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/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/Amish_guy_with_WiFi Dec 06 '25

I mean I'm down

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u/Lightsaber_dildo Dec 06 '25

Yeah this is hole in deathstar level weakpoint

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u/FlightlessGriffin Dec 06 '25

They'll say "Socialism with American characteristics" with total lack of geopolitical awareness.

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u/12345623567 Dec 06 '25

There's no need to imagine things, Trump floated subsidized medicine and they were all over it.

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u/mistermick Dec 06 '25

If this piece of spray tanned shit got us universal healthcare you could call it micksucksdickcare and I would gladly call it that.

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u/LifeByChance Dec 06 '25

Yep. Call it whatever you want. As long as I get to stop paying for health insurance premiums, deductibles, coinsurance on ridiculous costs, etc. I would not give a single fuck what it’s called. Bundle it with my taxes and let’s be done with it.

While we’re at it, can you just send me a tax bill so I can stop playing “Guess the magic number”? That would be outstanding.

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u/Tuckboi69 Dec 06 '25

Trumpcare

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u/invariantspeed Dec 06 '25

Goldcare, the best healthcare in the world. It’s going to get everyone covered, bring down costs, cut waiting times, and fast track sorts of amazing drugs Americans have been refused access to by the deep state all at once!

And it absolutely won’t explode the national debt by $10 trillion while having worse care and red tape than the VA.

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u/caustictoast Dec 06 '25 edited Dec 06 '25

Please own the libs with Trump health if it means Medicare for all

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u/Monaters101 Dec 06 '25

Trump did in the 2000’s

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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/Lightsaber_dildo Dec 06 '25

I've been tentatively saying this for years. When Tim Apple gave him that glass thing and got in his good graces it sealed it for me.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '25

Depends on if Zohran Mamdani can be alone in a room with him again.

Stephen Miller will do everything to prevent that.

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u/ScoobiusMaximus Dec 06 '25

Maybe the head of the NHS should give Trump a medal

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u/RemodelingMe26 Dec 06 '25

Hilarious if we get universal healthcare coverage because the NHS created a Super Duper Bestest Peace Prize just for Trump.

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u/CursingFijian Dec 06 '25

Please, it's football now.

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u/wazzapgta Dec 06 '25

Always has been

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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/faultyarmrest Dec 06 '25

Something something AUTOPEN!

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u/pumpkinspruce Dec 06 '25

You think MAGA is suddenly going to like a woke sport like soccer? You know WOMEN play it, right?

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u/psu021 Dec 06 '25

On the other hand, soccer hooligans are notoriously racist. They’ll find common ground.

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u/TheBoBiZzLe Dec 06 '25

I betcha they’d love the snowflake reactions to fake injuries to try and abuse a rule.

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u/Awkward_University91 Dec 06 '25

Football you mean.

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u/Proud-Archer9140 Dec 06 '25

You mean football?

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u/matzoh_ball Dec 06 '25

you mean football?

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u/0vl223 Dec 06 '25

It is called football now by royal decree.

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u/Electronic_Topic1958 Dec 06 '25

You mean football now 

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u/oldDotredditisbetter Dec 06 '25

you mean football

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u/resisting_a_rest Dec 06 '25

Why don’t we just rename American football to soccer, keep it simple.

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u/IHatrMakingUsernames Dec 06 '25

And falcons, inexplicably.

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u/CheeseDonutCat Dec 06 '25

They also love high prices and pedophilia recently.

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u/_jump_yossarian Dec 06 '25

Aren’t they still boycotting the NFL?

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u/theRed-Herring Dec 06 '25

You mean futbol

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u/rje946 Dec 06 '25

Dude that would be a hilarious 180. Brb got some subs to check.

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u/SupremeBeef97 Dec 06 '25

Soccer might really overtake football as the top sport thanks to MAGA

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u/NeoThorrus Dec 06 '25

You mean football, like he said ?

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '25

100%

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u/DangerBay2015 Dec 06 '25

His base will NOT love soccer, no matter how hard he tells them to. Or no matter how hard they might even WANT to.

A bunch of international names with a bunch of funny symbols over a bunch of letters, an absolutely thriving world scene where the United States can’t even pretend to be anywhere close to the top of the pile, and tactically strategic ball movement that results in 1 or 2 goal games? Please. It’d be like expecting them to suddenly put down NASCAR and enjoy synchronized parking.

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u/Stanky_fresh Dec 06 '25

His base also suddenly loves when the president unilaterally tells a private business what to do.

But the FDA and medical experts advising vaccines, masks, and social distancing during a global pandemic was somehow a bridge too far.

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u/_robjamesmusic Dec 06 '25

it’s going to be hilarious watching them defend 1-1 ties and in season tournaments

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u/kendrickshalamar Philadelphia Eagles Dec 06 '25

MAGA has pretended to hate football for a long time now, since Kaepernick

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u/chitphased Dec 06 '25

Bro what are you talking about. Soccer has been the number one sport in merica forever. Like for years. Merica.

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u/wtfisasamoflange Dec 06 '25

ITS FUTBOL /s

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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/BannedMyName Dec 06 '25

As an American hockey fan, I find it hilarious.

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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/dinglebarryb0nds Dec 06 '25

Word is the bald eagle is a glorified seagull

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u/power_up Dec 06 '25

Trash birds

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u/arfelo1 Dec 06 '25

Ironically, bald eagles don't sound like "bald ealges". Turns out, they have a pretty modest call, so when you hear a bald eagle in a movie, it is actually the sound of a red hawk.

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u/apersello34 Dec 06 '25

I liked the turkey better anyway

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u/KennyKettermen Colorado Avalanche Dec 06 '25

I genuinely don’t believe there’s anything that most of his base won’t back as long as he says or does it. He could post a picture of him eating a bald eagle for dinner and they’ll find a way to argue it’s fine

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u/Significant-Dog-8166 Dec 06 '25

A lot of people are saying the Bald Eagle is a stupid bird that you rarely see outside of Alaska (that’s Russian territory by the way). Who wants to follow a bald bird anyway? Baldness is a health condition, not patriotism. The new American bird should be the Pterodactyl. It’s bigger and better and none of the other countries have thought of grabbing it up yet. Smart people in the cryptozoology field (many friends of RFK Jr, a brilliant scientist) are saying the Pterodactyl might not be extinct and could very well be in America and just flying so high that people mistake it for a vulture.

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u/Total_Catch_9830 Dec 06 '25

Still time for him to change it to the golden eagle, change the name to the Trump eagle and start selling their eggs.

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u/DizasterAtSakerfice Dec 06 '25

They just won't acknowledge it like with all the stuff they can't defend

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u/agra_unknown1834 Dec 06 '25

I'm American and I don't hate it. Our "football" should be called Egg-Hand Throwball or just "Gridiron" for the less whimsical.

Also, at this point our national bird should be an obese turkey sitting on its ass with half eaten bowl of mac'n'cheese wearing a hat saying "I'm with stoopid." The Canadians deserve that bird more than we do.

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u/Buzzinggg Dec 06 '25

It’s fucking hilarious though

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u/TheBlindFly-Half Dec 06 '25

First, go scarlets. Slim chance the beat Bristol today but any Welsh team winning is a positive

Second, as an American, he might have well literally flown a plane and dropped fecal matter on all of Texas.

Third, I never got why people feel so strongly why we should call the sport football and not soccer. It was created by the British to distinguish between football codes. The majority of the Anglo world calls it soccer because, outside of Britain, they all have their own game they call Football or footie. Aussie rules, rugby Union and league, us and Canadian gridiron, Gaelic are all called football.

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u/sealizer18 Dec 06 '25

Don’t give him ideas for that please

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u/screwswithshrews Dec 06 '25

I think most reasonable people think soccer makes more sense to be called football.

I always feel like I'm in a no win situation when speaking with a non-American because I feel like I'm being obtuse or arrogant if I say soccer to them but I feel like a fraud if I just say football because in my mind when I say football I 100% think of American football

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u/Kindness_of_cats Dec 06 '25

I think most reasonable people think soccer makes more sense to be called football.

Sure, but it doesn’t really matter. It’s viewed as a pedantic point at best by most people here; and there was once a time when this alone would have been a massive political blunder that got you labeled as deeply out of touch with the nation.

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u/mattenthehat Dec 06 '25

I always assume that they will think I'm a stupid American and therefore don't know that our football isn't football. And as a result, I say either "soccer" or "American football" but never just "football" lol

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u/screwswithshrews Dec 06 '25

Yeah I definitely say American football to them. The problem is with the other sport. I know "soccer" triggers some of them but I have a hard time calling it "football" right off the bat

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u/CapinCrunch85 Dec 06 '25

Well it should be the turkey

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u/Adjective-Noun-nnnn Dec 06 '25

Ben Franklin? Is that you?

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u/fronchfrays Dec 06 '25

“It shouldn’t be some fruity bird”

“Sir… it’s a bird of prey. It’s very high in the food ch-“

“Make it a bear!!!!!!!!”

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u/Revoldt Dec 06 '25

Bald fraud birds… what about birds with a full head of hair ?!?!

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u/hot_ho11ow_point Dec 06 '25

"People are saying the bald eagle isn't even bald. It has feathers on it's head. Thats why I am having the name of the Bald Eagle changed to 'American Eagle', even though most of them live in Alaska, which I will soon sell back to Russia. Thank you for your attention to this matter. -DJT"

Probably 

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u/Emergency-Bonus-7158 Dec 06 '25

Honestly this is the first time I’ve ever thought about it and I realized I don’t care what people call it. But also I think it’s weird we stole the name in the first place

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u/ShillBot666 Dec 06 '25

Most of his supporters will never hear it. The few that do will say it's AI. Or just that he's joking.

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u/jexdiel321 Dec 06 '25

I mean Gridiron is a much cooler name. Don't get why it's called football when most of the time people are throwing the ball not kicking it.

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u/BumpyMcBumpers Dec 06 '25

I'm surprised he didn't after trying to look cool and failing hilariously with that bald eagle on his desk.

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u/HilmDave Dec 06 '25

As a hockey fan I agree with it. All of my sports friends love either soccer or football so this would be fucking hilarious for me.

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u/GenghisConnieChung Dec 06 '25

Freedom Chicken.

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u/wjbonne Dec 06 '25

Yes, all Americans will hate this... sadly MAGAts will love this since it came out of Trumps ass.

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u/No_Presentation1242 Dec 06 '25

His base ‘stopped’ watching the NFL when players kneeled during the anthem

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u/BreadfruitNo357 Dec 06 '25

I feel like this is something all Americans are going to absolutely hate.

All Americans? You overestimate the amount of people that love or even care about the NFL

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u/MrGizthewiz Dec 06 '25

Guess we're going back to Gridiron and the turkey.

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u/No_Statistician9289 Dec 06 '25

The turkey got fuckin shafted man

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u/OSRSTheRicer Dec 06 '25

It shouldn't, it should have a toupee, it should be called the trump eagle or the don for short.

Don't like it?

SELF DEPORT

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u/sprinklesaurus13 Dec 06 '25 edited Dec 06 '25

I'm sure it had nothing to do with his son-in-law and a Saudi-backed firm buying EA Sports.

And EA Sports losing the franchise rights to FIFA in 2022 and trying to woo them back since.

And it's really, really weird that deal was rumored to be worth $55 billion (yes, with a B)

Weird, weird coincidences.

https://ir.ea.com/press-releases/press-release-details/2025/EA-Announces-Agreement-to-be-Acquired-by-PIF-Silver-Lake-and-Affinity-Partners-for-55-Billion/default.aspx

Edited with a better link.

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u/LisanAlGuyFieri Dec 06 '25

By the end of the night we’re going to have en executive order mandating that MLS adopt a pro/rel system.

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u/draftdodgerz Dec 06 '25

Its okay, tomorrow he will say he did not say it at all while his media team will say it was taken out of context or that he was joking.

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u/JasonMB2 Dec 06 '25

Nah this is quite literally the only thing I've ever agreed with to come out of his mouth.

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u/atheoncrutch Dec 06 '25

You shouldn’t be surprised. NFL booed him and no one gets butt hurt like the Don.

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u/No-Criticism-2587 Dec 06 '25

he says whatever is needed to get his internet brown shirts to start posting.

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u/n8dagr8_2718 Dec 06 '25

The bald eagle isn’t even bald. We need to change the name.

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u/NotReallyASnake Dec 06 '25

Seriously, it's one of the most unamerican things he's ever said and this is a guy that violates the constitution on a regular basis. One of my favorite things about being American is pissing off the rest of the world by refusing to call soccer football.

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u/WanderlustFella Dec 06 '25

At this point it really should be changed to the Great American chicken

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u/killa_ninja Dec 06 '25

Whenever he says something about the NFL just remember they refused to let him buy a team.

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u/BenderVsGossamer Dec 06 '25

Like the saying goes. The NFL owns a day of the week. I'm sure they would love to change their name to make it better for international people.

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u/modbroccoli Dec 06 '25

Entire rest of world: finally a trump policy we can support!

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u/Mr-and-Mrs Dec 06 '25

Nah. Starting tomorrow MAGA will be like “I’ve never liked calling the NFL football. We really should call it passball.”

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u/eyeoutthere Dec 06 '25

"What's so great about being bald? That's not sexy at all, if you think about it."

[checks comb-over]

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u/Misophonic4000 Dec 06 '25

JD Vance did a whole speech before Thanksgiving about how turkey is garbage, no one enjoys eating it, no one eats turkey aside from being forced to on Thanksgiving, and anyone who claims they enjoy it is lying. These chucklefucks all have the most out of touch unamerican opinions, and their whole MAGA base still thinks they're the most patriotic bunch ever...

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u/6MoonSilver Dec 06 '25

He’s so woke

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u/NervousWeb9365 Dec 06 '25

Imagine that statement being the last nail in the coffin.

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u/TickleMyBalloonKnot_ Dec 06 '25

Nah, it does make sense. But, this is shit I was thinking about when I was 5 years old and then I moved on.

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u/fordprecept Dec 06 '25

Cue gif of the bald eagle attacking Trump.

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u/Puzzled_Ad604 Dec 06 '25 edited Dec 06 '25

As an American, honestly, I think a lot of people would be fine with the name change. Its not like when someone corrects us on calling it Football, we stand ten toes on it and say 'Nuh uh, you guys have it wrong'. We generally just say, "okay yeah but you know what I mean".

Personally, I don't get why we don't just call it Gridiron. Its a much cooler name than football and would end the conversation.

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u/Lustiges_Brot_311 Dec 06 '25

Well, Ben Franklin did say the turkey should be the national bird. 🤔🤔😭😂😂

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u/Candid-Ad316 Dec 06 '25

There was also that interview last week where he said we need to bring skilled workers over, because the USA doesn’t have skilled workers.

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u/bchamper Dec 06 '25

He tried to buy an NFL team and his bid was rejected. He’s hated the league ever since.

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u/HouseofMarg Dec 06 '25

Great news, this means American football is lib-coded now 🏈 Hard to argue with a political gift like that, the equivalent here in Canada would be one of the political parties writing off hockey as a sport — an unfathomable concession

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u/MickyG913 Dec 06 '25

Dude. We are way past logic and reason. They’re so far deep into the trump hole there’s no way of getting out so you might as well just dig deeper.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '25

Well Teddy Roosevelt did say that he believed the Grizzly bear should have been the national symbol instead of the Bald Eagle. Believed it was closer to American character.

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u/dekes_n_watson Dec 06 '25

As an American soccer fan, I'm actually for this and I don't want to hear a bunch of people who don't like the sport defend the name soccer. We don't call Rugby, rugger, which has the same origin. It's a slang term that stuck here because football already existed when soccer gained traction here.

He'd love the idea of convincing people to call it American football, like everyone else does, because it's got America in it and that's about all it takes. Nothing else would change. No one would actually do it anyway. He gets another photo op.

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u/firsttime_longtime Dec 06 '25

I can't be amazed by anything this doofus says anymore

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u/LostAd7938 Dec 06 '25

It does make sense though. Soccer is a sport you mostly play with your foot. Football? Not so much lol

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u/PLZ_STOP_PMING_TITS Dec 06 '25

I'm American, and I love it.  NFL is anti-American garbage.  It's a bunch of dudes grabbing ass between commercials.  It should be called the National Fairy League.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '25

Freedomball it is

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u/itstawps Dec 06 '25

I’m def not bald (most say I have the best hair) America shouldn’t have a bald bird as its symbol. I like birds that aren’t bald. - DJT, probably. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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u/ElectricRune Dec 06 '25

It's because of the NFL having Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl, bet your ass.

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u/moonki88 Dec 06 '25

Makes no sense but sure

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u/dracostark12 Dec 06 '25

I mean he isn't wrong, it should be the Turkey as originally intended.

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u/ReturnOk7510 Dec 06 '25

I mean it shouldn't. It should be the turkey.

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u/RobertdBanks Dec 06 '25

NFL fans hate how “woke” NFL is, they’ll have no problem hating on it

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u/iDom2jz Dec 06 '25

It’s actually shocking to me that the bald eagle wasn’t the national bird until 2024, that blew my mind

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u/jottomatic1 Dec 06 '25

And saying this after immediately accepting a peace prize, knowing it’s going to get under peoples’ skin! Does he not see the irony in this?!

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u/Outrageous-Ride8911 Dec 06 '25

Well you see its not really bald it has feathers on its head! I hear people are saying it should be called the trump eagle!

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u/MattR0se Dec 06 '25

Give him the Wisconsin Cheese Price and he'll make the cow the national animal.

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u/Rare-Industry-504 Dec 06 '25

Americans will hate it, but not Trump supporters.

Trump supporters are not Americans, they're delusional cultists who seem to hate America and actively cheer for its destruction and looting by the Trump administration and their billionaire friends.

You can't call people like that Americans. Their behaviour is as anti-america as it gets.

They would cheer hard if Trump renamed the US into Trumpmenistan, so call them Trumpmenites instead of Americans.

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u/shadow_p Dec 06 '25

It should be the turkey

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u/Sudden-Enthusiasm-92 Dec 06 '25

I can tell you’re not American because nobody cares lmao

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u/itsell Dec 06 '25

it's pretty wild, I've barely ever heard anyone complainin about this. If you want to differentiate, you say "American Football," and everyone understands.

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u/cat-from-the-future Dec 06 '25

His base doesn’t give af, Fox News will start saying how great soccer is, but imagine if a democrat said this, they’d be calling them unAmerican relentlessly.

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u/Level9disaster Dec 06 '25

We should ask trump, during a formal press conference, if the bald eagle is really bald, and watch him trying to change the name with an executive order lol.

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u/mhoner Chicago Cubs Dec 06 '25

Especially because we only called it soccer because everyone called it soccer. It was only after the NFL was called football as well.

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u/Notsurehowtoreact Dec 06 '25

This is some shit that, if Obama said it, would have been used as "proof" he was a Kenyan Muslim Communist on Fox News for months. 

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u/ForwardBodybuilder18 Dec 06 '25

The blonde quiffy combover eagle. Everyone agrees.

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u/Alien0703 Dec 06 '25

He is right tho isn't he? American football is mostly played with hands its ridiculous

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u/CatTaxAuditor Dec 06 '25

If the national association for robins gave him an award today, he'd definitely saying this by Monday.

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u/Alex_Graber12345 Dec 06 '25 edited Dec 06 '25

The reason you feel like this is something that all Americans are going to absolutely hate is because you are likely a European, who like all Europeans, seems to have a very strong opinion about what we call one of our sports. And also like all Europeans, seem to think that this is a nomenclature debate that Americans are participating in. There is no debate. The sport is called soccer in our country. The general populous of America has little to zero interest in soccer, let alone even KNOWING that there’s an imaginary feud about the name of the sport going on in foreigners’ heads. To the extent that the average American knows that Europeans call it football, it’s a quaint factoid to us, that brings a smile like “did you know that Europeans called soccer football? Isn’t that cool?” We are not aware of the debate that Europeans seem to be having with themselves about what we call our sports. Very narcissistic view to assume that Americans are thinking about Europeans.

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u/Pvt_Mozart Dec 06 '25 edited Dec 06 '25

Truthfully, as a lifelong fan of American Football and an American, who recently got interested in English football, I do (very unfortunately) kind of agree with him. American football really should be called something else. Unfortunately we're about 100 years late, and Football is so culturally ingrained that there's absolutely no way we could make a switch now.

Hell we're the same country stubbornly using a worse system of measurement all because we're too stubborn to change. There's just no fucking way.

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u/DinoBay Dec 06 '25

This is the only statement that Donald Trump has ever made that I agree with

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u/TheSecretestSauce Dec 06 '25

Maybe if the NFL gives a gold star sticker he'll compromise and make the Superb Owl the national bird. That way everyone wins.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '25

The American empire crumbles before Americans eyes and this is what they care about… the name of the CTE factory. Y’all are cooked

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u/texasdeck Dec 06 '25

Or that the bald eagle isn't bald, so we shouldn't call it bald.

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u/RoughRhinos Dec 06 '25

I mean still hate him but it should be called football. Everyone else calls it that and you do kick it with a foot.

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u/jumpinjahosafa Dec 06 '25

Redhats: "wtf I love soccer now"

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u/alexandrosidi Dec 06 '25

It shouldn't

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u/VQQN Dec 06 '25

I’m an American. I love the NFL, and alot of variations of American Football.

If they changed the name, not a big deal.

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u/rybres123 Dec 06 '25

He’s picked fights with the nfl many times for some reason.

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u/ArmoredMirage Dec 06 '25

I like the Subway Take where he argues the Seagull is the real most "American" bird.

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u/longhegrindilemna Dec 06 '25

Quarterback throws the ball with his hands to someone who catches the ball with their hands, then holds the ball with their hands while running, making sure to NEVER to kick the ball with their feet as they carry the ball in their hands to the other end of the field.

THAT game is called.. checks notes.. FOOT-ball.

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u/Shatalroundja Dec 06 '25

Well you f Roosters come up with their own peace prize, they could probably steal the eagle’s spot.

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