@[email protected] to Star Wars [email protected]English • 1 month agoThis is outrageous! It's unfair!lemmy.worldimagemessage-square79fedilinkarrow-up1560cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish10•1 month 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•1 month 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-squareJyeklinkfedilinkEnglish3•1 month agoBut America also has rugby leagues. Rugby is not a foreign concept to most Americans.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•1 month agoIf you hate the word handegg, then maybe call it American Rugby, instead of American Football
minus-squareJyeklinkfedilinkEnglish2•1 month agoBut we don’t call it American football. We just call it football.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 month agoAmerican Football is already taken anyway, great band.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish18•1 month agoGridiron it’s a much cooler name anyway
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•1 month agoHandball is already a sport, albeit more an “in the park with your friends” kind of thing than “arenas and shit lol.”
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 month agoNo, handball is an actual sport: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handball
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
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 it’s a much cooler name anyway
Helmet ball
Gridiron football
Pitch 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
American gridiron football.
Hot Potato.
Rugby for cowards
Helmet handball.