England vs Australia

[citrusjava]

I am trying to watch rugby. Because I suspect I would like sports if I got into it, I just never had anybody into it to show me the way. And people were talking about this game, so I decided to try it.

1) The most relat3able thing for me was some story about someone playing AC/DC's Thunderstruck during training (?) for some reason (?) - the AC/DC part I did get right....

2) Holy shit! Sports are violent! Those people are slamming into each other, jumping and grabbing each other in the air, lifting each other up to catch the ball! I am used to European football, they don't do that then, that I know !

3) I kinda feel like trying that sort of jump where you lunge yourself into someone's middle and just go for it

Comments

[balder12.livejournal.com]

I grew up in a southern college town, so sports were a huge part of the culture--to the degree that they closed the schools for the college football team's homecoming--but I never got into it. I tried for a brief period in law school when I had it in my head that it would help my career to be able to make sports small talk, but I could never learn the rules well enough to follow what was happening. And then I got a job and realized it wasn't actually a necessary skill, so I stopped bothering. I enjoy basketball well enough to watch it happily with other people who are more invested (it moves fast, the rules are simple, and there's usually lots of scoring), but that's about it.

I've never actually seen a rugby match, but I understand it's even rougher than American football, which is already pretty violent.

[kalliel]

I'm not a sports person, in that I have no real investment in attending games for teams I'm not on, or don't know anyone on, but that sporting spirit can be a lot of fun. There's also good fic, I hear--at least, in hockey fandom, which I know slightly more about because I have friends in it.

Sports are indeed violent! Or can be. Which was nice, in that cathartic kind of way, because nowadays, I'm just like, gdi I wanna FUCK SHIT UP RIGHT NOW but I need it to be legal. >.> Circus is sorely lacking in the fucking up of shit, though given the nature of it, that's probably for the best. XD Speaking from personal experience, body checking (while not game-legal in soccer, which I played) is pretty epic. ;)