<div><div>I played rugby in high school here in the states. In many ways it was much more difficult than American football. I was constantly running, tackling, jumping, slamming into other bodies, for an hour at a time with only 2 injury substitutions per game.
<br><br>In fact, the team I played with (Highland High School, Salt Lake City, UT) went on a tour of Australia back in 1988 or so. As I recall, they beat the Australian COLLEGIATE National Champion in Aussie Rules Football. THAT must have been embarrasing, being beaten by a bunch of high school punks who had never before played Aussie Rules.
<br><br>We just had a large contingent of Maori, Samoan, Tongan, Fijian, and Hawaiian kids who were tough, fast, addicted to adrenaline, and impervious to pain! They were certainly good friends to keep around.<br><br> Just giving you a tough time, Tom. Back to flying now. When is the first contest in northern New England?
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<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Comic Sans MS">REAL football...is that what you fellas in the States call
it??<VBG> Crash hats, all that girlie body armour, stop start, stop
start....REAL football is played down here, Rugby Union, League and Aussie
Rules-and we drive on the RIGHT side of the road too..hahahaha
<VVBG></font></span></div>
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<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Comic Sans MS">Have fun</font></span></div>
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<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Comic Sans MS">Tom ( in the bunker)</font></span></div>
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