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leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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Blaze@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
TIL the name gridiron

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CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Hey,
    
    Small advice: don’t feed the troll
    
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    AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Oh well. He didn’t really have a leg to stand on, so I was just taking some cheap shots at the Americans ☺️
    
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  - CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    ‘football’ as a name has been around for centuries with no confusion, until American exceptionalism led to them inventing their own version of the game. The only confusion today is coming from the US. Your proposed change however, is the equivalent of this:
    
    imgs.xkcd.com/comics/standards.png
    
    It would not do anything except make the situation even more complicated.
    
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