Rugby

I watched my first full rugby game last nights. The landlords had a big barbecue and they invited me up. It's an interesting sport, kind of hard to explain. Basically, there are two different kinds of rugby - League and Union. It's kind of like American Baseball's American and National leagues, but the rule differences are more drastic. In both though, the object of the game is to get the ball into the endzone scoring a try. You can then kick the ball through the uprights for extra points - very much like american football. In rugby, however, play very rarely stops. The basic rules are: you can only move the ball forward by running it or kicking it, and you can't run past your team's ball carrier. There are a ton of complicated rules about tackling and all that, but that's the gist of it.

At the start of every match New Zealand's All Blacks do their war dance - the haka.