For our colonial friends

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 22:21, 27 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

You know something?
I'd rather watch a bad game of Football than a good game of of American Football. Because at least the football is over in 90 minutes. We had to watch the superbowel final in games once as it was raining. An hour long games session, called off by rain, and we saw probably about 20 minutes of fucking action. What's that about?

Dullest sport ever; perhaps tied with golf.

Same goes for Rugby actually. Tedious in the fucking extreme. Never ever got it.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 13 Jan 2009, 22:28, Reply)

Well, I'm a football fan again
as we beat Peterborough this evening. Never really got into Handegg, although I watched a couple of seasons of Friday Night Lights.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 22:30, Reply)

I'm a Newcastle United supporter
and, by default, a natural born optimist-cum-masochist.

:D
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 13 Jan 2009, 22:32, Reply)

DG
but rugby is wonderful to watch! Full of excitement and men's thighs mud. All that full contact and men's thighs aggression - it's an amazing spectator sport.

I love going to see a rugby match - you can even drink while watching as alcohol isn't banned for rugby matches unlike football.

And you can go right to the touchline and get closer to the thighs action.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 22:41, Reply)

But I'm not gay
I have a girlfriend and everything...

I've tried to like rugby; Tourette's whole family are into it... but everytime I see a scrum, I just think "it's a bunch of blokes having a big cuddle and feeling each other's arses... eeeeew". I just don't get it.

And yes, footie players are sometimes a bunch of girlies that go down at the drop of a hat (thanks to non-impressive tackles), but generally it's a game of skill rather than brute force. Some fansd are wankers, but then again, some rugby fans are as well, with their old school ties and dirty songs...
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 13 Jan 2009, 22:48, Reply)

I'm with chickenlady on this one!
I totally agree with her reasons for wanting to watch rugby.
I went to college in the valleys so it was full of "talented" rugby lads *fantasises*

Those were good years...
( Mellicious is made of candy, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 0:14, Reply)

While I agree that our football is boring, I think that your football is fucking torture.
Soccer is terribly terribly dull.
Rugby is great, though.
I mean haaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwww *drools*
( Lisette von Falcon, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 0:34, Reply)

Thank you for educating us as to the correct name of the sport on this side of the pond.
And I do agree that it is terribly boring to watch 2 or 3 minutes of action followed by 10 or 15 minutes of discussion, commentaries, replays, player stats, and commercials. It all works out to a game that has 1 hour of play time but takes 4 fucking hours to watch.....and that is if there is no overtime! I believe I shall start calling it Handegg in public to see if we can get it to catch on.

Having said that, at least you picked an illustration for the Handegg game that features the best and most loved team in the States (as touted by all Texans because that is the law).

considering some of the previous comments, I MUST give this rugby stuff a look...sounds like a delicious worthy sport
( flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Wed 14 Jan 2009, 1:54, Reply)

Handegg
Used to play it at a reasonable level during t'summer months, kept me fit during the off season for rugby (not enough mud in the summer, y'see?), and, as some will testify on here, I needed to be kept fit. Used to enjoy playing the game, as it was very tactical and the coaches had to use a bit of brain, the players, however, in no way need any of that brain thing. Its still Miami Dolphins FTW though with me!
( Duke Of Belmsford has got 99 records, but Jay-Z ain't one, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 4:45, Reply)

As an American based expat,
this gives me the LOLS!

However.........Go Cardinals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 5:32, Reply)

49ers all the way
I got into watching handegg when Joe Montana was at the height of his game.

I really like the sport. Its tactical and technical nature, interspersed with seemingly random acts of violence and occasional athletic brilliance really pushes my buttons.

I don't watch toehockey unless it's international games, which tend to be somewhat more interesting than much of the national game.

Then again, I'm also a Formula 1 fan, so that probably discredits all of the above.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 7:49, Reply)

American sports?
Handegg? Crap. Basketball? Too easy to score. (Ice) hockey? Nah, it's just a bit fight in an ice rink.

But baseball is another matter. Yes, it's just fancy rounders but it's good fun to go to.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 8:29, Reply)

In rugby, the scrum is just a conduit for the backs to line out for.
Nowadays, at least. You very seldom see a team gain a lot of yards in a scrum anymore unless they seriously outweigh their opponents and will go for a short push over the line.

Watch how the backs (those not in the scrum) position themselves either side of the scrum and how quickly the ball is fed outwards and the amount of yards covered in the process - very fast! Very exciting!

If you get a kick out of that and dont enjoy the bang!crash!wallop! aspect, try the rugby sevens or rugby league - it's all running and ball-handling. Pretty much non-stop action.

I enjoy what our colonial cousins call soccer also though - looking forward to manu v wigan and chelsea v southend tonight. Should stir up the standings a bit.

American football can be enjoyable but try getting to the end of a game without getting slaughtered as there are simply too many opportunities to go to the fridge.

I used to love NBA but it's never on here anymore.

rafter
baz
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 9:12, Reply)

Well whatever they play.....
They are still paid far too fecking much for it.

Rugby players....Hmmmmmmm! Nice to look at but I wouldn't want to try and have a conversation with one.
( girlinthehole, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 9:16, Reply)

Have you heard Man City have put in a £100 million bid for Kaka?
They are offering him £1/2 million p/w.
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 9:23, Reply)

@BGB
You'd be surprised in a lot of cases - a lot of rugby players come through the university system and are very well-educated.

More so in the past than the present, mind you as so many clubs have academies now but here, I give you Leinster and Argentina superstar, Felipe Contepomi:

images.google.ie/images?hl=en&q=felipe+contepomi&gbv=2

He recently got his doctorate in surgery from Trinity College, Dublin.

He's affectonately referred to round these parts as 'Big Phil'.

Come on Leinster!
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 9:28, Reply)

In addition to rugby players often coming up through universities
each RFU club has an obligation to community work - my kids played on the pitch at Twickenham a couple of weeks ago before a Bath vs. Harlequins match because the 'quins (as they're known amongst the fans...) have our local team as one of their community teams. During the summer months it's quite common for first team players to come and do some coaching too.

I can't remember what the figures are but a huge number of children play rugby on Sunday mornings all over the UK and all the adults provide their time and expertise for free. My sons have played since they were five years old and could continue until they're into their sixties - one of the players in the seniors' team has just retired at the grand old age of 67.

The rugby club May Ball is also a cracker - providing I don't get too drunk.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 11:02, Reply)

As an ex-rugby player
I played with lots (and I MEAN lots) of doctors, solicitors (they always got a shoeing)scientists etc. Probably something to do with Rugby being associated with the grammar schools.
There was a description of Rugby as "A ruffian's game played by gentlemen". I believe it to be true, some of the fights on the pitch were epic but were all forgotten once the bar was open! I have a great friend I played against once, he broke my nose, I bit a lump of his ear off (chewed it and spat it at the ref, got sent off! Some people eh?"). We still drink together occasionally, no hard feelings.
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 12:04, Reply)

Rugby FTW!
I'm with Chickenlady et all on this one. Rugby is a real game, for real men. None of the poncy titting around nudging a ball delicately with a prada-clad foot, or pussying around in full body armour. Rugby has proper contact, pace, skill and thighs. Phwoarrrr.

Plus one doesn't tend to hear that many stories about rugby players starting fights in sleazy STD-infected VIP clubs, or crashing their new diamond-encrusted cars on their way to/from the tanning salon. They tend to be well-educated, if slightly battered, gentlemen. Well, the players I know are. There are obviously a few bad seeds in every sport, but there seem to be far more thuggish football players around.
*rambles on whilst thinking about thighs*
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 12:09, Reply)

Fuck rugby..
..seriously..

It's rather obviously played by the better educated because most kids who learn it learn it in very expensive public schools, like the one I went to..

I despised the sport and was made an outcast, nick named "heroin addict" because I'd just stand on the pitch doing FA, my scrawny frame shaking with cold. Back in the changing rooms there was all kinds of homo-erotic towel-flicking and pulling, cock and muscle comparisons etc. And I was forced to be involved in that crapola. The only time I enjoyed it would be when someone I particularly hated ran past me with the ball, and if the mood took me I'd just nail him in the most horrific way possible. Managed to break the wrist of a first-team winger that way. So I might have been OK at rugby, but wasn't on principle.

When I meet the star rugby players from my year now, they are invariably still complete pricks; often even more so now they have an education and a job as a solicitor or whatever.

So I hate rugby based on experience..

That Johnny Wilkinson seems like a decent, thoughtful chap though.
(raymond "three griddle pans" luxury yacht lovin' the christmas action, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 12:29, Reply)

Just to increase the lust....
In an earlier thread I quoted some of the body changes that rugby gave me and, in view of the general female concencus about the desirability of the male rugby players' thighs, I thought I'd measure my legs!*

Calves = 19" and solid as toned granite**

Thighs = 27" and as well-defined as a Stephen Fry monologue***



Shame about the lardbucket they have to lug about, eh?







*How fucking bored am I right now.

** But not available in as many colours.

*** How's THAT for a simile!?
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 12:36, Reply)

@Elvis
Howaya?

my little brother hates rugby as well cos he was forced to play in school and was bullied by 'bigger boys' a fair bit but then so was I, not being half the man then I am now :)

It's a shame to allow that experience hamper one's enjoyment of the game as a spectacle though.

Me, I love it.

rafter
baz
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 13:52, Reply)

SPORT IS SHIT
The end.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 14:19, Reply)

Elvis
I went to a rugger-bugger school too (I'm a rower personally though). Yes, there were a lot of twats there. There are twats all over the place, in every school. They'll always be twats, whatever sport they play. I've just let my lust for rugby-legs/bottoms/shoulders override my distaste for the twats at my school who also happened to play rugby.

Edit: Captain P: PHWOAR! Nice chap, and with top leggage, what more could a girl want?
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 14:26, Reply)

Why...
Thank you Ma'am!
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 15:08, Reply)

any
big cunt what can run and hold a ball can play rugby. I'm not sure talent enters the equation on a regular basis. Fucking hell I was GOOD at Rugby at school.

Football (not handegg) is fucking hard. Scoring goals is fucking hard. Thats why every single one counts. Its the only game in the world that can be 0-0 at the end and you walk away thinking "that was fucking amazing".

And when Man U DESTROY Chelsea like what they did the other day, its just beautiful.
( I have run out of coke is a little sweaty, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 16:42, Reply)

I
can't quite see the England rugby team doing a calender like the French team do.
(ToysForBigBoys would spread her legs for Nick Clegg., Thu 15 Jan 2009, 21:39, Reply)