Rugby League
Created | Updated Oct 20, 2010
The Australian version of rugby.
Played only on two states of Australia, this particular incarnation of football is possibly the most dangerous of the "Low Forehead" sports, due to it's obscure and outrageously peverse rules, which include only being allowed to pass the ball to members of your team who are behind you.
The primary state in which this game is played, Queensland, is particularly vicious in it's treatment of minority groups living in their demographic, such as homo sapiens. This perhpaps explains the state-wide fascination with this violent game. Unlike other football based games, rugby league uses no padding, as any players who are cought trying to soften the body blows are stripped naked, tied to a light post and called a "Big Girl's Blouse" until they cry.
The biggest competetion in the rugby year is called the "State of Origin", where a team for each state is put together from the best players currently not comatose in a pub. An added wrinkle is that players must play for the state in which they played their first professional game of rugby, irrespective of who they play for at the time.
Interestingly enough, while the State of Origin has been held for 26 years, it had never occured to the organising body to plan for the competetion to end in a tie, which finally happened this last week.
Played only on two states of Australia, this particular incarnation of football is possibly the most dangerous of the "Low Forehead" sports, due to it's obscure and outrageously peverse rules, which include only being allowed to pass the ball to members of your team who are behind you.
The primary state in which this game is played, Queensland, is particularly vicious in it's treatment of minority groups living in their demographic, such as homo sapiens. This perhpaps explains the state-wide fascination with this violent game. Unlike other football based games, rugby league uses no padding, as any players who are cought trying to soften the body blows are stripped naked, tied to a light post and called a "Big Girl's Blouse" until they cry.
The biggest competetion in the rugby year is called the "State of Origin", where a team for each state is put together from the best players currently not comatose in a pub. An added wrinkle is that players must play for the state in which they played their first professional game of rugby, irrespective of who they play for at the time.
Interestingly enough, while the State of Origin has been held for 26 years, it had never occured to the organising body to plan for the competetion to end in a tie, which finally happened this last week.
