Living Room Scrum

We don't have NFL or NBA or MLB on our satellite channels, instead we get soccer, rugby and cricket games. Lots of soccer--or football as it is called everywhere else in the world--and rugby and cricket. Our satellite comes in from South Africa so that may have something to do with it.

In any case, yesterday as we were hanging out in the house, the baby was napping and Gusi and his father were watching rugby. How Papi knows anything about rugby is beyond me since he's always told me that he was never into sports as a kid. I don't really believe him. Papi explained just about every move the players were making on the field to Gusi; why they did this, why it was advantageous to do that, etc. Gusi obviously picked up some of the basics because ever since then he and his father will pretend play rugby in the living room. They toss a pretend ball, they kick it and they even manage to get into a scrum (which looks to me a like a huge pile-up of bodies). Gusi loves it and so does Papi.

Somehow I never imagined my kids would grow up knowing anything about rugby, but I revel in the fact that Gusi and his father love it so. The baby just sits on my lap for now and watches, but I'm sure that as soon as he can he will join in as well.