A little story.

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A little rugby story...

I was once a scrum-half in my high school team. And I'd thought that my fly-half has buttered fingers...he could not catch any balls I'd feed him.

Me and him always had to go against each other......

So one day our couch said...you Alex(astro) the scrum-half switch *-----* the fly-half and played a game. We both went ?????

It actually turned out that I....had the buttered fingers that I couldn't hold on to the ball that the guy'd fed me and I was mad at myself.

And the guy that was used to be fly-half.....said to me later...Geees I was getting bumped out there from all sides as a scrum half.....then he said 'now I'd know why you'd been feeding me all those craps....coz 3 other guys on the other side is trying to get at you !"

Then I said.....bud the crap's all mine and I'd take the blame.

He said...No the blame's all mine.....

We played well together ever since.....

Lesson in life.....put yourself in the others' shoes.....:)
 
The rugby players I've known have been lunatics. In a good way though. We (the FSU frisbee team) used to always end up at the same hotel as these guys. Man they were off the charts. Kegs through windows off the charts. We partied pretty hard, but only once were we thrown out of a place. We were hanging out with rugby players that night.
 
When my couch starts telling me what to do I,d be concerned about my choice in furniture . L:O:L

Yeah its tough putting on the other guys shoes .
 
Thanks munk :)

Andy....that was high school......no partying real hard yet. :P

Kevin...putting on the others guy's shoe got me bumped hard. :o
 
Great story, Astro:)

Every rugby player I have met has been a nut case...like Andy said, in a good way:)
I was on the Murray State rowing crew my frosh and soph years of college. We partied a bit with a few of the Rugby guys. I have to say, the rowers drank the rugby guys under the table everytime. As they used to say to the younger guys, "After class, you worry about two things: Crew and Brew. The rest will fall into place:)"
We had some pretty wild shindigs with the Rugby team...and the girls volleyball team...and a couple of rouge frat guys..and well you get the idea. No real problems, except those of us underaged had to go hide in the spider filled basement when the cops would come snooping. Also, a near fist fight break out every so often. And i always got to be the one to go break it up. I have no idea how many times I heard, "Maverick (we all had nicknames you see), an ATO and one of the new guys are fighting over a girl. go talk them down, please." Such was my call in life, i guess.

Jake
 
Scrum? Fly?

*No* wonder folks get in fights...

Get thee to a proper ball game...
 
"SCRUM" sounds to my warped ears to be the combinatioin of 'scrotum' and 'scum': 1. Dirty Balls




munk
 
I went out for Rugby for one day before I joined the rowing crew. I have no idea what was going on. I was greated by a a wiry little guy called "Killer". Then, they proceeded to beat the living hell out of us as we tried to grasp at just what we were doing. The coach stood on the sideline (or whatever they are called) chuckling and smoking a cigarette. Everyone called him "Old Man Phil". After that little bit of practice, i decided that I had had enough. I tried crew...much better fit for me at that point in my life;) I'd much rather punish my body with grueling 5 mile sprints using my legs, back, and arms than get my teeth knocked out for a sport that i didn't understand.

Jake
 
Steely_Gunz said:
Great story, Astro:)

And i always got to be the one to go break it up. I have no idea how many times I heard, "Maverick (we all had nicknames you see), an ATO and one of the new guys are fighting over a girl. go talk them down, please." Such was my call in life, i guess.

Jake
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When I was an ATO we wouldn't have been fighting over a chick, perhaps a beer...

Now I recall some Snews (Sigma Nu's) that would have fought over a girl.

I remember a couple of sig ep's that I would have gladly maced, someone keep stealing it though...
 
45-70 said:
When I was an ATO we wouldn't have been fighting over a chick, perhaps a beer...

Now I recall some Snews (Sigma Nu's) that would have fought over a girl.

I remember a couple of sig ep's that I would have gladly maced, someone keep stealing it though...
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Ah some one of the fraturity cloth, i see;) My best friend was the prez of the EX house. I guess that was cool, but they all kind of seemed like dandies to me;) ATO is where I would have gone if I had done the frat thing, probably. All I ever heard from the EX guys was "GDI!" Yeah, I'm a GDI...now go do your elephant walk and i'll keep your girlfriend company;)
I kid, frats are cool. I was just too poor, antisocial, and liked sleeping normal 8 hour days too much to get involved with one.

Jake
 
I don't think there is a general "type" by house. The ones that I knew were fairly anti-social, drank too much, and did other things. Looking back the drugs were a minor thing to us.

No rapes, no murders, a few fights, a couple beatings, lots of Public drunks... Pretty tame by today's standards...
 
45-70 said:
...No rapes, no murders, a few fights, a couple beatings, lots of Public drunks... Pretty tame by today's standards...
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I thought you were talking about the forum again...DoH!


;) :D
 
Ah Rugby, football for people who dont mind running for more than 20 seconds and can't afourd all them fancy pads and helmets. I used to play as a lock/2nd row in highschool. Now I went to a highschool in a part of Vancouver predominantly populated by emigrants from hong kong (time frame was just after the take over) so we didnt have the biggest team (size or numbers). I was not then nor am I now a big guy (6'1 160) but our team only had three big guys and it takes 8 for the scrum so that is where I found myself. Needless to say we got clobbered in almost every game, combination of lack of size and lack of substitutes (we had only 2, both backs). My rugby lessons were little less profound but just as useful as Astro's: 1. When confronted with the other teams scrum throw the ball. 2. Never let two guys throw you into the air by your shorts. 3. Stop playing rugby

Gord
 
Grob said:
Ah Rugby, football for people who dont mind running for more than 20 seconds and can't afourd all them fancy pads and helmets. I used to play as a lock/2nd row in highschool. Now I went to a highschool in a part of Vancouver predominantly populated by emigrants from hong kong (time frame was just after the take over) so we didnt have the biggest team (size or numbers). I was not then nor am I now a big guy (6'1 160) but our team only had three big guys and it takes 8 for the scrum so that is where I found myself. Needless to say we got clobbered in almost every game, combination of lack of size and lack of substitutes (we had only 2, both backs). My rugby lessons were little less profound but just as useful as Astro's: 1. When confronted with the other teams scrum throw the ball. 2. Never let two guys throw you into the air by your shorts. 3. Stop playing rugby

Gord
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err..You don't mean St. george's do you ??
 
Is it rugby or Austrakian rules football where they duct tape their ears onto their heads ? You gotta love any sport that requires additional attachment of body parts .
 
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