Consider the sport of rugby — imagine football but, sans padding and helmet — a game I discovered, fell in love with and played throughout college and well into my young professional life before various joints started to take longer to heal. It’s been described as a barbarian’s sport played by gentlemen, owing to its origins as a violent game contested primarily by the establishment. As if the sport itself was not brutal enough,
Witness the Haka.
More specifically, the Haka Timatanga, performed solely by the NZ Maori, an all-star team comprised of professional ruggers, all ethnically Maori. And now, the Ka Mate Haka of the NZ All Blacks, the national team.
