Saturday

[nightdog_barks]

Bright sun, warming up. Supposed to be in the low 70s by the end of the week, which is such a relief after the last couple of weeks. Have been in a dreadful funk the past few days, hopefully the weather will help it dissipate.

Watching rugby on BBC America -- it looks like another game House might have played before deciding lacrosse was safer. *g*

Comments

[misanthropicobs]

Actually the bumper sticker predates the crash. I remember hearing about it at the time, toward the end of 1972 & I first saw the sticker a couple of years before that. I had only been in England a few months at the time. After the crash I asked one of the players in the rugby club about it and he said it was a pretty pretty commonly seen on players cars during the summer of 1960-70 and referred to how ferocious the game can get, no pads, lots of blood, cuts, scrapes and an extremely high level of endurance required by the players. In other words pretty much no quarter given or asked by anyone involved.

[nightdog_barks]

Interesting! I didn't see the sticker until the mid-70s in the U.S. I remember there was another one that said "Rugby players have leather balls."

Heh.