Yes because, that's my favorite league to play in and bang-up little kids while I watch the 8 year old cheerleaders dance their buns off.
WTF nfl week 1 is finally here!!
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Yes because, that's my favorite league to play in and bang-up little kids while I watch the 8 year old cheerleaders dance their buns off.
eileenbunny
Druish Princess
I'd love to play football but for some reason they don't let 5'4" tall 98lb white girls play so much. No idea why. Even now that I've put on some pounds they still say no. Ridiculous.
eileenbunny
Druish Princess
eileenbunny
Druish Princess
It's not your thing. it's ok. I'm sure there's a rugby match on somewhere. Try espn6 or something.
You are not correct in that statement. There are a ton of people in the US who love Rugby.
Oh i know. The sport is growing quite rapidly here. I just didn't want to get into it with april because she would undoubtedly use some weird logic, like which tv station the sport is televised on, to argue the sport is unpopular.
Which is crazy because one of the largest US Rubgy areas is Tampa. They do most of the national matches here in Denver. There are slot of local teams here ad well. Oddly enough the place in the US for the best Rugby is Utah.
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World champ axeman backs gay marriage
[url]http://www.theage.com.au/national/world-champ-axeman-backs-gay-marriage-20110909-1k11r.html
[/URL]World champion axeman David Foster may not be a likely poster boy for gay rights.
However, these days the prominent North-West Tasmanian is just as happy to be championing same-sex marriage as he is woodchopping.
The reason? His daughter Sally, her partner Lily and their daughter Wren, who soon turns one.
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The Examiner reports that Foster will speak on Tuesday in support of same-sex marriage at a forum in Hobart - something he admits would not have happened before Sally sat down with him and his wife Jan four years ago.
"I think she (Sally) didn't want to (come out) earlier, because I was a bit anti-that and maybe she didn't want to upset me," he said.
"She sat my wife and I down and said `I want to tell you something' and that's how we spoke as a family."
The 54-year-old Latrobe resident said his close relationship with Sally had not changed as a result of that conversation, but his views had.
"Everyone has an opinion, but once it's close to home you realise what's important. My daughter is the same daughter I reared and just because her sexual preferences are different from mine doesn't mean a thing," he said.
"She is a nurse, she has a beautiful partner and a child and if they wish to get married, I can't see why they can't."
Foster said his wife's recent health scare had the family reassessing what was important - and counting its blessings.
While some of his mates "that you could call bushies" accepted Sally's news with little fuss, Foster said he had copped flak from others.
He also knew of a woodchopper who, upon learning his daughter was a lesbian, cut off all communication with her and her child.
The Greens already support same-sex marriage and, last month, the Tasmanian ALP voted in favour of law reform.
Tasmanian Labor Senator Carol Brown will be among those backing the same change at the party's national conference.
Her online survey on the issue closes today.
"I believe that there is majority support within our community for same-sex couples to have the right to marry," Senator Brown said.
"A change in the ALP national platform will ensure that we can return to the Parliament in 2012 and fight to fulfil our equality agenda with a change to the Marriage Act."
Tasmanian Gay and Lesbian Rights Group spokesman Rodney Croome said Mr Foster's story illustrated how Tasmanian attitudes have evolved.
"I'm confident that with supporters like David Foster this reform is inevitable," he said.
Foster hoped that by speaking up he would encourage other parents to be out and proud about their children -no matter what their sexual preference.
"I have a high profile, but that doesn't mean I'll sit on the fence and be quiet just because I might offend somebody," he said.
"Sally is my daughter, and I love her and I'm proud of her. Sometimes you've got to stand up and be heard."http://www.theage.com.au/national/world-champ-axeman-backs-gay-marriage-20110909-1k11r.html
World champ axeman backs gay marriage
[url]http://www.theage.com.au/national/world-champ-axeman-backs-gay-marriage-20110909-1k11r.html
[/URL]World champion axeman David Foster may not be a likely poster boy for gay rights.
However, these days the prominent North-West Tasmanian is just as happy to be championing same-sex marriage as he is woodchopping.
The reason? His daughter Sally, her partner Lily and their daughter Wren, who soon turns one.
Advertisement: Story continues below
The Examiner reports that Foster will speak on Tuesday in support of same-sex marriage at a forum in Hobart - something he admits would not have happened before Sally sat down with him and his wife Jan four years ago.
"I think she (Sally) didn't want to (come out) earlier, because I was a bit anti-that and maybe she didn't want to upset me," he said.
"She sat my wife and I down and said `I want to tell you something' and that's how we spoke as a family."
The 54-year-old Latrobe resident said his close relationship with Sally had not changed as a result of that conversation, but his views had.
"Everyone has an opinion, but once it's close to home you realise what's important. My daughter is the same daughter I reared and just because her sexual preferences are different from mine doesn't mean a thing," he said.
"She is a nurse, she has a beautiful partner and a child and if they wish to get married, I can't see why they can't."
Foster said his wife's recent health scare had the family reassessing what was important - and counting its blessings.
While some of his mates "that you could call bushies" accepted Sally's news with little fuss, Foster said he had copped flak from others.
He also knew of a woodchopper who, upon learning his daughter was a lesbian, cut off all communication with her and her child.
The Greens already support same-sex marriage and, last month, the Tasmanian ALP voted in favour of law reform.
Tasmanian Labor Senator Carol Brown will be among those backing the same change at the party's national conference.
Her online survey on the issue closes today.
"I believe that there is majority support within our community for same-sex couples to have the right to marry," Senator Brown said.
"A change in the ALP national platform will ensure that we can return to the Parliament in 2012 and fight to fulfil our equality agenda with a change to the Marriage Act."
Tasmanian Gay and Lesbian Rights Group spokesman Rodney Croome said Mr Foster's story illustrated how Tasmanian attitudes have evolved.
"I'm confident that with supporters like David Foster this reform is inevitable," he said.
Foster hoped that by speaking up he would encourage other parents to be out and proud about their children -no matter what their sexual preference.
"I have a high profile, but that doesn't mean I'll sit on the fence and be quiet just because I might offend somebody," he said.
"Sally is my daughter, and I love her and I'm proud of her. Sometimes you've got to stand up and be heard."http://www.theage.com.au/national/world-champ-axeman-backs-gay-marriage-20110909-1k11r.html
Yeah but you're also from one of three countries where the Union guys can end up brig treated like national treasures.
I'd say any good Union guy who delivers big in the World Cup or Tri Nations is set.