PugJesus@lemmy.world to Star Wars Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoThis is outrageous! It's unfair!lemmy.worldimagemessage-square79fedilinkarrow-up1860arrow-down118
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minus-squarebluegreenwookie@bookwormstory.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 months agoImagine if the us switched to calling soccer football. What would the us call American football then? It would be weird to call it American football in America
minus-squaregmtom@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down1·2 months agoGridiron it’s a much cooler name anyway
minus-squareHansae@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down2·edit-22 months agoRugby for cowards
minus-squarechonglibloodsport@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·2 months agoBut then what would they call rugby which is also played with a prolate spheroid called a “ball” which can be carried in the hand or kicked? Canadian and American football are descendants of rugby.
minus-squarengdev@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·2 months agoprobably just keep calling it rugby
minus-squareJyek@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoBut America also has rugby leagues. Rugby is not a foreign concept to most Americans.
minus-squareziggurat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoIf you hate the word handegg, then maybe call it American Rugby, instead of American Football
minus-squareJyek@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoBut we don’t call it American football. We just call it football.
minus-squareArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoAmerican Football is already taken anyway, great band.
minus-squareArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoHandball is already a sport, albeit more an “in the park with your friends” kind of thing than “arenas and shit lol.”
minus-squareSlovene@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoNo, handball is an actual sport: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handball
minus-squarebitchkat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·2 months agoAmerican gridiron football.
minus-squarePunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoGridiron football Pitch football
Imagine if the us switched to calling soccer football. What would the us call American football then? It would be weird to call it American football in America
Gridiron it’s a much cooler name anyway
Rugby for cowards
Call it handegg
But then what would they call rugby which is also played with a prolate spheroid called a “ball” which can be carried in the hand or kicked?
Canadian and American football are descendants of rugby.
probably just keep calling it rugby
But America also has rugby leagues. Rugby is not a foreign concept to most Americans.
If you hate the word handegg, then maybe call it American Rugby, instead of American Football
But we don’t call it American football. We just call it football.
American Football is already taken anyway, great band.
Handball
Handball is already a sport, albeit more an “in the park with your friends” kind of thing than “arenas and shit lol.”
No, handball is an actual sport: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handball
American gridiron football.
Gridiron football
Pitch football
Helmet ball
Helmet handball.
Hot Potato.