r/facepalm Aug 12 '24

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ US women’s rugby player takes a bad angle selfie and idiots assume she’s trans

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u/LibRAWRian Aug 12 '24

My BFFs girlfriend comes running off the field towards my wife and I, holding her face, and says (very calmly) that she thinks she may have broke her nose. She takes her hands away from her face and her nose has a triangle dent like this < and is pouring blood. My wife and I just stare at her. Then my wife kinda yells YES IT'S FUCKING BROKEN. And this woman feels her nose and just pushes it back straight. Flares her nostrils and says, Eh, I can breath, I'm fine and returns to the fucking field. This is normal rugby behavior.

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u/Ffroto Aug 12 '24

Man, I puked at a game after running the field for a try and got benched. I wish I had this girls coaches.

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u/LibRAWRian Aug 12 '24

My BFF was the coach and she was fucking this girl, so she wasn't going to get benched. Also, puking is a big no-no until well after the game and maybe 3 hours into the party. I've never felt so unsafe for everyone involved than at a girls rugby party. I once did shots from a 12 foot long beer bong that had to be filled from the second floor at a rugby party.

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u/Wtfdidistumbleinon Aug 13 '24

Unless you’re King Ritchie McCaw and it’s the final of the World Cup against France in NZ and it’s 77 minutes into an 80 minute game and we (NZ) are leading by 1. RC had a yak on the sideline in between plays lol, poor fucker was dead on his feet but no way in hell he was leaving that field, short of being dead, but even then we’d have revived him and sent him back in there.

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u/Christmas_Queef Aug 13 '24

I mean, y'all are kind of famous for rugby(I'm in the desert of America and don't even follow rugby and I know about the all blacks, word gets around lol), I get why they'd keep going lol.

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u/Karooneisey Aug 13 '24

Didn't he also break his foot in the semifinal and pretend it was fine so he could play in the final?

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u/Wtfdidistumbleinon Aug 13 '24

I believe that’s known as a “pre-existing condition” so doesn’t count lol, kidding, yeah he busted a toe I think in the 2011 super series and hid the injury from the team and doctors etc, refused to get an x-ray done because once that happened it would have to be disclosed. My guess is he felt obligated to be on the field as the captain and as such put his health 3rd to the team (1st) and the country (2nd). It’s probably also why he is now Sir Richie McCaw, the MF earned it IMO.

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u/neotearoa Aug 13 '24

You forgot to mention the broken foot?

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u/ThePoetAC Aug 13 '24

But have you ever had to drink out of the garden watering can for a party foul? Because it has been filled through the post match party with a little bit of everything…and I mean everything.

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u/dancinginside Aug 13 '24

Watering can sound like an upgrade from shooting the boot tbh. At least you’d be able to feel confident that those curly hairs definitely weren’t from someone’s ankle.

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u/RunsWlthScissors Aug 13 '24

Puking was not an excuse to pause practice in wrestling. If you gotta puke, you had better run to the trash can and run back.

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u/ZZGooch Aug 13 '24

I once watched a woman suck a dick that was disguised as one of the udders on the cow suit worn by the Rugger standing on the table at the bar.

Maggotfest was a helluva ride before they confined the players to the fairgrounds to party at night so they didn’t destroy downtown Missoula.

The fairgrounds idea was wild cuz Anyone could go in, but no one could leave.

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u/PrvtPirate Aug 13 '24

wait, wait, wait, slow down. youre like starting one interesting story after another here… lets back up a bit and start with the top one. …so, your bff and the coach, go on…?!

/s

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u/grill_sgt Aug 13 '24

It ain't about coaching. It's just straight up different breed and mentality. My cousin is 5'4" and 130 lbs soaking wet. She's also a black belt in Tae Kwon Do, a rugby player, and mother of 2 boys from her 6'3" Nordic husband. I have a big head, but those boy's heads make watermelons look small.

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u/Pleasant_Ad3475 Aug 13 '24

My vagina just winced thinking about those heads in conjunction with her small frame...

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u/Ffroto Aug 13 '24

I don't think you understood my comment.

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u/Asckle Aug 12 '24

I was playing a rugby game as a kid in the snow and was feeling a little cold. Asked the coach to sub me back in so I could warm up but when I went on I had a hard time staying up. Ended up going to the paramedics to get checked and it turned out I was hypothermic, I swear when you're playing rugby you just don't notice that sort of stuff

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u/nissen1502 Aug 13 '24

Adrenaline is a hell of a drug! 

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '24 edited Aug 13 '24

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u/Pleasant_Ad3475 Aug 13 '24

Sweet Jesus. This thread is doing my head in.

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u/nissen1502 Aug 13 '24

Nooo, it's the opponent rugby players that do your head in! 

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u/Magdalan Aug 13 '24

I'm known for running around with injuries like nothing happened (to the point where a male co-worker nearly fainted when he heard my broken rib scrunch together). Maybe I was a rugby player in my former life.

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u/Dr_Nice_is_a_dick Aug 13 '24

Not a girl but a guy playing club level rugby, they pop my kneecap back, it was fucking weird but I played the last 2 minutes of the match

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u/sparkyscrum Aug 13 '24

Sounds like a great player. When you’re playing and you just want to keep going and do well. Pain is kinda normal so you don’t notice.

This is coming from something who didn’t know he kept breaking his nose until someone pointed it out after the 4th or 5th time 😂

Also women players are another level!

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u/Flyingkiwi24 Aug 13 '24

Shades of the legend that is Sir Wayne "Buck" Shelford

"Was a notable victim of the infamous "Battle of Nantes" in the second Test. Roughly 20 minutes into the match, he was caught at the bottom of a rather aggressive ruck, and a French boot kicked his groin, ripping his scrotum and leaving one testicle hanging free. He also lost four teeth in the process. After discovering the injury to his scrotum, he calmly asked the physiotherapist to stitch up the tear and returned to the field before a blow to his head left him concussed"

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u/Warm-Alarm-7583 Aug 13 '24

Bestie broke her collar bone doing Edward 40 hands on a long board, and was still down to scrum the next day. A completely different breed.

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u/ChimericalChemical Aug 13 '24

That do be kinda badass though