Comment on 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’

Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    We call it soccer because we already have a sport called competitive diving.

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    • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Okay, we’ll rename American football to Cricket.

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  • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    So as usual, America continues to be correct

    Perhaps you’ve momentarily forgotten about USA’s metric vs imperial nonsense

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    • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      How many moon landings have been done in metric?

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      • banause@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Contrary to urban myth, NASA did use the metric system for the Apollo Moon landings. SI units were used for arguably the most critical part of the missions

        ukma.org.uk/why-metric/…/the-moon-landings/

        Which is, btw, true for most of academia/research/engineering.

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      • SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        More like, how many Mars orbiters have been lost because of the US measurements?

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      • _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Part of all of them? I guess?

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  • afrom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Pat_Riot@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Rugby is older than American football? Huh. I’m going to annoy the shit out of my coworkers with that little gem.

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• _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’m surprised he’s not naming it Hitler Nazi Pedoball, for the exact same reason.

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