Happy Mother’s Day one and all! Hopefully you have half as much fun with your eating today as my Metropolis Rugby Football Club mates did yesterday, care of a porcine Minnesota product who gave himself up for the greater benefit of the team….

For today’s Metropolis Rugby Football Club’ Blue-Grey game, we did not have enough old boys to do an old boys came, per se, so me and “Super Joe” got drafted in with the players who chose to do the hour drive west of Minneapolis to near Cokato, Minnesota.You may, or may not be, familiar with the Kevin Costner movie “Field of Dreams”, where a farmer hearing voices defies logic and plows under some prime Iowa farmland to make a gem of a baseball field. One of the phrases that Costner’s befuddled farmer hears is “If you build it, he will come.” 

There is an old boy with Metropolis named Mike Clements who has a hobby farm with a Clydesdale and a couple of Belgian horses . He also has built on his hobby farm an international sized rugby pitch with regulation posts.