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21. BJ McMahon, Ottawa Indians. BJ, a quasi-member of the WHORS in 1999, failed to get his WHORS Cap in 1999. We did share stogies and beers on Friday, before his busy social calendar came calling.
22. Harry Strokes, aka RUGBY SPICE. After Ottawa '99 he was assured of a spot in the famed fraternal order...see tour stories, however, after the NOVA Party, I finally told him the good news. See the great stories of 1999 to find out the details of Rugby Spice's newest accomplishments.
23. Aussie Paul...Turtle. Australian from Caines, Queensland. Always saying, "I absolutely can't play this weekend, even though I will have my boots in the car, I really can't play." Star prop and hooker on ALL social sides. He has had some type of a relationship with the Welsh Women's national team prop. See Idiot Sisters for a great story about her.
24. Smiley Jim Clawson. Storied Rugger in Michigan. Appears on a rugby tshirt from some club in my home state of Montana.
25. John Atkinson. Every now and then an injustice takes place in this world. A small oversight that shouldn't have been overlooked. This is one such case. John Atkinson should have been in the top 10 of Idiot Brothers, however, a simple clerical error has placed him at 25. Our Apologies. Now as for John, the man is a strategical genius in the areas of Tours, Marital Deception and Married guy propaganda. While, never married, he has taken the bullet for about as many guys as all of the Secret Service. He is also the ultimate wingman. See Wing man story to be retold soon. Very important member of the Idiot Brothers, especially after Dewey Beach.
26. Chris Farley. I only recently heard this story from my hooker who played against Chris during Farley's Marquette days. My hooker, Rom, played with the Irish of Notre Dame. It seems that Farley, a prop, was the first to strip during a game after match party. Typical Farley. See the Movie Tommy Boy and notice he is wearing his College Rugby jacket and jersey.
27. Tom "ROM" Ryder. PAC Hooker, prop, and occassional flanker extrodinairre. Rom, is the above said hooker that played against and partied with Chris Farley.
28. Ian Diddams of Devizes RFC, Devizes, UK, author of Didd's Essays on Ruggers has been named Idiot Brother Grand Poobah of the 1999. Didds should be considered the Mark Twain of rugby. This honor should have come at a much earlier time, but he is welcomed to our fraternal order with open arms and a beer in each hand. Cheers mate.
29. Scotty Mills. Scotty has been running the social aspects of the Ottawa tourney each year since I have been there, and most likely longer than that. He always has the hot tubs ready to go...and doesn't yell too badly your first 2 or 3 times you sneak a beer into the hottub. Former front row player is the first of 2 new Idiot Brothers to join our ranks. See him at Ottawa in 2000....hopefully with a bit nicer weather.
30. Jim DeFelice. School of Propus Shortus Brick Shithousus. All of 5'7" 230 of hard steel. Lawyer to boot. Tough guy with set of weak knees. With Jesse's help, carried me to a safe zone in the battle of the Luge (see Jesse's story). Man knows how to party and play. Finalizes our top 30.
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31. Mike Sexton, Ft Worth, Texas...see rugby stories of his collegiate days in the to be added rugby stories section 4. To paraphrase....survived a drunken weaken in which the uninated in public, had his head smashed with a brick, destroyed the LaCrosse field (because it was nicer than theirs) and almost died. Some good advice.....be more careful next time...but you are an Idiot. CHEERS TO MIKE AND HIS TEAM FOR WINNING THE 2000 DIVISION II NATIONAL TITLE. BRAVO
32. Mike Gaugliano "Guges/Coots" My first contact with PAC. Met me after the Dewey Beach nightmare. First weekend with PAC, went on a full weekend adventure with USUHS Women's Rugby team. They bought us beer, pizza and let us splash around in their pool. Always an idiot, got his prop wings with me in Quantico in fall of 1999. Welcome aboard. Recently got married and is MIA....considered KIA. Another Fallen hero
33. Jeeter Allred. Another one of those back guys that stepped up and played prop. Didn't just play prop, but played well. Has played every position except scrum half, but feels most at home in the front row. Classic "cock blocker" never ask him to be your wing man on a mission.
34. Dan Drach. First Quad rugby brother. Besides the love of the game, also enjoys the nectar of the gods, Guinness. Because the positions are not the same in Quad rugby, his position is as close to a Hooker as there can be. Welcome.
35. Pete McCall. Pete is a long time prop and hooker with PAC. Besides playing wounded in a tournament (broken hand and green goo coming out of a recently stitched up wound, he has also been known to play "touch" with himself and 3 Women players after a long night of drinking.
36. John Trauth. Old man of the front row on PAC. Skills that go beyond his years. Lives/d life like a semiretired rock star. Always a laugh drinking with Trauthy.
37. Jim "Big Daddy" Hall. North Penn RFC. Organized winnebago trip to canada. Made a mess of winnebago. Injured himself while drunk in winnebago, performed surgery drunk afterwards on injured body. This all sounds very familiar. My god we are twins seperated at birth. See the Winnebago Tour to New Mexico (my story) and the Winnebago tour to Toronto (Big Daddy's Story)
38. Robert Obrist: OB, PAC RFC. OB is the kinda guy you want on your side of the scrum. Aged a bit, but drinking like a 20 year old, he is always a hoot to drink with at the bar. He has a habit of punching new props against him in scrimmages, and then buys them a drink at the bar later that night. His quote says it all: When asked why he wasn't at the scrimmage: "It was over 100 degrees out there and the beer is cold, here at the bar."
39. Mike Bruce, Washington Irish/Denver Highlanders. Was relocated for a season in Denver. Good prop, small prop, but strong. On New Mexico trip in the winnebago. First to jump on board when I circulated the idea. Spicer and Mike disappeared with the Navajo chicks and went country line dancing in tour hats and rugby jerseys. Drove us back from Aspen (matrix match) only to be pulled over 3 times, tested for DUIs 3 times, and passing 3 times, but still getting 3 speeding tickets. At his bachelor party his hooker took him (and the rest of us) to a club where they had kick boxing, women kick boxing and topless waitress bringing around free beer. What a way to go out in style.
40. Bob "the Whore" Carey, AKA Bob LaHore. Played 20 years before getting his first try...drank like a mad man afterwards. Have played for every club in the Mid Atlantic Rugby Union, except Washington (who blames him). He usually plays lock, but played against me at Prop. Dependable, fun, and a great wingman/point man at the bars. Cheers.
41. Bill Judge. Propped with him back in Suburbs. Good prop, always willing to jump on the grenade to help out a mate. Geting older and losing weight....I guess we all still have hope.
42. J.C. Roche. The Mexican Mad Man. Usually a loose forward, but played against me as well in the front row (same game as Bob the Whore). Good idiot, with clean character....yeah right. Next time you see him, ask him about the Knoxville Girl, especially the one with the dead tooth.
43. Dennis Monahan, Denver Highlanders. Went on the New Mexico Winnebago trip with us. Great guy....called him Bluto during trip. I think he started out as a flanker....as do so many of our Idiot Brothers...until they grow into their size. Congrats.
44. Hein Smit, the Boer Butcher. Crazy South African that has spent a long time in the States. Has played in New York as well as North Carolina. Fun idiot. Gets a bit wild on the moonshine. Pissed on the bar on one such night. Is the mentor to Harry Stokes (2000 Idiot Brother of the Year).
45. Jerry McDonald. Scottish Prop for Washington. Social and skilled. Played for a long time. Always ready to chat and drink a beer with you...even with his arch rival. Doesn't care too much for the rivalries off the pitch. Great stories about bouncing back in Scotland. Glasgow Kiss....ouch
46. "Wild" Bill Joeyjojo Junior Shabadoo (Homer that is th worst name I have ever heard.) A kicking prop. Actually a great guy. Friends with Idiot Brother 18, Jimmy. Both Washington Props...which is a negative to them to begin with, but they are true props and keep the rivalry on the field and the brotherhood with the beer.<
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OUR FALLEN BROTHER, CHRIS FARLEY
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This is the story I was presented by ROM, IB #27. This is in memory of one of our fallen brothers. Let us all take a minute to remember Chris Farley, "down by the river."
"Yes I really played against Chris Farley. I think it was back in 84 or
there abouts. I remember that the A-Side was going to Indy or someplace for a championship tourney so a leftover B-C side was sent to Milwaukee to play Marquette. We were mostly underclassmen so I remember the talking-to we got before heading off on the road trip. "Marquette likes to party...This is good. Marquette also likes to get naked....This is NOT good." You see we were on some sort of superdoublesecret probation for having done a naked elephant walk in Houston the year before I started so nudity was considered a cardinal sin. (In a separate story I can tell you how a teammate of Trauth's danced naked on the bar at a party in my dorm).
Farley, or "Farl's" as his team called him, of course played PROP. Nothing about his performance on the field really stuck out. After the game we got to the bar (I think it was called the Greentree) and Farl's was already leading the reindeer games. He was drinking right out of his pitcher; cups were for sissies. In no time the singing began and Farley's pants were off. It wasn't like he dropped trou for just a verse of a song. He was on a long term mission to air out his balls. There were a few chicks in the bar and Farl's had no problem walking right up to talk to them with his mushroom cap hanging out and trying out his rap, "Is it this way to the Gym?"
You could tell this man was destined for GREATNESS!"
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