• Shrubbery@piefed.social
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    52 minutes ago

    The meme doesn’t make sense. If someone invents and wins at a sport that no one else cares about, that doesn’t sound like chad vibes. That sounds like basement dweller vibes.

    • Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world
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      3 minutes ago

      I think this is about football and American football.

      I… Dont think england invented soccer, though

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    Hot take from an American: American football actually fucking sucks big time and is incredibly MAGA coded these days.

    People supporting a sport that 90% of former professional players acquire CTE are fucking morons. Especially given how many young kids get into this shit in highschool, and get CTE and become absolute pieces of shit because of it.

    Its baffling this sport and sports with similar problems are still popular, let alone the most popular ones in the US.

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      Highschool? Everyone i knew got in in elementary or middle school. Those who tried to start in highschool never even touched the field

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      All I remember about American Football was how fucking slow the pace of the game was compared to literally every other mainstream sport. It was definitely designed for a fat ass country.

  • AItoothbrush@lemmy.zip
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    The bri’ish did this much. They invented waterpolo and their team is so weak that when i was a part of a local hungarian waterpolo team we got the chance to play against a few of their players and we actually beat them. THE NATIONAL TEAM against us, somewhere arround 6-8 in the hungarian rankings 💀

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    my fav manga is called Eyeshield 21. the first and only exposure i got to american football. i love it, but actually playing that sport? big naw bruh

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    5 hours ago

    Invent a sport

    Export it to all your colonies

    Have them all kick your arse at it every season

    #winning

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      The name football comes from England I thought, where they called any game played on foot football as opposed to being on horseback or some shit. So rugby was football. The U.S. version of such also was known as football. Hence why Australia also calls Australian Rugby, football or footy.

      Meaning that in spirit, baseball and basketball are also football, lolol

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        The word Soccer comes from England, too. It’s a Britishized version of “association football” with a typical R appended.

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        In that case, tennis is football, volleyball is football, bowling is football, snooker is football (or perhaps footballs?)

        You’ve open Pandora’s box of football!

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        Your explanation is absolutely ludicrous.

        ‘Football’ comes from the English words ‘foot’ and ‘ball’ which mean approximately ‘foot’ and ‘ball’ respectively. So you could translate ‘football’ to something like ‘ball’s foot’, ‘ball of the foot’ or even ‘football’

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      5 hours ago

      Futbol or “mURIca fIRsT rOUnD up ThE mEXiCanS and mOoohAmEDs haNG thE cOMMie cLINtoNs cos pIZzaGaTe I aiNt no FAGGit”