Rugby Has Cannibals!
I never played the game myself, but a lot of my friends in college were Rugby players. Every, single one of them was certifiable. Completely whacked. Crazy as loons. But man, could they throw a mean party. Anyway, I remember that one of them had a bumper sticker on his car that read "Rugby Players Eat Their Dead." Only sometimes they don't wait for the victim to die.
SYDNEY (AFP) - An Australian rugby player who went to his doctor with severe headaches was amazed to find he'd been living with an opponent's tooth embedded in his forehead for months, it was reported Tuesday.
Ben Czislowski clashed heads with an opponent during a game in the Queensland Cup competition in early April, slicing open his forehead and leaving his opponent with a broken jaw and several missing teeth.
Czislowski told Brisbane's Courier Mail newspaper that his wound was stitched up after the match and since then he had suffered shooting headaches, lethargy and an eye infection.
Czislowski finally went to the doctor when he became concerned that the lethargy might make him have to stop playing rugby (I told you they were crazy.) There, the x-ray revealed that his opponent's tooth was lodged under the skin above his eye socket. Mike Tyson became infamous for biting a chunk of Evander Holyfield's ear off. The unnamed rugby player tried for the whole head, apparently!
Weird Stuff, World news | Gaius Tuesday, 17 July , 2007
By terrence, Tuesday, 17 July , 2007 @ 12:36 pm
I went to university with a guy from Ireland who played rugby. He was a great guy; but wacko about the game. He had a piece of metal in one of his ankles because of a rugby injury. It was coming loose, and could become a problem (it was possible he would lose lots of movement in his ankle). He would not have another operation for several months. Did this stop him from playing rugby? Of course, not!
By wheels, Wednesday, 18 July , 2007 @ 3:07 pm
I had friends who were rugby players when I was in college, and I remember that bumper sticker (released after the Andes plane crash, I believe). There were three rugby bumper stickers at the time, as far as I can recall, and that was the most disturbing. The others were, “Give blood, play rugby” and “It takes leather balls to play rugby.”