• radix@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    There aren’t any rugs used in rugby, either.

    And “cricket?” They would be crushed instantly.

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    13 days ago

    The guy in the second picture is an NFL quarterback. They get paid a LOT of money to play this game, which makes this his job!

    By your logic, he’s using his hands to perform his job. I guess that makes it a hand job.

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    11 days ago

    It wouldn’t be such a tired cliché if Americans were not insisting on ownership of “football” without the qualification “American”. Nobody makes fun of Australian rules football, Canadian football or Gaelic football, because they don’t claim the generic term football to the exclusion of what the vast majority of the world calls football.

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    13 days ago

    There are conflicting explanations of the origin of the word “football”. It is widely assumed that the word “football” (or the phrase “foot ball”) refers to the action of the foot kicking a ball. There is an alternative explanation, which is that football originally referred to a variety of games in medieval Europe that were played on foot. There is no conclusive evidence for either explanation.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football

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      13 days ago

      That’s so convoluted even NASA boffins that ARE able to correctly convert from imperial to metric and land things on Mars got confused.

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    12 days ago

    It is still a ball.

    It’s Hand Ball.

    And Handball, well really that’s a FUTure sport. We’ll call it…Futball!

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    12 days ago

    Yes, and horse racing is called “fast glue.” I’d post the old 4chan pic of them all but some are kinda offensive.

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      11 days ago

      Handegg or armegg. Both are equally close to being as suitable for the sport as football.

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    12 days ago

    I spend thousand of dollars per year on American Football games and I would be totally down with hand egg branding.