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.
You can have the Fahrenheit temperature scale when you peel it from my cold, dead hands. Metric is great for measuring size and weight and I suppose distance (though miles sounds so much nicer than kilometers), but the Celsius scale is too short until you get into really high temperatures.
0 as freezing isn't bad, but boiling at 100 feels wrong. It's not enough of a difference.
Fahrenheit's number values may be a little wonky and arbitrary seeming but it gives a better sense of scale.
And I'm sure you are correct about that, but I acclimated to metric measurement for both length and temp at work. Measuring size is just better that way and I've abandoned imperial entirely even for home projects, and the temperatures we deal with at work are big, so the Celsius scale fits. Maybe I compartmentalized, IDK.
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.
It's true, not all americans and it is not uniquely american thing. But it is a predominant american thing in general and nobody expect different behaviour. Just like "americans are good basketball players". Not all, not uniqiely but when america (USA) is playing you expect that they will win.
Hockey sticks moving the puck resemble brooms sweeping, so we could call it "Brooms," which leaves us with either NBA or MLB, so we need a new name for Basketball and/or Baseball.
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.
There's absolutely no reason to put Kevlar in football pads. Against blunt impacts, it's no more protective than any other cloth, and a whole lot more expensive. They're just using the term to be dramatic.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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
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.
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...
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.
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
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.
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.
They've gotten too much shit actually renamed though. Denali, Gulf of Mexico, sort of the Department of Defense, Institute of peace.
They aren't gonna get anynone government contolled stuff renamed unless the owner is a real MAGA brown noser. The NFL isn't gonna do shit he wants. The owners have hated him since the 80s.
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.
It captures the defining elements of the sport: concussion risk and non-spherical object that I refuse to call "ball". And rugby can be Gehirnerschütterungsrisikorotationsellipsoidsport 2 or Rotationsellipsoidgehirnerschütterungsrisikosport.
The "balls" used in European "football" are not spheres either as they are interlinked hexagons and pentagons which are not shapes found within the sphere.
By your line of thinking I guess we should call that silly sport Soccer since it doesn't use a ball either.
That’s the official name (Amerikkalainen jalkapallo) 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.
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 ...
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
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.
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.
The word "soccer" originated as an Oxford "-er" slang abbreviation of "association", and is credited to late nineteenth century English footballer, Charles Wreford-Brown.[8] It has been speculated that both this story and the William Webb Ellis rugby story are apocryphal, however this appears to be a revision of history as the English term "soccer" fell out of favour while England differentiated their language from America's (where the term soccer had become widely used) English in the 20th century due to growing American popularity.[9] "Socker" with a k appeared in print at least as early as 1889.[10] The New York Times, published in 1905: "It was a fad at Oxford and Cambridge to use 'er' at the end of many words, such as foot-er, sport-er, and as Association did not take an 'er' easily, it was, and is, sometimes spoken of as Soccer."[11] There is also the sometimes-heard variation, "soccer football".[12]
it was foot ball because it was a ball game played on your feet. Rugby was foot ball you played with your hands and Association foot ball was kicked. People called it soccer before it was formally called football (without the space)
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).
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
What about baseball? The pitcher and catcher's goal is throw the ball back and forth 18 times. Everyone else is just there incase they can't manage that.
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
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.
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.
Fighting the real pressing issues I see. Who the fuck cares, it's been like this for decades. Let it be and move on to real issues. My god, always the distraction with this Trump fuck.
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.
Mostly isn't really involved, it's just what you can do and honestly when gridiron was invented most plays were laterals and scoring was by foot. It was essentially rugby with different rules.
How about Hog ball? And instead of quarters we could have Epstein files. When you score a touchdown it's now called a "bubba". Now punting can be renamed "trumping" the ball.
Doesn't even register on my radar. What about the Epstein files? They still redacted, or what? Wasn't there gonna be a big release or something? Two weeks, was it?
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.
Yes, because THIS is what we need to focus on. Most people making under 150k are struggling right now and cannot afford a house. But we need to focus on the NFL and the fact that they call it football.
So we can't have good social services like in Europe, or anything else that matters, but he adopts the kind of thing that makes Europeans fucking annoying to talk to.
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.
That was pretty much located solely in mesoamerica - the more regionally accurate game would be what we now call Lacrosse, and is still quite popular. Also the most based sporting organization:
The modern sport is governed by World Lacrosse and is the only international sport organization to recognize First Nations bands and Native American tribes as sovereign nations.
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.
Omg. Did he say this after getting his participation trophy from FIFA?
Of course he did
NFL Peaciest Prize for Bestest Person, gotta one up FIFA
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?)
ISO I believe
Or BIPM
But space is so much cooler in the imperial system!
We've been through that.
Only one of these pictures is real, and only one system is used for space stuff in reality
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
You can have the Fahrenheit temperature scale when you peel it from my cold, dead hands. Metric is great for measuring size and weight and I suppose distance (though miles sounds so much nicer than kilometers), but the Celsius scale is too short until you get into really high temperatures.
Like an amp that you can turn up to 11
0 as freezing isn't bad, but boiling at 100 feels wrong. It's not enough of a difference. Fahrenheit's number values may be a little wonky and arbitrary seeming but it gives a better sense of scale.
Which is 99% due to you being used to that.
And I'm sure you are correct about that, but I acclimated to metric measurement for both length and temp at work. Measuring size is just better that way and I've abandoned imperial entirely even for home projects, and the temperatures we deal with at work are big, so the Celsius scale fits. Maybe I compartmentalized, IDK.
Third down and 3 meters to go!
Kicking a 20 meter field goal.
Perfect.
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.
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.
It's true, not all americans and it is not uniquely american thing. But it is a predominant american thing in general and nobody expect different behaviour. Just like "americans are good basketball players". Not all, not uniqiely but when america (USA) is playing you expect that they will win.
True, america draws that kind of person. So they come here from all over. And the system here is designed to help them.
Hand Egg
NFL becomes NHL, so we need a new name for hockey.
Hockey sticks moving the puck resemble brooms sweeping, so we could call it "Brooms," which leaves us with either NBA or MLB, so we need a new name for Basketball and/or Baseball.
Baseball could be called stickball, taking MLS so 'soccer' would need a new... Hey, that actually works out.
Major League Football (MLF)
I love MLFs
No, no. MLS becomes the NFL so there’s no confusion that it’s football.
Curling would like a word
What is a “hockey” anyway
NHL will have to rename to National Blade Association (NBA), so we have to come up with something new for Basketball.
Basketball was invented using peach baskets. So the NBA will have to become the National Fruitball League (NFL)
Basketballs are round, so maybe just National Roundball Association, or NRA.
I have unironically called basketball roundball for over 3 decades.
Sports are practically a religion in this country and I hate religion.
Canadians will fucking kill you deader then dead lol
And apologize the whole time they are doing it.
😭
turn the NFL to NHEL, case closed.
Floor egg.
Lycra Rugby
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.
😒 NFL football
🤩 NSFW football
😒 NSFL football
I'm trying to think what NSFW football would be like. They have some very NSFW wrestling videos out there.
The LFL (Lingerie Football League) was pretty close. Apparently they're reviving it
Yeah, that was pretty soft. I guess it was not suitable for many workplaces, but not universally so.
Non-foot non-ball football league
Sometimes-Foot-But-Mostly-Hands Ball-Related Running And Tumbling League
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.
National 30.48cm Ball League
Or Not Safe For Life
I think that's apt
tbitbhThey 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.
Grid Iron League Football
Bruh
American Rugby
Just with the full body kevlar armour like a bunch of sissies.
Sissy Rugby
I'd say not as much sissies, more moronic cavemen who don't know how not to hurt themselves or each other.
Are the pads kevlar? I thought they were mostly just plastic.
There's absolutely no reason to put Kevlar in football pads. Against blunt impacts, it's no more protective than any other cloth, and a whole lot more expensive. They're just using the term to be dramatic.
It's a mix of HDPE outer and EVA inner.
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?"
I'm sorry but this is important
It would be so fucking funny if this is the last straw for Americans and they finally rise up.
Supposedly, a lot of “real Americans” ditched the NFL the last few years. He might need to go after NASCAR and NHL too.
Gets a bribe from fifa, "we need to change the name of this sportsing"
For a moment I thought he was having a rare moment of clarity, but no, he was having a common moment of corruption
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.
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.
No it was because they suspected he had mob ties and was lying about his wealth.
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.
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.
You mean hand egg?
Plump rump.
The actual name for it is "Gridiron football" or Gridiron for short.
I had to scroll way too far to see this comment.
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.
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?
Handegg?
I second Handegg.
Third World Ball Chase. And it won't be offensive because we a third world now too.
Handegg, obviously.
I love this. But I feel like Handoval might go over better
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.
I knew there'd be something. Bingo bongo.
National Bingo Bongo League? NBBL? It has a ring to it.
Hey, that wasn't even intentional. Accidental genius.
I hate that his fucking followers will be more angry about this than the fact that he raped kids on Epstein's island.
Well because he snaps his fingers and says it is a hoax. His followers just blindly trust anything he says.
Obama would have been immediately impeached for saying this.
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
Are you on team Ananas or team Pineapple though?
Aqui en Español, es la piña, no es la anana.
No siempre, es algo que depende de la región.
it totally looks like a pinecone, and you can't tell from the outside if its delicious or not, so I'm team pineapple.
Yes
I'm on team forbidden butt plug.
You know, bananas without “b” is a pineapple.
Are millions of people across the globe really campaigning to change the name of a sport for literal decades? Why? Who cares that much?
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.
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...
I think he was just giving a soccer peace prize by FIFA, this is just him doing one of his favors back, lol.
That would be hilarious. Please let him accomplish that and nothing else.
When he dies im gonna throw a party. I hate parties. But I hate him more
I hope he gets something like pancreatic cancer and suffers for a few months.
Explosive bowel syndrome
I'd love to see locked in syndrome after his next stroke. And may the good lord bless him with long life after that.
Just call what the NFL plays soccer. Then use football for the actual game with ⚽
Ah yes maximum chaos
Oh yeah think of all the "soccer? I barely knew 'er" jokes we could make
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.
I'm surprised he's not naming it Hitler Nazi Pedoball, for the exact same reason.
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.
We call it soccer because we already have a sport called competitive diving.
Okay, we'll rename American football to Cricket.
Perhaps you've momentarily forgotten about USA's metric vs imperial nonsense
How many moon landings have been done in metric?
https://ukma.org.uk/why-metric/myths/metric-internationally/the-moon-landings/
Which is, btw, true for most of academia/research/engineering.
Part of all of them? I guess?
More like, how many Mars orbiters have been lost because of the US measurements?
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.
Rugby is older than American football? Huh. I'm going to annoy the shit out of my coworkers with that little gem.
American forward-pass Rugby
I feel like that doesn't resolve the problem that American Football has.
This is America - we don’t solve problems, we just ignore them
You're not ignoring it by changing the name, either.
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.
They've gotten too much shit actually renamed though. Denali, Gulf of Mexico, sort of the Department of Defense, Institute of peace.
They aren't gonna get anynone government contolled stuff renamed unless the owner is a real MAGA brown noser. The NFL isn't gonna do shit he wants. The owners have hated him since the 80s.
Totally agree. He doesn't actualy fix things, just talks about it. Then waffles on the idea after the check clears.
He said, as if it weren't true...
American Handegg League
I've been calling it Handegg for over a decade now. My Handegg-loving friends hate it.
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!
He's always lazer focused on the most important issues facing americans.
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.
More or less.
I’ve been calling it ‘stupid’ for some time and never really get any cogent pushback. Sports!
National Stupid Football League, or NSFL for short!
May I suggest "National Stupid Football Workgroup" ? Just because the short-hand .......
NSFL sometimes stands for "not safe for life" but either is fine with me.
May I suggest a German word?
"Distanzkampfball"
Gehirnerschütterungsrisikorotationsellipsoidsport
It captures the defining elements of the sport: concussion risk and non-spherical object that I refuse to call "ball". And rugby can be Gehirnerschütterungsrisikorotationsellipsoidsport 2 or Rotationsellipsoidgehirnerschütterungsrisikosport.
The "balls" used in European "football" are not spheres either as they are interlinked hexagons and pentagons which are not shapes found within the sphere.
By your line of thinking I guess we should call that silly sport Soccer since it doesn't use a ball either.
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.
He wants it named after himself, of course
Tumpball it is!
I already don't watch or like football. That would cinch it
howsabout…Trumpball???
Concussion-ball has a nice ring to it.
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.
I usually call NFL 'American Football ' why is every so wound up these days?
That’s the official name (Amerikkalainen jalkapallo) 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.
In Italy we call football (as in soccer) "calcio", but the american one Is literally called "football americano" in Italian.
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 ...
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
Gulf of Football
Sportsball
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.
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
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.
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
You wanna cite your source? This I can't find anything to support your claim.
https://www.britannica.com/story/why-do-some-people-call-football-soccer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_(word)
Your source says the same thing I said... The word soccer comes from abbreviating "association". As in association football.
it was foot ball because it was a ball game played on your feet. Rugby was foot ball you played with your hands and Association foot ball was kicked. People called it soccer before it was formally called football (without the space)
Turning into the Mad King Trump. These absurd name changes and radical military actions like bombing boats and threatening Venezuela.
yeah, I think there's a non zero chance that he gets merc'd by one his own voters
cuz he's hurting them the most
Thing in languages quite often don’t make much sense, but trying to correct them makes even less sense.
National Rugby Association
Finally something we can agree on.
NFL FootBall can be renamed to HandEgg.
National Handegg League, or the NHL!
Wait...
It's OK we can just rename hockey to IceStick or something
Calvin Ball. Since he's so prone to making up rules as he goes.
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).
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.
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
You, I like you.
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.
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?
Just call it "Handegg"
Handegg.
Handeggballl.
You have to add "ball" so that we know it is a game played with a ball.
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.
What about baseball? The pitcher and catcher's goal is throw the ball back and forth 18 times. Everyone else is just there incase they can't manage that.
Boreball?
Well, what they play is specifically gridiron football, so maybe the NGL?
NGL, I’m liking this idea the more I think about it.
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
I hate this dude so much can nature take its course already….
I think we have more important fucking things to worry about in this fucking country, you assclown...
I'm convinced that Trump is a big-time troll.
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.
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.
You know, I've got one of those who doesn't have any power. His lack of hilariousness is at a maximum.
I think people put too much weight on his ramblings. He doesn't actually plan on this. He's just schmoozing.
National Gridiron League ngl
Pedoball!
Let me guess, the "Foot Force"
Is there supposed to be audio?
Handegg is a name someone in Europe came up with a few years back
"NFL stuff" works
I can't remember the last time I watched NFL stuff
American Rugby
EDIT SHIT y'all beat me to it! 😅
TBIball?
I love finding out about these things via memes.
Fighting the real pressing issues I see. Who the fuck cares, it's been like this for decades. Let it be and move on to real issues. My god, always the distraction with this Trump fuck.
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.
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
Football is literally just whatever game is the most popular locally that involves scoring by foot.
Except america, where you mostly score by hand.
Mostly isn't really involved, it's just what you can do and honestly when gridiron was invented most plays were laterals and scoring was by foot. It was essentially rugby with different rules.
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
As far as you're concerned just not the people who made the sport or the leagues that govern them.
How about Hog ball? And instead of quarters we could have Epstein files. When you score a touchdown it's now called a "bubba". Now punting can be renamed "trumping" the ball.
Turn off the sound it looks funny as hell. Imagine someone feeding him an endless carrot.
For some reason, the sound is broken on mine, I guess. There's no audio at all
I always turn off the sound, I can't stand that dumb voice.
Everyone else calls it American Football
Doesn't even register on my radar. What about the Epstein files? They still redacted, or what? Wasn't there gonna be a big release or something? Two weeks, was it?
Yankee rules football like afl 😝
Knockoff Rugby League.
Game where you don't kick the ball by foot, needs to be called football? It should be hand ball IMO.
Handegg.
Well technically there's is one situation in which someone may kick the ball by foot.
Several situations. As nate bargatzi said in thar SNL skit, "There's a little kicking."
https://youtu.be/JYqfVE-fykk
There is already a handball tho
Hand-rugby
American rugby-lite
Football is called football because it's played on foot, unlike polo and other horse sports.
His face looks ai
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.
He knows the NFL has loads of money, and asks them for fat bribes with this stunt.
That's a nice diversion from the epstein files
Yes, because THIS is what we need to focus on. Most people making under 150k are struggling right now and cannot afford a house. But we need to focus on the NFL and the fact that they call it football.
Easy, just switch the two. There's no way we'd all spend years confused about which sport anyone is talking about!
Dang, I'm full of great ideas today!
Another surrender from the monkey.
How bought bubbas balls game
He is like a bird that imprints and takes the point of view of whoever is shoving worms down his throat at the moment.
Doofus.
Finally something we can agree on.
NFL FootBall can be renamed to HandEgg.
Lemon Toss?
maybe 'national gridiron league', perhaps?
oh and trump's an a-hole. seriously!
That unamerican
Finally something that makes sense
This too was my brightest idea at the age of 9
Seeing as you use your hands, Handball.
You also kick it with your foot. So no.
Same energy as: Soccer goalies use their hands, so it's not football!!
Vast, vast, vast, vast majority of the game is with the hands.
In which country does fut translate to foot? And that is also why they call it soccer.
That doesn't even make any sense.
Where did the name futbol come from?
From English "football". It's the sounds of the word spelt out according to the phonetic rules of some languages.
Oh that makes sense it's some British petrol, boot,chips nonsense.
Call it barbarian ball or gladiator ball or battle ball. Any of those would be a better fit.
Just call it ball, as in "lets play ball"
Three strikes on the end zone, and the goalie is out!
How about calling it "America can suck my hairy grampa balls signed DONALD J... TRUMP!!! P.S... (crooked hilary)"
Where are the Epstein files?
So we can't have good social services like in Europe, or anything else that matters, but he adopts the kind of thing that makes Europeans fucking annoying to talk to.
Yeah, god dam Europeans, having a different culture to me.
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.
The original sin was colonizing the Americas in the first place.
Y'all could have been playing ollamalizti right now.
That was pretty much located solely in mesoamerica - the more regionally accurate game would be what we now call Lacrosse, and is still quite popular. Also the most based sporting organization:
(via wikipedia)
Maaaannnnnnnnnnn
They're the ones that are pressed that a different sport is called football in two countries. (Not to mention Australia and Ireland.)