NYC: Village Lions Jello Wrestling Competition tonight!

The Leonas will be holding their first ever Jello Wrestling Competition tonight at Van Diemens

(383 3rd Ave, New York, N.Y 10016).  The festivities will start at 7:30pm and the wrestling will begin at 8pm.

Each competition will have 3 two minute rounds and the winner will advance. If neither competitor is pinned after 3 rounds, winner is chosen by crowd cheer.  Outside people are more than welcome to wrestle.

$15 at the door gets you your free first drink and the following drink specials:

• $3 domestic beer
• $4 mixed drinks
• $5 glass of wine

More details can be found on their Facebook page here.

Adelaide Sevens: Key Action Extended highlights

The Eagles made it to their first cup final this weekend down under.  They unfortunately lost to Samoa 38-10 but had a cracking tournament overall.

In case you didn't get a chance to see it, here are the highlights.

The Angry Ref - “You Wanna Go Old Man?”

Here’s the thing about reffing old boys: they think they know everything.  They also think nothing’s changed in the last 100 years.  Whenever it was that they played their best rugby is when they stopped reading the law book.  It’s like when my grandmother is shocked at the cost of something.   “What?  But when we cremated your grandfather it only cost $200.”  Yeah grandma, that was 1976.  Guess what old-timer, they allow lifting in the lineout now.  Sure, some old boys know their stuff.  I once reffed an old boys match wherein one of the players had been a more than adequate ref in his own right.  The problem was he was so quick with his tongue he made it look for all the world like he was calling the game and I was just following along.  Damn old boys.  Even when they do know what’s going they still make me look bad.  But the following experience is more typical.