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      I love this. But I feel like Handoval might go over better

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    I think people put too much weight on his ramblings. He doesn’t actually plan on this. He’s just schmoozing.

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    Gets a bribe from fifa, “we need to change the name of this sportsing”

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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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      Trump has always been hurt that he couldn’t buy a sports team. He tried to buy the Buffalo Bills years ago but it failed.

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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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    The NFL just needs to invent a peace prize and present it to Trump, then he’ll immediately change his tune and start insisting that FIFA changes their terminology to Soccer.

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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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      By the end of the year they are gonna adopt the metric system!

      (Now which organisation needs to invent a fake medal to get that done?)

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        But space is so much cooler in the imperial system!

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        Just need the ISO organization to give him some fake participation trophy and by God we can finally get rid of the stupid Fahrenheit and other shit

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          You can have the Fahrenheit temperature scale when you peel it from my cold, dead hands. Metric is great for measuring size and weight and I suppose distance (though miles sounds so much nicer than kilometers), but the Celsius scale is too short until you get into really high temperatures.

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              0 as freezing isn’t bad, but boiling at 100 feels wrong. It’s not enough of a difference. Fahrenheit’s number values may be a little wonky and arbitrary seeming but it gives a better sense of scale.

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                  And I’m sure you are correct about that, but I acclimated to metric measurement for both length and temp at work. Measuring size is just better that way and I’ve abandoned imperial entirely even for home projects, and the temperatures we deal with at work are big, so the Celsius scale fits. Maybe I compartmentalized, IDK.

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      Sad but true, Americans will only do the right thing if they get some benefit, if you give them money. Trump is just the embodiment of everything American. That’s why some Americans love him, some hate him.

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        Hey hey. 1 - it’s not all americans. 2 - it is not a uniquely American thing. You don’t see many “poor” poloticians for a reason.

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          It’s true, not all americans and it is not uniquely american thing. But it is a predominant american thing in general and nobody expect different behaviour. Just like “americans are good basketball players”. Not all, not uniqiely but when america (USA) is playing you expect that they will win.

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            True, america draws that kind of person. So they come here from all over. And the system here is designed to help them.

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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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    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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    When he dies im gonna throw a party. I hate parties. But I hate him more