Concussion prolate spheroid sport
Bakkoda@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 257d
Eggball. Handball. Padded Big Strong Man Ball.