It's been quite an extraordinary day at the field of Hong Kong Stadium, where teams from different continents gathered and played Rugby against each other.
While the weather has not been the perfect sunshine, with occasional heavy rain, but it seemed that the fans and the players had not been steamed-off by it. It was an all around hype, the never ceasing cheers and the fumbling turn over had everyone dazed.
I personally had never ever been to a Rugby match or played the sport, I vaguely recall watching it broadcasting live and on the news, but never really finished marvelling one match to the end. It was, to me, a sport that I didn't want to get to know about. But after seeing it today? Man, I could just tell you I'm hooked. All those physical play and running and pulling and tackling and jumping and bumping and fumbling and scratching and passing and sliding and kicking and spinning, just weren't getting enough.
I don't know why I haven't been watching it, but now that I knew half of the fun of the sport, there's no stopping me from getting into the game!
Well, what can I say, I'm easily attracted, equally distracted.
Have you seen the game in any form of media? What's the moment to you?
For me, it's the short span but high intensity gameplay, the seven minute of non-stop excitement and agony. But I saw that it's mostly dominated by a team, and the other team rarely had a chance to fight back and regain the position. Though when it happened, it was usually the moment when your heart started racing and the cheers from the crowd grew louder and louder. Though again, it usually went to a foul at the edge of the goal line, and shattered the hope entirely.
It's a brutal game, but the brutality is one of the major attraction. And it's a foreigner's game, based on what I could see on the spectator stands. But you know, it's an ever growing sport, maybe someday Hong Kong would get into the big league, like Japan did today, and play out well enough to attract the attention of the locals.
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