As America prepares to settle in for the big game on this Superbowl Sunday, a few of us ex-pats have been paying attention to another bone crunching encounter that takes place over the pond in Europe every year around this time.
The Six Nations Championship is an annual competition held between England, France, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and Italy. The game played - Rugby Union. It's like a mini European Championship as these are the best 6 rugby playing teams in Europe. They play each other over a 5 or 6 week period with winner being the team with the most wins at the end of the 5 games.
It doesn't get much coverage here in the US, so I thought I'd treat you to a little 5 minute highlight package, courtesy of the BBC, so you can see what Superbowl Sunday may look like without the helmets, pads, cheerleaders and half-time theatrics!! This game was played yesterday between England & Wales. It was the 100th anniversary of the first England - Wales game held at Twickenham - England's home ground in the south eastern suburbs of London.
By the way, the same 15 guys play offense, defense and are allowed to be substituted off and on if they need to get stitched up for a blood injury...why you need 53 players to play American Football is still difficult to comprehend for this Englishman in...Arizona?
Enjoy the highlights, by the way England are in the white, and enjoy the Superbowl!
It's true-the Yanks know nothing about rugby. We can't even call football by its proper name (we call it soccer). Signed, an enlightened American who lives abroad
ReplyDeleteThanks Davey; let's hope you 'enlightened yanks' haven't learned more about football by the time the World Cup comes round! I don't think I could leave the house if we were to lose that game in June!
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