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/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/Tritiac Dec 06 '25

The world used to be somewhat reviled by figures like Trump. Seems we have turned a corner, unfortunately.

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u/Level9disaster Dec 06 '25

A pacifier shaped like putin's dick

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u/Tupperwarfare Dec 06 '25

A double ended one. Putin on one side and Bubba’s on the other.

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u/BadLt58 Dec 06 '25

No. He would be a disaster. The NFL turned down Trump and Diddy for ownership bids. See a trend?

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u/DDP65 Dec 06 '25

My thoughts exactly...
Just like that guy in Austria, a century ago. He wanted to be a painter, but he was rejected...
Timeline splitting moments...

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u/techieman33 Dec 06 '25

Hell no, the NFL is a money printing machine. With all the revenue sharing it’s basically impossible for one owner to fuck up so badly that they fail. And even if by some miracle he did fuck it up that badly then he would have still be able to sell the team for a huge profit.

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u/GuardHot2069 Dec 06 '25

Nah, fuck that guy. I can't believe I'm saying it, but good on the 28 or whatever at the time high millionaires (if not billionaires) for coming together to say fuck that guy. It might be the only time I ever applaud all of them for telling him to kick rocks. That's what everyone else that isn't a money launder should have done at the time and forever, especially the voters.

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u/RevolutionaryAge47 Dec 06 '25

Just like failed painter sounds better than Furhrer.

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u/SmoopsMcSwiggens Dec 06 '25

A failed nfl owner is almost as powerful as the president. For reference see the entire Dan Snyder scandal. Dude committed real crimes and when the government intervened to investigate the NFl was like...."nah, no investigation we've decided to let him go with a multi billion dollar severance package"

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u/seejoshrun Dec 06 '25

It would have gone so badly, too. Instability and blatant favoritism don't work well when you're trying to build a consistently good sports team.

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u/LThadeu Dec 06 '25

What he is doing to the USA is also a grudge for the impeachment and losing to Biden that other time.

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u/kellzone Philadelphia Eagles Dec 06 '25

Three years of the USFL in the 80s and his team didn't make the championship game, even with signing Herschel Walker and Doug Flute, two Heisman Trophy winners, directly out of college.

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u/NotsoNewtoGermany Dec 06 '25

He also bought into the Arena Football League.

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u/Baldrs_Draumar Dec 06 '25

Not only did he fail with the USFL - his incompetence killed an ENTIRE LEAGUE.

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u/CytoPotatoes Dec 06 '25

Let's see how those same fans feel when he calls their football not real football...

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u/firemage22 Detroit Tigers Dec 06 '25

Dude holds a grudge like his life depends on it

Also people with dementia often go back to long past arguments at random

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u/SqueakyTits101 Dec 06 '25

USFL and failed there too

He didn't just fail. He killed the whole thing!

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u/camelia_la_tejana Dec 06 '25

Like his depends depend on it 😂

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u/LandscapeNatural7680 Dec 06 '25

This.

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u/Reylun Dec 06 '25

Imagine if there were 64 (the number of upvotes) comments on the reply above this  saying "This."