Hurling

[mr x]

I watched a game of hurling last evening. It was pretty crazy.

[PEIBeerGuy]

Pretty crazy.
Shirling is where it's at, though. Even tougher.
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[akr71]

Never hear of it before a couple years ago. I was at Maxwell's Plum and they had it on the TV - Fucking Amazing game, but couldn't figure out the scoring for the life of me, but the bloodshed more than made up for it.

[mr x]

From an article in The Guardian on Croke Park:

But hurling has not always been appreciated. Arthur Young, the English economist, who witnessed a game in the 1770s, called it "the cricket of savages". A 1936 MGM documentary movie called Hurling was advertised with the slogan "Shillelaghs in Swing Time as 30 wild Irishmen demonstrate their game of athletic assault and battery". In John Ford's 1957 movie The Rising of the Moon, an English tourist, seeing injured players carried by on stretchers, asks nervously: "Charles, is it another of their rebellions?"

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