We call them bye weeks. Never heard the term in context of football.
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Warl0k3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago(While I get what you’re going for, I think it might possibly be not all that flattering to consider this an uncommon word…)
BigDiction@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Different but related concept! Moratorium weeks are institutional blocks of time (generally in college and depending on the schedule in highschool) where you’re not allowed to engage with your sport - no coaching, no practice, etc. Generally these are for things like finals/midterms.
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
it might be even less flattering to suggest they only know it because of sportsball lol
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I don’t quite see how, but thats fine I suppose.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Who said it reflects on you?
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
(Huh, I wonder why I had you blocked? Odd.)
Anyways: my initial point was that it’s a very commonplace term in the US - so much so that it invites an unflattering conclusion about that user for encountering a primary school term so rarely that they’re lead to think it’s uncommon. You’re right though, I was commenting right after waking up and misunderstood grey_matter’s comment as being a comment on me; the “sportsball” thing threw me, I haven’t seen that earnestly used since we purged the Big Bang Theory fans.