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’
Submitted 10 months ago by King@blackneon.net to [deleted]
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felsiq@piefed.zip 10 months ago
Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
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?)
AtariDump@lemmy.world 10 months ago
BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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
snooggums@piefed.world 10 months ago
Third down and 3 meters to go!
itisileclerk@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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 10 months ago
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.
Denjin@feddit.uk 10 months ago
Hand Egg
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 10 months ago
NFL becomes NHL, so we need a new name for hockey.
bcgm3@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Hockey sticks moving the puck resemble brooms sweeping, so we could call it “Brooms,” which leaves us with either NBA or MLB.
Localhorst86@feddit.org 10 months ago
NHL will have to rename to National Blade Association (NBA), so we have to come up with something new for Basketball.
DoPeopleLookHere@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Canadians will fucking kill you deader then dead lol
Denjin@feddit.uk 10 months ago
😭
Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Floor egg.
DmMacniel@feddit.org 10 months ago
turn the NFL to NHEL, case closed.
foofiepie@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Lycra Rugby
ray@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
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 10 months ago
😒 NFL football
🤩 NSFW football
😒 NSFL football
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m trying to think what NSFW football would be like. They have some very NSFW wrestling videos out there.
lauha@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Non-foot non-ball football league
lunaluster@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Sometimes-Foot-But-Mostly-Hands Ball-Related Running And Tumbling League
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 10 months ago
National 30.48cm Ball League
Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
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.
reddit_sux@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Or Not Safe For Life
brown567@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I think that’s apt
tbitbh
PlexSheep@infosec.pub 10 months ago
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 10 months ago
Grid Iron League Football
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 10 months ago
Bruh
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 10 months ago
American Rugby
FelixCress@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Just with the full body kevlar armour like a bunch of sissies.
LordOfLocksley@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Sissy Rugby
EtherWhack@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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 10 months ago
Are the pads kevlar? I thought they were mostly just plastic.
GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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 10 months ago
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.
Saapas@piefed.zip 10 months ago
I’m sorry but this is important
mirshafie@europe.pub 10 months ago
It would be so fucking funny if this is the last straw for Americans and they finally rise up.
jali67@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
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 10 months ago
Gets a bribe from fifa, “we need to change the name of this sportsing”
skisnow@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
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 10 months ago
Trump has always edn hurt that he couldn’t buy a sports team. He tried to buy the Buffalo Bills years ago but it failed.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 10 months ago
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.
The rich guys hate him, and want nothing to do with him.
Atomic@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
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 10 months ago
You mean hand egg?
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Plump rump.
Scrollone@feddit.it 10 months ago
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 10 months ago
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?
drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Third World Ball Chase. And it won’t be offensive because we a third world now too.
rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Handegg, obviously.
Darcranium@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I love this. But I feel like Handoval might go over better
formidable_asshat@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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 10 months ago
I knew there’d be something. Bingo bongo.
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 10 months ago
National Bingo Bongo League? NBBL? It has a ring to it.
Red_October@piefed.world 10 months ago
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 10 months ago
Well because he snaps his fingers and says it is a hoax. His followers just blindly trust anything he says.
oyo@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Obama would have been immediately impeached for saying this.
Tedesche@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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.
Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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 I seem 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 months ago
ScoopMcPoops@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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 10 months ago
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.
Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 10 months ago
When he dies im gonna throw a party. I hate parties. But I hate him more
jali67@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
I hope he gets something like pancreatic cancer and suffers for a few months.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Explosive bowel syndrome
if_only@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I’d love to see locked in syndrome after his next stroke. And may the good lord bless him with long life after that.
Bakkoda@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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 10 months ago
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 10 months ago
That would be hilarious. Please let him accomplish that and nothing else.
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
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.
Notyou@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Just call what the NFL plays soccer. Then use football for the actual game with ⚽
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
American forward-pass Rugby
chemicalprophet@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
I’ve been calling it ‘stupid’ for some time and never really get any cogent pushback. Sports!
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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.
scala@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
American Handegg League
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
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 10 months ago
He’s always lazer focused on the most important issues facing americans.
banause@feddit.org 10 months ago
May I suggest a German word?
“Distanzkampfball”
LillyPip@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
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.
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 10 months ago
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 10 months ago
Omg. Did he say this after getting his participation trophy from FIFA?
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Of course he did
Saapas@piefed.zip 10 months ago
NFL Peaciest Prize for Bestest Person, gotta one up FIFA