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
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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thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Jyek@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
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 1 month ago
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
spirinolas@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Concussion-ball has a nice ring to it.
itisileclerk@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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 1 month ago
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 1 month ago
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
Darkaga@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
crypt0cler1c@infosec.pub 1 month ago
I usually call NFL 'American Football ’ why is every so wound up these days?
Lootboblin@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s the official name 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 1 month ago
In Italy we call football (as in soccer) “calcio”, but the american one Is literally called “football americano” in Italian.
Someone8765210932@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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 1 month ago
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 1 month ago
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.
ronl2k@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m convinced that Trump is a big-time troll.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
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 1 month ago
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 1 month ago
You know, I’ve got one of those who doesn’t have any power. His lack of hilariousness is at a maximum.
vodkasolution@feddit.it 1 month ago
Gulf of Football
azvasKvklenko@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Thing in languages quite often don’t make much sense, but trying to correct them makes even less sense.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Turning into the Mad King Trump. These absurd name changes and radical military actions like bombing boats and threatening Venezuela.
bender223@lemmy.today 1 month ago
yeah, I think there’s a non zero chance that he gets merc’d by one his own voters
myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
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.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Handegg.
Burninator05@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Handeggballl.
You have to add “ball” so that we know it is a game played with a ball.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
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.
Rhaedas@fedia.io 1 month ago
Calvin Ball. Since he's so prone to making up rules as he goes.
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
National Rugby Association
SomeRandomNoob@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Just call it “Handegg”
switcheroo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I think we have more important fucking things to worry about in this fucking country, you assclown…
lividweasel@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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 month ago
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
cryptix@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Game where you don’t kick the call by foot, needs to be called football? It should be hand ball IMO.
Small_Quasar@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Handegg.
rami@ani.social 1 month ago
Well technically there’s is one situation in which someone may kick the ball by foot.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Several situations. As nate bargatzi said in thar SNL skit, “There’s a little kicking.”
bstix@feddit.dk 1 month ago
Football is called football because it’s played on foot, unlike polo and other horse sports.
BanaramaClamcrotch@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I hate this dude so much can nature take its course already….
nothrone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
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?
danc4498@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Is there supposed to be audio?
HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 1 month ago
“NFL stuff” works
I can’t remember the last time I watched NFL stuff
nexguy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Let me guess, the “Foot Force”
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 month ago
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.
angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com 1 month ago
So we can’t have good social services like in Europe, but he adopts the kind of thing that makes Europeans fucking annoying to talk to.
echodot@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Yeah, god dam Europeans, having a different culture to me.
Redacted@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
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.
angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com 1 month ago
They’re the ones that are pressed that a different sport is called football in two countries.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Handegg is a name someone in Europe came up with a few years back
Madison420@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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 1 month ago
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 1 month ago
Football is literally just whatever game is the most popular locally that involves scoring by foot.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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 1 month ago
As far as you’re concerned just not the people who made the sport or the leagues that govern them.
cyrano@piefed.social 1 month ago
Yankee rules football like afl 😝
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 1 month ago
TBIball?
SidTheShuckle@piefed.social 1 month ago
National Gridiron League ngl
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 month ago
He wants it named after himself, of course
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Tumpball it is!
nieminen@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I already don’t watch or like football. That would cinch it