INVICTUS!

Rugby, rugby is not a word your everyday “American” knows everything about. Some think it’s a sport with sticks and crickets, and others think it’s a type of ancient Indian rug or something. But what rugby is, in case you don’t already know, is a sport originating in Greece way back in the 1100s that was designed for wealthy men to show off their strength as they brutally battled one another in viscous games of up to 100 against 100 involving many injuries even deaths. Today rugby is played by teams of most often, 7 or 15. Rugby resembles soccer and American football combined very closely and uses a football shaped ball but only with round ends and slightly larger. The sport of rugby is very well known and similar to our sport of baseball when compared to the U.K. and New Zeeland especially when the quantity and insanity of fans is taken into consideration.
Rugby has recently been starting to make its rise here in America with club teams supplying all the essentials for players of all ages to come and enjoy full seasons of rugby with other kids and players from all over the world. There are even select high school teams in the U.S. that get to travel and play all over the country and Candida. I have personally had the opportunity to do these things and its outrageously fun, and I think that if more children, kids, teens, and adults knew about this great sport that it could develop much larger and become a sport that everyone knows of and all the kids want to grow up loving and playing. Well rugby is already on its way there. This last year Rugby 7s has finally managed to force into the U.S. Olympics and is going to be seen played nationwide in 2016 when the U.S. Olympics are held.
I believe that the media has purposely made the soon to be block buster film Invictus, to inform the United States citizens of the existence of this miraculous sport in a very intelligent way. You may have heard of this new film staring, Morgan freeman and Matt Damon or seen it on one of the recently placed billboards around town. What Invictus is, is a movie displaying excellent showmanship on how the south African president, played by Morgan Freeman brought the world cup of rugby to his county to get his people to stop fighting for a limited amount of time due to them viewing the games played in their own country throughout the duration of the world cup. The film includes over 35 minutes of playing time which will inform the audience of several rules and it also will include large amounts of visuals being a movie. And most Americans don’t even have half a clue of what the uniforms even consist of, nor should I say the lack of what it consist of. (haha) This is an excellent example of how the media can use certain elements of media such as (movies) to inform any specific group of people, race, gender or sexual preferences any kind of information that they specifically want them to know.

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