Rugby

I like to have a ballgame on in the background while I study. I prefer baseball, but pretty much anything is fine. (I've watched a soccer game on the Spanish channel. That was fun.) So last night I'm flipping though channels and come across a rugby game: England vs. US. Fantastic! I hadn't seen a rugby game since I was in New Zealand.

I had forgotten how physical that game is. It seems like 90% of it is large men ramming into each other head-first. And they don't wear safety equipment. Like, no pads or helmets. They have basically the equivalent of a swim cap they can wear, but that's only to prevent them from getting cuts and bleeding all over the field (according to the announcer) because if you bleed you have to leave the field.

THIS IS A PROBLEM. Bleeding profusely from one's head is such a problem that they made special caps to prevent it. And they're "optional" equipment.

It was morbidly fascinating.

And we got creamed. When I first saw the game, I was like, "Does that say England 23 - USA 3? That seems like a large disparity." Yeah, it was England 59 - USA 3 when I finally turned it off.