Rugby: the only sport with
Rugby: the only sport with short shorts, a dance routine AND violence
that scares NFL players.
(The national Rugby Union team of New Zealand, The All Blacks, performing the Haka)
Picture by: dunno source Caption by: Andrew via Our LOL Builder
go all blacks.
KA MATE KA MATE KA ORA KA ORA
rugby rules
Nana i tiki mai whakawhiti te ra!
the All Blacks suck. Go the Wallabies!!!!!
Excuse me aussie, big boys are talking
hmmm, now all they need to do is bang their helmets against their heads until they bleed. then the other team will be scared.
EXCEPT they don’t wear helmets
Helmets?? What is this “helmet?”
Mr Cox, I believe you have your helmets mixed up
teehee silly football players need helmets
More like all whites.
of the ten all blacks you can see, three are white; the rest are of samoan, fijian and maori.
Yes and they are all told what to do by a white guy.
Umm… All Whites is a soccer team. You can tell the difference because they wear all white and play soccer.
haha, i always did feel like their routines are a bit… on the cheerleader side of things >D
Your opinion changes when they are done pounding you in the ground.
Yeah, a cheerleader that will rip off your testicles and feed them to you.
It’s a Maori war dance. And these guys will most definitely feed you your own testicles.
Hell yeah, go AB!
I love watching the Haka. So awesome!
The Ke Mate Haka, signature of the New Zealand All Blacks is GREAT! Brigham Young University and numerous high school teams do the Haka now. Maoris rule!
“Brigham Young University and numerous high school teams do the Haka now”
That’s just stupid and disgusting. How are these U.S. teams and schools affiliated with the Maori?
The Haka is not just Maori; all Polynesians, including Samoans and Hawai’ians have variants on it.
The Mormon Church has missioned extensively in the Pacific Islands; hence, there is a significant South Pacific presence at Brigham Young. The US HS teams are in communities where there is a significant Samoan and/or Hawai’ian presence.
Ummmm The Haka is just Maori buddy, the different Polynesian islands each have their own traditional variants….
Get your facts right and any way just coz the mormans helped them doesn’t mean they can use polynesian culture for their own purposes
So basically you think its wrong for kids who play football to do some lame attention-whore dance, just because they aren’t Maori? It is, after all, a simple series of movements with a chant, right? I mean, this isn’t the secret to cold fusion going on here, I don’t see why you would guard it so.
Just wanted to make sure I have my facts straight.
Ummm… no, it was Samoan and Tongan players doing this on their own. The non-Polynesians picked it up because it looked cool and built team spirit. It’s not like Chief Illiniwek’s sideline war dance.
That’s the point, Meyaht, you don’t have your facts straight.
If they understand the meaning of the haka (words and actions) then fine. But ignorantly (like your comment) they do see it as a chant with simple movements.
This lame attention-whore dance which they have turned the haka into, is performed as a challenge and was often seen before servering heads from the necks of those who didn’t respect it in battle.
South Pacific students came to Brigham Young and taught the Haka to the Americans, who liked it. We are a composite culture here–elements from all over the world have been brought here. You gon’t have to be German to waltz, you don’t have to be French to can-can, so you don’t have to be Polynesian to haka.
Look BAW, I agree, but I have seen it myself.
If you do the can-can, you would like to perform it correctly, would you not?
They could at least get the words right
So…by this logic, the players of European descent from NZ, etc. shouldn’t be allowed to perform the Haka either…?
No, he said that the Haka, was Maori and that each other pacific nation have their own versions (some called haka as well) and are not racially restricted, but a lot of emphasis is placed on the understanding of the dance.
Just to clarify, the plural of Maori is Maori. “Maoris” is incredibly rude.
Only in the Maori language, which Elsie was clearly not using. In English, the letter S is usually appended to the end of a noun to indicate more than one of said noun.
*doing the Haka*
dont trip over that weird dingy in the front
thats a mic
Do you “do the haka” like you do the hustle?
DO THE HAKA!
Not the *only* sport. Aussie Rules Football makes NFL look like a vicar’s tea party with a group of little old ladies!
You only think the NFL is tame because nobody ever interviews the Defensive Linemen. Its the stars of the NFL that are the pussies, don’t dog my D-Line.
It’s easy to be a bad-a$$ when you’re wearing every imaginable form of padding.
And weigh 300 lbs!!
Yeah, everyone always dogs the NFL for the pads…but you just pointed out that they weigh about twice what a rugby player does. Without pads people would die.
You might think that, but a typical RU Forward at this level weighs in at 270 to 300lb in his shorts.
Shaun Rogers
Height: 6-4 Weight: 350 Age: 30
Born: 3/12/1979 Houston , TX
College: Texas
Experience: 9th season
So you’re telling me that this guy is a “pussy” and would be afraid to play rugby at the professional level, simply because the sport he’s in now requires him to wear pads?
Afraid, maybe not. Unable, quite probably. If nothing else because he’s probably not fit enough to deal with passages of play that can be 10 minutes between breakdowns.
Oh i’m not doubting that the physical conditioning for rugby is completely different from the NFL. I’m just saying that its ridiculously inaccurate to say these guys would be intimidated or wouldn’t be tough enough to handle it.
In a match of NFL-Pro Bowl players Vs. Rugby Champs, we could possibly lose due to the differing skill set. We would not lose simply because we were afraid to put the hurt on.
paws2thot should know about pussies, just look at his name .
Yeah, I know amateur rugby players who have messed around a bit doing American football/gridiron/wtfever you call it and they say “Okay, yeah, they’ve got padding, BUT THEY NEED IT.”
Yeah! I mean look at barry hall (even though he now plays NRL)!
your a poo. have you ever been kicked in the head with a rugby boot. it will knock you out!
you must mean Rugby League – the toughest game in the world.
Australian Rules is for pussies – it is a cross between netball, marathon running and failure.
There is like a broken nose every game in the secondary schools divisions! And pretty much every ford has had a concussion by the age of 25!
@macavity – Rugby League is for players that can’t keep up with the rules of the game as it is meant to be played. Union is awesome!
Also – AFL has the best looking players, so I wouldn’t be too quick to dismiss it, there are advantages to a game that doesn’t require so much face grinding
union is for blokes who aren’t fit enough or skillful enough to play league. end of.
It’s all moot as the toughest team sport around, and also officially the fastest, is clearly HURLING!
It is played with a ball similar to a baseball, I guess. The ball can be slapped with the hand, kicked or, preferably, hit with a ‘hurley’ which is similar to a hockey stick on steroids.
Only the goalie is allowed to wear protective padding.
In one regional irish hospital 96% of all fractures presented were due to playing hurling.
Precisely what I’ve just said on another picture about cricket!! Hurling rocks and runs a much higher risk of injury than most sports. Helmets are optional despite the fact part of the game is swinging metal bound wooden sticks around at head height!
How come Scotland usually win the annual Shinty Hurling match then, even though you guys get to keep your hurleys rather than playing with camans?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA omg – im killing myself laughing. AWESOME CALL macavity – Rugby League all the way!
Union; League is an offshoot invented by Lancashire and Yorkshire because they couldn’t take scrumaging. and being given a good rucking every so often!
Except for the fact they stop playing and reposition and go to a commercial break whenever anyone stops the ball moving. Rugby, not so much. I really would like to see some of those 300-pound guys try to run a play that lasts 10 minutes or more, really really would.
Yeah but rugby is designed in such a way that it is still brutal and still safe, american footbal have no sets of rules for keeping the players as safe and so they wear pads.
WTF is that on the grass?
I thought it was a dead, deformed goose.
If we’re looking at the same thing, of course. In front of the center guy’s left foot?
neh, there mics
Microphones. When the All Blacks do the Haka, it’s important that the TV viewers get the full effect
lunch
You don’t want to give viewers the full effect, that lot are very scary when seen live – we can’t have TV viewers being scared!
Rugby rules
you saying New Zealanders cry alot when watching rugby?
all blacks pwn
you mean, all blacks got pwned!
Boks!!!!
Yeah – GO BOKKE!!
also true
but all blacks still is a great team 
The springboxs play like a bunch of grandmas! oh sorry that`s the french!
Damn right they do!
I dont know if somebody from the NFL would want to take on one of this guy and hope they come out in 1 piece. xD Rugby FTW played it 4 years to bad I stopped
Someone should put a video of the All Blacks Haka to Beyonce’s “Single Ladies”
It’s mah boy Richie!
I absolutley love when we play one of the Island teams. Two hakas going at once, it’s electrifying!
With Rock at the helm and Berrick beside him, the wallabies will thrash the all blacks in tokyo.
The Wallabies couldn’t thrash their way out of a cardboard box!
usually i would insult you here, but that was a good call.
yeah well at least we don`t have stupid accents!!!
I do the Haka when i get up every morning.
don’t lie
Was that supposed to be funny? cuz rugby is nothing but a bunch of fruitcakes wishing they could play football.
OK, YOU try playing it. A bunch of large, heavy, muscular guys ready to pound the cr@p out of whoever has the ball; you have the ball.
We will give you a simple, but dignified, funeral.
I thought all casualties in rugby games were served up as mincemeat later?
Mmmm… mincemeat!
Best filling for meat pies. Just ask Sweeney Todd.
American Football…yeah, tried it once. Too wussy if you ask me with all that padding and those spandex trousers, so I had stayed with Rugby.
You know, Rugby players are the ones who eat their own dead…
All right. Let’s sort this out now.
Rugby is football. So is Gridiron (that’s the style American football would be based on). So, they’re already playing football and you fail.
Now, having played both and still playing both regularly? Rugby’s a much better game.
jimbean, you wouldn’t say that if you were trapped at the bottom of a ruck
the interesting thing about the set of captions made from this LOL were how many of them thought this was soccer – even though the caption clearly says its rugby.
C’mon America world sport is more than tennis and golf – expecially now rugby sevens is an olympic sport !
What made me laugh as well as the soccer captions was the ones where they thought they were European teams
I’d suggest putting him at Tight Head Prop Forward, if that wasn’t clearly dangerous for the rest of the scrum.
Does anyone watch “Deadliest Warrior” on cable? They did an episode once with the Maori. Absolutely bad a$$ to the core!!! I don’t get to see rugby here but I knew as soon as I saw the pose what these guys were doing!
Why doo they dance?
The haka is a traditional South Pacific war dance. Warriors before battle would do it to get themselves pumped up–and scare the cr@p out of the enemy.
As sports, particularly contact sports like rugby, are metaphores for war, doing the haka before the game seemed like a logical thing for the NZ players to do, not the least because it would honor the Maori members of the team.
It is a New Zealand Maori tradition. It traditionally was a war dance for before they went to battle.
Now since the ‘battle’ is on the sports field they do this before a game of rugby union or rugby league when the New Zealand team is playing.
It is considered to be a a way to fire up the performing team and to intimidate their opponents. But it is also now considered to be a sign of respect (that they see their opponent as worthy) and challenge towards their opponents.
It is extremely disrespectful to turn your back during a said display but it has been considered to be a sign of courage and willingness to accept the challenge if you face them down while they are performing even standing toe to toe against them without showing any signs of fear.
Or make them do the haka while still in the changing rooms… can’t remember who did that, Portugal?
I’m still waiting for someone to run up and give them a kiss, mid-haka – that’d be made of win
I’m guessing you’ve never heard a huge group of maori boys do a haka then…..then freaking awesome, so much prode and mana. hahaha Kiwi’s are awesome. Kia Kaha AB’s!!
I am from New Zealand, so proud of our team, my old school haka is better than the AB one though I think. We use to set off the earth quake alarms here in town when we did it! Sure gets the blood pumping!
The haka is the new one Kapa o pango, the one the Ausies hate because the ABs are making the throat cutting gesture, it is special just for them
how can they call the all blacks haka a dance routine. It was used by warriors as intimidation and it wasnt just the aussies that were gonna get their heads sliced off
Even tho I am South African and a staunch bok supporter – most South Africans choose New Zealand’s All Blacks as their second team. When its boks vs all blacks you can expect a sell out in either country!
Yeah, I think the SA’s and us Aussies secretly admit the All Blacks are the best team in the world, just such a shame they keep choking in the World Cup….
I love the Haka! I got quite cranky when they tamed it down a couple of years ago…
Yeah, there’s way too much grundle grabbing in rugby for my taste. Love Australian Rules, though.
Go Blacks!! Love the old haka better though…
Incidentally, as an England supporter : well done the Boks for Tri-nations. Fun games with Oz and NZ – was a good tournament to watch.
Also, grats to Boks for Lions tour. O’Gara
The other team alwayes has this slightly scared omfg! look on their face when the haka gets going. ^^
Casa – no they don’t.
They’ve been ordered to stand there after being told (by the Governing body) that they can’t a) ignore it or b) shout back (both have been tried.)
The Aussi idea of guy with guitar was fail to maximum.
O’Driscoll certainly didn’t look scared in the opening to the Lions tour in 2005.
Yeah, im glad they have to take it. And im a bit sad to see that people call it a dance routine. Its not a dance as much, but a warriors call.
Some people need to do some research…
Call it whatever you like, but if it’s choreographed, its probably just dancing.
And ten minutes later the all blacks captain dislocated his shoulder
…and then re-set it himself and went on to lead the team to victory and roast and eat the opposing team’s captain’s liver over a small fire in their end zone.
I get a kick out of the guy on the left in the front. Everyone else looks deadly serious, and he looks like he ready to break into a tapdance.
the haka is pure win in it’s finest
i actually know a guy who played for the All Blacks and he taught me the haka. its cool. its actually sorta like a war dance type of thing. it has a lot of shouting and grunting
Ka mate!
The haka is great no matter how many times I watch it. Id like to see any of the football players out there get the balls to do that!
i think Chabal is scarier than the Haka :p
TO DEATH TO DEATH!
HAKA FTW!
AFL and both forms of rugby pwn NFL cos in the end of the day NFL is not played by anyone professional out side of North America.
rugby the most violent sport? they wear pads in the nfl for a reason. just ask any quarterback that has been hit by a 6′8″ 290lb. linebacker.
yeah, there’s a reason : americans cant take little injuries…have you seen the ears or nose of a rugby player ? (even amateur)
I prefer Kapa o Pango, but Ka Mate is wonderful.
Americans cant play rugby with any degree of regularity because of the cost of health care. The amount of times you get f’ed up would bankrupt most families before they even got out of highschool. And Gridiron sux because every 15 seconds or so everyone has to stop and have a wander around while a team of referees try to work out what happened and how it affected the score. Thats why American sports fans have such short attention sp….Oh, A lady with no clothes on inviting my to play Evony.
Actually, there are a lot of American colleges and not a few high schools that have rugby teams, and quite a few community rugby teams. Perhaps by international standards they aren’t very good, but the sport is not unknown here.
It seems that most chiropractic colleges have rugby teams; I suppose that is one way to provide plenty of patients for the clinics.
I once interviewed for a position at a private school in Virginia that listed among its sports ‘Ladies’ Rugby.’ There is no such thing, of course; there is women’s rugby, and there might be girls’ rugby, but there is no such thing as ‘ladies’ rugby.’
One of my friends is in the Black Ferns, and you’re right – she ain’t no lady!
Richie McCaw FTW
not the ONLY sport. in muay thai they wear short shorts, do a ram muay (i guess could be considered a dance routine) and its very violent!
Gridiron has harder tackles. Rugby, you can’t go above the shoulders or below the waist. If the AFL were really manly, they’d take away the marks.
Hurling, folks.
What are you talking about not being able to tackle below the waist in rugby? Someone’s talking about a sport they know very little about…
glee did it.
The debate over which sport is tougher will go on forever. As an American I side with football, but I can understand where you rugby types are coming from.
This little dance, however, is the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen.
Way be to a judgement, close-minded douche.
What about the guy second to far right, obviously just having the time of his life?
I’ve played rugby against football players they ran out of subs.
Well i would like you guys to know, every player in the Rugby League/Union is able to run 100 metres in less than 12 seconds…How about you softie Americans try stopping a 300 lbs man running that fast at you.
Oh and I’ve seen one Rugby Union player stop another dead in his tracks like this by just standing in front of him. The attacker probably wasn’t aware that he was charging down on a defender who’s day job was as a cattle farmer. Yes, that’s right, not only are these guys this fit and tough, but they’re also not even all professional players!
American football is pretty hardcore, but they stop every 30 secs to huddle/change play/whatever. In rugby, the only ‘break’ u get during play is when someone is injured and needs to switch out or get bandaged up. so 30secs of play at a time is pretty pussy on the players half. Willing to bet the american players will have really crap endurance.
for all those who believe that the haka is just a dance or a pussy showing i would challenge you to stand in front of it and not wet ur pants at 15 grown men shouting at the top of their voices all directed at you as a preparation for 80 mins of hurt comin your way
Awesome I love the Haka, we even have it at weddings sometimes! I get so emotional xD
I know this is a Rugby Union caption – but if you all get a chance, check out the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk2Cwl_flZc
its from the Rugby League World Cup last year in Sydney – and it’s an Aboriginal Representative team vs a Maori Representative Team.
These guys are just footy players, but the emotion put into it kills me!
Usually you see NZ vs England or NZ vs Australia, so only one team does a war dance, but here they BOTH have their war dances, so they do them at the same time.
FKN amazing – i though they were going to kill each other!!
I think someone explained the microphones to me … this photo is quite possibly from the filming of “Invictus”. Supposedly, the player underneath the word “scares” in the caption is Matt Damon in his role in the film.
Nah I don’t think this is from ‘Invictus’ because that is the actual All Blacks team and I’m pretty sure they aren’t in the movie. The microphones would be for media coverage purposes.