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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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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 11 points 2 weeks ago

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