byrne_rovelli_fan82, for the Bunnies coming in at extra time
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The Naked Game!
Nudie Run = the act of one stripping themselves of clothes and sprinting across the ground exposing their flesh for all eyes to see, whether they want to or not. If you’ve never had the chance to see adult nakedness up close, you can count yourself lucky; it is a sight for sore eyes. The best definition I have to reference is the image of the Islander man shredding his last piece of clothing as he clambered onto the ground, escaped the security guards and showed off his assets to the players. That is one true definition of a nudie!
The NRL and one man brought nakedness to a whole new level…
I work hard, I play hard and I play the toughest sport in the world and I’m tough.
Oh shit.
Argh! I didn’t do it! I didn’t touch it!
Nathan Hindmarsh, the now retired Parramatta Eels player has contributed a lot to the game of rugby league. He’s a hard-nosed player, with an oversized ticker, who gave his all every time he stepped out on the field, whether for the Eels, the Blues or Australia. However, besides his work ethic and great play, there is one thing he is most famous for and one thing only.
His butt crack!
In any game at any time there would be hands-on odds for his shorts to be pulled down and his white fleshy cheeks to make their calling card appearance. Jokes aside, ‘The Hindy’ has found its way into League vernacular, representative of this special brand of exhibitionism.
It is a scene not many people would feel comfortable with and for some men it’s rather embarrassing; not so for Mr. Hindmarsh. No, he showed no concern when the shorts slid off his rear end. He simply got on with it and played the ball.
So famous has Hindmarsh’s bum become there are calls to make the statue replica of him to show exactly what he’s become famous for; showing a little crack!
Bum flesh and rugby league go hand-in-hand, as tackling a player requires grabbing onto some body part or other and the jersey and shorts are easy targets. Just grab and pull, as poor old Sharks fullback Nathan Gardner found out a few years ago.
He ran from dummy half while being chased by Jamal Idris. Jamal nabbed him by the short tails and swung him around like a little bag. The shorts came down below his butt cheeks and his bum said HELLO!
Still the nakedness doesn’t stop there. Yesterday it was reported Sharks forward Paul Gallen has agreed with his former coach, Ricky Stuart that if the Eels beat the Sharks this weekend he would walk down the street naked! Let’s hope, for the sanity of all, this doesn’t come to fruition! Regardless of the result, no doubt there will be plenty of Leaguies riding the result of this game, in particular the residents of the Kingsway in Cronulla.
If that’s not enough, don’t forget all clubs and players have a traditional and sacred deal. If a player in the squad has failed to score a try through the course of the entire season they must, absolutely must obey the rule of the nudie run: streak across the ground (thankfully behind closed doors) to the amusement and view of their teammates.
There is one more exposure that cannot be missed, face into bum, as Titans outside back Dominique Peyroux found out when he tackled Storm’s Dane Nielsen dragging him down and Peyroux found his face right in the crack of it.
Sadly not all players are embracing the showcase of a nice bottom, with players now opting to wear tight skins underwear beneath these shorts, so in the case of shorts failure they can still maintain some form of modesty. Billy Slater was one who could have given fans in the front row of AAMI Park a clear view of his nice rear if not for the blockage of red undies! Thankfully fellow teammate, Gareth Widdop, succumbed to the fanfare when his bum popped out in a tackle.
The addition of these skin-tight figure-hugging under garments has not proven a successful initiative against flesh flashing, as the rate of falling shorts have increased instead.
Nonetheless hope is not lost. Rhys Wesser holds the Hindmarsh tradition intact opting not to wear any additional under garments beneath his shorts, giving us the lovely pleasure of seeing his cheeky rear end drop a visit!
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. The second change has been that a decoy runner cannot initiate contact with a defending player, even if that player would have been in no position to effect a tackle on the receiver. Both changes can be viewed as an enforcement of the idea common to all brands of football (except Australian Rules) that an attacking player cannot be “offside”. In a Rugby League context, to be offside in an attacking sense is to be in front of the player currently in possession of the football.
