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      For a moment I thought he was having a rare moment of clarity, but no, he was having a common moment of corruption

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        And the reason he couldn’t have a team? Because all the other rich owners, the guys whose club he so desperately wants to be a part of, hate his guts, and want nothing to do with him, so they’ve iced him out of pro team ownership for DECADES.

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            That’s definitely PART of the reason they hate him, although you could probably say the same things about most of those owners.

            I think a bigger reason is that he’s just a massive Putz, and nobody can stand to be around him unless they absolutely have to. They don’t want to have him in the owners suite on draft day, running his big mouth, demanding loyalty and respect from everybody, etc. The guy sucks ALL the oxygen from every room he enters, and narcissistic billionaires aren’t real big on sharing the spotlight, especially with a massive dickhead like Trump.

            They can approve a guy they like, or Trump. Anyone would choose the friend.

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    It would be so fucking funny if this is the last straw for Americans and they finally rise up.

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      Supposedly, a lot of “real Americans” ditched the NFL the last few years. He might need to go after NASCAR and NHL too.

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    Just call what the NFL plays soccer. Then use football for the actual game with ⚽

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    I’ve been calling it ‘stupid’ for some time and never really get any cogent pushback. Sports!

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    He was denied an ownership deal to a football team a long time ago and he’s just getting revenge. That’s what tin pot dictators do. There’s also another thing they usually do…

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    So thats why FIFA awarded him a peace price award that they made just for him and after this they asked him if he could force the NFL to use another name?🤣 brilliant.

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      They gave him a peace prize. The FIFA Peace Prize smh

      Maybe we should have some people from SI give him something, so that the US will ditch those stupid units. He’s got a peace prize and a jet, so something else… How about a gold helicopter with AI in it? We could have the tail rotor fitted with LEDs some it’ll spell out TRUMP when flying. If we better make it good enough, maybe he’ll have ICE pickup anybody using feet or fahrenheit.

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    The ball is oval. They just need to restrict the age of players to 13-19 years old then they could call it “Ovalteen”. That’s gold Gerry! That’s gold!

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    I hate that his fucking followers will be more angry about this than the fact that he raped kids on Epstein’s island.

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      Well because he snaps his fingers and says it is a hoax. His followers just blindly trust anything he says.

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    The fact that he parrots a good point that millions of other people have been saying for decades does not make him a smart man.

    The fact that he does so at a podium in the most powerful position in the world does call into question his intelligence.

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      I’m on the side of who the fuck cares what another country decides to call a sport. It has no effect on you at all. The only ppl who seem to complain about it are Europeans who need a reason to seem superior to American so everyone will forget they’ve been fucking up the world 300 years longer than the US

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      Are millions of people across the globe really campaigning to change the name of a sport for literal decades? Why? Who cares that much?

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        Yes, because people have that much time.

        I agree with them because American Football has very little to do with feet touching the ball, and it’s unnecessarily confusing. I also think Americans should use the metric system, because the Imperial system is also unnecessarily confusing. I am an American, by the way.

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    Why don’t you just call NFL foot ball, soccer? No one else wants to use the name soccer so it’s sort of free.

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      Well you see, Americans called the game with goalies “soccer” because that’s what the British called it back when we were crown colonies, so when we invented the game with linebackers, we called that “football.” then everyone else heard our word and decided to change the game with goalies’ name to “football.” So as usual, America continues to be correct, and the rest of the world is bound and determined to fuck it up.