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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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[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 69 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Trump, TRUMP, you're alienating your base by fawning over the gay european sport! You're going to lose subscriber!! walter-yell

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 37 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 20 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] 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

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] OffSeasonPrincess@hexbear.net 18 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

No ones ever been killed over an american "football" rivalry as far as i know, just proves they have zero dedication

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago

It used to happen over Raiders/49ers games.

[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 49 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I mean yeah, American football is really more of a rugby than a football.

[–] miz@hexbear.net 49 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

rename it slugby and change the rules to allow the players to punch each other

[–] Keld@hexbear.net 32 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] miz@hexbear.net 26 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago

While we're at it, bring the sanctioned ice hockey fights into grass hockey

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[–] Snort_Owl@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

American football is not nearly gay enough to be rugby

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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?"

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

Bring back the biff

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 12 points 2 weeks ago

Rugby was literally called "rugby football" to distinguish it from gridion football (American football) and association football (soccer).

[–] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 43 points 2 weeks ago

lathe-of-heaven This betrayal of 'American Football' causes a CHUD version of the "He's being controlled by Putin" narrative

[–] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 42 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

The 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.

feast-1feast-2 all over again.

[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They even ended with YMCA and Trump did a little dance.

michael-laugh

[–] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Trump was joking around with Sheinbaum too afterwards lol.

[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 14 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, I saw her there lol. Gusanos always have meltdowns when Trump talks with left-wing latam politicians.

[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 37 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

data-laughing

It is ordained. N?L has some work to do.

[–] Esoteir@hexbear.net 28 points 2 weeks ago

NL you say... nl-smug

[–] Moidialectica@hexbear.net 35 points 2 weeks ago

the government must be scratching their heads at the countless minor distractions trump is causing lmao.

[–] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 28 points 2 weeks ago

LMAO now this is what makes him entertaining

[–] sewer_rat_420@hexbear.net 27 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Instead of changing Washington Commanders back to the slur, we have an opportunity just rename the whole sport a slur.

[–] Mindfury@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

cr*ckerball

[–] tynansdtm@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] HiImThomasPynchon@hexbear.net 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Gridiron.

Though I, personally, will continue to call it Handegg.

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

call it slapdick. it has nothing to do with playing the sport but it very accurately describes the players, in highschool at least.

[–] ColombianLenin@hexbear.net 21 points 2 weeks ago

First coherent thing out of his mouth

[–] ShareThatBread@hexbear.net 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

American Football; The least foot use and most boring of all the football codes.

[–] into_highest_invite@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago (13 children)

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

[–] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 13 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

You should watch rugby as well, it's quite brutal.

[–] into_highest_invite@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

the problem with rugby is it's bri'ish

[–] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

So is football/soccer. And the best rugby national teams are South Africa and New Zealand, who enjoy beating England.

[–] into_highest_invite@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

ok nvm that MIGHT be cool as fuck

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[–] Maturin@hexbear.net 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"Soccer" is short for "Association Football" so it isn't like English speakers are denying soccer is football.

[–] booty@hexbear.net 27 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

smh they could have used assfoot instead sicko-wistful

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[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 16 points 2 weeks ago

NEL

National
Encephalopathy
League

sports 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.

[–] Mindfury@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

but what does this mean for seminal midwestern emo?

[–] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

Trump changes the NFL to Australian rules football so he can see the big handsome guys in tanktops and short shorts

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[–] YaGirlAutumn@leminal.space 5 points 2 weeks ago

when I first read this I assumed he was saying we shouldn't kall it the NFL because its kalled Football and he just didn't know what NFL stood for, that was more believable to me than him saying the rest of the world is right about something

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