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LetMyPeopleVote

(174,824 posts) Sat Dec 6, 2025, 10:36 AM Dec 6

Trump now wants to rename the NFL and the sport of Football in America to something else

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Trump now wants to rename the NFL and the sport of Football in America to something else (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote Dec 6 OP

Would love to see MAGA men rationalizing how this is a good idea newdeal2 Dec 6 #1

Good. Maybe something will wake up the sports zombies. travelingthrulife Dec 6 #2

The Australian Football League runs Aussie Rules football in its home; the Rugby Football Union runs rugby union muriel_volestrangler Dec 6 #3

In Australia their version of football is colloquially called "footy." Ocelot II Dec 6 #6

I'd like to see some of the NFL types try to play Australian Rules Football. The Madcap Dec 6 #12

It is played with a pigskin and piggies live in his head, taxi Dec 6 #4

Sarcastaball. n/t flvegan Dec 6 #5

He'd probably like it to be called "Trumpball." Ocelot II Dec 6 #7

You beat me to it. LOL Emile Dec 6 #9

Great minds think alike !!!! PCIntern Dec 6 #16

He will call it handball, so not to confuse it with those European sports... Johonny Dec 6 #8

At the risk of stating the obvious, soccer (aka football everywhere else on the planet)... 3catwoman3 Dec 6 #10

The manic orange turd blossom has another wild hair. Solly Mack Dec 6 #11

Yeah, he's a piece alright.... The Madcap Dec 6 #13

He is indeed. Solly Mack Dec 6 #15

I know!...Trumpball Kid Berwyn Dec 6 #14

Yeah, let's call it Trumpball and kick the crap out of it. Sogo Dec 6 #17

Futurama had the right idea. Initech Dec 6 #18

Can't we just replace him please? Fuck this POS. Initech Dec 6 #19

Maybe a little retribution: He was denied an ownership stake in the Buffalo Bills Norbert Dec 6 #20

Glad all other problems in the USA are solved, so the president can worry about trivial things. Swede Dec 6 #21

MaddowBlog-Trump's football troubles take a weird turn as he eyes new name 'for the NFL stuff' LetMyPeopleVote Dec 9 #22

newdeal2

(4,764 posts)

1. Would love to see MAGA men rationalizing how this is a good idea

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Sat Dec 6, 2025, 10:43 AM

Dec 6

I think their small brains would burst.

travelingthrulife

(4,463 posts)

2. Good. Maybe something will wake up the sports zombies.

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Sat Dec 6, 2025, 10:55 AM

Dec 6

muriel_volestrangler

(105,551 posts)

3. The Australian Football League runs Aussie Rules football in its home; the Rugby Football Union runs rugby union

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Sat Dec 6, 2025, 11:02 AM

Dec 6

in its home (and Irish Rugby is run by the Irish Rugby Football Union). These all co-exist with people using "football" for association football in those countries. No need to rename the NFL, and the use of just "football" in the USA for gridiron is going to continue whatever a government or official body says. It's just more verbal diarrhoea from an ailing narcissist.

Ocelot II

(129,012 posts)

6. In Australia their version of football is colloquially called "footy."

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Reply #3)

Sat Dec 6, 2025, 11:17 AM

Dec 6

I don't think the US would find that word sufficiently manly, though.

The Madcap

(1,746 posts)

12. I'd like to see some of the NFL types try to play Australian Rules Football.

Reply to Ocelot II (Reply #6)

Sat Dec 6, 2025, 11:49 AM

Dec 6

No pads, hard contact, no time outs for injuries, good luck...

taxi

(2,676 posts)

4. It is played with a pigskin and piggies live in his head,

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Sat Dec 6, 2025, 11:05 AM

Dec 6

so let's float the name piggyball in recognition of him

flvegan

(65,755 posts)

5. Sarcastaball. n/t

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Sat Dec 6, 2025, 11:13 AM

Dec 6

Ocelot II

(129,012 posts)

7. He'd probably like it to be called "Trumpball."

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Sat Dec 6, 2025, 11:18 AM

Dec 6

Emile

(40,570 posts)

9. You beat me to it. LOL

Reply to Ocelot II (Reply #7)

Sat Dec 6, 2025, 11:23 AM

Dec 6

PCIntern

(27,967 posts)

16. Great minds think alike !!!!

Reply to Ocelot II (Reply #7)

Sat Dec 6, 2025, 12:11 PM

Dec 6

Johonny

(25,407 posts)

8. He will call it handball, so not to confuse it with those European sports...

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Sat Dec 6, 2025, 11:21 AM

Dec 6

And yes, this is a joke.

3catwoman3

(28,575 posts)

10. At the risk of stating the obvious, soccer (aka football everywhere else on the planet)...

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Sat Dec 6, 2025, 11:31 AM

Dec 6

..is actually played with the ball at one's feet. It has been calculated that the amount of time the ball is in play in an NFL broadcast is about 12 minutes, during which the ball is hardly ever at anyone's feet.

My husband, who played football in high school, and then lacrosse at the Air Force Academy, thinks it should be called passball -

(In the interest of transparency, I'm a long time soccer mom of 2 sons, now in their mid 30s and still playing. We follow English Premier League soccer/football, and are supporters of the Arsenal club. Also following Wrexham in the Championship league. Absolutely loved the Welcome to Wrexham series.)

Solly Mack

(96,317 posts)

11. The manic orange turd blossom has another wild hair.

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Sat Dec 6, 2025, 11:39 AM

Dec 6

I get the feeling someone at FIFA mentioned the whole football/soccer thing. They did give him a peace prize.

Snort.

The Madcap

(1,746 posts)

13. Yeah, he's a piece alright....

Reply to Solly Mack (Reply #11)

Sat Dec 6, 2025, 11:50 AM

Dec 6

Solly Mack

(96,317 posts)

15. He is indeed.

Reply to The Madcap (Reply #13)

Sat Dec 6, 2025, 12:11 PM

Dec 6

Kid Berwyn

(22,889 posts)

14. I know!...Trumpball

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Sat Dec 6, 2025, 12:10 PM

Dec 6

Dear Leader is so irreplaceable leading and the wisdom and all that orange pus-n-treason.

ETA: Apologies to all who beat me to it.

Sogo

(6,975 posts)

17. Yeah, let's call it Trumpball and kick the crap out of it.

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Sat Dec 6, 2025, 12:15 PM

Dec 6

nt.

Initech

(107,399 posts)

18. Futurama had the right idea.

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Sat Dec 6, 2025, 12:18 PM

Dec 6

Initech

(107,399 posts)

19. Can't we just replace him please? Fuck this POS.

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Sat Dec 6, 2025, 12:24 PM

Dec 6

Norbert

(7,556 posts)

20. Maybe a little retribution: He was denied an ownership stake in the Buffalo Bills

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Sat Dec 6, 2025, 12:31 PM

Dec 6

in the early 1980s. Right after that the USFL was formed and at trump's urging, the USFL went from a Spring/Summer to a Fall Schedule. He owned the New Jersey Generals. Of course, the USFL went belly up.

Fun Fact: Don Shula was one of the very best coaches in the NFL in the 1970s-80s. He was contacted by trump about being head coach of the New Jersey Generals. His pay would be much, much better than what the Miami Dolphins were currently paying him. Shula was impressed and told trump he would get back with him after he talked with his attorney about this. That is as far as it went. He never took trumps offer. I can only imagine the attorney vetoed the deal. Possibly he had a reputation as a deadbeat boss even back then.

Swede

(38,318 posts)

21. Glad all other problems in the USA are solved, so the president can worry about trivial things.

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Sat Dec 6, 2025, 01:06 PM

Dec 6

LetMyPeopleVote

(174,824 posts)

22. MaddowBlog-Trump's football troubles take a weird turn as he eyes new name 'for the NFL stuff'

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Tue Dec 9, 2025, 02:46 PM

Dec 9

To the extent that the NFL has itself become a political football, it’s apparently in Democrats’ hands.

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https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trumps-football-troubles-take-a-weird-turn-as-he-eyes-new-name-for-the-nfl-stuff

Five years ago, Politico highlighted the president’s “decadeslong grudge against the NFL” and the eagerness with which he has incorporated the league into his broader “culture war strategy.”

Five years later, he’s still at it. NBC News reported:

If the NFL wants to improve its relationship with the current administration, there’s a new way to do it.

Change the name of the sport.

President Trump, who got the royal treatment and them some from FIFA at Friday’s World Cup draw, suggested that the world isn’t big enough for two sports with the same name.

...“But when you look at what has happened to football in the United States, it’s again ‘soccer’ in the United States,” the Republican said. “We seem to never call it that because we have a little bit of a conflict with another thing that’s called football. But when you think about it, shouldn’t it really be called — I mean, this is football, there’s no question about it. We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff. It really doesn’t make sense when you think about it.”

Trump: We have a little bit of a conflict with another thing that's called football. But when you think about it, shouldn't it really be calledâ€” I mean, this is football. There's no question. We have to come up with another name for that. It really doesn't make sense when you think about it.
— FactPost (@factpostnews.bsky.social) 2025-12-05T21:02:18.14384354Z

....What’s more, earlier this summer, Trump used his social media platform to argue that the Washington Commanders should return to their previous, offensive name, adding, “I may put a restriction on them that if they don’t change the name back. … I won’t make a deal for them to build a Stadium in Washington.” (This is a stadium that the Republican wants to see named after himself.)

For her part, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem also recently said, in reference to league officials, “They suck and we’ll win and God will bless us.”

To the extent that the NFL has become a political football, it’s apparently in Democrats’ hands.

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