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Instead, they recently bought him off with a gaudy medallion
I thought it interesting that Lewzer was suggesting that since "Soccer" is really "Football", the NFL needs to come up with a new name for their thing. Imagine if Obama has suggested that?
"When you look at what has happened to football in the United States, which is soccer in the United States, we seem to never call it (football) because we have a little bit of a conflict with another thing that's called football," Trump said Friday during the FIFA World Cup draw. "But when you think about it, shouldn't it really be called ... this is football, there's no question about it. We have to come up with another name for the NFL. It really doesn't make sense when you think about it."www.nytimes.com
No reason why not.