This week in sports news at Colorado College, some audience members from the recent men's rugby match were given formal censures based on some words exchanged during the game. In total three audience members were asked to excuse themselves after starting chants that were described as “disturbing, disgusting, yet…intriguing” by bystanders.
It all started about 15 minutes into the second half of what had become a close game with our CC tigers behind the visiting University of Texas Free-Gunmans by three points. The game, though not necessarily super important for either team in terms of rankings, was sponsored by Red Bull (hard to believe we know but roll with it). Red Bull promised to fuel the student body of whichever school won this game with a full year of stocked Red Bull fridges in that school’s cafeteria.
As anyone who has tasted the sweet nectar of the bull can attest, this promise was a big deal. Red Bull's involvement understandably raised the stakes of the game considerably. Suddenly audiences were bearing witness to one of the most violent and intense matches of the year.
Throughout the game some chants, primarily led by visiting students from the UK, were sustained. They were pretty tame throughout the first half. “The usual hoo-rah hoo-ra, your mum’s a cow genre, you know it well” said McBaller ‘19.
Things became much more intense right before the halftime of the game after Colorado College Left Wing suffered in a pretty brutal tackle that visibly broke his leg. (One bystander described it as “the most vial human body incident I have ever seen. Your limb is never supposed to look like that holy fuck.”)
This tackle that was marked by a penalty for the Free-Gunman’s also upset some members of the crowd. Later in the game they took it upon themselves to make their upset known through their chants.
“It was also pretty unexpected because some of them just left the realm of chants? And they were just giving instructions of rather filthy things for how to, well, bed the Free-Gunmans’ mothers.”
“I get that seeing one of your athletes get hurt is always a terrible ordeal, but some of these chants were just way too out of the realm of what was okay, or…comfortable” said referee John Garrido.
We cannot print almost every chant that was said, but the cleanest among them went “Bend **** and **** and ***** and I’ll ******** and you’ll ****** and we’ll ***** until ************** you’re bloody fucking welcome!”
Referee Garrido said, “it was also pretty unexpected because some of them just left the realm of chants? And they were just giving instructions of rather filthy things for how to, well, bed the Free-Gunmans’ mothers. The imagery they evoked was honestly quite powerful.”
Thomas Mcghee ‘26, one of the students ejected from the audience section said, “I’m honestly surprised by the reaction. These would be considered rather tame back home. But of course you blokes in the colonies would cry over it.”
In the end the Tigers emerged from the match victorious with a 98-72 win. Unfortunately, Red Bull retracted their offer to fuel campus citing that they “feared the repercussions of caffeinating some members of the Colorado College community.”
When asked for their response on the matter, Mcghee said, “Pfft as if my mates and I need caffeine anyways.”