Rugby City Podcast

Qualified Chuggers for Quarantined Ruggers started as a facebook group for a dozen Rugby friends sending funny videos of each other chugging beer and making jokes. Two weeks later, it is approaching 50,000 members and it has developed into a Worldwide charitable organization highlighting and raising money for Mental Health causes. Never underestimate the Rugby Community. We are joined with the founder James and two of the groups’ board members, Ali and Drew. Keep on Chuggin’.

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This pod we are joined with Simon, Brady CEO of The Golden Oldies Rugby Festival. We talk about this Rugby Tournament and 7 Day Party that is going down next June 8-15th in Denver, CO. Rugby Players never retire, they just get better at cheating.

We chat with Frank Palumbo who is spearheading USA Rugby’s Beach Rugby initiative that brings a 5 on 5 Sand Rugby Tournament to Six American Cities this Summer: Chicago, Cleveland, Pensacola,FL, The Jersey Shore, Seaside Beach, OR, and Virgina Beach. We talk about this exciting series that is shaping up to be the Rugby Party of the Summer. Surf’s up.

Maggotfest is a Rugby Tournament and 72 hour party held in beautiful Missoula, Montana by the eccentrically named, Maggots RFC. It is not a bracketed tournament, so there is technically not a final winner, but rather the Champion is awarded by being the funnest and coolest group of weirdos.

We chat with a new face in International Sevens Rugby, Marcus Tupuola. After becoming an All-American in both 7’s and 15’s in College, Marcus has embarked on a career with USA Eagles Sevens and Major League Rugby’s San Diego Legion. How is it going? Is it good when the Eagles win the Cup and take the #1 World ranking in your first Tournament? Marcus then went on to find the try zone multiple times the next week in Vancouver. Let’s go.

We chat with two members of the Major League Rugby 1st place Nola Gold Rugby Team, former Aussie 7’s Star Con Foley and Center-Turned-Flanker, Zack Stryffeler. We talk about punishment dice, bad haircuts, and quite possibly the secret to their success: No-Holds-Barred speed rummy (The old lady card game).

In 2018, Phil Bryant won the DIAA National Championship with Bowling Green State University’s Rugby Team, but his story starts much further back than this. When Phil was 13, he had already lost his Mom and was taking care of his paralyzed father. Before he graduated High School, Phil lost his Dad to pneumonia, and became an orphan. The grief he suffered through would break most. However, Phil found a way out and is now giving back and helping others suffering through grief with the organization, Companions on a Journey ( www.http://companionsonajourney.org/ ). This is Phil’s story.

We feature Eric Duechle of the Major League Rugby Inaugural Champion, Seattle Seawolves. We talk about about his Rugby journey, The Seawolves culture, and of course Rucky the…Seawolf? Orca? Mascot.

We are joined with USA Eagles Sevens and Fifteens Star, Naya Tapper. We talk about her Rugby journey and her experiences proving herself against the best in the World.

As year number two of Major League Rugby is set to begin, we chat with Mark Winokur, GM/VP of The Toronto Arrows. The Arrows are one of two expansion teams set to debut in the MLR this year and they are the first Professional Canadian Rugby team. We talk about the Toronto Rugby community, how the Arrows came together, and the building snow walls on the US/Canadian border.