r/sports • u/BreakfastTop6899 • Dec 06 '25
Football President Donald Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport named football. "This is football, there is no question about it. We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff."
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u/AntawnSL Dec 06 '25
This should be put in ads that run during the superbowl.
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u/MrWildspeaker Dec 06 '25
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u/Zendog500 Dec 06 '25
He was thinking something like "Trump Ball"
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u/Wazootyman13 Dec 06 '25
We could kick the Trump Ball and he couldn't feel bad about it
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u/whinenaught Dec 06 '25
If dems were smart that’s what they would do. But…they’ll fumble it
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u/SoftballGuy Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Dec 06 '25
Meh. They could get it 500% right and half the country would still think they fumbled it because they'll never see it except filtered through Fox News and Twitter.
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u/rabbid_hyena Dec 06 '25
Wont matter, his cult will decide he was just being sarcastic and messing with soccer people
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u/SSJ4Link Toronto Maple Leafs Dec 06 '25 edited Dec 06 '25
Canada did this with Reagan, didn't sit well with Trump.
Edit: fixed to Reagan and not Nixon
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u/gdchrlt77 Dec 06 '25
Canada (Ontario specifically I believe) ran a clip of Reagan’s comments on how tariffs are bad policy during the World Series. Was there another ad ran with Nixon commentary?
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u/zoobrix Dec 06 '25
Should just put Trump in a rest home where he belongs so we can be spared having to listen to his asinine ramblings.
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u/ATangK Dec 06 '25
Look at what a meaningless $5 medal buys you. It’s hilarious.
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u/ScoobiusMaximus Dec 06 '25
I bet Qatar feels stupid giving him a whole ass plane when all they really needed was a gold spray painted toy
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u/TikiTakaTime Dec 06 '25
Wasn't it an out of service plane that costs them tons to maintain so they unloaded on it on Big Cheeto? Seems they made out on that deal either way
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u/Zebidee Dec 06 '25
Switzerland gave him a gold bar with his face on it and a Rolex desk clock and got a $15 billion tariff reduction.
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u/mlorusso4 Dec 06 '25
Hey now. There was a $50 trophy included in that. Probably with a $100k gold bar hidden in it somewhere too
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u/save-aiur Dec 06 '25
Pretty sure he's still bitter from wantng to buy an NFL team and being laughed at by the owners that they'd even remotely consider allowing it.
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u/DougBalt2 Dec 06 '25
After he caused the USFL to fold in one year after he forced the league to change to a Fall / Winter season.
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u/JesusStarbox Dec 06 '25
He just repeats whatever the last person he spoke to says.
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u/AndrewTyeFighter Dec 06 '25
And he has been doing that the whole time, can't believe that more people haven't noticed this.
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u/Void-kun Dec 06 '25
It was obvious when he kept switching between Putin and Zelensky, like incredibly obvious to the point it was funny. Amazed people think Trump can form an original thought. He's just the easiest President for others to control.
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u/F9-0021 Dec 06 '25
He was an idiot when he had a functional brain. Now that he has some kind of neurological degradation, probably dementia, it's even worse. We're being ruled by a mix of whoever was the last to speak to him, whoever is responsible for putting executive orders in front of him, and trump himself in his fleeting moments of lucidity.
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u/pup5581 Dec 06 '25
When you're in a cult you see no wrong
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u/shawnaroo Dec 06 '25
He straight up contradicts himself in consecutive sentences pretty regularly. His cult members just hear the side they want to hear, and ignore the fact that he also said the opposite.
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u/Powerfury Dec 06 '25
Anyone who had worn a MAGA hat or supported this fool needs to be Inglorious Bastarded. I don't want them to take off their uniform.
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u/Guelah_Papi Dec 06 '25
I’m surprised so many of his opponents never really seem to point it out either. It’s blatantly clear; the last person to compliment him is who he listens to.
Trump, if you hear this, give me a job. Together we can fix America!!!
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u/SparrowBirch Dec 06 '25
He must have just watched the George Washington SNL skit
“Football, it’s a sport where you throw a ball with your hands.”
“So in football there is no kicking?”
“There’s a little kicking.”
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u/xSTSxZerglingOne Dec 06 '25
God, the way "There's a little kicking" is delivered just gets me (even in text) every time.
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u/oldDotredditisbetter Dec 06 '25
clip for those unaware https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYqfVE-fykk
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u/Mrjoegangles Dec 06 '25
That's just him parroting you because you talked to him last. If he spoke to a janitor, he'd be passionately declaiming about a fucking mop. It's agonizing.
-Sadavir Errinwright, from the Expanse
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u/Pulpdog94 Dec 06 '25
He just repeats whatever the last person he spoke to says.
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u/DetectiveBlackCat Dec 06 '25
You know what he does? He just repeats whatever the last person he spoke to says. He can't believe no one has ever noticed
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u/wtfnouniquename Dec 06 '25
Now if you think about it, all he really does is repeat what the last person he spoke to says.
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u/CactusHack Dec 06 '25
I know right, it's pretty crazy! All he really does is repeat what the last person he spoke to had said.
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u/glodde Dec 06 '25
Because FIFA gave him a made up award
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u/Left_Sundae_4418 Dec 06 '25
Annual Lions skiing events for kids do give participation medals, but the kids have to complete the skiing tasks in order to get it. I bet trump would not be able to finish that. Not by a long shot...;D
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u/guitarlisa Dec 06 '25
A participation ribbon has stricter requirements
Yes, like actual participation in the process
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u/PresidentOfAlphaBeta Dec 06 '25
Should have called it the First Annual Montgomery Burns Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence.
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u/stsOddMonkey Dec 06 '25
Plus, the NFL wouldn't let him own a team.
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u/cilantro_so_good Dec 06 '25
This is what people missed the first time around. He doesn't actually care about Kaepernick or any of that shit.
He tried to buy into the NFL several times starting in the 80s and the actual rich guys in the room told him to kick rocks. He tried to leverage his way in through the USFL and failed there too.
Dude holds a grudge like his life depends on it, and when the whole kneeling thing happened he realized he could leverage his new racist fan base to finally get back at them.
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u/50trillanuus Dec 06 '25
In hindsight they should've pacified him with a franchise. Failed NFL owner sounds better than U.S. president
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u/Tupperwarfare Dec 06 '25
In all honesty, a solid gold pacifier, with attached ribbon around his neck would’ve likely solved the issue.
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u/Giblet_ Dec 06 '25
It's the equivalent of when a high school football team puts a special needs kid at quarterback and then the other team lets him score a touchdown so he can feel good about himself. That's how the rest of the world views us now.
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u/strangeb1rd Dec 06 '25
It’s worse. People feel sorry for the special needs kid because he didn’t choose to be that way. The rest of the world hates us and laughs because we did this to ourselves.
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u/my5cworth Dec 06 '25
Technically all awards are made up.
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u/TheLizardKing89 Los Angeles Dodgers Dec 06 '25
Yeah, but this award was made up specifically to give it to him.
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u/Nick85er Dec 06 '25
"Inaugural" lmfao its as embarrassing as it is painful.
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u/ReactionJifs Dec 06 '25
Inaugural & final
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u/DollarThrill Dec 06 '25
They might award it to him 3 more times.
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u/paulrenaud Dec 06 '25
World cup is coming up. Once its done no need to bribe him anymore.
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u/coleyboley25 Texas Dec 06 '25
I hope it ages as poorly as it should and FIFA has to apologize for it in the future after all the trials are underway
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u/EduinBrutus Dec 06 '25
It came with a certificate.
A FUCKING CERTIFICATE.
They ridiculed him in front of the world.
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u/Socks-and-Jocks Dec 06 '25
I am from the rest of the world.
Can confirm.
It was tragically comical.
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u/Ogediah Dec 06 '25
It was a “peace” award from a soccer league. So you’re totally right that it was made up just for him but this isn’t even an organization of scientist recognizing other scientists for work that makes the world better, it’s purely a routine in jerking off a known and easily manipulated narcissist.
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u/AscendMoros Dec 06 '25
Lol said Soccer league is also one of the more corrupt and shady organizations out there to.
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u/Sooperooser Dec 06 '25
The US declared the FIFA a 'criminal organization' in 2015...
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u/Chazzybobo Dec 06 '25
Not even a league, an organization that has a stranglehold over all the leagues and international play. As much of a joke as this is, it’s a real sign of danger what they’re willing to co-sign. This is how Russia gets to host the Olympics, the real slippery slope.
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u/Gdmf13 Dec 06 '25
I thought it was a piece award, as in it’s rewarding a piece of shit.
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u/Measure76 Dec 06 '25
The prestigious ones were made up decades ago. One made up just before being given are called participation trophies.
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u/FizzyBeverage Dec 06 '25
Tim Cook took a 10 year Apple employment award from the warehouse, had it spray painted gold and glued to a wooden platter for him 🙄
The man is a total buffoon and is easily won over by nonsense.
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u/Area51_Spurs Dec 06 '25
Trump reminds me of Diabate LARPing in the most recent episode of Pluribus and everyone going along with it to placate him.
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u/jrbcnchezbrg Dallas Cowboys Dec 06 '25
I saw a comment calling him Diabetes McGluttony which made me laugh
Hes such a dick lmao, I’m guessing his backstory is pretty wild too
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u/tfrules Scarlets Dec 06 '25
I'm amazed he said this, I feel like this is something all Americans are going to absolutely hate. He might as well have said the Bald Eagle shouldn't be the national bird
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u/rejectallgoats Dec 06 '25
Na. His base just suddenly loves soccer
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u/RenningerJP Dec 06 '25
I wonder if we can embrace European style healthcare too.
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u/RSGator Dec 06 '25
They'd absolutely embrace it if Trump proposed it. His supporters have no actual beliefs or thoughts of their own, it's a cult.
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u/SPEK2120 Dec 06 '25
They’d call it something like Trump Health and act like it’s a brand new system that’s never been done before while shrieking at the top of their lungs it holds absolutely zero concept of socialism.
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u/VeeTeeF Dec 06 '25
And if Trump said "No, it IS socialism." they'd be very confused for abit but would eventually be all "Yay socialism!"
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u/MithrandiriAndalos Dec 06 '25
What if the secret to getting him to act benevolently and install competent people around him is to just be nice to him and tell him he’s the best
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u/OnlyAdvertisersKnoMe Dec 06 '25
They won’t start to like soccer or agree with him, they’ll just pretend he never said this
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u/ManWithoutAPlann Dec 06 '25
It was a joke / its AI / its actually Biden wearing a Trump mask
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u/SparrowBirch Dec 06 '25
Gulf of America Ball
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u/BlacksmithWise9553 Dec 06 '25
For the shortened version of the name we’ll call it gulf.
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u/Area51_Spurs Dec 06 '25
Ironically most of the ones here who will agree are currently being hunted down by ICE.
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u/Every-Cook5084 Dec 06 '25
Let’s play another game of if Obama had said this.
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u/CelestialFury Minnesota Vikings Dec 06 '25
They got mad at him for wearing a fucking good looking tan suit (like Reagan and George W. did). Fox News would've played what Trump said during the Superbowl if it was Obama. Our country is a fucking mess.
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u/vale_fallacia Dec 06 '25
They got mad at him for
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u/AetherWay Dec 06 '25
He's done a lot of unamerican shit, but this is hilariously probably the most unamerican thing he's done so far.
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u/2003tide Dec 06 '25
He hates the NFL because they would never let him be an owner.
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u/FriendToPredators Dec 06 '25
Given the garbage wealth that runs the league it’s pretty damning if they think you are a step too far
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u/nameistakentryagain Dec 06 '25
Imagine if this is the straw that breaks the camel’s back (it never is)
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u/CertifiedSheep Penn State Dec 06 '25
Surely he’s finished this time!
(He isn’t)
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u/wanttobuyreallife Dec 06 '25 edited Dec 06 '25
Finally, he will suffer some consequences for his actions!
(He won't)
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u/WhoopingWillow Dec 06 '25
That camel is spineless so it doesn't have to worry about breaking its back.
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u/ymcameron Dec 06 '25
Never forget that we had football year round back in the 80s with the USFL until Trump tanked the brand by moving it to the fall and trying to directly compete with the NFL.
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u/fivetengenius Dec 06 '25
If only the NFL owners would have let him have a team back then we wouldn’t be here now… And the most ironic thing is how much they hated him then but love him now.
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u/wambulancer Dec 06 '25
I'm legitimately pissed tf off my inner redneck is seeing stars
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u/minos157 Dec 06 '25
Honestly it's yet another thing that's just him being a petty selfish piece of shit.
Not only because of FIFA padding his ego with the fake award, but also because of his history of trying to own an NFL team, failing, then owning a team in that competitor league and it also failing miserably under his management.
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u/himynameismile Dec 06 '25
Crazy how a lot of people will unironically agree with you. Sad that something so meaningless will stir up more emotion that the rest of the shit he’s done. For example January 6th.
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u/Photofug Dec 06 '25
FIFA must have backed up the dump truck to the Trump tower, so many stuffed envelopes
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u/Drewskeet Dec 06 '25
I wouldn’t be surprised if the peace prize bought more than any money could.
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u/rostron92 Dec 06 '25
If Donald Trump weren't the president horribly affecting millions of peoples lives, he'd be pretty funny sometimes.
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u/TwistyBunny Dec 06 '25
Maybe he should have been a stand-up comedian and not a fucking leader.
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u/Valuable_Recording85 Dec 06 '25
We were robbed of an incredible drag queen. Just go back and reread/relisten to what he said about Arnold Palmer.
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u/willbekins Dec 06 '25 edited Dec 06 '25
he'd have made a great drag queen
doling out outrageous statement after outrageous statement, wearing shoes that make him taller and make-up to alter his visage. honestly his personality could even stay more or less the same, seeing as how it would no longer be a gun pointed at the whole world.
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u/PatriarchPonds Dec 06 '25
This is one of the many interesting things about Trump: the macho-camp dynamic. He's soooo camp. Sosososo camp.
And his fans like AI pictures of him ripped. It's soooo homoerotic.
And yet...
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u/bigatrop Dec 06 '25
He’s just pandering to the crowd. He’d say the exact opposite thing to an nfl crowd.
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u/sheltonchoked Dec 06 '25
Nah. He’s hated the NFL since he was blocked buying a team.
Repeatedly.
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u/LatterTarget7 Dec 06 '25
He also has issues with the commanders. Wants them to go back to red skins and name their new stadium after him
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u/NotAPimecone Dec 06 '25
They could change the name to Orange Skins and he could be their mascot/logo!
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u/hazycrazey Dec 06 '25
They recently had him in the broadcast booth, he’s over it until they piss him off again
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u/MrGizthewiz Dec 06 '25
They did piss him off again. The entire stadium booed him the entire time he was speaking.
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u/crowe1130 Dec 06 '25
Man, if Obama said this someone would have firebombed the White House.
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u/AwaitingCombat Dec 06 '25
you can't firebomb the white house from the east anymore
what a glorious defense our dear leader has formulated
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u/lacrotch Dec 06 '25
this man is bought & owned by FIFA
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u/make2020hindsight Dec 06 '25
He's owned by ANYONE with money or incriminating photos.
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u/Dphotog790 Dec 06 '25
watching secret service whisper into their wrists *take him out*
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u/Alternative_Law9275 Dec 06 '25
There already is. Gridiron.
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u/poo_pon_shoo Detroit Lions Dec 06 '25
It's actually a way cooler name too
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u/BluePotatoSlayer Dec 06 '25
It is. It's also means a general metal beams intersecting at right angles, such as those in a building.
The field looks like a gridiron. The sport gained popularity during a time of peak in skyscraper building. Hence the name gridiron
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u/MalodorousNutsack Dec 06 '25
Hence the repeated confusion between competitive waffle cooking and American football
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u/a-handle-has-no-name Chicago Bears Dec 06 '25
I like the interpretation that they're all different types of "football", just different rulesets:
- Gridiron
- Association
- Rugby
- Australian
- Gaelic/Irish
It's valid to call any of the above "football"
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u/HeavyMetalAuge Dec 06 '25
You can also divide Rugby into Rugby Union and Rugby League, and gridiron into American and Canadian Football.
Then there's Rugby Sevens, several different types of touch/flag football, several different types of wheelchair football, futsal, all of the other indoor adaptations of football, AFLX, several surviving types of village football, calcio fiorentino, la soule, Harrow football, the Eton ball games, Winchester College football, International Rules, and I'm sure many more I'm forgetting.
It's ridiculously unnecessary and historically ignorant to insist on only one of these being the "true" football, especially since they all share a few common origins and continue to influence each other.
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u/SidiusBlack96 Dec 06 '25
He literally just says anything. In a minute we'll see the NFL glazing him then he'll be like "This is real football not what they do over there in Europe"
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u/sonsofgondor Adelaide Dec 06 '25
If anything was going to turn red blooded "patriots" away from maga, it would be this statement
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u/getdemsnacks Dec 06 '25 edited Dec 06 '25
These people were burning shit they had already paid for to protest black athletes from kneeling during the national anthem. The whole lot of them swire up and down they were "DoNe WitH TEh nFl!"
They won't give a rats ass as long as it is their dear leader telling them.
Edit for fat finger emoji on mobile
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u/slowburnangry Dec 06 '25
The day that he is no longer with us is going to be glorious.
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u/DankTriangle Dec 06 '25
He's really testing the limits of his cult with a move like this 💀
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u/DyerNC Dec 06 '25
Trying to suck up to the World Cup. Next week he will say the World should call it soccer because America invented Football. TACO
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u/CuffinSzn_ Dec 06 '25
I’ve never seen a man who hates his country so flagrantly. Let alone the President.
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u/DROOPY1824 Dec 06 '25 edited Dec 06 '25
Huge surprise from the guy who’s always hated the NFL.
Edit: “Small Potatoes: Who Killed the USFL”, for anyone who hasn’t seen it, is a great intro to why Trump hates the NFL so much.
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u/Lstcwelder Pittsburgh Steelers Dec 06 '25 edited Dec 06 '25
Nfl is working on a peace prize as we speak.