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[Austin Storm]

As long as our children don't play grade-A rugby *league*...

-Austin

On 6/8/06, Drew Hicks <drizzle.hicks at gmail.com> wrote:
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> USA is certainly a ways from any kind of domination in rugby. We are
> number 14 in the world right now. But the difference between the top ten and
> the rest is pretty drastic. NZ, UK, AUS, SA,WALES, ARG, IRE, SCO, FRA,
> ITALY, all play a completely different game than that of the US and Canada.
>
> But look at soccer, another age old sport that has exploded in the states
> and a short 20 or so years later the USA goes to the world cup ranked 5th in
> the world. Perhaps our children will play grade A rugby.
>
> Drizzle
>
> On 6/8/06, Larson Hicks <larsonhicks at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Don't think that you could really expect much more out of the US team.
> > America has a long way to go before it'll be competitive with the rest of
> > the world in rugby.  Historically, I wouldn't be suprised if some of the
> > american sports are considered flashes in the pan.  Rugy's lasted for
> > hundreds of years for a reason and is growing in popularity.  Football has
> > huge popularity in America, but has had to morph quite a bit.  Ah, but don't
> > get me started about football.
> >
> > I'm looking forward to those finals in Edmonton, Alberta in a week!  I
> > can't believe we're going to have the All Blacks in our back yard (globally
> > speaking).
> >
> > On 6/8/06, Drew Hicks <drizzle.hicks at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > >  The USA national rugby team lost its second match of the Churchill
> > Cup last night. They fell to the New Zealand All Black Maori side 74-6. This
> > is extremely embarrassing for the Eagles. My Churchill cup final prediction
> > - NZ Maori vs. Scotland. You can also expect the USA to face Canada in the
> > consolation final.
> >
> > Drizzle
> >
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