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Sometimes the Painful Sports Videos are just painful to watch from an emotional “I bet that made them sad later” kind of way.
Others, like this one are in the “I’m glad I’m not THAT guy and have spent most of my life safely on the couch watching sports rather than playing them” way.
We understand the guy in the video was taken away on a stretcher and will make a full recovery, but might think twice about being a rugby referee again.
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The idea of female athletes posing nude for a fund raising calendar is nothing new. In fact, it’s old hat by now . . . assuming anyone was wearing hats. This time though, we have some young female rugby players (yes, the ladies play rugby) from New Zealand’s Old Boys University (classy name, right?) who wanted to draw more attention to their sport. The most interesting part of the story appears to be how they had the pictures taken. No, not in some cold locked studio or inside the confines of a guarded stadium. No, it appears that the members of the OBU team went to a popular local cricket club, stripped off their “kits” and started taking pictures . . . and drawing a crowd of interested onlookers who suddenly found women’s rugby interesting. Can you imagine?
Here’s more on the story from TVZN:
When the Old Boys University women’s rugby team stripped for a nude calendar shoot at Wellington’s Basin Reserve on a Sunday morning, they drew their biggest crowd of the year. Those venturing through the famous cricket ground were stopped in their tracks by a pack of naked flesh, as the team crouched, paused and engaged in a risque photo shoot.
With All Blacks Conrad Smith, Ma’a Nonu and Alama Ieremia among the sponsors, the calendar was intended to attract women to play rugby, by highlighting its feminine side, Miss March Bekki Abernethy said. She said her side struggles to attract numbers every season, as female rugby players were often branded as masculine and unfeminine, which discouraged many women from taking it up.
“Our calendar rails against this myth,” Abernethy said. “I’m blonde, I’m not exactly a big rugby player. I’m a girl doing her thing, we’re all normal girls, that’s what we were trying to portray.”
Oh, and you can buy a copy for yourself here. (Slighty NSFW images)
What the cluck?
Athletes get suspended for lots of different reasons. And we’ve seen them all.
We’ll we thought we’d seen them all, until this story came our way about a couple of young players on the Sydney Roosters team in the Australian National Rugby League. The pair, Sam Brunton and Anthony Gelling, will apparently not play in the club’s Toyota Cup finals campaign because they lost control of their bowels. In a hotel room and NOT in the bathroom. A team executive says the incident started as a “prank” (was the prank called “Let’s piss off the hotel maid?”) but that the behavior was not acceptable.
Really? The strangest part is that apparently alcohol had nothing to do with it. Just sober, Australian rugby players having a bit of fun with the hotel staff. Maybe as punishment they should let the maids crap in the players’ lockers and let these guys clean it up?
Here’s more The Sydney Morning Herald:
The details of the pair’s rampage emerged on Friday, a year after former club coach Brad Fittler fined himself $10,000 for a drunken incident at the same Townsville hotel. Brunton and Gelling’s behaviour also mirrors representative forward Nate Myles similar acts in 2009 which resulted in a six-match suspension and $50,000 fine.
A Holiday Inn employee told the Townsville Bulletin the pair’s rooms had been trashed and left in a “feral” state. “They defecated on the floor next to the toilet in one of the rooms and they defecated on the white tables in more than one of the rooms,” she said.
“It was disgusting, absolutely disgusting. These are players who are held in high regard by the community and who our children respect. “No one gets paid enough to clean up that kind of mess.” The Bulletin reported hotel management took photos of the damaged rooms and brought it to the attention of Roosters officials.