BYU Rugby Championship game

This post is a little late - the game was on May 21st - but I'm trying to catch up before our summer adventures begin.

Neither Heidi nor myself are big sports fans - we don't follow any major sport, we rarely attend games, and when we do it's usually just to hang out with other people at the game.  I generally only know which teams play which sport because of a US geography report I had to do in 7th grade that tied major sports teams to cities.

That's not true with Rugby.  We went to the last home game of the season two years ago and loved it.  It was the best sport I'd ever watched - the constancy of soccer, the complexity of basketball, the sheer force and the strategic planning of American football - combined with the awesomeness of wrestling.  Despite loving that game, we didn't attend any games last year.  Don't know why...  We lived accross the street from the field for heaven's sakes.

This season, we were good fans.  We attended nearly all of the home games, including the quarterfinals held on BYU campus and the national championships held in the Rio Tinto soccer stadium (home of the USA soccer champs, the Salt Lake Real) in Sandy, Utah.

It was a fun but painful game to watch.  Our boys had one every one of their previous games handily but the Cal bears ultimately won the championship.  I, and many BYU fans, are quick to point out that the ref handed Cal the game by providing 9 points of penalty kicks when not a single one was called against Cal, but we're not going to get into that question...

Heidi and I finally have a sport to love.  It'll take us a while, since we don't have much practice, but bear with us. :)

It was a fun game.  We had great seats, the crowd was wonderful, and both teams were fantastic to watch.