he saw a rugby match years ago

doesnt know the game wouldnt follow it

a chosen ignorance

                     wasnt a sports fan in any meaningful way

followed pro football highlights Sundays via YouTube couldnt tolerate commercials to watch entire games the sole exception Super Bowl  Stanley Cup play-offs

    but he knew a guy who did who play a few college games before injured

his old man told him No more.

unlike him

              he listened to his old man

he did however follow a local team attended their matches

                                                               I drank beers and enjoyed the female fans.

When was that

After graduating college. I summered in Idaho then returned to begin my teacher’s credentials.

    I'd say twentytwo three, till almost thirty.

 

Rugby played in the Fall

Yes. In the Fall.

                  Our local team was awfully good.

So  A fan

I playe . .

. . Until No

No matter. I played.

                       I understood the game, the strategy.

Given your tendencies Id guess you held forth on the sidelines insinuated yourself told old war stories

    However limited

peeved I played.

                  I know the game. You don’t.

Nor do I care to

 

Strikes me you were there for the women

    Not just the women.

Hang out with players

No.

 

I understandif my memory serves me correct The female fans

                                                                  They had a nickname

They did.

Wasnt really flattering

                          Not very origina . .

. . It stuck.

You wanna tell me you had nothing to do with it youre an inveterate nicknamer

   Or

 

 

Or what?

The nickname wasnt a widely known

                                             It waswha you calledem

They were called ruggerhuggers.

                                    I thought it was pretty clever.

And

 

    And what?

Address my accusation

                          And because I always saydon leave people hangin on what they think I thought

Kinda crude

Ruggerhugger leans in towards carpet   Rug  I understand rugger rugby

Rug  Carpet

Carpet huggers

Carpet munchers

                   An Gawd blessem if rugby players go down  Although the as dictionaries would cite  thas crude vulgar offensive slang descriptive of lesbians which is a pile of horseshit because a woman going down on a woman may just have been curiosity

Ive known a lot of curious women

Theyve admitted it

Their just deserts

Favour was returned 

 

   The nickname wasnt widely known

Though you thought clever

Thaswha you calledem

                           They werent wearin emblazoned tshirts sweatshirt

Proudly

Ruggerhuggers

They wer . .

. . Youre fibbin

                he laughed   and his laughter went on and on and veered a tad toward hysterical as rugbys face darkened

fibbin was awfully preposterous

                                   he couldnt say hes ever used it before

had read it

not said it

hilarious

    the glowering grewwent on and on and on

obviously fomented by fib by formidable fuckin glee

Rugby walked off

Sunday afternoon,  6  7. 25

1056,  Thursday – ffuull Buck Moon,  10  7. 25