Nobody calls in soccer in Europe, football perfectly represents what the game is ab
Comment on !football@sopuli.xyz , for football fans (the one where you touch ball wit your foot)
CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world 4 months ago
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Blaze@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world 4 months ago
[deleted]Blaze@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
And !politics@lemmy.world should be for world politics rather than only “US politics”
remon@ani.social 4 months ago
There is football and there is american football. Nothing confusing about it.
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 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).
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.
Blaze@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
TIL the name gridiron
CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world 4 months ago
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
There goes baseball, handball, volleyball, and pretty much every other game involving balls that isn’t played in wheelchairs.
Blaze@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Hey,
Small advice: don’t feed the troll
CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world 4 months ago