footballify

present singular third person footballifies · participle present footballifying · participle past footballified · past footballified

1. To make more like or about a game of football.

   The loser has to stand at a distance, in a free kick scenario, turn their back to the others, and allow them to kick the ball at them in a footballified form of “brandy” or “brandings.”

   2022, Raiford Guins, Henry Lowood, Carlin Wing, EA Sports FIFA: Feeling the Game, page 191

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   But after a decade, the network is ditching that song, replacing it with Underwood’s footballified version of her 2014 Miranda Lambert duet “Somethin’ Bad,” which will be called “Oh, Sunday Night.”

   2016 June 20, Carl Williot, “Carrie Underwood Is Reworking “Somethin’ Bad” Into New ‘Sunday Night Football’ Theme”, in Idolator

   In a new episode of Eli's Places—which is essentially a footballified Parts Unknown-style series on ESPN—the former New York Giants QB donned horrifying prosthetics so he could look like a 20-year-old kid.

   2022 September 20, Brady Langmann, “This Eli Manning Sketch Is the Best Thing You'll See All Week”, in Esquire

   1. To make into a contest between two teams where group loyalty is more important than anything else.

      In the process, history has been footballified […] It's been turned into a game, with sides and jeering supporters.

      2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 44

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      So everything they do is an attack on your position. Thus the process is “footballified”. And you are playing the game.

      2024, Richard Harrison, Footballification, litigation and elucidation