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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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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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    Handegg, obviously.

    • Darcranium@lemmy.world
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      I love this. But I feel like Handoval might go over better

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    Gets a bribe from fifa, “we need to change the name of this sportsing”

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      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
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      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.

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        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
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          No it was because they suspected he had mob ties and was lying about his wealth.

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            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.

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    It would be so fucking funny if this is the last straw for Americans and they finally rise up.

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      Supposedly, a lot of “real Americans” ditched the NFL the last few years. He might need to go after NASCAR and NHL too.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    American forward-pass Rugby

    • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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      I feel like that doesn’t resolve the problem that American Football has.

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        This is America - we don’t solve problems, we just ignore them

        • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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          You’re not ignoring it by changing the name, either.

          • Magnum, P.I.@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            This is america

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    Just call what the NFL plays soccer. Then use football for the actual game with ⚽

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      Ah yes maximum chaos

    • zalgotext@sh.itjust.works
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      Oh yeah think of all the “soccer? I barely knew 'er” jokes we could make

      • Garbagio@lemmy.zip
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        Wait until you learn what football players can get away with

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          deleted by creator

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    I’ve been calling it ‘stupid’ for some time and never really get any cogent pushback. Sports!

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      National Stupid Football League, or NSFL for short!

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        National Stupid Football League,

        May I suggest “National Stupid Football Workgroup” ? Just because the short-hand …

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          NSFL sometimes stands for “not safe for life” but either is fine with me.

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    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?”

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      I’m pretty sure this is just another example of his current opinion or idea being the same as the last person he talked to.

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      I’m sorry but this is important

  • Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world
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    So he had a meeting with a soccer player then?

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      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.

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      Football player

      • Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world
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        I knew that it was controversial as I typed it. You right,

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      More or less.

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    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.

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      You mean hand egg?

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        Plump rump.

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      The actual name for it is “Gridiron football” or Gridiron for short.

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        I had to scroll way too far to see this comment.

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      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.

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    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.

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      I knew there’d be something. Bingo bongo.

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        National Bingo Bongo League? NBBL? It has a ring to it.

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          Hey, that wasn’t even intentional. Accidental genius.

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    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!

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    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?

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      Handegg?

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        I second Handegg.

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      Third World Ball Chase. And it won’t be offensive because we a third world now too.

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    I hate that his fucking followers will be more angry about this than the fact that he raped kids on Epstein’s island.

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      Well because he snaps his fingers and says it is a hoax. His followers just blindly trust anything he says.

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      Obama would have been immediately impeached for saying this.

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    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…

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      I think he was just giving a soccer peace prize by FIFA, this is just him doing one of his favors back, lol.

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    The fact that he parrots a good point that millions of other people have been saying for decades does not make him a smart man.

    The fact that he does so at a podium in the most powerful position in the world does call into question his intelligence.

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      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

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        Are you on team Ananas or team Pineapple though?

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          Aqui en Español, es la piña, no es la anana.

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            No siempre, es algo que depende de la región.

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          Yes

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          You know, bananas without “b” is a pineapple.

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          it totally looks like a pinecone, and you can’t tell from the outside if its delicious or not, so I’m team pineapple.

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          I’m on team forbidden butt plug.

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      Are millions of people across the globe really campaigning to change the name of a sport for literal decades? Why? Who cares that much?

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        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.

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