It’s like football, soccer, and wrestling combined. It’s a really intense sport. I really felt like more whistles should have been blowing. Every time I thought "okay its over," both teams would just keep going and charging at people with the ball. There is punting, passing the ball, tackling, charging, dog piling, throwing teammates in the air to catch the ball, and more. One play the Sydney Warratahs (that’s the national flower; kind of odd to name a team after a flower) did was having the whole team band together in arms and pushing through the other team. It was like tug-a-war without the rope.
The game was at Sydney Stadium, right next to Fox Studios Australia. I just kind of cheered when everyone else cheered. The crowd was mellower than I’d expect at a sporting event. Usually, people at a Bears or Blackhawks game go crazy when anything is called or crazy happens. That’s not to say that there were not people going crazy. This is also the first place I had meat pie, and it was AMAZING! I love everything about it. I talk about meat pit in my previous post. Afterwards, Jon took us through the town of Paddington to a local Pub. It’s a more upper-class artsy area. I got lost in the neighborhood looking for a couple other pubs. However, I loved the neighborhood. The houses have so much character in Sydney, but these ones are even nicer. I knew I was in a rich neighborhood because every time I turned the corner I’d run into BMW’s and Masareti’s, etc.
(I liked this mates shirt)
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