Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’
Submitted 2 weeks ago by King@blackneon.net to [deleted]
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felsiq@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
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?)
AtariDump@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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
snooggums@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
Third down and 3 meters to go!
itisileclerk@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
Denjin@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Hand Egg
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
NFL becomes NHL, so we need a new name for hockey.
bcgm3@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Hockey sticks moving the puck resemble brooms sweeping, so we could call it “Brooms,” which leaves us with either NBA or MLB.
Localhorst86@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
NHL will have to rename to National Blade Association (NBA), so we have to come up with something new for Basketball.
DoPeopleLookHere@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Canadians will fucking kill you deader then dead lol
Denjin@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
😭
Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Floor egg.
DmMacniel@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
turn the NFL to NHEL, case closed.
foofiepie@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Lycra Rugby
ray@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
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.
BanMe@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
😒 NFL football
🤩 NSFW football
😒 NSFL football
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m trying to think what NSFW football would be like. They have some very NSFW wrestling videos out there.
lauha@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Non-foot non-ball football league
lunaluster@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Sometimes-Foot-But-Mostly-Hands Ball-Related Running And Tumbling League
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
National 30.48cm Ball League
Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
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.
reddit_sux@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Or Not Safe For Life
brown567@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I think that’s apt
tbitbh
PlexSheep@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
They 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.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Grid Iron League Football
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Bruh
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
American Rugby
FelixCress@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Just with the full body kevlar armour like a bunch of sissies.
LordOfLocksley@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Sissy Rugby
EtherWhack@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’d say not as much sissies, more moronic cavemen who don’t know how not to hurt themselves or each other.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Are the pads kevlar? I thought they were mostly just plastic.
mirshafie@europe.pub 2 weeks ago
It would be so fucking funny if this is the last straw for Americans and they finally rise up.
jali67@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Supposedly, a lot of “real Americans” ditched the NFL the last few years. He might need to go after NASCAR and NHL too.
GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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?”
ghostlychonk@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m pretty sure this is just another example of his current opinion or idea being the same as the last person he talked to.
Saapas@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
I’m sorry but this is important
MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Gets a bribe from fifa, “we need to change the name of this sportsing”
skisnow@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
For a moment I thought he was having a rare moment of clarity, but no, he was having a common moment of corruption
QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Trump has always edn hurt that he couldn’t buy a sports team. He tried to buy the Buffalo Bills years ago but it failed.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
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.
The rich guys hate him, and want nothing to do with him.
Atomic@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
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.
justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
You mean hand egg?
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Plump rump.
Scrollone@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
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.
rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Handegg, obviously.
Darcranium@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I love this. But I feel like Handoval might go over better
RBWells@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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?
realitista@lemmus.org 2 weeks ago
Handegg?
RangerAndTheCat@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
CaptainBlinky@lemmy.myserv.one 2 weeks ago
I second Handegg.
drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Third World Ball Chase. And it won’t be offensive because we a third world now too.
formidable_asshat@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
victorz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I knew there’d be something. Bingo bongo.
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
National Bingo Bongo League? NBBL? It has a ring to it.
Red_October@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
I hate that his fucking followers will be more angry about this than the fact that he raped kids on Epstein’s island.
jali67@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Well because he snaps his fingers and says it is a hoax. His followers just blindly trust anything he says.
oyo@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Obama would have been immediately impeached for saying this.
Tedesche@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The fact that he parrots a good point that millions of other people have been saying for decades does not make him a smart man.
Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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 I seem 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
Stern@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
ScoopMcPoops@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Are millions of people across the globe really campaigning to change the name of a sport for literal decades? Why? Who cares that much?
Tedesche@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
When he dies im gonna throw a party. I hate parties. But I hate him more
jali67@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I hope he gets something like pancreatic cancer and suffers for a few months.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Explosive bowel syndrome
if_only@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I’d love to see locked in syndrome after his next stroke. And may the good lord bless him with long life after that.
Bakkoda@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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…
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I think he was just giving a soccer peace prize by FIFA, this is just him doing one of his favors back, lol.
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
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.
SaraTonin@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That would be hilarious. Please let him accomplish that and nothing else.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Notyou@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Just call what the NFL plays soccer. Then use football for the actual game with ⚽
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
American forward-pass Rugby
chemicalprophet@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
I’ve been calling it ‘stupid’ for some time and never really get any cogent pushback. Sports!
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
So he had a meeting with a soccer player then?
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
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!
scala@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
American Handegg League
communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 2 weeks ago
He’s always lazer focused on the most important issues facing americans.
banause@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
May I suggest a German word?
“Distanzkampfball”
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
He wants it named after himself, of course
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
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.
ramble81@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Omg. Did he say this after getting his participation trophy from FIFA?
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Of course he did
Saapas@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
NFL Peaciest Prize for Bestest Person, gotta one up FIFA