# Well done USA **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 28, 2003, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-done-usa/209940 "2003-10-28T00:39:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-done-usa/209940/21 "2003-10-28T19:19:50Z")
**BrotherCadfael** , since the survivors of the Andes plane crash were largely the Montevideo Old Christians Rugby Club from Uruguay, isn’t that what the bumper sticker was meant to about - and as such was intended to be offensive? ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-done-usa/209940/22 "2003-10-28T19:21:31Z")
Rug…Bee? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-done-usa/209940/23 "2003-10-28T19:23:01Z")
That was kinda insensitive. It should have read “RUGBY PLAYERS EAT THEIR DEAD BUT ONLY IF ALL THE CHOCOLATE IS GONE”. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-done-usa/209940/24 "2003-10-28T19:24:00Z")
For those of you who mock the US commitment to cricket, I’d like to point out that the longest continuously played intercollegiate sporting rivalry on land in the US is (or so it is claimed) the Haverford-Penn Cricket Match. (Any excuse to mention Haverford, my alma mater) ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-done-usa/209940/25 "2003-10-28T19:28:48Z")
I haven’t seen or heard of the win on the news at all. So sad… When I opened this thread I thought they’d won the cup for a minute… THEN we’d never hear the end of it. ---
**Author:** ![CrazyMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee59a6/32.png) [@CrazyMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyMonkey)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-done-usa/209940/26 "2003-10-28T21:41:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\*jjimm: \*\* More like one group of Girl Scouts beating another group of Girl Scouts. Ah, now this is a sport I’d pay to see! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2003, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-done-usa/209940/27 "2003-10-29T14:45:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jjimm \* > \*\ ***BrotherCadfael** , since the survivors of the Andes plane crash were largely the Montevideo Old Christians Rugby Club from Uruguay, isn’t that what the bumper sticker was meant to about - and as such was intended to be offensive? \*\* I hadn’t heard that…perhaps you are right. ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2003, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-done-usa/209940/28 "2003-10-29T15:42:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Duke \* > **Ah, on second thought, I’m far too young to make the US national cricket team. I think I’m going to have to wait until I’m 50. (I joke only slightly. The US captain, Faoud Bacchus–yep, the same man who used to play for the West Indies–is over 50 himself.)** So…should we get Barry Bonds on the team once he retires? I mean, that wouldn’t help the bowling but it might help the hitting. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2003, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-done-usa/209940/29 "2003-10-29T16:38:30Z")
> [@](#): > > You can read all about the whole sorry tale here. Can you fix that link? I’d be interested in reading that article. I looked around a bit but couldn’t find it. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2003, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-done-usa/209940/30 "2003-10-29T16:53:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Neurotik \* > \*\*So…should we get Barry Bonds on the team once he retires? I mean, that wouldn’t help the bowling but it might help the hitting. \*\* Hey, there’s an idea. He wouldn’t even have to run after hitting sixes (the cricket equivalent of home runs) 😃 For bowling, I suggest Randy Johnson and Roger Clemens. Randy’s got the height advantage (most of the top West Indian fast bowlers of the 70’s and 80’s were 6’ 6" to 6’ 9"), and Roger could go head-hunting as much as he wanted–it’s (semi-)legal in cricket! ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2003, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-done-usa/209940/31 "2003-10-29T17:04:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lamar Mundane \* > \*\*Can you fix that link? I’d be interested in reading that article. I looked around a bit but couldn’t find it. \*\* Sorry about that, **Lamar**. Go back to the link and search on the words “Rick Craig.” Most of the juicy parts of the story started when Mr. Craig resigned as USACA President. If you’re still having problems getting that link up, let me know…some of the stuff on the CricInfo site is subscription-only, although that page shouldn’t be. ---
**Author:** ![i\_like\_bacon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@i\_like\_bacon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/i_like_bacon)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2003, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-done-usa/209940/32 "2003-10-30T11:43:28Z")
one question, where do they find men with oddly shaped balls? and why do they discriminate? ---
**Author:** ![BigNik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/73ab20/32.png) [@BigNik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigNik)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-done-usa/209940/33 "2003-10-31T02:15:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lieu \* > \*\*Forget it. I’ll not follow any sport that doesn’t encourage drinking prodigious quantities of beer. \*\* Rugby only encourages prodigious drinking of beer by its players, coaches and spectators. To everyone else, it appears to advocate the drinking of Heineken which, of course, tastes like unfiltered mouse urine. Let’s see. There was the twelve o’clock game, followed by steady drinking through the three higher grades (broken only if you had to run on), then back to the pub for the toasts, the sculling competition, and then the serious drinking would start… QUOTE]\*Originally posted by Neurotik \* \*\*So…should we get Barry Bonds on the team once he retires? I mean, that wouldn’t help the bowling but it might help the hitting. \*\* [/QUOTE] Only if he learns to play against something other than an off-stump, waist-high full toss. Oh, and **Floater** , the line is that rugby players do it with oddly-shaped balls and two hookers, for forty minutes each way and only ten minutes in between to get their breath back. ---
**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-done-usa/209940/34 "2003-10-31T09:18:52Z")
**Strange thought…** IIRC, the USA was the last rugby gold medal winner at the Olympics. That was back in 1924, mind you. Right before they dropped rugby as an Olympic sport. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-done-usa/209940/35 "2003-10-31T14:14:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BigNik \* > **Only if he learns to play against something other than an off-stump, waist-high full toss.** I hate to break it to you, but it’s a lot easier to hit in cricket than it is in baseball. I’m not saying you could plug him in there immediately and he’d be the best batsman in the world - but give him a few months to get used to it and I guarantee he’d be in the top 10. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-done-usa/209940.md?page=1)