VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoThis guy has a ton of 13yo fansdiscuss.onlineimagemessage-square157linkfedilinkarrow-up1933arrow-down134
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minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up40·2 months agoWe should instead go back to calling American football “gridiron.” It sounds cooler.
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21arrow-down1·2 months agoI prefer handegg. A toxic masculinity-fueled sport like that could do with a whimsical but accurate name to balance things out.
minus-squareOmgpwnies@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 months agowaitball, where you spend most of the game waiting for them to do something with the ball
minus-squareSkunkWorkz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 months agoOr AdvertiseBalls. It’s just commercials with a bit of gameplay in between.
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoI’d agree, except clearly Baseball is the waitiest of waitballs…
minus-squareOmgpwnies@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoNew MLB rules have fixed that, they have a timer on the play now so pitchers don’t spend all day checking bases and shit. 15-18 seconds between pitches, 30 seconds between batters is overall less waitball than the NFL 40s play timer and timeouts.
minus-squareHybris@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoUnfortunately that would not differentiate the two
minus-squareAuli@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·2 months agoWhich is which I don’t know how people say soccer is boring cause nothing happens. When nothing literally happens in the 3 plus hour football game.
minus-squareAppoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 months agoAnd we call the shortened version “Griddle”? :D
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 months agoCalled so for the fact to stop the guy carrying the ball, you flatten them like a pancake.
We should instead go back to calling American football “gridiron.” It sounds cooler.
I prefer handegg.
A toxic masculinity-fueled sport like that could do with a whimsical but accurate name to balance things out.
waitball, where you spend most of the game waiting for them to do something with the ball
Or AdvertiseBalls. It’s just commercials with a bit of gameplay in between.
I’d agree, except clearly Baseball is the waitiest of waitballs…
New MLB rules have fixed that, they have a timer on the play now so pitchers don’t spend all day checking bases and shit. 15-18 seconds between pitches, 30 seconds between batters is overall less waitball than the NFL 40s play timer and timeouts.
Unfortunately that would not differentiate the two
Which is which I don’t know how people say soccer is boring cause nothing happens. When nothing literally happens in the 3 plus hour football game.
And we call the shortened version “Griddle”? :D
Called so for the fact to stop the guy carrying the ball, you flatten them like a pancake.