VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days agoThis guy has a ton of 13yo fansdiscuss.onlineimagemessage-square158linkfedilinkarrow-up1925arrow-down134
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minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up39·7 days agoWe should instead go back to calling American football “gridiron.” It sounds cooler.
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21arrow-down1·7 days 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-up10·7 days agowaitball, where you spend most of the game waiting for them to do something with the ball
minus-squareHybris@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 days agoUnfortunately that would not differentiate the two
minus-squareSkunkWorkz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·7 days agoOr AdvertiseBalls. It’s just commercials with a bit of gameplay in between.
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 days agoI’d agree, except clearly Baseball is the waitiest of waitballs…
minus-squareOmgpwnies@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 days 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-squareAuli@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·7 days 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-up6·7 days agoAnd we call the shortened version “Griddle”? :D
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·7 days 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
Unfortunately that would not differentiate the two
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.
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.