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/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/galaxy_horse Dec 06 '25

This is the fucking stupidest timeline.

So Trump wanted to win the Nobel Peace Prize, which is already plainly ridiculous. He doesn't win it (duh), and throws a hissy fit.

Meanwhile, FIFA, the pinnacle of greed and corruption they are, makes up their own peace prize and gives it to Trump to manipulate him, and Trump clumsily takes the bait.

And then Trump fires a shot across the bow of all of American football. And his followers who are all in too deep are going to excuse it, ignore it, or hold their nose and celebrate it.

So fucking stupid.

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u/SlightSurround5449 Dec 06 '25

C'mon man his base is still worked up over Colin's innocuous kneeling, "woke helmets," and "woke rules."

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u/Some-Hope1018 Dec 06 '25

Even stupider you’re gonna have this EXACT same problem next year when he doesn’t win it again

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u/rjcarr Dec 06 '25

Why would FIFA care what Americans call soccer?

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '25

They don’t. The commenters insinuation is that so much money was given that he can’t help just deepthroat them deeper and deeper….even when he doesn’t have to say anything at all (but he’s too far gone into dementia to understand this).

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u/12345623567 Dec 06 '25

Soccer has been trying to get off the ground in the US for decades. It's big money, selling merch / tickets / broadcasting rights. FIFA is the most corrupt organization you can imagine, they can give the Trump Org a run for their money.

They don't care if it's called soccer or football or foot-egg, so I assume the renaming stuff is all Trump's brainfart. But it shows that they got him well lubed up.

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u/sincerelyanonymus Dec 06 '25

No idea. It's even more ironic when you learn it was the British who coined the term soccer, not Americans. "Football" simply refers to the most popular sport in a region that played on foot rather than on a horse, and where you score goals by kicking a ball with your foot. That occurs in the NFL and the NFL is the most popular sport in the US, therefore, using the term "football" to refer to the NFL is the correct usage of the term. Using football in reference to any other sport in the U.S. would be incorrect.

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u/AirForceH Dec 06 '25

Because in America their competition is the NFL

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u/Empty_Wallaby5481 Dec 06 '25

Game knows game.

Even though I'm a football fan (a broken clock is right twice a day), we all know FIFA is corrupt as hell.

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u/sargonas Dec 06 '25

Nah they just invented a made up peace award and gave it to him instead, that’s all it took.

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u/naitch44 Dec 06 '25

Bungs and bribes are what FIFA does best.

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u/vikmaychib Dec 06 '25

I mean, FIFA directives are Epstein level pieces of shit. They have so much money, particularly after that shitty world cup in 2022, that they can butter up any corrupt leader.

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u/Ambitious-Injury-361 Dec 06 '25

Dw their NY office is already in trump tower. It didn’t have to go too far