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- Gardimus, on 10/19/2008, -3/+107As a Rugby player, I hope my death wouldn't ruin everybody's game.
- bixby1, on 10/18/2008, -4/+88"Organisers held a minute's silence before allowing play to go on"
I'll just let that sink in. - HappyScrappy, on 10/19/2008, -8/+52This seems appropriate to me. If the teams don't mind, and the crowd seems fine with it, have a moment of silence and go on.
- HappyScrappy, on 10/19/2008, -6/+48Stopping the game won't bring him back.
- Gaalsien, on 10/19/2008, -2/+34It's a sad thing, yes, but at the risk of being presumptuous I'm sure he and the crowd would have wanted things to continue.
- B52doc, on 10/19/2008, -7/+34If this happened in the NFL the game would have been canceled along with all games for 2 weeks to allow time for a congressional investigation. My respect for Rugby has gone up :)
- unpolloloco, on 10/19/2008, -0/+25They would never declare someone dead in a situation like that until after the player was transported to a hospital. By that time, play would have probably already resumed.
- myklee, on 10/19/2008, -0/+22yea, for about a minute...
- harlowsmonkeys, on 10/19/2008, -5/+26Are you implying that it is dishonorable for a figure skater to die on the ice?
- perogi21, on 10/19/2008, -4/+23obviously, you've never played Rugby...
- sputnike, on 10/19/2008, -4/+21It's a rugby game, not a Klingon battle field!
- InfernoX, on 10/19/2008, -6/+22They should have had two minutes of silence. Insensitive *****.
- groonk, on 10/19/2008, -2/+18Rugby is HARDCORE
- BirdCatcher, on 10/19/2008, -0/+14Yes we do, it's called cremation.
- Deadzero9, on 10/19/2008, -0/+14the voice of reason!!!
- GregIsLegend, on 10/18/2008, -5/+18Brutal...
- Oztog, on 10/19/2008, -3/+15Now that's a real man's game.
- iceman989, on 10/19/2008, -3/+15I was going to make a macho comment like; real men keep on playing until everyone is dead
But looks like you all beat me to the punch - inactive, on 10/19/2008, -4/+16HARDCORE.
- SEANWOOKIE, on 10/18/2008, -15/+23The show must go on.
- EricAugu, on 10/19/2008, -27/+35What else would you expect. It's rugby, not figure skating. To die on the field is honorable.
So did his team win? - Drahkar, on 10/19/2008, -1/+8Actually I'm pretty sure he wouldn't be saying anything if it were him.. Cause he'd kind of be dead...
- hartley, on 10/19/2008, -1/+8And that sir, is why you are a real man.
Boo Hoo for dying while doing something that is the love of your life. I can only hope I go out so gratefully. - SpeedSteamBoat, on 10/19/2008, -0/+6yeah, because having a massive heart attack is so his fault, and a natural consequence of rugby. right?
- noreturn, on 10/19/2008, -0/+6How do you kill a radar?
- myklee, on 10/19/2008, -0/+6FTA: "Front-row forward Fred Lemson, 40, collapsed of a massive heart attack as he walked off at half-time during the Queensland Rugby League-sanctioned All Blacks Carnival in Townsville last Saturday."
Am I the only one that noticed that he didn't die while the game was actually being played? He had a heart attack. He could have been taking a dump and had the same thing happen... - xParker, on 10/19/2008, -8/+14Your teammate dies... Are you really going to want to finish the game?
It's scary enough when someone is badly injured, but continuing after a death? - rxanderq, on 10/19/2008, -16/+21RIP
- alk509, on 10/19/2008, -1/+6It takes leather balls to play rugby, indeed.
- SelfHomicide, on 10/19/2008, -5/+10They have some real DEADication for the sport
- DinosWillDie13, on 10/19/2008, -5/+10nice job burying him, dickweeds. I agree, RIP.
- Kelden21, on 10/19/2008, -0/+4Why are people digging d2002 down? Most foreign rugby players are so hardcore and in love with their sport there's no doubt he would want the game to go on.
- inactive, on 10/19/2008, -3/+7For the American "hard of thinking": Rugby is a game for men. It's like "American Football" but without the padding and with players capable of both attack and defence.
Last year, my Rugby Club played an American Airforce base "Football" team under both sets of rules - the Yanks were thrashed at both kinds of game. They're a bunch of steroid-pumped girls. - xGeneric, on 10/19/2008, -1/+5I think the point xParker was making, wasn't that the rest of his teammates feared for their lives, but that the loss of one of their teammates might be to much of an emotional burden to continue to focus on the game.
- Jeffler, on 10/19/2008, -1/+5Really don't see why I'm getting buried, as was said further down the thread, stopping the game wouldn't have brought him back, and its not like he had the heart attack and they kept playing without trying to get him medical attention or something like that.
- misterparry, on 10/19/2008, -1/+4Any serious athlete such as a rugby player would want the game to go on.
- bobsmyhero, on 10/19/2008, -0/+3so that's why my mom didn't sign that rugby permission slip....
- Acre, on 10/19/2008, -1/+4Minute seems good, yup, just about...
- JohntheDread, on 10/19/2008, -1/+4I agree. The first time I played Rugby I got one of my front teeth kicked in. I loved it, and, I'm truly not making fun in any way, to have a game halted on my account, for any reason, would be extremely embarassing. Death is generally undignified, that's why I want to afford it as much dignity as as I can, if by nothing else not dwelling on it, and, apparently, so did they.
Even so, half an hour, if true, does seem a very low response time... - bduddy, on 10/19/2008, -5/+8Neither will a funeral, but for some reason, we don't just toss people into the fire.
- sloonark, on 10/19/2008, -0/+2I'm just here to say that 'rugby' and 'rugby league' are two different sports, with different rules. Thus, the title is inaccurate.
- Koushiro, on 10/19/2008, -3/+5Wow, it's as if there was this thing where if someone dies and you don't ***** know them or the family you don't really normally care that they're dead. o.o
- anotherjack, on 10/19/2008, -0/+2I don't think it's a question of whether to keep playing, rather that the man was not cared for or looked after. I think the creepy part for the family is that they kept playing...as he was laying on his back dying on the scene. "His family has also raised questions about the standard of insurance and medical treatment available to the tournament, as well as the ambulance response time. Some have claimed it took half an hour before an ambulance was called. By then it was too late." Also, there were no real services on the ground, at a huge arena for a violent sport. "It's freaky for me. It looks like someone tried to take the cheap way out and hope nothing would go wrong," Mr Lemson said. They may have had trouble paying for his care as well, with no help from the league - its vague.
- eze123, on 10/19/2008, -2/+4Yeah but the death wasn't related to the game.
- anotherjack, on 10/19/2008, -0/+2Because it happened in front of maybe a thousand people. Therefore becoming part of their lives. Its arguable that there may be something remarkable about the reaction of said crowd to the death of someone who at minimum 20 people there ( that'd be his team plus his family ) personally knew and cared about. Also, his death would have been public, and since he was walking off the field, very dramatically so.
- hartley, on 10/19/2008, -1/+3"Tournament director Jenny Pryor said the $1500-a-team nomination fee covered all players with death and disability insurance.
"I think people are grasping at straws at a time when we are all saddened by the death," she said."
I still don't understand how one mans death can make the news, although many others who die everyday don't make *****. Everyone dies. Unless I know who you are, I really don't care. - HeWhoRoams, on 10/19/2008, -2/+4Yeah as a rugby player, they better keep playing. His family obviously did not ask his opinion on what he would want should he die on the field. Raise a beer, and rake some guy.
- m4csrgh3yk3v, on 10/19/2008, -0/+2Rugby *League*
Rugby league is one of the two major codes of rugby football, the other being rugby union. - hartley, on 10/19/2008, -1/+3And the point of your story is.....
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