PugJesus@lemmy.world to Star Wars Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 days agoThis is outrageous! It's unfair!lemmy.worldimagemessage-square79linkfedilinkarrow-up1859arrow-down118cross-posted to: memes@lemmy.world
arrow-up1841arrow-down1imageThis is outrageous! It's unfair!lemmy.worldPugJesus@lemmy.world to Star Wars Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 days agomessage-square79linkfedilinkcross-posted to: memes@lemmy.world
minus-squarebluegreenwookielinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·22 days 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-down1·22 days agoGridiron it’s a much cooler name anyway
minus-squareHansae@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down2·edit-222 days agoRugby for cowards
minus-squarechonglibloodsport@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·22 days 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-up13·22 days agoprobably just keep calling it rugby
minus-squareJyek@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·22 days agoBut America also has rugby leagues. Rugby is not a foreign concept to most Americans.
minus-squareziggurat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·21 days agoIf you hate the word handegg, then maybe call it American Rugby, instead of American Football
minus-squareJyek@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·21 days agoBut we don’t call it American football. We just call it football.
minus-squareArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·21 days agoAmerican Football is already taken anyway, great band.
minus-squarebitchkat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·22 days agoAmerican gridiron football.
minus-squareArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·21 days 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-up1·21 days agoNo, handball is an actual sport: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handball
minus-squarePunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·22 days 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.
American gridiron football.
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
Helmet ball
Gridiron football
Pitch football
Helmet handball.
Hot Potato.