Thankfully it was #1

Posted on Mon Jul 10, 2006 at 02:44:20 PM EST in Other Sports
More on: All Blacks, rugby (all tags)

It seems the All Blacks have been in the news a lot lately, but mostly for non-rugby related items. On Saturday, before a game against the Wallabies, All Blacks forward Jerry Collins felt the call of nature and decided that the only place to answer it was right there on the field.

Assistant coach Steve Hansen defended his player.

If you're a male and you're about to play a Test match and you're seconds away from kick-off and you get the urge to want to go to the toilet - what do you do? Do you rush off and let the game start with 14 men or do you try to be as discreet as you can be and hope that cameramen use common sense and don't go showing it to everyone on the screen?

Imagine if this was Randy Moss. All hell would break loose. Here's the video of the incident.

Links:
[Sydney Morning Herald]: What to do when nature calls?
[Sydney Mornign Herald]: Other relieving incidents from sports history

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Now that's some international trash talkin'

Posted on Thu Jul 06, 2006 at 01:27:44 PM EST in Other Sports
More on: All Blacks, rugby (all tags)

About a month ago, we told you about "the handbag incident" involving two members of the All Blacks, a New Zealand rugby team. (Here's the short synopsis: two All Blacks go to a bar and one gets into a fight, one of them grabs a handbag and hits the other on the head, the hittee starts crying.) Well, the handbag rears its ugly head again.

Ahead of the Tri Nations rugby tournament, a television station has created a hilarious ad with footage of the All Blacks doing their bad-ass Maori war chant, the haka. However, they digitally added in some large womens handbags. Understandably, the All Blacks aren't too happy with this.

It's insensitive, I think, to Maori and disrespectful of the All Blacks," New Zealand assistant coach Wayne Smith said.

Links:
[Sydney Morning Herald]: All Blacks cop a bagging
[You Tube]: Handbag Haka

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