Trump announces most expensive and stupidest initiative yet!
I have to post a link so you will believe that fucking idiot actually said this:
https://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/article/president-trump-wants-to-rename-american-football-we-have-to-come-up-with-another-name-for-the-nfl-181710848.html
At the FIFA World Cup draw held Friday, Trump said all these words:
"But when you look at what has happened to football in the United States, soccer in the United States ... we seem to never call it [football] 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 ... this is football, there's no question about it. We have to come up with another name for the NFL. It really doesn't make sense when you think about it."
The first gridiron football game was an 1874 matchup between Harvard University and Montreal's McGill University. The first game between two US-based teams, Harvard and Yale, happened a year later. They were playing oval-ball football 24 years before Donald Trump's grandfather opened his brothel. The rules of association football - the kind Trump describes as "this is football, no question about it" - were set only 11 years earlier than the Harvard-McGill game. The two games are nearly the same age and neither has the exclusive right to the name - especially since there are five games using the name. They are Association football (which the US, Canada, Australia and Ireland calls soccer), Australian football, Gaelic football, and two forms of gridiron football, American-rules and Canadian-rules.
I realize Trump is still pissed off because the NFL says he's too sleazy to own a football team, but this is ridiculous. It would cost easily a few trillion dollars to change the name of the sport of football just because Trump decided to suck up to the president of FIFA. As one example, all NFL licensed merchandise has an NFL logo on it. If you changed the name of the sport the name of the professional league would also have to be changed, which means the logo would change, which ALSO means all the licensed merchandise not yet sold would have to be recalled and destroyed. Everyone from the NFL to children's flag football programs would have to reprint any document and edit any web page that has the word "football" on it. The list goes on. And even if he managed to get football to change its name it wouldn't matter - people would still call the sport football.
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