Rugby Coming to Fenway Park?

[a700hitter]

http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/extras/extra_bases/2011/11/rugby_coming_to.html

 

Rugby coming to Fenway Park?

By Peter Abraham, Globe Staff

 

A loyal reader from London, Will, passed along this piece from the BBC about the noted rugby team London Irish potentially playing a game at Fenway Park.

 

In the rugby world, this would be a very big deal.

 

"It would be massive news over there and a great coup for the club to be involved in," London Irish chief executive Andy Martin told BBC Radio Berkshire.

 

"You can imagine the scene. Fenway Park in Boston full of Irish people, hopefully with some of the fans from here going across to watch us playing an Italian side in the Heineken Cup."

 

Fenway has hosted hockey games and a soccer match in recent years, so why not rugby? Sounds like a good time.

[JohnShaft]

Well worth going along to see if you get the chance. You wont believe how hard these fellas hit each other when you're sitting in the ground.

[YAZMAN]

I like Australian football even more.

[italstallianion]

They are going to need a lot of security if they think they can hold a crowd of drunken rugby fans.