If the NFL wants to improve its relationship with the current administration, there’s a new way to do it.
Change the name of the sport.
President Trump, who got the royal treatment and them some from FIFA at Friday’s World Cup draw, suggested that the world isn’t big enough for two sports with the same name.
“But when you look at what has happened to football in the United States, it’s again ‘soccer’ in the United States,” Trump said. “We seem to never call it that 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, I mean, this is football, there’s no question about it. We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff. It really doesn’t make sense when you think about it.”
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