It’s World Cup time for rugby. Currently teams from around the world, including USA and Canada, are playing for the right to call themselves World champions. As usual New Zealand hopes are high. We’re the top-rated team in the world, yet we haven’t won the rugby world cup since 1987. Yep, nothing like a little pressure on our boys. We have a great team this year but can we do it…
Before we play a game it’s tradition for our team to issue a challenge by way of the haka (a traditional Maori challenge). Here’s a video of a haka done in South Africa. This particular version was controversial because of the final throat-cutting action. I thought it was great and some people were a little too PC, but there you go.
The next All Black game is against Scotland early Monday morning, New Zealand time. Go All Blacks!
Awesome! That’s very cool. I don’t understand Rugby but man what a brutal sport!
by Amy Ruttan September 23rd, 2007 at 4:23 pmI guess you get used to what you grow up with. Now I call ice hockey a brutal sport.
Oh, and we won the Scotland game 40-0.
by Shelley Munro September 23rd, 2007 at 11:27 pmGo All Blacks!