The New Zealand All Blacks played the USA Eagles in Rugby at the weekend, in front of a sell-out crowd of >60,000 at Soldier Field in Chicago. Fans got to see the "Haka" (traditional war chant at the start of All Blacks games), and some very good Rugby.
The Haka:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al6Twn3-QLc (acquired taste- but anybody who knows Rugby will know what this is about!)
Game highlights:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND9t63TUi98 (this is a New Zealand version, very different to what I watched on live NBC!)
According to the experts, contact sports shrank 1% in the USA this year but Rugby grew >30%, mostly in schools and amongst younger groups, so you're probably going to see more of this...
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
