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

[LetMyPeopleVote]

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[hlthe2b]

1. Call soccer Fuball (fussball) as the Germans do. It means "football," but Germans likewise call NFL, FOOTBALL

Case closed.

Oh, the german letter for the double ss in fussball did not render in the subject line. It should be: Fußball

[C_U_L8R]

2. This is the best that he can do.

He’s got nothing better. All our taxes and tariffs going to support this braindead bozo.

[Coolgoober]

3. Yes Let's Do That

Let's copy other countries, but let's start with single payer Healthcare, and maternity/paternity time off, paid childcare, six weeks paid vacation, about a dozen other things and then and only then we can call soccer football.
Although the NFL won't go for it, just like they're not going to change this year's Super Bowl's half time performer!!!!

[Diamond_Dog]

4. This deranged blob has to stick his nose into everything imaginable like he's King of the World or something.

Who cares what he thinks? I’ll bet all the other countries are laughing at him.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

5. Where the word "soccer" comes from

Why Do Americans Call It Soccer Instead of Football? Blame England

In the World Cup, the U.S. and England aren’t traditionally rivals. But, off the field, a different type of rivalry has reigned for more than a century: what to call the world’s most popular sport.

To Americans, it’s soccer. To most of the rest of the world, (including England, the birthplace of the modern sport,) it’s football. But what most people don’t know is that the word “soccer” is not in fact an American invention. On the contrary, it was an import from England, and one that was commonly used there until relatively recently.

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In the early 1800s in England, football and rugby existed as different variations of the same game. But in 1863, the Football Association was formed to codify the rules of football so that aristocratic boys from different schools could play against one another. In 1871, the Rugby Football Union followed suit. The two sports officially became known as Rugby Football and Association Football. (Those new rules were slow to spread to America, where another version of the game was evolving — one that the rest of the world now knows as “American football,” and is played in the NFL.)

In England, Szymanski writes, aristocratic boys came up with the shortened terms “rugger” and “soccer” to differentiate between Rugby Football and Association Football. To support this argument, he cites a letter to The New York Times, published in 1905: “It was a fad at Oxford and Cambridge to use “er” at the end of many words, such as foot-er, sport-er, and as Association did not take an “er” easily, it was, and is, sometimes spoken of as Soccer.”

https://time.com/5335799/soccer-word-origin-england/

Of course it would be too much for Donny boy to do a little research.

[a kennedy]

6. Ok then, we'll fawk him.

🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬. I am so gawd damn sick of him meddling in ALL SPORTS!!!!! Please can’t someone just shut him up??? PLEASE???

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

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 called— 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.