footballify

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.
   • 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
   • 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
   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
      • 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