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    5 hours ago

    Just call what the NFL plays soccer. Then use football for the actual game with ⚽

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    Soccer isn’t the only football it’s in a group of games originally called football which includes rugby. Technically to the rest of the world NFL style football is gridiron football.

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      To most of the world football is what is refered to as soccer. Rugby and american football are their own seperate thing as far as I am concerned

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    The ball is oval. They just need to restrict the age of players to 13-19 years old then they could call it “Ovalteen”. That’s gold Gerry! That’s gold!

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    Lemme guess: He wants to call it Trumpball, right?

    He’s acting like he’s just spit balling here, but we all know that after a bit of discussion in the media, it will “suddenly” occur to him on camera, that a good name might be Trumpball. Mike Johnson will immediately begin legislation, Vance will clutch his pearls at any resistance to what is obviously the only reasonable name, Bondi & Patel will threaten in investigate anyone who doesn’t go along, and Schmuck Schumer will make a weak speech that nobody will ever hear because the media won’t care what he has to say, because he never says anything important.

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      For a moment I thought he was having a rare moment of clarity, but no, he was having a common moment of corruption

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      Trump has always been hurt that he couldn’t buy a sports team. He tried to buy the Buffalo Bills years ago but it failed.

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        And the reason he couldn’t have a team? Because all the other rich owners, the guys whose club he so desperately wants to be a part of, hate his guts, and want nothing to do with him, so they’ve iced him out of pro team ownership for DECADES.

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            That’s definitely PART of the reason they hate him, although you could probably say the same things about most of those owners.

            I think a bigger reason is that he’s just a massive Putz, and nobody can stand to be around him unless they absolutely have to. They don’t want to have him in the owners suite on draft day, running his big mouth, demanding loyalty and respect from everybody, etc. The guy sucks ALL the oxygen from every room he enters, and narcissistic billionaires aren’t real big on sharing the spotlight, especially with a massive dickhead like Trump.

            They can approve a guy they like, or Trump. Anyone would choose the friend.

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        How about “pauseball”? I’ve rarely seen a more boring “spectacle” than a bunch of roided men in tights smash into each other for 3 seconds then watching fat middle-aged men with oversize headsets chew gum for 10 minutes after.