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Re: Rugby, Haka, WTF?
« Reply #15 on: July 25, 2006, 02:02:51 am »
Quote from: AlohaDawg on July 25, 2006, 01:26:46 am
I didn't see the video, but isn't there the gesture of placing your finger on one side of your throat and pulling it across followed by the tongue sticking out, etc?

Yea, altough I don't know if they did the tongue thing or not.  It is just that I was really surprised to see it, considering I haven't seen that in years.
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Re: Rugby, Haka, WTF?
« Reply #16 on: July 25, 2006, 02:37:35 am »
Quote from: KeithHernandez on July 24, 2006, 11:42:47 pm
Sorry, I never got around to my real question:  (to Doc probably) Why does the other team just stand there and watch, do they have to, and what about the throat sliting?  Is it still cool to do that in sports outside of the United States?

Actually there was a shitstorm a couple of years ago becuase our team was kind of shurgging it off and ignoring them while they were doing it which was considered bad form and disrespectful.
They always do the tongue thing at the end, at least as far as I know, but generally the actual throat slitting during a game is minimal.

I think one reason the Maori culture remained so strong is that they were actually a fairly decent agricultural society when the Europeans arrived (as opposed to a nomadic society like the Aborigines), also they got a treaty signed which as far as I am aware is upheld to this day, though I don't know what it specifies.

And yeah whoever came up with the waltzing matilda thing was piss weak.

Edit: And here is a bit on the treaty, though it didn't work as smoothly as it could of it is still pretty good by most european colonisation standards.
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Re: Rugby, Haka, WTF?
« Reply #17 on: July 25, 2006, 01:25:33 pm »
Quote from: Doc on July 25, 2006, 02:37:35 am
Actually there was a shitstorm a couple of years ago becuase our team was kind of shurgging it off and ignoring them while they were doing it which was considered bad form and disrespectful.

Hey, you don't get respect in sports by doing a little dance. You earn respect by leaving the other team a steaming pile of goo in the middle of the field.
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Re: Rugby, Haka, WTF?
« Reply #18 on: July 25, 2006, 06:07:27 pm »
NFL Wide receivers and running backs, and one or two Defensive Ends excluded of course.
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Re: Rugby, Haka, WTF?
« Reply #19 on: July 25, 2006, 07:09:58 pm »
Yea, what about the Falcon's Dirty Bird dance.  I got hell of respect for Jamal Anderson.
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Re: Rugby, Haka, WTF?
« Reply #20 on: July 25, 2006, 08:56:23 pm »
What about the Shocker!!!

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