College Rugby Team Suspended After Recording of Team Singing Song With Offensive and Crude Lyrics Surfaces

Rugby players are nuts. Only a crazy person would put their body through the torture of a rugby game or do the things rugby players have been known to do at their post-game socials. As intense as the games are the parties are often just as intense or more so. Parties have been known to include the teams singing songs that you don't want your kids to hear.

Apparently at the University of Mary Washington they don't want anyone to hear them.

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The university has suspended the rugby team after a video surfaced of the team engaged in singing a song with "violent and sexually explicit lyrics."

As a rugby player I am pretty certain that the song in question was probably the S&M Man. Most of the songs are sexually explicit to some degree, but the only one I would call violent would be the S&M Man. If you were not aware that it was just a harmless song and that the guys meant nothing by it I can see where that one could be upsetting (want to see some lyrics?).

The university had this to say about the videos of the song that appeared on social media:

"No student on our campus should feel unsafe, ostracized, or threatened," Hurley wrote. "We pride ourselves on being a diverse, accepting, caring community, and we must live up to that ideal."

The administration's perception of the rugby team could not be more wrong. Typically a rugby team is all about those very same ideals. All that is cared about is whether a player is going to work hard and play hard making the university's concerns a non-issue.

I say typically--there is always an exception to the rule.

It's a good thing they don't post clips of the team singing Jesus Can't Play Rugby, Yogi Bear, I Used to Work in Chicago. or The Rugby Song. Maybe it would have been better if they had. That way the university would just think they were atheistic, perverted, drunks or--you know--college kids.

According to an ESPN post messages for a local women's right's group were left but not returned. That could very well be because the group knows the boys are harmless or that the songs that the women's team sings are much, much worse.

[ESPN]

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