Go The Blues

I'm not sure why they say "the Blues" instead of "Blues" but they do.

Friday night Kelley and Jacob took me to a rugby game. Rugby is huge here, they are crazy about the All Blacks and of course all have their own local city teams. It's actually quite affordable, general seating is only $15 in the end zone (or whatever the equivalent is in rugby).

It also has a bad reputation because it involves a lot of alcohol and rowdy behavior. I would equate the behavior to the Bills game Derek took me to in the Fall, everyone is really drunk and stupid.

However, I'm not sure if they really look down upon that or not. Beer is sold in plastic beer bottles for $5 and you can buy 4 at a time. Instead of stopping the sale of beer in the 3rd quarter like most stadiums in Canada, they just switch to light beer. But the beer is plastic bottles is genius - no one becomes a spilly talker. When they do the wave they throw the empties up - well that part isn't so great, they pretty much like to throw anything they can at any point in the game. Watch your head.

I know the basics of rugby and could follow the game, the first half was pretty close and exciting whereas the second we just started to rack up trys so we left in the 4th before it got crazy outside. But all in all it was really fun.