• Lootboblin@lemmy.world
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      That’s the official name (Amerikkalainen jalkapallo) for the sport in Finland (and I guess all over Europe). Nickname is jenkkifutis (yankee footie) and it’s short version is just jefu which is used a lot.

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        In Italy we call football (as in soccer) “calcio”, but the american one Is literally called “football americano” in Italian.

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      Outside of people joking around and calling it “hand egg”, Trump just got Fifa’s first peace prize, so I wonder why he would suddenly say something like this? Hmmm …

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        He’s still angry that he couldn’t buy the Buffalo Bills years ago. As I recall the NFL expected he was lying about how rich he was and suspected he had mob ties