Off the Topic, but you who are male, and are somewhat a geek

[Carlos_E]

It's no surprise that a muscle man can also be a big geek.

When my Rugby team, mostly all big beefy bruisers, are out with another team after a match it's no longer surprising that we're throwing back the Guinness and talking about: comic books, code writing, Lord Of The Rings, science fiction, Doctor Who, Battlestar Galactica, quantum theory... and steroids!

I think all us geeks in highschool just went on to get great-paying jobs and then discovered the gym and anabolic steroids at about the same time. Go to your highschool reunion and there are always two or three totally jacked muscle dudes, and they'll always be the guys who were in the "Model United Nations" and the chess club NOT, as you'd probably think, the guys who played football.

-BigLittleTim

Do you play for a gay rugby team?

[BigLittleTim]

Do you play for a gay rugby team?

Yes, Boston Ironsides. We won our division at the Bingham Cup in New York this Spring.

We play mostly against "straight" teams (of course, they've always got one or two closeted gay guys, just as we've got a few cool straight guys) and we've gotten hardly any overt homophobia from them... just a little bit if we happen to beat them!

You ruck,scrum, and maul; you have boat-races in the bar with Guinness; you own the complete trilogy of Lord Of The Rings; and your girlfriend/boyfriend gave you a sword for Christmas: You're a Rugby Geek! It's a great social leveler.

-BigLittleTim

[mmaximus25]

Cheers bro, I have a great fondness for watching rugby but have never played. The thing that actually stopped me this year is the times we would play, Saturday @ starting at times from 12-3... Me being a football fanatic, usually college, and the rugby game times being on Saturday I would miss all games accept the night one..., (pretty sad but true) I wont mention my Fantasy Football addiction, whoops

Yes, Boston Ironsides. We won our division at the Bingham Cup in New York this Spring.

We play mostly against "straight" teams (of course, they've always got one or two closeted gay guys, just as we've got a few cool straight guys) and we've gotten hardly any overt homophobia from them... just a little bit if we happen to beat them!

You ruck,scrum, and maul; you have boat-races in the bar with Guinness; you own the complete trilogy of Lord Of The Rings; and your girlfriend/boyfriend gave you a sword for Christmas: You're a Rugby Geek! It's a great social leveler.

-BigLittleTim