Normally you couldn't pay me to sit and watch a sports program on the boob tube unless it was being played by beautiful nekid females and it still had sumpthin to do with guns, motersickels and chainsaws. Well, I may have found a sport I can stand to watch. About an hour ago I sat down to have a beer and a sammitch, lite a far in the stove and turned on the TV. On the tube was the championship rugby game between Australia and New Zealand. Holy cow, them over paid NFL players got nuthin on these guys I'm thinkin. I have absolutely no understanding of the game or the rules but it looked to me like a prison yard riot minus the tats and homemade shives and someone just threw an over sized football out there for them to fight over. Even the head referee looked like he could clean out a bar room of drunken sailors single handedly. Almost made me feel like a Roman nobleman watching the gladiators at the Coliseum.
Rugby is what our football used to be like. No pads, plenty of fists in the scrum( huddle), and plenty of mud to play in. Fun to watch!
I used to have several buddies that played rugby. Even though they weren't as "pretty" as the football players (there was no lifting program so they weren't nearly as cut) they were WAY tougher than the few guys I knew who played college football. I even considered joining their team, but I snapped my ankle in half before I made up my mind.
