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Gay Rugby World Cup

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Steve19

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A gay Rugby World Cup - darling please Link

Well how about this? News has just reached Lifting the Covers that there is to be a Gay Rugby World Cup which kicks-off in Dublin in Ireland on Friday. Yes I kid you not.

Now let me say straight away that I am all for gay rights, so why not stage a World Cup for them? Apparently it is the second-largest biennial amateur rugby tournament in the world.

The 2006 cup, which took place in New York, was the biggest yet. Thirty teams drawn from clubs around the world competed in the three-day tournament.

The Dublin tournament is expected to exceed these figures with more than 800 participants already registered for the competition, which will take place this coming weekend.

Sponsored by a bookmakers organisation called Paddy Power, the gays will be playing for something called the Bingham Cup.

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When I was in the Army the bartender at our favorite watering hole was a lipstick lesbian, quite hot actually. Anyway, through her we find out that the local lesbian community plays rugby and there are basically club teams from colleges around the area that travel to play each other.

Well I went to one event with my main drinking buddy at the time and let me tell you....you would indeed not want to be in those scrums. I honestly think from the reaction we got just from being there we would have been castrated and hung from a tree somewhere if our bartender friend didn't tell them we were ok(and we brought cases of beer with us.)


Tough, tough, tough looking crowd of man-hating bull dikes. Even the fems were in there beating the shit out of each other.


I'm sure this article was about gay guys playing rugby but it made me think of what we saw from the lesbian crew in and around Manhattan KS from 1990-1994. Its just one of those things you had to see to believe it existed, completely surreal.
 
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Best Buckeye;1180135; said:
I wouldn't want to be in that scrum .. nno no not at all.
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Afraid "Teh Gay" will rub off? :)

Jaxbuck;1180195; said:
Well I went to one event with my main drinking buddy at the time and let me tell you....you would indeed not want to be in those scrums. I honestly think from the reaction we got just from being there we would have been castrated and hung from a tree somewhere if our bartender friend didn't tell them we were ok(and we brought cases of beer with us.)
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This is my main problem with some kinds of gay power groups. Just as much hating going on as any gay-basher. And it's just as ugly.
 
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I actually know some of the guys from the Atlanta team that will be playing in Dublin and have played against them a couple of times. Two or three of their guys are really solid players who could play for the other teams in our division. The others, eh, not so much.

My understanding is that the tournament is named after an all-american rugby player for Cal who was part of the fight to bring down the plane in Pennsylvania on 9/11. Apologies if that was mentioned in the link.
 
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RugbyBuck;1180339; said:
I actually know some of the guys from the Atlanta team that will be playing in Dublin and have played against them a couple of times. Two or three of their guys are really solid players who could play for the other teams in our division. The others, eh, not so much.

My understanding is that the tournament is named after an all-american rugby player for Cal who was part of the fight to bring down the plane in Pennsylvania on 9/11. Apologies if that was mentioned in the link.
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From thg link Sushi posted (via wikipedia):

The tournament was named after Mark Bingham, a former University of California, Berkeley rugby star who had played in the May 2001 tournament for San Francisco Fog RFC.

Bingham died in the September 11, 2001 attacks on board United Airlines Flight 93. He is generally accepted to be one of a group of passengers who fought with the hijackers aboard the flight, which eventually led to the hijackers crashing the plane into a vacant field in Pennsylvania instead of targets in Washington, D.C.. At the time of his death, there were approx 8 gay-inclusive rugby clubs worldwide, and he was helping to create others.
 
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Best Buckeye;1180135; said:
I wouldn't want to be in that scrum .. nno no not at all.
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You got that right:

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The Atlanta team was apparently worse than I thought. I heard from one of their players that they lost their first three games and were re-seeded into a lower division.

Also, I haven't checked this out yet, but there are "highlights" from each tournament match posted on youtube. Should be good for grins. As much as their rugby sucks, I've never heard of a better organized tournament.
 
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