Worked a large rugby tourny this past weekend, 25+ men’s and women’s teams. The word for the tourny was, ‘disorganized’. Captians meeting at 7:00a.m., no one is there. First game’s to kick off at 8:00a.m., only 2 of the 5 fields are going by 8:15. It had been raining for most of the week prior to the games so the fields were in a bit of a state. One of them had a nice sized puddle in the corner. A few teams figured out that if you kicked into that mess the opposition would have a very hard time getting out. That made for some very messy games. Over all the teams played as well as the conditions would allow. With only 20min halves and all of the fields in questionable conditions there wasn’t much of a rhythm to most games so the play wasn’t all that great. I did 7 matches and didn’t see anything that would stick in my mind till the very last match. It was two female college teams. As we were walking onto the very muddle pitch a late 20’s, hairy, not all that fit pasty white guy with out a stitch on (not even shoes) came running onto the pitch. He ran out to the middle of the field and tried to kick the game ball that was sitting there. Missed the ball and fell into the mud. At this point I guess he decided that no being in the middle of the pitch was a good idea, so he ran away covered in mud. This was not something I expected to witness nor did I want to. I did turn to the teams and apologized for all males in the United States. Cause there was just no reason for what just happened.
What did I just see . . . ?
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