FIFA awarded President Donald Trump its inaugural Peace Prize, and Trump suggested soccer should be called football and the NFL should be renamed during the World Cup.

It’s gonna be named Trumpball isn’t it?

As a “soccer” fan, I’m glad we get football back.

  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I want FIFA to go all in on nonsensical awards. Need a FIFA Chef of the Year award, FIFA’s best new artist, or FIFA Best Original Screenplay

  • Raglesnarf@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I’m probably just dumb but I thought the technical name was Gridiron Football, doesn’t that count?

    • human@slrpnk.net
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      10 months ago

      Yep.

      Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word football generally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly called football include association football (known as soccer in Australia, Canada, South Africa, the United States, and sometimes in Ireland and New Zealand); Australian rules football; Gaelic football; gridiron football (specifically American football, arena football, or Canadian football); International rules football; rugby league football; and rugby union football.[1] These various forms of football share, to varying degrees, common origins and are known as “football codes”.

      And though the jokes about gridiron not actually using your feet much are understandable, kicking the ball might not be the reason any of these sports are called “football”. It’s actually possible it’s because they are played on foot, to distinguish them from horseback sports like polo, which were more of a thing at the time they were named.

      There are conflicting explanations of the origin of the word “football”. It is widely assumed that the word “football” (or the phrase “foot ball”) refers to the action of the foot kicking a ball.[13] There is an alternative explanation, which is that football originally referred to a variety of games in medieval Europe that were played on foot.[14] There is little conclusive evidence for either explanation.

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

      • Ivan Overdrive@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        10 months ago

        He’s being managed. Apparently, his brand of dementia can’t be treated, only slowed. A big symptom is him losing his circadian rhythm, and sleep deprivation hastens the disease. I’ve heard he’s only got a few months before the big dirtnap. Then we’ll have President Vance.

  • leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 months ago

    It’s called gridiron, it’s always been called gridiron, no need to change its name, just stop calling it football. 🤷‍♂️

    • Rhoeri@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I’ve never heard anyone ever say I’m going down to the bar to watch gridiron.

    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Gridiron: a structure above the stage of a theater, from which hung scenery and the like are manipulated.

      I always suspected that under all that padded costume these guys were really theatre geeks.

      • leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        10 months ago

        Sure, but how often does foot-“ball” contact occur? (And I don’t mean the players’ testicles, I mean that oblong thing the players carry around the field and occasionally throw around).

        At some point you’ve got to be honest with yourself and admit that football isn’t an appropriate name for the sport.

        Rugby did it, gridiron can too.

        • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          10 months ago

          Just for the record, and with making no value judgements…to me, gridiron football is just a bunch of dudes in tights chasing other dudes in tights.

          Don’t ask me where the “football” comes from.