Rugby

This sport may actually be more violent than American football. The players tend to form a gigantic, connected mass and just run straight at each other. They end up in a huge pile of bodies and somehow keep getting the ball out to one team so they can make runs (tries) into the endzone.

It is immensely entertaining and unlike American football which pretends it will only last an hour and then stops the clock every 5 seconds, rugby plays straight through for two 40 minute halves and then it’s over.

And the guys wear hilarious tight shorts.

Went to the pub to watch the last match of the Six Nations and it was the Best. Match. Ever!

Okay, so Wales lost to Ireland. 15-17. But it was still awesome. Everyone was even more aggressive than usual and there was a fight within the first 50 seconds.

We scored all of our points off penalty kicks. ♥ Stephen Jones. (Haha, there are so many Jones’s on the Welsh team they have to go by both of their first initials on the jerseys.) Ireland got in some good tries, and it may be disloyal to the Welsh team, but I have to say that I love Ronan O’Gara. He’s the fly-half for the Irish, which is like the kicker, same as Stephen Jones is for Wales, and he’s just awesome.

In the last 3 minutes of the match, Wales was winning 15-14 and then Ronan O’Gara made a kick and it was 15-17. So in the last play, Stephen Jones had to try to kick from practically half field and it came up short. I think Wales ended in 4th place, but the way they do rankings is really strange.

Ireland got the huge rugby cup and Ronan O’Gara and Stephen Jones were really adorable and switched jerseys so there was one person in the red Welsh jersey up on the podium with the cup. Aww, sportsmanship :)