FIFA awarded President Donald Trump its inaugural Peace Prize, and Trump suggested soccer should be called football and the NFL should be renamed during the World Cup.
Sure, but how often does foot-“ball” contact occur? (And I don’t mean the players’ testicles, I mean that oblong thing the players carry around the field and occasionally throw around).
At some point you’ve got to be honest with yourself and admit that football isn’t an appropriate name for the sport.
It’s called gridiron, it’s always been called gridiron, no need to change its name, just stop calling it football. 🤷♂️
I’ve never heard anyone ever say I’m going down to the bar to watch gridiron.
What a metal name! I wonder how that mixup even started. That one just sounds cooler…
Technically… gridiron football…
Just saying.
Sure, but how often does foot-“ball” contact occur? (And I don’t mean the players’ testicles, I mean that oblong thing the players carry around the field and occasionally throw around).
At some point you’ve got to be honest with yourself and admit that football isn’t an appropriate name for the sport.
Rugby did it, gridiron can too.
Just for the record, and with making no value judgements…to me, gridiron football is just a bunch of dudes in tights chasing other dudes in tights.
Don’t ask me where the “football” comes from.
RFU = Rugby Football Union
Gridiron: a structure above the stage of a theater, from which hung scenery and the like are manipulated.
I always suspected that under all that padded costume these guys were really theatre geeks.