footballify

English

Etymology

football +‎ -ify

Verb

footballify (third-person singular simple present footballifies, present participle footballifying, simple past and past participle footballified)

1. To make more like or about a game of football.
   • 2016 June 20, Carl Williot, “Carrie Underwood Is Reworking “Somethin’ Bad” Into New ‘Sunday Night Football’ Theme”, in Idolator:

     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.”

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

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

     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.

   1. To make into a contest between two teams where group loyalty is more important than anything else.
      • 2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 44:

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

      • 2024, Richard Harrison, Footballification, litigation and elucidation:

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

Derived terms

1. footballification