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minus-squarebluegreenwookie@bookwormstory.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 day 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-squareArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·14 hours 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-up1·13 hours agoNo, handball is an actual sport: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handball
minus-squareHansae@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down2·edit-21 day agoRugby for cowards
minus-squaregmtom@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down1·1 day agoGridiron it’s a much cooler name anyway
minus-squarebitchkat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·1 day agoAmerican gridiron football.
minus-squarechonglibloodsport@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·1 day 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-squareJyek@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day agoBut America also has rugby leagues. Rugby is not a foreign concept to most Americans.
minus-squareziggurat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 day agoIf you hate the word handegg, then maybe call it American Rugby, instead of American Football
minus-squareJyek@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·16 hours agoBut we don’t call it American football. We just call it football.
minus-squareArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·14 hours agoAmerican Football is already taken anyway, great band.
minus-squarePunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 day 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
Helmet ball
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
Rugby for cowards
Gridiron it’s a much cooler name anyway
American gridiron football.
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.
Gridiron football
Pitch football
Helmet handball.
Hot Potato.