Scared?

[vat_man]

Please tell me you know what cricket is.

 

[1X83Z]

Wireless phone company in the Midwest.

 

[vat_man]

Oh dear....

There's a whole world out there for you people to discover, isn't there.

www.cricket.org

 

[1X83Z]

Oh I see. Cricket the damn sport! I thought you meant something REAL

I thought there was something I missed in the world!

No, we Americans don't give a Y about cricket! I wonder why, though, seems violent. Rugby, too. And we LOVE violence.

 

[vat_man]

Yeah - rugby makes American 'foot'ball look pretty soft - not too many games where you can legally run your boot studs over a guy's back.

And before you diss cricket - in cricket it's legal to deliberately bowl at the batsman's head (admittedly not on the full), and there's no wimpy gloves for the fieldsman (except for the keeper) - and that ball is friggen hard!

 

[vat_man]

That's the real reason terrorists won't attack Australia - they see Aussie rules and Rugby and think 'geez - and these guys do this for FUN!!'

 

[1X83Z]

Yeah, I wish we had rugby in America. So damn violent we'd relate to it. Look at hockey. It's become a cult thing. But we don't like learning new sports! We're a stupid society, if you haven't noticed.

 

[vat_man]

Originally posted by M5Power


Yeah, I wish we had rugby in America. So damn violent we'd relate to it. Look at hockey. It's become a cult thing. But we don't like learning new sports! We're a stupid society, if you haven't noticed.

Actually, the US does have a rugby union team - they turn up to the World Cup and everything.

I understand there's actually a bit of rugby union (there's two versions, rugby union and rugby league) played in the US at a college level - I remember reading somewhere EA being surprised at US sales of its PS2 Rugby 2001 game.

 

[1X83Z]

My brother in Philadelphia actually bought the Rugby game

But I have NEVER seen a rugby match on TV. Never. And baseball's on every day, plus everyone's watching the basketball and hockey playoffs, and football's always been popular. Rugby'd be a nice change