If you’ve been in a white person’s apartment or home you might have noticed a ball that looks like a cross between an egg and a football. It is a Rugby ball and it is an important sport for white people.
They love Rugby for a number of reasons, the first of which is the fact that it is not very popular in North America. In fact, it is even less popular than soccer which gives a white person that all important edge in the contest to see who likes the most obscure sport. Though this is important, it is not the real reason why white people love the sport so much.
Rugby’s greatest appeal lies in its uniforms.
Unlike other sports where jerseys are made out of nylon or mesh, Rugby jerseys are like thick sweatshirts with collars! In fact there is no other jersey on earth that can move so seamlessly from the playing field to the farmers market
Many white people first acquire a love of rugby during their high school and college years by playing either for a school team or in the case of highly advanced white people-part of an intramural league. In fact, many white people will continue to play the sport into their early 30s at local parks on Saturday morning. If you are looking to expand your group of white friends, you would be wise to get yourself invited to one of these games. However, you should be prepared to have your crotch grabbed.
Though playing the sport is the most common way for white people to become interested in Rugby, a great number of them pick up a taste for the game while studying abroad in Australia or New Zealand. Like soccer, they are given the chance to purchase a scarf of their adopted team, but more importantly they can acquire a Rugby jersey. Unlike a soccer scarf, they can wear this garment all year long which provides for a more reliable trinket that can be used to initiate conversations about their time down under. For extra credit, some white people will declare that they are into Australian Rules Football and not Rugby. If you wish to friend this person, it’s best to ask them about the differences in rules because they will be thrilled to tell you.
Aside from playing the game with white people, there is one other surefire way to use rugby for your own personal gain. If you have determined that the white person you are talking to prefers rugby over soccer, it is strongly advised that you say: “you know, American Football players might be bigger, but rugby players are so much tougher.” Their response will be to tell you about how Football players are weak because they wear pads. This will be followed by a knowing nod or wink in your direction and an invitation to join them for a game on the weekend.
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I don’t know why I decided to read this, I suppose I can blame insomnia and my interest in humor and rugby. But this whole string of comments is comical. I’m an american female, half-white, half-indian, who has played at a fairly high level in rugby as far as women’s rugby is concerned in the states. I enjoy american football… grew up watching the vikings (yes, well… dissappointment. Farve… on our team? Throwing quick short passes midfield and costing us a run to the super bowl… so painful). Anyway, I personally prefer playing rugby. It’s neither for brutes or sissies or any of that nonsense. It’s for athletes. And american football is also for athletes. They wear pads because it’s a different kind of tackling, generally with, pound for pound, more pressure (or, as the case may be, kg for kg. Using a specific to the U.S. unit of measurement doesn’t mean I’m ignorant of other countries’ uses… it just means I’m in the U.S. How often do you do a conversion before posting an internet comment?) I am of the opinion that rugby is more demanding in the sense of physical exertion/cardio because I play union and thus there’s lots of running, contact, and pushing yourself off the ground between running and contact. That said, women don’t get an opportunity to play american football on really any level above casual, so I don’t really know. And please recognize that while many Americans make big prats of themselves on the world stage, saying that Americans are characteristically ignorant is a generalization. Any group of people is going to have a vocal minority that doesn’t represent the whole. I’m embarrassed because of those people, but it helps me appreciate that I shouldn’t make generalizations about people I don’t fully empathize with or understand. That said, this is a website filled with generalizations. So just recognize the humour (did you see what I did there?) and the fact that despite cultural differences, we probably have much more in common. It’s the human condition.
It’s funny because im from Australia and im a huge rugby fan but we get shunned by the white people community because its only played by ‘thugs’ and ‘private school boys’. You wouldn’t catch a white person dead in a jersey. They do however love their world cup soccer and also American games that never get played in oz like baseball. Its interesting how they adapt their principles to different countries.
Well he is talking about team sports, I don’t recall the US winning soccer, handball, volley ball, grass hockey (not even ice hockey). You did get Basket ball I think (after losing the world cup) I’ll grant you that…
I’m sorry I’m not sure you’ve seen the Olympic medal counts. Shame
“Now Australian football is an extremely white persons sport”-… Clearly never played Rugby(leauge or union) in Australia… Good point on the fact Union has an internationally recognised competition while the US has things like “the world series”…that ironically only occurs nationally due to the fact the rest of the world doesnt give two fucks about sports taken from other countries and tweaked so America can finally get somewhat compitent at a team sport… oh wait… the rest of the world is starting to get good at even the sports you invented… shame
Caleb jsut said he is Maori, google image it and see if he looks white to you ignoramus
too fucken right, i’d like to see those yuppies come and have run round at a prems reserve game, they would die
CALEB? haha That sounds SO WHITE. How idiotic to read these AND BE OFFENDED!
I love this site but I hate how you clumped this into a thing hipster white Americans like to do as if it’s just some thing to LOL do when you’re bored. In New Zealand, you will will get slaughtered six times over if you came into any game with that attitude by eight, six foot seven fat Tongans who can sprint 100 metres in 10 seconds… And that would just be a on lazy Saturday afternoon. I’m Maori and grrrrrrrrr, I am raging so hard.
“White girl” speaks the truth.
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