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Trump:
It should be called football. This is football, there is no question about it.
We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff.
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Trump, TRUMP, you’re alienating your base by fawning over the gay european sport! You’re going to lose subscriber!!
Enamored by the energy of the crowds. None of the american sports hold a candle to the tribalism on display in football. It’s so easy to get sucked into that energy.
It does astound me that with all the violence and pageantry and billions of dollars spent on American football, their sports riots pale in comparison to the UK. Hell, I think us Aussies even have them beat on that front.
I think it’s because they’re not very natural sports. I’ve always got the sense that the american sports, with the exception of basketball which has a pretty strong street culture, are all hyper corporate.
That’s not to say that club football doesn’t have biiiig money involved but all the clubs sprang up naturally around localities originally, there’s a natural distribution, a grassroots and a historic link to the people.
I think European crowds are also quite different. The european sports crowds know how to be one entity, working together, a collective. The american sports crowds always feel like a bunch of individuals, they don’t feel like they even know how to properly connect with one another and form one out of many.
Maybe I’m talking out my ass too though it’s 3am and I’m tired
American fan culture seems incredibly tame. You just consume product, buy the merchandise, get drunk, do what you’re told and that’s that. In the rest of the world fans take things much more seriously. They’re rioting, brawling and stabbing eachother. They fight the other firms, the police and club management. American sports teams are traded among oligarchs like collectables and moved around the country. Nobody would be able to move Millwall FC.
Are football fans sometimes problematic? Absolutely. But at least they’re an authentic working class subculture that doesn’t take it lying down every time oligarchs or politicians try to regulate them.
No ones ever been killed over an american “football” rivalry as far as i know, just proves they have zero dedication
Yeah where’s the gang shootings over an american football match? I haven’t heard about anyone’s front door being shot with a sawn-off shotgun over the game before.
It used to happen over Raiders/49ers games.
I mean yeah, American football is really more of a rugby than a football.
rename it slugby and change the rules to allow the players to punch each other
slugby and give them guns
this is not a joke, this is a 100% serious proposal and I think Trump would support it because it would make the sport more American
While we’re at it, bring the sanctioned ice hockey fights into grass hockey
Honestly, I don’t understand how some yankee hasn’t seen Calcio Storico and formed an american league yet
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American football is not nearly gay enough to be rugby
Every time I see an American football match I get mad “Why aren’t they all just giving each other a big hug like in proper footy?”
Bring back the biff
Rugby was literally called “rugby football” to distinguish it from gridion football (American football) and association football (soccer).
This betrayal of ‘American Football’ causes a CHUD version of the “He’s being controlled by Putin” narrativeThe Trump bits at the world cup draw were amazing. He kept calling Infantino “Johnny” , like they were best mates from high school. They even ended with YMCA and Trump did a little dance. I kept laughing at everything that was happening.
all over again.They even ended with YMCA and Trump did a little dance.
Trump was joking around with Sheinbaum too afterwards lol.
Yeah, I saw her there lol. Gusanos always have meltdowns when Trump talks with left-wing latam politicians.
It is ordained. N?L has some work to do.
NL you say…
the government must be scratching their heads at the countless minor distractions trump is causing lmao.
LMAO now this is what makes him entertaining
Instead of changing Washington Commanders back to the slur, we have an opportunity just rename the whole sport a slur.
cr*ckerball
Gridiron.
Though I, personally, will continue to call it Handegg.
call it slapdick. it has nothing to do with playing the sport but it very accurately describes the players, in highschool at least.
First coherent thing out of his mouth
“Soccer” is short for “Association Football” so it isn’t like English speakers are denying soccer is football.
smh they could have used assfoot instead
Assball
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American Football; The least foot use and most boring of all the football codes.
the injuries make it worth it. i don’t wanna watch a sport where everyone is whining about a pretend hamstring. i wanna see BLOOD
If you want to see athleticism in a football code, watch Australian Rules Football.
You should watch rugby as well, it’s quite brutal.
Rugby is a beautiful thing to watch. Just two metric tons of men trying to bring each other to the ground with as much violence as possible. I have no clue why it isn’t popular in the states.
I couldn’t play, but I had plenty of friends who did. I would watch and support them in high school. School rugby is something else with the atmosphere and rivalries. I guess kind of like college football in the states?
I’d imagine they’re similar, but it probably varies between countries. I know rugby is a posh sport in some places, but American football isn’t really viewed as a sport for the wealthy in the states, as hockey takes the mantle for that.
the problem with rugby is it’s bri’ish
So is football/soccer. And the best rugby national teams are South Africa and New Zealand, who enjoy beating England.
ok nvm that MIGHT be cool as fuck
Youtube “rugby fights” and there’s good selection of disagreements.
But it’s the French Division2 is where its at. Here’s a 5 minute video of ONE game, LaRochelle versus Pau, French Rugby Match gets (more) violent
i finally got around to seeing this. that’s sick i gotta look into rugby
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Yeh boo for the players for wanting to not get CTE and debilitating injuries I guess
Gridiron players wearing protective gear and having blood rules is a good thing
I haven’t looked into yank football, but if it’s similar to the introduction of gloves to boxing, it’s overall detrimental.
Boxing gloves reduces visible damage, but vastly increases CTE and straight up fatal blows. Gloves spread the surface area, but adds weight doesn’t lessen the force of the punch which rattles the the brain inside the skull.
There were 400 fatalities in the ring in the 50 years after introduction of gloves and 0 in the 50 years before, and that’s not mentioning CTE.
Different types of injuries/trauma, types of impact, so I don’t think comparing boxing to gridiron is strictly apples to apples
https://qbi.uq.edu.au/concussion/do-helmets-protect-against-concussion
Suggests that foam padded hard helmets protect against traumstic brain injury by dispersing the energy of the impact, but are less effective in preventing concussion caused by translocation (the sudden head movement which causes internal displacement of the brain). No support to say the soft helmets have an appreciable impact in AFL against either TBI or CTE.
That’s not to say that helmets have a net negative impact, unless the argument is that decreased FOV means you have less ability to avoid the imapct in the first plave
Would it not increase the instances of translocation? You’re less likely to run at full speed at someone else if neither party were wearing armour.
Yep, that’s what other commenters have replied
https://hexbear.net/comment/6727690
The increased risky play taken by players more than invalidates the benefits of the gear itself. I was getting hung up about the gear in a vacuum since I don’t follow codes where it’s already a settled topic
Idk how you’d put the genie back in the bottle in gridiron though if players, coaches and audiences are used to the current high impact play, then you’d have to reel that back in before players may feel comfortable doffing the gear
Protective padding significantly increases the risk of CTE and long-term injuries
Citation please
Edit: sorry thst reply is a bit too short/dismissive
I don’t follow any sporting codes that wear protective padding, so my outsider understanding is that it is designed and shown to prevent that kind of injury
It’s surprising to me that the opposite is true, so I’d like to read some more
Sorry my reply could have included more detail. I don’t have list of citations at hand, but this discussion has been ongoing for decades now. The main argument is that padding allows for tackles that would not normally be attempted due to short-term pain and injury risk to both players. The accumulation of these high impact tackles made possible by padding results in long-term CTE and serious injuries that risk retirement. If you’ve ever played rugby the type of tackles you see in American football are terrifying. For another comparison in soccer, only shin pads are typically worn and most contact injuries hurt like hell and are gone two minutes later because you bumped kneecaps together.
Okay yup that makes a lot of sense
i think the argument is that the hard helmets and shouderpads have ingrained deliberately harder hits and leading with the head in NFL when compared to say Union or AFL. League is questionable.
the NFL have seemingly very strongly come down on head-to-head contact and leading with the head in recent years as the CTE situation has been uncovered further, but i’m not sure that there’s been significant advancements in the protective gear
Ty for explanation
NEL
National
Encephalopathy
Leaguesports betting meets retirement planning when, after big hits on the field translate to bets being taken on what players will eventually permanently disfigure thenselves during an unsupervised self-destructive episode or which ones will turn family annihilator.
truly, this is the Grand Arena.
Trump changes the NFL to Australian rules football so he can see the big handsome guys in tanktops and short shorts
