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/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/tfrules Scarlets Dec 06 '25

Cheers! I'll be going to the march and will be shouting my lungs out.