(chuckle) Is this even a news story? (Sports again...)

[dianeduane]

I mean, anyone could have made this mistake...

Russian police mistake rugby match for brawl

 

Comments

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

Some of the games I've seen played, you'd be pretty hard put to tell them apart from a brawl, and that's at a supposidly professional level.

Wonder what they'd have made of something like Aussie rules football...

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Ah, so that's why American rules football has all the equipment. It's not because they're wusses after all, it's to stop the Dept. of Homeland Security carting them all off to Cuba.

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

"Just a friendly disagreement between brothers."

[captainlucy.livejournal.com]

Whatwould they have made of a game of Gaelic?

Or worse yet, a game of Hurling? "They're fighting, and they're all armed with big sticks!"

:D

[von-krag.livejournal.com]

I've always thought hockey was a fight on ice...

[dduane.livejournal.com]

(grin) I thought that was the original form of the joke. "I went to a fistfight and a hockey game broke out." ...

[wolf-moonshadow.livejournal.com]

*snort* And here I thought Miami police were lacking.

Off-topic but amusing...

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Cats Are From Outer Space

What to Feed Cats from Outer Space

Nothing that you feed your cat from outer space will be as good as what they ate on their home planet--and they will remind you of this frequently. So don't even try to placate them.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

As I recall, that may indeed be the Secret Origin of the mistake/joke. A pity we cannot ask Mr. Dangerfield anymore.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

As an irrelevant sidebar: may I note that Clear Channel seems to have designs on making at least one concept fromn the show you've derived your icon from into reality?

Here's the details. (http://todmaffin.com/blogs/radio/2006/06/13/the-one-second-radio-ad-too-good-to-be-true-surely/)