Sunday I had the opportunity to attend my first ever NRL game. For those of you in Canada NRL stands for National Rugby League. However don’t just call it rugby because people around here frown upon that. See there is AFL which is Australian Football League, the NRL and then there is Rugby Union. If you just say rugby then they assume that you mean the Rugby Union. They all have different rules and such and so down here are considered different sports. However I come from a nation and Can-a-da is its name. To me it is all just rugby. Anyhow I digress, the game was awesome!It is still the beginning of the season so the games haven’t really begun to heat up like they would in a final or semi final match, but I reckon that this was a pretty hyped crowd and probably the best game to go to before I left. The match was the West Tigers against the Roosters on the Tigers home turf. I mean common, what kind of name is Roosters anyway? So the stadium was packed to the gills with Tigers fans dressed in all their Tigers gear. One thing I have learned down here is that rugby is taken very seriously, much like hockey fans at home. The crowd was all a buzz for kick off and I was just over the top for just being there. I of course wore
orange and black to support the team. Gotta support the team man. It was just good times, beer, sun, a field full of men manhandling each other, what more could you really want? Although I don’t 100% understand the rules and such of rugby it was awesome to be there and see all that action live. I cheered them on and had a friggin great time. I was somewhat disappointed with the effort of cheers. It was mostly “TIGERS, clap clap. TIGERS clap clap” I could have done with some more exciting cheers to be honest. At one point some guys started a small one of “I feel like chicken tonight, like chicken tonight (you know like the old commercial)” The guy sitting behind us was hilarious! He had brought a giant tigger doll and had a little Tigers cape around his neck. It was funny listing to the shouts and comments from this fellow. At one point he told us to feel free to holler shit out because “we are at the footy now, anything goes.” The game was 80 mins of awesomeness, cheering, beer drinking, flag waving and all the greatness that is a NRL game! In the end the Tigers lost which was disappointing but did not ruin my NRL experience. They lost by a very dodgy try by the roosters with 5 minutes left in the game so that was a bit upsetting, but like I said it sure didn’t ruin my experience. I was able to get the only try scored by the Tigers on video, so that was awesome too! After the game I headed to the greatly over crowed train station (lucky for me I bought my ticket before the game even started) to make my nearly 3 hour journey back to Gosford. Now it is the end of Monday and I am already looking forward to ticking off some more things on my list. I am psyched for the bridge climb and whatever else I tick off the list. I am accepting the fact that I have to live here for the few weeks and trying to make the best of it. I am figuring out some cool stuff to do with the boys and just take er day by day. I hope your eyes don’t ache too much for all the reading you just did, but thanks for tuning in. And that folks is how the cookie crumbles, goodnight
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