Comment on !football@sopuli.xyz , for football fans (the one where you touch ball wit your foot)

CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you called gridiron gridiron instead of football no one would have to clarify either.

  There’s about 3.1 billion¹ more fans of football (or football association) than of gridiron (or gridiron football, or American football, or handegg), so it’s evident to everyone except Americans which one is the default.

  (Not to mention one is an entertaining sport while the other is an ad delivery system built around watching people who’s only allowed path to education is to enslave themselves to corporations suffer permanent brain injuries).

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  1.— Using the American puny billion here (a thousand million) instead of the proper one (a million million) because like so many other harmful or inferior stuff you Americans have managed to force it into an international standard and would complain I was being confusing if I used the proper word.

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  • Blaze@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    TIL the name gridiron

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  • CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Great! Let’s just use “football” as an umbrella term for all games played on foot, like soccer, rugby, and gridiron. I’ll call “American football” and you’ll call “European football” soccer and no-one will be confused.

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    • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Let’s just use “football” as an umbrella term for all games played on foot

      There goes baseball, handball, volleyball, and pretty much every other game involving balls that isn’t played in wheelchairs.

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      • Blaze@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Hey,

        Small advice: don’t feed the troll

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      • CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I feel like you’re starting to understand why saying soccer should be called football, a term denoting a game played on foot, is needlessly confusing and underspecified, whereas soccer, which is very specific and unambiguous, is the much superior term.

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• Blaze@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nobody calls in soccer in Europe, football perfectly represents what the game is ab

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  • CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But you could, and it would certainly be less confusing than insisting on using the overloaded term “football.” Soccer is a grand old European term.

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    • Blaze@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And !politics@lemmy.world should be for world politics rather than only “US politics”

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      • CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I feel like you think that’s some kind of crazy own, but manifestly yes, that is correct. I don’t chat politics much, so that one doesn’t bother me as much, but I do talk a lot of soccer…

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    • remon@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There is football and there is american football. Nothing confusing about it.

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      • CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I have talked about the Sounders when I was supposed to be talking Seahawks and vice versa more times than I can count, so I’m not sure where you’re getting this “it’s not confusing” business from. It’s very confusing and I see it confuse people constantly.

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