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

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• gezero@lemmy.bowyerhub.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  So not handegg?

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  • Blaze@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m afraid not

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• threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  the one where you touch ball with your foot

  Is there any other kind? :)

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  • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Hands, tongue, boobs… Oh wait, wrong balls

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• SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Rugby involves foot touching the ball. Sometimes.

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• Nusm@peachpie.theatl.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yay! … oh. Aww.

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• CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If you called it soccer instead you wouldn’t have to clarify

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  • leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      TIL the name gridiron

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    • CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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  • Blaze@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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    • CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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