Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’
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269 Comments
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social · 189 pts · 251d
The NFL just needs to invent a peace prize and present it to Trump, then he'll immediately change his tune and start insisting that FIFA changes their terminology to Soccer.
ramble81@lemmy.zip · 115 pts · 251d
Omg. Did he say this after getting his participation trophy from FIFA?
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world · 79 pts · 251d
Of course he did
Saapas@piefed.zip · 5 pts · 250d
NFL Peaciest Prize for Bestest Person, gotta one up FIFA
felsiq@piefed.zip · 149 pts · 251d
Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip · 64 pts · 251d
By the end of the year they are gonna adopt the metric system!
(Now which organisation needs to invent a fake medal to get that done?)
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 251d
ISO I believe
MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io · 6 pts · 251d
Or BIPM
AtariDump@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 251d
But space is so much cooler in the imperial system!
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 250d
We've been through that.
PlexSheep@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 250d
Only one of these pictures is real, and only one system is used for space stuff in reality
BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 251d
Just need the ISO organization to give him some fake participation trophy and by God we can finally get rid of the stupid Fahrenheit and other shit
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 250d
You can have the Fahrenheit temperature scale when you peel it from my cold, dead hands. Metric is great for measuring size and weight and I suppose distance (though miles sounds so much nicer than kilometers), but the Celsius scale is too short until you get into really high temperatures.
CannonFodder@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 250d
Like an amp that you can turn up to 11
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 250d
0 as freezing isn't bad, but boiling at 100 feels wrong. It's not enough of a difference. Fahrenheit's number values may be a little wonky and arbitrary seeming but it gives a better sense of scale.
amorpheus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 249d
Which is 99% due to you being used to that.
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 249d
And I'm sure you are correct about that, but I acclimated to metric measurement for both length and temp at work. Measuring size is just better that way and I've abandoned imperial entirely even for home projects, and the temperatures we deal with at work are big, so the Celsius scale fits. Maybe I compartmentalized, IDK.
snooggums@piefed.world · 5 pts · 251d
Third down and 3 meters to go!
Kicking a 20 meter field goal.
Perfect.
itisileclerk@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 251d
Sad but true, Americans will only do the right thing if they get some benefit, if you give them money. Trump is just the embodiment of everything American. That's why some Americans love him, some hate him.
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 251d
Hey hey. 1 - it's not all americans. 2 - it is not a uniquely American thing. You don't see many "poor" poloticians for a reason.
itisileclerk@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 250d
It's true, not all americans and it is not uniquely american thing. But it is a predominant american thing in general and nobody expect different behaviour. Just like "americans are good basketball players". Not all, not uniqiely but when america (USA) is playing you expect that they will win.
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 250d
True, america draws that kind of person. So they come here from all over. And the system here is designed to help them.
Denjin@feddit.uk · 69 pts · 251d
Hand Egg
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 251d
NFL becomes NHL, so we need a new name for hockey.
bcgm3@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 251d
Hockey sticks moving the puck resemble brooms sweeping, so we could call it "Brooms," which leaves us with either NBA or MLB, so we need a new name for Basketball and/or Baseball.
EtherWhack@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 251d
Baseball could be called stickball, taking MLS so 'soccer' would need a new... Hey, that actually works out.
snooggums@piefed.world · 6 pts · 251d
Major League Football (MLF)
Denjin@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 251d
I love MLFs
ramble81@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 251d
No, no. MLS becomes the NFL so there’s no confusion that it’s football.
watson387@sopuli.xyz · 8 pts · 251d
Curling would like a word
errer@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 251d
What is a “hockey” anyway
Localhorst86@feddit.org · 12 pts · 251d
NHL will have to rename to National Blade Association (NBA), so we have to come up with something new for Basketball.
MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io · 6 pts · 251d
Basketball was invented using peach baskets. So the NBA will have to become the National Fruitball League (NFL)
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 251d
Basketballs are round, so maybe just National Roundball Association, or NRA.
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 250d
I have unironically called basketball roundball for over 3 decades.
Sports are practically a religion in this country and I hate religion.
DoPeopleLookHere@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 251d
Canadians will fucking kill you deader then dead lol
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 250d
And apologize the whole time they are doing it.
Denjin@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 251d
😭
Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 251d
Floor egg.
DmMacniel@feddit.org · 4 pts · 251d
turn the NFL to NHEL, case closed.
foofiepie@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 251d
Lycra Rugby
ray@sh.itjust.works · 53 pts · 251d
The NFL doesn't need to drop the word "football" entirely, they just need to be more specific so there's no confusion. They could change their name to "Non-Soccer Football League", or NSFL for short.
BanMe@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 251d
😒 NFL football
🤩 NSFW football
😒 NSFL football
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 251d
I'm trying to think what NSFW football would be like. They have some very NSFW wrestling videos out there.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 251d
The LFL (Lingerie Football League) was pretty close. Apparently they're reviving it
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 250d
Yeah, that was pretty soft. I guess it was not suitable for many workplaces, but not universally so.
lauha@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 251d
Non-foot non-ball football league
lunaluster@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 251d
Sometimes-Foot-But-Mostly-Hands Ball-Related Running And Tumbling League
Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 251d
So many NSFL events in schools all year, that big annual NSFL event in a bowl watched my millions, all the advertisers sponsoring NSFL stuff, etc.
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org · 4 pts · 251d
National 30.48cm Ball League
reddit_sux@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 251d
Or Not Safe For Life
brown567@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 251d
I think that's apt
tbitbhPlexSheep@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 250d
They can just call it American Football like everyone already does.
NAFL or whatever, if you really need an acronym. No one calls the Bundesliga BL.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 251d
Grid Iron League Football
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 250d
Bruh
Diddlydee@feddit.uk · 49 pts · 251d
American Rugby
FelixCress@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 251d
Just with the full body kevlar armour like a bunch of sissies.
LordOfLocksley@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 251d
Sissy Rugby
EtherWhack@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 251d
I'd say not as much sissies, more moronic cavemen who don't know how not to hurt themselves or each other.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 251d
Are the pads kevlar? I thought they were mostly just plastic.
EpeeGnome@feddit.online · 5 pts · 251d
There's absolutely no reason to put Kevlar in football pads. Against blunt impacts, it's no more protective than any other cloth, and a whole lot more expensive. They're just using the term to be dramatic.
Diddlydee@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 251d
It's a mix of HDPE outer and EVA inner.
GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world · 47 pts · 251d
Seriously?? That's the price of FIFA's bribe? Not, idk, "Call off your ICE ghouls at the next match, because we need to sell tickets?"
ghostlychonk@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 251d
Saapas@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 251d
I'm sorry but this is important
mirshafie@europe.pub · 46 pts · 251d
It would be so fucking funny if this is the last straw for Americans and they finally rise up.
jali67@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 250d
Supposedly, a lot of “real Americans” ditched the NFL the last few years. He might need to go after NASCAR and NHL too.
MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 250d
Gets a bribe from fifa, "we need to change the name of this sportsing"
skisnow@lemmy.ca · 20 pts · 250d
For a moment I thought he was having a rare moment of clarity, but no, he was having a common moment of corruption
QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 250d
Trump has always been hurt that he couldn't buy a sports team. He tried to buy the Buffalo Bills years ago but it failed.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 250d
And the reason he couldn't have a team? Because all the other rich owners, the guys whose club he so desperately wants to be a part of, hate his guts, and want nothing to do with him, so they've iced him out of pro team ownership for DECADES.
QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 250d
No it was because they suspected he had mob ties and was lying about his wealth.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 250d
That's definitely PART of the reason they hate him, although you could probably say the same things about most of those owners.
I think a bigger reason is that he's just a massive Putz, and nobody can stand to be around him unless they absolutely have to. They don't want to have him in the owners suite on draft day, running his big mouth, demanding loyalty and respect from everybody, etc. The guy sucks ALL the oxygen from every room he enters, and narcissistic billionaires aren't real big on sharing the spotlight, especially with a massive dickhead like Trump.
They can approve a guy they like, or Trump. Anyone would choose the friend.
Atomic@sh.itjust.works · 39 pts · 251d
This is one of the rare cases where I don't disagree with Trump.
But they could just call it what the rest of the world call their sport. "American Football".
It has their favorite word in it. America.
justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 17 pts · 251d
You mean hand egg?
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 251d
Plump rump.
Zozano@aussie.zone · 11 pts · 251d
The actual name for it is "Gridiron football" or Gridiron for short.
Almacca@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 251d
I had to scroll way too far to see this comment.
Scrollone@feddit.it · 1 pts · 250d
I would agree with you and Trump. The only problem is that Trump is just saying that because he has been recently awarded a prize by FIFA.
RBWells@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 251d
I don't disagree, it needs a different name, has not much to do with feet, but really? A trophy is enough of a bribe for him to upset his base of NFL fans? Can someone bribe him to get us on Metric system?
realitista@lemmus.org · 14 pts · 251d
Handegg?
RangerAndTheCat@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 251d
CaptainBlinky@lemmy.myserv.one · 3 pts · 251d
I second Handegg.
drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 251d
Third World Ball Chase. And it won't be offensive because we a third world now too.
formidable_asshat@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 251d
So thats why FIFA awarded him a peace price award that they made just for him and after this they asked him if he could force the NFL to use another name?🤣 brilliant.
victorz@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 251d
I knew there'd be something. Bingo bongo.
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 250d
National Bingo Bongo League? NBBL? It has a ring to it.
victorz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 250d
Hey, that wasn't even intentional. Accidental genius.
rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works · 32 pts · 250d
Handegg, obviously.
Darcranium@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 250d
I love this. But I feel like Handoval might go over better
Red_October@piefed.world · 30 pts · 251d
I hate that his fucking followers will be more angry about this than the fact that he raped kids on Epstein's island.
jali67@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 251d
Well because he snaps his fingers and says it is a hoax. His followers just blindly trust anything he says.
oyo@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 250d
Obama would have been immediately impeached for saying this.
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 251d
Tedesche@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 251d
Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 251d
I'm on the side of who the fuck cares what another country decides to call a sport. It has no effect on you at all. The only ppl who seem to complain about it are Europeans who need a reason to seem superior to American so everyone will forget they've been fucking up the world 300 years longer than the US
Stern@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 251d
Are you on team Ananas or team Pineapple though?
RBWells@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 251d
Aqui en Español, es la piña, no es la anana.
ChanchoManco@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 250d
No siempre, es algo que depende de la región.
_stranger_@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 251d
it totally looks like a pinecone, and you can't tell from the outside if its delicious or not, so I'm team pineapple.
Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 251d
Yes
Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 250d
You know, bananas without “b” is a pineapple.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 251d
I'm on team forbidden butt plug.
ScoopMcPoops@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 250d
Are millions of people across the globe really campaigning to change the name of a sport for literal decades? Why? Who cares that much?
Tedesche@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 250d
Yes, because people have that much time.
I agree with them because American Football has very little to do with feet touching the ball, and it’s unnecessarily confusing. I also think Americans should use the metric system, because the Imperial system is also unnecessarily confusing. I am an American, by the way.
Bakkoda@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 251d
He was denied an ownership deal to a football team a long time ago and he's just getting revenge. That's what tin pot dictators do. There's also another thing they usually do...
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 251d
I think he was just giving a soccer peace prize by FIFA, this is just him doing one of his favors back, lol.
SaraTonin@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 251d
That would be hilarious. Please let him accomplish that and nothing else.
Dorkyd68@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 251d
When he dies im gonna throw a party. I hate parties. But I hate him more
jali67@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 250d
I hope he gets something like pancreatic cancer and suffers for a few months.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 250d
Explosive bowel syndrome
if_only@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 250d
I'd love to see locked in syndrome after his next stroke. And may the good lord bless him with long life after that.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 24 pts · 251d
Notyou@sopuli.xyz · 23 pts · 250d
Just call what the NFL plays soccer. Then use football for the actual game with ⚽
Natanael@infosec.pub · 16 pts · 250d
Ah yes maximum chaos
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 250d
Oh yeah think of all the "soccer? I barely knew 'er" jokes we could make
Garbagio@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 249d
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 249d
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca · 22 pts · 251d
Why don't you just call NFL foot ball, soccer? No one else wants to use the name soccer so it's sort of free.
_stranger_@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 251d
I'm surprised he's not naming it Hitler Nazi Pedoball, for the exact same reason.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · -2 pts · 251d
Well you see, Americans called the game with goalies "soccer" because that's what the British called it back when we were crown colonies, so when we invented the game with linebackers, we called that "football." then everyone else heard our word and decided to change the game with goalies' name to "football." So as usual, America continues to be correct, and the rest of the world is bound and determined to fuck it up.
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 251d
We call it soccer because we already have a sport called competitive diving.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 251d
Okay, we'll rename American football to Cricket.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 251d
Perhaps you've momentarily forgotten about USA's metric vs imperial nonsense
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · -10 pts · 251d
How many moon landings have been done in metric?
banause@feddit.org · 14 pts · 251d
https://ukma.org.uk/why-metric/myths/metric-internationally/the-moon-landings/
Which is, btw, true for most of academia/research/engineering.
_stranger_@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 251d
Part of all of them? I guess?
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 250d
More like, how many Mars orbiters have been lost because of the US measurements?
afrom@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 250d
This is wrong. Soccer was (by Americans) called Soccer after the word 'association -> assoc -> soccer' because back then it was called 'Association Football' Football is an umbrella term for sports which was not mounted (by foot) and used a ball so 'by foot with ball -> football' So after that to call American Football, Football, is by definition not wrong but misleading for most parts of the world. More precise would be 'American Rugby' since American Football is a derivative of Rugby much more so then of European Football.
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 250d
Rugby is older than American football? Huh. I'm going to annoy the shit out of my coworkers with that little gem.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 250d
American forward-pass Rugby
finitebanjo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 250d
I feel like that doesn't resolve the problem that American Football has.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 250d
This is America - we don’t solve problems, we just ignore them
finitebanjo@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 250d
You're not ignoring it by changing the name, either.
Magnum@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 249d
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 251d
This is one of the things people don't get about trump supporters. Establishment politicians would never suggest such a thing. They stick to the established political crap. The you get a guy like trump who just spouts whatever he hears or thinks. Stuff like how it doesn't make sense that football is two drastically different sports. That is very appealing to a lot of people. He is saying the quiet parts out loud. He doesn't actually "do" anything productive about it. But it wins over plenty of voters. Also, he lies so poorly you easily know.
hardcoreufo@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 251d
They've gotten too much shit actually renamed though. Denali, Gulf of Mexico, sort of the Department of Defense, Institute of peace.
They aren't gonna get anynone government contolled stuff renamed unless the owner is a real MAGA brown noser. The NFL isn't gonna do shit he wants. The owners have hated him since the 80s.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 251d
He said, as if it weren't true...
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 251d
Totally agree. He doesn't actualy fix things, just talks about it. Then waffles on the idea after the check clears.
scala@lemmy.ml · 18 pts · 251d
American Handegg League
Furbag@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 251d
I've been calling it Handegg for over a decade now. My Handegg-loving friends hate it.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 250d
The ball is oval. They just need to restrict the age of players to 13-19 years old then they could call it "Ovalteen". That's gold Gerry! That's gold!
communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz · 17 pts · 251d
He's always lazer focused on the most important issues facing americans.
chemicalprophet@slrpnk.net · 16 pts · 250d
I’ve been calling it ‘stupid’ for some time and never really get any cogent pushback. Sports!
kieron115@startrek.website · 10 pts · 250d
National Stupid Football League, or NSFL for short!
redlemace@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 250d
May I suggest "National Stupid Football Workgroup" ? Just because the short-hand .......
kieron115@startrek.website · 4 pts · 250d
NSFL sometimes stands for "not safe for life" but either is fine with me.
Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 250d
BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 250d
They gave him a peace prize. The FIFA Peace Prize smh
Maybe we should have some people from SI give him something, so that the US will ditch those stupid units. He's got a peace prize and a jet, so something else... How about a gold helicopter with AI in it? We could have the tail rotor fitted with LEDs some it'll spell out TRUMP when flying. If we better make it good enough, maybe he'll have ICE pickup anybody using feet or fahrenheit.
falseWhite@programming.dev · 10 pts · 250d
Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 249d
pjwestin@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 250d
More or less.
banause@feddit.org · 16 pts · 251d
May I suggest a German word?
"Distanzkampfball"
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org · 9 pts · 250d
Gehirnerschütterungsrisikorotationsellipsoidsport
It captures the defining elements of the sport: concussion risk and non-spherical object that I refuse to call "ball". And rugby can be Gehirnerschütterungsrisikorotationsellipsoidsport 2 or Rotationsellipsoidgehirnerschütterungsrisikosport.
QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 250d
The "balls" used in European "football" are not spheres either as they are interlinked hexagons and pentagons which are not shapes found within the sphere.
By your line of thinking I guess we should call that silly sport Soccer since it doesn't use a ball either.
LillyPip@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 251d
Wow. So glad this is what’s on what’s left of his mind. Not soaring prices or atrocities committed in his name. No, this is what matters.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 250d
He wants it named after himself, of course
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 250d
Tumpball it is!
nieminen@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 250d
I already don't watch or like football. That would cinch it
spirinolas@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 250d
Concussion-ball has a nice ring to it.
grimpy@lemmy.myserv.one · 12 pts · 251d
howsabout…Trumpball???
crypt0cler1c@infosec.pub · 11 pts · 250d
I usually call NFL 'American Football ' why is every so wound up these days?
Lootboblin@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 250d
That’s the official name (Amerikkalainen jalkapallo) for the sport in Finland (and I guess all over Europe). Nickname is jenkkifutis (yankee footie) and it’s short version is just jefu which is used a lot.
Scrollone@feddit.it · 4 pts · 250d
In Italy we call football (as in soccer) "calcio", but the american one Is literally called "football americano" in Italian.
Someone8765210932@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 250d
Outside of people joking around and calling it "hand egg", Trump just got Fifa's first peace prize, so I wonder why he would suddenly say something like this? Hmmm ...
QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 250d
He's still angry that he couldn't buy the Buffalo Bills years ago. As I recall the NFL expected he was lying about how rich he was and suspected he had mob ties
IndridCold@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 251d
This is what happens when you only have a partial working brain and surround yourself with idiot cocksucking minions.
I can't wait until this fuckstain is dead, buried, and I'm taking a huge Taco Bell shit on his grave.
vodkasolution@feddit.it · 10 pts · 251d
Gulf of Football
green_link@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 251d
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 250d
Sportsball
myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 251d
Trump is just angry at the nfl. Has been since the 80s. His tiny feelings are hurt he doesn’t own a team. And then he tried that USFL thing. Which, oddly, failed. After the USFL decided to move to a calendar in direct competition with the nfl at trumps urging. It failed, because of the decisions of Trump. Go figure. But he is just a sad angry little man who’s feelings are hurt.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 251d
Turning into the Mad King Trump. These absurd name changes and radical military actions like bombing boats and threatening Venezuela.
bender223@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 251d
yeah, I think there's a non zero chance that he gets merc'd by one his own voters
cuz he's hurting them the most
thisbenzingring@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 251d
it was called soccer before it was called football in England
you will never get Americans to not call the ball a football and a soccer ball
Jyek@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 251d
That's not true... Soccer is what some of the english called it and that was an abbreviation of association football. It has always been football and for a short time in one place it was soccer in england and then it was football again everywhere. It came to the US as soccer and never changed. But it was always football.
thisbenzingring@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 251d
dude, just look it up
it's fact. the upper class didn't want to play soccer because the lower class were playing it so they called it football
mj_marathon@programming.dev · 0 pts · 251d
You wanna cite your source? This I can't find anything to support your claim.
thisbenzingring@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 251d
https://www.britannica.com/story/why-do-some-people-call-football-soccer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_(word)
Jyek@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 251d
Your source says the same thing I said... The word soccer comes from abbreviating "association". As in association football.
thisbenzingring@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 251d
it was foot ball because it was a ball game played on your feet. Rugby was foot ball you played with your hands and Association foot ball was kicked. People called it soccer before it was formally called football (without the space)
azvasKvklenko@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 250d
Thing in languages quite often don’t make much sense, but trying to correct them makes even less sense.
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz · 8 pts · 251d
National Rugby Association
Rhaedas@fedia.io · 8 pts · 251d
Calvin Ball. Since he's so prone to making up rules as he goes.
Benchamoneh@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 250d
Finally something we can agree on.
NFL FootBall can be renamed to HandEgg.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 250d
National Handegg League, or the NHL!
Wait...
Benchamoneh@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 250d
It's OK we can just rename hockey to IceStick or something
itisileclerk@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 251d
That's the unexpected right thing coming from Trump. Seriously, only Americans call a game played with hands "football" and a game played with feet "soccer." Come on Trump, next fix the measurements so Americans don't measure in pots and pans (or maybe it was cups and spoons) and thumbs and elbows (or maybe it was inches and feet).
CarrierLost@infosec.pub · 12 pts · 251d
The term “soccer” originated in the UK as a shortened slang for “assoc(iation) football”.
The US didn’t come up with that term, like almost everything else, they stole it from someone. Don’t blame the U.S. for the UKs habit of abbreviating stuff.
Comrade_Spood@quokk.au · 9 pts · 251d
Quick correction. We didnt steal it, we used it because of the British, then the British decided they didnt like the term anymore and swapped to "football" and Americans just kinda kept using it. Same thing with imperial measurements. They were invented by the British, we used them cause we were a british colony, then Britain changed their mind and Americans stuck with the original.
Long story short, British invent something and the Americans use it cause former british colony, then the british change their mind and then make fun of the Americans while the pretend they werent the people who invented it in the first place.
Its some gaslighting bullshit
CarrierLost@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 251d
You, I like you.
Darkaga@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 251d
Although the etomology of the word football is inconclusive, the most likely explanation is that it's a game played on foot, rather than on a horse.
Also, they're both called football colloquially because they are both derived from a sport called Football but neither of them are actually "Football." Association Football (Soccer) and Gridiron/American Football are the correct names. So really, people calling it Soccer are more correct than people who call it Football.
lividweasel@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 251d
Well, what they play is specifically gridiron football, so maybe the NGL?
NGL, I’m liking this idea the more I think about it.
Chaotic_Altruist@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 251d
We just call it gridiron in Australia, plain and simple. Too many other things are called football or "footy". Soccer obviously, but both rugby league and rugby union (two different sports) as well as Australian rules football (AFL). That's 4 different sports someone may be referencing when saying football, so American football is just gridiron. NGL indeed
nothrone@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 251d
I still do not understand how this guy is given so much power. Seriously, what the fuck? How does he keep winning? How does everyone keep bending the knee? How are there so few people telling him to go fuck himself? Is he scary in real life?
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 250d
Handegg.
Burninator05@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 250d
Handeggballl.
You have to add "ball" so that we know it is a game played with a ball.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 250d
How about "pauseball"? I've rarely seen a more boring "spectacle" than a bunch of roided men in tights smash into each other for 3 seconds then watching fat middle-aged men with oversize headsets chew gum for 10 minutes after.
Burninator05@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 250d
What about baseball? The pitcher and catcher's goal is throw the ball back and forth 18 times. Everyone else is just there incase they can't manage that.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 249d
Boreball?
SomeRandomNoob@discuss.tchncs.de · 7 pts · 250d
Just call it "Handegg"
BanaramaClamcrotch@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 250d
I hate this dude so much can nature take its course already….
switcheroo@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 250d
I think we have more important fucking things to worry about in this fucking country, you assclown...
ronl2k@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 251d
I'm convinced that Trump is a big-time troll.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 251d
He'd be legit hilarious if he didn't have any power. Just old man racist mumblings like that one great uncle who comes to thanksgiving and says shit you'd never think of, like windmills make frogs gay and alabama should instead be called patriotstan.
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 251d
Somewhere out there is a parallel universe where Al Gore won the 2000 election, 9/11 never happened, and Donald Trump is best remembered for his multi-award winning, 10 season syndicated TV classic - $h*! My Dad Says, before tragically dying on the toilet with a hamburger in one hand and his cellphone in the other.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 251d
You know, I've got one of those who doesn't have any power. His lack of hilariousness is at a maximum.
WanderWisley@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 251d
Pedoball!
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 251d
Handegg is a name someone in Europe came up with a few years back
victorz@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 249d
I think people put too much weight on his ramblings. He doesn't actually plan on this. He's just schmoozing.
HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 250d
"NFL stuff" works
I can't remember the last time I watched NFL stuff
nexguy@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 250d
Let me guess, the "Foot Force"
danc4498@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 251d
Is there supposed to be audio?
SidTheShuckle@piefed.social · 5 pts · 251d
National Gridiron League ngl
crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 251d
I love finding out about these things via memes.
queermunist@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 251d
American Rugby
EDIT SHIT y'all beat me to it! 😅
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 251d
TBIball?
Lucky_777@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 251d
Fighting the real pressing issues I see. Who the fuck cares, it's been like this for decades. Let it be and move on to real issues. My god, always the distraction with this Trump fuck.
Madison420@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 250d
Soccer isn't the only football it's in a group of games originally called football which includes rugby. Technically to the rest of the world NFL style football is gridiron football.
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 250d
Let me interject for a moment
what you're referring to as football is in fact soccer/football, or as i have recently been calling it, soccer + football
Madison420@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 250d
Football is literally just whatever game is the most popular locally that involves scoring by foot.
DNU@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 249d
Except america, where you mostly score by hand.
Madison420@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 249d
Mostly isn't really involved, it's just what you can do and honestly when gridiron was invented most plays were laterals and scoring was by foot. It was essentially rugby with different rules.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 250d
To most of the world football is what is refered to as soccer. Rugby and american football are their own seperate thing as far as I am concerned
Madison420@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 250d
As far as you're concerned just not the people who made the sport or the leagues that govern them.
notreallyhere@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 251d
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 251d
He knows the NFL has loads of money, and asks them for fat bribes with this stunt.
tomiant@piefed.social · 3 pts · 251d
Doesn't even register on my radar. What about the Epstein files? They still redacted, or what? Wasn't there gonna be a big release or something? Two weeks, was it?
cyrano@piefed.social · 3 pts · 250d
Yankee rules football like afl 😝
altphoto@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 251d
Turn off the sound it looks funny as hell. Imagine someone feeding him an endless carrot.
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 251d
For some reason, the sound is broken on mine, I guess. There's no audio at all
tomiant@piefed.social · 3 pts · 251d
I always turn off the sound, I can't stand that dumb voice.
frizzo@piefed.social · 3 pts · 251d
How about Hog ball? And instead of quarters we could have Epstein files. When you score a touchdown it's now called a "bubba". Now punting can be renamed "trumping" the ball.
fox2263@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 251d
Everyone else calls it American Football
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 250d
Lemme guess: He wants to call it Trumpball, right?
He's acting like he's just spit balling here, but we all know that after a bit of discussion in the media, it will "suddenly" occur to him on camera, that a good name might be Trumpball. Mike Johnson will immediately begin legislation, Vance will clutch his pearls at any resistance to what is obviously the only reasonable name, Bondi & Patel will threaten in investigate anyone who doesn't go along, and Schmuck Schumer will make a weak speech that nobody will ever hear because the media won't care what he has to say, because he never says anything important.
SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 251d
Knockoff Rugby League.
cryptix@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 250d
Game where you don't kick the ball by foot, needs to be called football? It should be hand ball IMO.
Small_Quasar@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 250d
Handegg.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 250d
There is already a handball tho
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 250d
Hand-rugby
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 250d
American rugby-lite
rami@ani.social · 3 pts · 250d
Well technically there's is one situation in which someone may kick the ball by foot.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 250d
Several situations. As nate bargatzi said in thar SNL skit, "There's a little kicking."
https://youtu.be/JYqfVE-fykk
bstix@feddit.dk · 1 pts · 250d
Football is called football because it's played on foot, unlike polo and other horse sports.
krooklochurm@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 250d
His face looks ai
BremboTheFourth@piefed.ca · 2 pts · 251d
Easy, just switch the two. There's no way we'd all spend years confused about which sport anyone is talking about!
Dang, I'm full of great ideas today!
20cello@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 251d
That's a nice diversion from the epstein files
pinheadednightmare@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 251d
Yes, because THIS is what we need to focus on. Most people making under 150k are struggling right now and cannot afford a house. But we need to focus on the NFL and the fact that they call it football.
Diddlydee@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 251d
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 251d
He is like a bird that imprints and takes the point of view of whoever is shoving worms down his throat at the moment.
davidagain@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 251d
Doofus.
DylanMc6@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 251d
maybe 'national gridiron league', perhaps?
oh and trump's an a-hole. seriously!
Benchamoneh@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 250d
Finally something we can agree on.
NFL FootBall can be renamed to HandEgg.
RedRibbonArmy@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 251d
Call it barbarian ball or gladiator ball or battle ball. Any of those would be a better fit.
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 250d
How bought bubbas balls game
someguy3@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 251d
Seeing as you use your hands, Handball.
frizzo@piefed.social · 3 pts · 251d
You also kick it with your foot. So no.
someguy3@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 251d
Same energy as: Soccer goalies use their hands, so it's not football!!
Vast, vast, vast, vast majority of the game is with the hands.
frizzo@piefed.social · 1 pts · 251d
In which country does fut translate to foot? And that is also why they call it soccer.
someguy3@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 251d
That doesn't even make any sense.
frizzo@piefed.social · 1 pts · 251d
Where did the name futbol come from?
Lumidaub@feddit.org · 1 pts · 250d
From English "football". It's the sounds of the word spelt out according to the phonetic rules of some languages.
frizzo@piefed.social · 1 pts · 250d
Oh that makes sense it's some British petrol, boot,chips nonsense.
AshMan85@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 251d
That unamerican
Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 251d
Lemon Toss?
SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 251d
Finally something that makes sense
NeptuneOrbit@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 249d
This too was my brightest idea at the age of 9
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 251d
Another surrender from the monkey.
JargonWagon@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 251d
Where are the Epstein files?
Kenny2999@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 251d
Just call it ball, as in "lets play ball"
Agent641@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 251d
Three strikes on the end zone, and the goalie is out!
tomiant@piefed.social · 1 pts · 251d
How about calling it "America can suck my hairy grampa balls signed DONALD J... TRUMP!!! P.S... (crooked hilary)"
angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com · -2 pts · 250d
So we can't have good social services like in Europe, or anything else that matters, but he adopts the kind of thing that makes Europeans fucking annoying to talk to.
echodot@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 250d
Yeah, god dam Europeans, having a different culture to me.
Redacted@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 250d
No for real tho on this particular spot, the british were the ones calling it association football which they shorthanded to soccer then they stuck that shit to america like a plasma grenade in halo, now could and should we change american football to something thays not called football? Yes. But the original sin lands with the english.
RichardDegenne@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 250d
The original sin was colonizing the Americas in the first place.
Y'all could have been playing ollamalizti right now.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 250d
That was pretty much located solely in mesoamerica - the more regionally accurate game would be what we now call Lacrosse, and is still quite popular. Also the most based sporting organization:
(via wikipedia)
Redacted@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 250d
Maaaannnnnnnnnnn
angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com · 0 pts · 250d
They're the ones that are pressed that a different sport is called football in two countries. (Not to mention Australia and Ireland.)