Comments on: Damon, Eastwood, and Freeman in The Human Factor

By: bill

bill — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:07:50 +0000

I’ll be waiting for the movie. Damm this is a big step for rugby. thanks to the guys who helps in providing the build up of the movie to hit cinemas around the world. DaMON, fREEMAN, AND cLINTEASTWOOD…you guys are awesome. From fiji…where rugby is religion.

By: jen ryan

jen ryan — Fri, 29 May 2009 02:16:35 +0000

I am a huge rugby fan…The historical and political impact of the Springboks victory even changed Rugby to a professional sport worldwide. Morgan Freeman plays Nelson Mandela, Matt Damon is captain of the South Africa team. All other cast are South African except a couple of monsters – Grant Roberts from the US on the Boks’ and Zak Feaunati a kiwi on the All Blacks… can’t wait.

By: sooki

sooki — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:58:10 +0000

Viva Blou Bulle LOL

By: sooki

sooki — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:57:09 +0000

Oh, and the picture is called a scrum….

By: sooki

sooki — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:54:13 +0000

I think the majority of Americans knows football, not rugby. Its a tough game-without the padding and helmets *snicker*

By: Rick Boyd

Rick Boyd — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 05:26:42 +0000

And in fact American Football actually came from rugby. “American football resulted from several major divergences from rugby, most notably the rule changes instituted by Walter Camp, considered the “Father of American Football”.” [Wikipedia, sources provided].

Even then, rugby was quite big in the USA in the early 20th century, especially in California where games drew big crowds. The USA rugby team which won gold medals in the 1920 and 1924 Olympics (rugby was played in four early olympics) was mainly Stanford, Cal-Berkeley and Santa Clara students.

Rugby has a fine hisotry in the USA and it’s not too late to give up playing slow motion pro wrestling in motorbike helmets and return to the REAL GAME. Rugby. (Rick Boyd, rugby journalist, Perth, Western Australia).

By: EW

EW — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:13:16 +0000

BTW…. the rugby world cup was in 1995 not 1985…. you really don’t know what your talking about, rugby is the 2nd largest played sport in the world behind scocer, YES bigger than american football, shock horror!

By: KG

KG — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:25:54 +0000

great to hear about rugby finally getting some attention in the US. I hope the movie will bring even more attention to the sport. i am from South Africa and this sport is HUGE in this country and hope to see the US in the same state in a couple of years time!

By: stephanie

stephanie — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:41:44 +0000

I have to agree with JWG – I didn’t go to an Ivy League school but started playing rugby in college and have been playing for 6 years…

Rugby is being introduced to kids in high schools, yes, high schools as well as colleges all throughout the US. There are Under-12 (years old) programs in which touch or flag rugby is taught.

This sport is growing in the US on every level, and every rugby player can appreciate the media attention that the sport is (finally) getting.

By: JWG

JWG — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:25:56 +0000

“I don’t think anyone outside of an Ivy League school in the States even knows how rugby is played” – Really? In fact, there are nearly 70,000 registered men, women, boys, and girls playing as part of USA Rugby (www.usarugby.org).

Though I do hope you are correct about this movie helping to bring rugby further into the public eye in the US. It’s about time.