RUGBY: INSANE? OR CRAZY?
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Nah - I prefer my posters medium rare - not well done.
Posted by: CoastRaven | June 26, 2006 at 12:09 PM
Frickin bonkers.
Posted by: Straw | June 26, 2006 at 12:09 PM
Are they trying for diversity here? Or just targeting the Vampire market?
Posted by: Eleanor | June 26, 2006 at 12:09 PM
Ok, psycho AND overzealous in their camraderie. Draw the line somewhere, folks. Just don't draw it with blood.
Posted by: muffles | June 26, 2006 at 12:11 PM
Someone please describe. Robot nazis won't let me lookee.
Posted by: blurkernomore | June 26, 2006 at 12:11 PM
I thought this kind of thing went ‘out’ with Billy Bob and Angelina.
Posted by: Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa | June 26, 2006 at 12:12 PM
haiku
rugby's all-blacks bleed
poster a major gross-out
snork at coastraven
bonded by blood? why?
why not have the team instead
wipe boogers on it?
the vote decisive
the blog's opinion is one:
ruggers are buggy
Posted by: mudstuffin | June 26, 2006 at 12:13 PM
blurker, this pretty much is the gist of it:
The All Blacks have bled for the cause in an innovative rugby promotion launched today.
DNA from the players has been infused in a limited edition of this year's All Blacks poster which shows the team performing the haka in a Fiordland National Park setting.
A bond used in the poster printing process contains DNA from each player in the squad after each gave blood, which was then sterilised.
Posted by: Eleanor | June 26, 2006 at 12:14 PM
The All Blacks have bled for the cause in an innovative rugby promotion launched today.
DNA from the players has been infused in a limited edition of this year's All Blacks poster which shows the team performing the haka in a Fiordland National Park setting.
A bond used in the poster printing process contains DNA from each player in the squad after each gave blood, which was then sterilised...
Posted by: Sarah J | June 26, 2006 at 12:14 PM
Rugby players donated blood to be used in a bonding agent used to manufacture their team poster. It was meant to symbolize fan's devotion.
Posted by: Matt | June 26, 2006 at 12:14 PM
Decision: One scrum too many.
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | June 26, 2006 at 12:14 PM
*snork* at simul-twin-post
Posted by: Sarah J | June 26, 2006 at 12:17 PM
Thanks, El, Sarah J, and Matt.
Posted by: blurkernomore | June 26, 2006 at 12:19 PM
I've always thought they were crazy. Any game where you have to duck tape your ears down so they don't get ripped off just has to make you wonder about the players sanity.
Posted by: Kat | June 26, 2006 at 12:23 PM
This poster will suck your blood. Bla!
Posted by: Count Dracula | June 26, 2006 at 12:27 PM
really gross kudos to Kaf! ;-)
Posted by: MOTW | June 26, 2006 at 12:28 PM
*snork* at triple simul post*
Posted by: Eleanor | June 26, 2006 at 12:32 PM
they're bloody crazy!
Posted by: southerngirl | June 26, 2006 at 12:33 PM
Did the players "donate" blood; or did they just wipe up the field after a game?
and, ewwwww
Posted by: slyeyes | June 26, 2006 at 12:48 PM
The Heat is (not 'are')going to do the same thing, only they're using sweat.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | June 26, 2006 at 01:35 PM
If this were Nike and not Adidas (with apologies to Jam Master Jay), all the kids would be spilling blood waiting in line to get the posters.
Posted by: Brad | June 26, 2006 at 01:52 PM
Nucking futz
Posted by: xmnr | June 26, 2006 at 01:57 PM
RUGBY: INSANE? OR CRAZY?
all of the above - uck!
Posted by: 24-aholic | June 26, 2006 at 02:07 PM
Two things:
1) I believe they heated the blood up high enough to completely degrade the DNA in it which kind of defeats the rather creepy point of the whole thing.
2) KISS did this a long time ago with an issue of their comic book that had one or more members blood mixed in with the ink.
Posted by: KCSteve | June 26, 2006 at 02:14 PM
[The] poster ... shows the team performing the haka
Is that what they call it these days?
Posted by: markhh | June 26, 2006 at 02:21 PM
And some find "Redskins" offensive...
Posted by: DouglasG | June 26, 2006 at 02:34 PM
So Kaf...did you get a poster?
Inquiring minds want to know!
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | June 26, 2006 at 02:52 PM
markh: The Haka.
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | June 26, 2006 at 02:53 PM
Jeff.. no, but I expect the men in my family to want one. Of the people most likely, I think my brother would possibly buy one just to have it. You can do that when you're young and irresponsible... I mean, have no responsibilities!
The little animated haka guy looks slightly crazy.. I think it's because he has no pupils.
Posted by: Kafaleni | June 26, 2006 at 03:07 PM
its this racist?
Posted by: Chaz, in Wade County Florida | June 26, 2006 at 03:34 PM
I vote for crazy, nuts, and insane to describe rugby players.
Also, I hear they eat their dead.
Posted by: bunny | June 26, 2006 at 03:36 PM
KC Steve -121C would most certainly denature any DNA in the blood
This is all very freaky. And I'm a mad scientist.
Posted by: Mad Scientist | June 26, 2006 at 03:38 PM
I was preparing a salad last night for a formal birthday sitdown dinner for 12, when I cut my finger with my new Cutco knives. There was enough blood there to serve the entire group, so I just mixed in a dark colored dressing that would help camophalge. Now, we are all blood brothers and sisters. Happy Birthday, Folks!
Posted by: Hemala | June 26, 2006 at 03:53 PM
ooh.. update! This is the poster (albeit to scale.. I can't see any bloodspots.. it's a nice looking poster if I didn't know what went into making it!)
Posted by: Kafaleni | June 26, 2006 at 03:58 PM
With some of the things athletes get into off the field, I wouldn't want to be around their blood no matter how much it was treated.
Posted by: Ann | June 26, 2006 at 04:32 PM
Instead of literally giving their blood for the good of marketing everywhere, why don't the players just stand side by side next to the assembly line and spit on the posters as they pass by? Efficient, less invasive for the boys, and if the ink isn't quite dry, might cause a very nice abstract effect.
Posted by: Rocky | June 26, 2006 at 05:42 PM
121C would most certainly denature any DNA in the blood
*Floolooloosh!*
That was the sound of some rugby fans' deflated hopes of building Jurassic Park, but with rugby players.
Posted by: Glix | June 26, 2006 at 06:37 PM
Wasn't that a song back in the 70's? "I Bled For You. Now It's Your Turn To Bleed Over Me!"
Posted by: Kat | June 27, 2006 at 12:45 AM
Ewwww!!!!
Posted by: Amanda in Hawaii | June 27, 2006 at 01:34 AM
DNA? Hmmn...does that mean that you could clone the poster? Or, for that matter, the whole damn team?
Posted by: marfie | June 27, 2006 at 02:32 AM