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return2ozma@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days ago

Rename football in America, Trump says, because soccer owns that title

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Rename football in America, Trump says, because soccer owns that title

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return2ozma@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days ago
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The US should 'come up with another name' for football because that term belongs to soccer, Trump says at World Cup draw, renewing historic debate.
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  • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com
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    Hahaha! FIFA game him a peace prize to get this to happen.

    This timeline is ridiculous.

    • Dr. Moose@lemmy.world
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      I’m surprised it took that long. Football is missing one of the biggest markets in the world and they’d award that dumbass with a trophy daily if that got them any closer to football in the US.

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    This is because FIFA just sucked him off.

  • D_C@sh.itjust.works
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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbreaking:_The_Worst_Person_You_Know_Just_Made_a_Great_Point

    I fucking hate that I actually agree with the fat child rapist. I’m now going to go and scrub my skin off with bleach!!

    • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
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      If it helps, he doesn’t actually believe this, or care either way, he’s just extremely bribable.

      • ryathal@sh.itjust.works
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        He also has a grudge against the NFL because Jerry Jones kept him from getting a team.

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    He’s absolutely right. And while we’re at it, can we rename the “World” Series?

    • Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip
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      Canada has a team in the league. It counts.

      • Quilotoa@lemmy.ca
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        So, the National Basketball League of Australia could call their championship the World Cup of Basketball? It has two countries in it.

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          Anyone can call anything anything they want! Names mean fuck all

      • REDACTED@infosec.pub
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        So, American (continent) league?

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    This will be what gets him shot.

    • gothic_lemons@lemmy.world
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      Again you mean

      • paranoid@lemmy.world
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        “again”

        • hemmes@lemmy.world
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          Where’s the missing piece of ear?? Can’t find it, right?

          If he really got shot in the ear there should be a chuck misting from the top rim but it’s clean as a baby orangutan’s ass.

          • a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world
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            Cartilage doesn’t regrow.

      • Serinus@lemmy.world
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        He was shot? I don’t remember that.

        He was shot near, maybe.

    • MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world
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      Nah he’s gone after the NFL before. He’s a pedophile convicted felon, I don’t think his dumb musing about football will be his downfall.

    • Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip
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      He wasn’t shot. His guard hip checked his head mid tackle. That’s why they had to get a second opinion from their favorite lying doctor before releasing the medical report.

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    I can’t believe he said something the entire world outside US agree with 🤣

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      He saya quite a few things we agree on, and surely there should be for you as well, but hatred blinds.

      • ilinamorato@lemmy.world
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        You’ve got your cause and effect reversed. He says vile things, so we point out that he is a vile person.

        It’s his hatred that makes him say hateful things, not ours.

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        He’s bribed to say things people agree with otherwise no he says nothing any sane reasonable person agree with like ever.

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          Like I said: blinded. Any 2 people in the world no matter their differences agree on something.

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    So now we do care what other countries think?

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    Rugby or Gridiron would be great!

    otherwise i hate everything about this. i need to take a break from football because FIFA is just too overtly disgusting lately.

    • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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      US football dispensed with most of the rules of international rugby years ago. Gridiron would make sense though.

      • Nico198X@europe.pub
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        fair enough!

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    also the head of the football commision, of fifa, gave him him a “fifa peace prize”

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    Do it, slut.

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    What’s next? 'Murica starts using the metric system?

    It’s weird that the US calls “football” “soccer” and “american football” “football” but it is what it is and a president shouldn’t be able to rename things on a whim.

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    He should rename “the gulf of America” back to “the gulf of mexico” while he’s at it

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    Gridiron.

    It’s known as Gridiron Football already, just use the other half…

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      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_types_of_football

      Good grief, there’s more! Absolutely unacceptable that something could develop from an earlier version and keep any fragment of identity.

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      While we are at it we should rename the hundreds of cities named the same as European cities. Maybe even consider renaming Georgia, why would they want to be named after King George

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        Georgia is also a country. Gets confusing because some Americans will tell your their state when asked where they’re from, even when overseas. I’ve complimented someone who’d said they’re from Georgia on their English before.

        (On a side note, can you imagine travelling to the US, being asked where you’re from, then going ‘oh I’m from alto adige originally’)

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          Georgia? You mean Russia? /s. Sorry, figured we’d have a nice Russian invasion joke… come to think of it, not a good joke. Just a shit country invading borders

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    We all know he wants to call it “Trump Ball”. Hell, why only replace one word, let’s call the game “Trump Trump”.

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    I am recommending we call it concussion ball.

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