Football The 2025-26 Football Thread

[Deebs]

Trump shockingly wants to rename American Football but people online actually like it

If you're from the US, football is an incredibly physical sport where teams aim to get an oval ball into the endzone to score touchdowns and kick the ball between goalposts to score points.If you're from anywhere else in the world, football is where you kick and head a round ball to score...

www.indy100.com

American football = kids version of Rugby (Rules: breaks every 10 minutes, after throwing the ball you can run for several metres before stopping, as it is a kids sport you must wear extensive shoulder pads, bum cheek pads, tackle protector, full motorcycle helmet with full face guard. Finally your team members are allowed to obstruct and hold hands when trying to prevent the other team from touching the rugby ball.

NB. Some of the above might be incorrect but the premise is the same, American Football = fucking shit game designed for 4 year olds.

 

[Scouse]

Rugby for girls tbh

Liked it for about a year whilst at uni (the year Mansell won the indy 500 when, unbeknownst to the authorities he was horribly injured and shouldn't have been driving) then realised it's actually crap.

But Trump is actually right here - America needs to come up with a different name for it.

 

[caLLous]

Mansell never won the Indy 500...

 

[Scouse]

Mansell never won the Indy 500...

Ah yes. He won the series, not that specific race. (I couldn't even remember it was called indycart )

Either way - he had about a 12" x 18" bit of his internal membrane torn and detached and had a tap inserted in his side. Before one of the races he had a litre and a half of fluid drained (in secret). Won the race. Hobbled to the victory stand. Hobbled to the pits and had another litre drained.