Fifteen players take the football field for each squad with numbers on their backs indicating their playing positions. About half are big grunts - the muscle of the team - who use their weight and leg strength for infighting. The other half are the pretty boys who run with the ball when the big guys let them have it. That's about all you have to know. There is a pregnant football and each team tries to score as many points with it as possible. They try to ground the ball over the opponents goal line - this is called a "try" and is worth 5 points. Yes, a try! They can't remember long words.
After scoring the 'try', they get an attempt at an extra 2 points by kicking the ball through goal posts from a point opposite where they made the 'try'. There are also 3-point field goal kicks available for drop kicking and penalty kicks.
One of the very technical rules which govern the game is that if a player is substituted for, he cannot return unless he left while bleeding. I assume you could also go back in if you left for a broken bone but most of them don't bother to come out of the game, so I'm not sure. It seems there are many rules to the game most of which the players know nothing about and the refs make up as they go.
Here is the little known part of the game most people don't know. Rugby is mainly an excuse for drinking excessively. No one I noticed seemed to care as much who won the game as who got the beer for the game and where they were going to drink afterward. I've never played rugby myself, so I'm only going on my observations and perceptions.
Andy was only taken to the hospital from the rugby field once. I think the surgeon took some of the screws which were loose in his head and used them to screw into two of his lower leg bones so they might heal. The game is great fun!
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