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Stuff Gridiron! Bunch of pansies.. 60 minutes of game time but only 15 minutes of actual play!
We just found out that our satellite TV provider has added Sentanta Sports channel to our programming!
That means we get WORLD CUP RUGBY! without having to subscribe to another satelite TV carrier.
Also: MUTV, Chelsea TV, VFL, Gaelic, and RUGBY from around the planet! Looks like we'll be able to watch the All Ireland championship!
Setanata plus FSC.. we are set!
I grew up in a very Irish neigborhood in MA.. bunch of kids playing Gaelic.. missed playing soccer at high school by one year... bastards started a city wide league the year after I graduated... next played Rugby on college... Fly Half... could drop kick on the run from 40 yards and score! The days when I could outrun the wind... sigh!
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Yeah !  )
From one ex-rugby player to another !
And by "VFL" ( the old Victorian Football League) do you mean "AFL", the Australian Rules league ?
Anyone who likes Gaelic football ( not to mention Hurling !! ) will also like Ozzie rules - similar to gaelic, but played on a large oval with an oval ball.
These blokes are the best kickers in the world, and can score goals on a regular basis from 50 m out ! Some of them, when their playing days are over, go to the States and become punters/drop goal specialists for Gridiron teams.
...And if you want to see what gridiron should be like, watch Oz Rugby League, played without armour, and different from Union. :wink: :wink:
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VFL, yeah still call it that.... Ozzie Rules.... AFL.... Great game
League.. faster than Union, but you miss the real fun of rucks and mauls.
Darren Bennett (played for Melbourne Eagles I think) is probably eth most well known Ozzie to play Gridiron... came to the States and played for the San Diego Chargers for a while.. quite a touch on the ball! Wouldn't let him drop kick though.. cowards! His first tackle for the Chargers was spectacular.... some "small" punt returner was speeding down the sidelines, Bennett cut the angle extended an arm sweeping at he runner's face and he dropped like a rock. Bam! It was as if Bennett said "How dare you run back a ball I kicked!" Generally in NFL punters are not expected and on some teams not allowed to participate in tackling... tend to be small, light and "breakable". Imagine the surprise of NFLers when they came upon a punter who could tackel!..
Too bad he never quite got good enough to kick field goals.
S Diego has a decent Rugby history... check out http://www.ombac.org/ombac_rugby/
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Got to agree with you there, Hib.......rucks and mauls are an essential part of Union, along with Scrums and Lineouts, and equally, these are the parts of the game with the messiest rules...... they sorted out lineouts by and large ( by being radical and allowing lifting, though the rules are still a bit messy, resulting often in 'uncontested' lineouts), but rucks and mauls and especially scrums are a mess (crouch..hold...touch...suck face....what the ??? ) resulting in much re-setting and time wasting.
Darren Bennett.... yeah, a minor success here in VFL/AFL, started with West Coast Eagles (Perth) in the late '80's but had a bad knee injury, moved to Melbourne Demons, but was always plagued by injury and his career cut short...very sad. Moved to the States where his NFL career with the Chargers and Vikings (where he finished his career) was spectacular - made the 'all-time' team for the '90's as punter?
I imagine some receivers sure got a shock when all 6'5" of Darren the Punter came down on them in a tackle !!!!
Like the website........of course, us Wallaby and All-Black supporters remember U.S. rugby in our prayers....."Thank God they are mostly absorbed in gridiron....the Eagles are formidable enough as it is !!!"  D D lol:
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."Thank God they are mostly absorbed in gridiron....the Eagles are formidable enough as it is !!!"
Got a chance to see the All Blacks some years ago, a friendly between them and the Eagles in S Diego.... played their backup players during the first half, sent the starters on for 2nd half and showed everyone how Rugby was really played! Wow!
I remember watching a game, TV, Eagles were playing... surprised everyone! One of the Eagles used a Gridiron style pass to get the ball from one sideline ot the other... a set play.. the man who got the pass was on a full run by the the time he received the ball..
It was an All Blacks jersey that inspired a story I love to tell about the missing half of my left index finger. We were travellng, plane flight, a flight atendant asked about the missing finger, asked if I did it playing Rugby. Rugby? I thought, Why'd she ask about Rugby?.. and realised that I was wearing my jersey... Ah ha! my brain said.... So I said to her: Why, as a matter of fact Yes!. Oh my! she responds, how? Well, I said, I can't blame the guy but I figure the guy who bit it was the guy who's ear I had it in during a ruck. She says: he didn't bite it off did he? Oh no says I, it got infected of course and a bandaid and some antibiotic cream weren't enough so after about a week or so I ened up at the doctor's and he says the bone's infected and there's nothing to do but amputate....
I've told that story a hundred times .. even earned me a few free pints... after I tell them the truth though. Can't say how many folk WANT to believe the Rugby story! A table saw is so... bland.
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....guess the truth certainly wouldn't have earnt you many free pints. :lol: :lol:
You could regard it as "...merely artistic licence intended to give verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and uncovincing narrative.." ( W.S. Gilbert, "The Mikado" )
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Your right about Girdiron :roll: their all woman G.a.a all the way and i am not saying this because i used to play Gaelic football and a bit of Hurling so i am quite used to the bit falls D of the sport
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I'm sooooo jealous! I just got voted into the presidency of the rugby club at my university; I want some tapes to show to the newbies, but unfortunately they never show it around here. Congrats though, Hib!
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I went to a rugby school. I was a prop in a scrum and a fist came flying in from the outside and punched me in the face. The scrum collapsed when I jumped up and chased the lad all over the pitch. Holding him down, I asked him why he did it. He pointed to a teacher and said, "He told me to do it!"
:roll: Rugby teachers....
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Shane , the wife and I were in Killarney a few years ago when Kerry were in the All Ireland final. What a place to be for that!! A couple of Yanks in a local pub who actually knew something about the game! Then I borrowed a fellow's bodhran .... the beer and whiskey flew and we all felt gay...
Great story Jim.. but Rugby school? I could have used that! My first coach was in college and apparently the form of Rugby we played at the park with a bunch of kids was a bit rougher and less regulated than the one they played at college. Wow! A referee!! .... what a concept!
I've had the joints in both great toes on my feet replaced as a result of sports injuries... mostly as a result of some form of football: Soccer, Gaelic, Rugby... gotta love it!
Give blood, play Rugby. One of my favorite bumper stickers. I took that attitude with me to the SCA when I joined.. rattan combat... Rugby with sticks 'n' shields and to hell with the ball!
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...Nah, Hib ! The Irish already invented the Combat Game --it's called 'Hurling!' :lol: :lol:
And by 'rugby school' I don't think Tarbicus means a dedicated school teaching rugby, but rather a school where rugby was the preferred sport ( as opposed to the more common soccer).
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Quote:And by 'rugby school' I don't think Tarbicus means a dedicated school teaching rugby, but rather a school where rugby was the preferred sport ( as opposed to the more common soccer).
That's right Paul. Schools in my day (and possibly even now, I wouldn't know) tended to be either rugby or soccer (proper football - played with the feet :wink: ). My comprehensive had recently changed from a grammar school, ergo it was so rugby orientated that half of the sports teachers were Welsh, and the word soccer was spat with venom from their lips.
I didn't particularly like rugby and played soccer twice a week for a team. One match I was injured and couldn't do rugby at school next day, so I had to give my reasons why not. I said I'd hurt my leg the previous night playing soccer. "Which leg?" asked the teacher, and I replied "Left leg, sir."
To which he kicked me in the right leg with, "There's one to match your left," and told me to do press ups.
Yes. Those halcyon days..... :wink:
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I onces got kicked in the head durning a GAA football it was fun 8) and an All Ireland final day nothing like it shame cork did not will yeat
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Shinty, now that was a tough game - all the violence of ice hockey without any protection, and enough concussions to keep A&E busy every sports day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinty
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Quote:Shinty, now that was a tough game - all the violence of ice hockey without any protection, and enough concussions to keep A&E busy every sports day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinty
Shinty are you mad in hurling you dont have to wear helments,glovers ect.ect. if your in cork i will give you a few lessons :twisted:
"The Kaiser knows the Munsters,
by the Shamrock on their caps,
And the famous Bengal Tiger, ever ready for a scrap,
And all his big battalions, Prussian Guards and grenadiers,
Fear to face the flashing bayonets of the Munster Fusiliers."
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