Haggis and rugby? Scrum-tious

A fat, 55-year-old man, unaccustomed to and unfit for athletic pursuit, I nevertheless stood in the middle of a rugby field, in short pants, waiting for the start of a demanding and dangerous game I had never played before.

I had never even seen it played.

How could this happen?

I was punishing myself.

Three years ago, a chieftain of The Illinois St. Andrew Society, the local association of and for the seriously Scottish, informed my superiors — of which there are many —  that I was a Very Bad Man.

In describing a Robert Burns Supper held in Wilmette, I had apparently dwelled too much on the haggis.

In so doing, I had insulted Burns — the bard of Scotland — and all Scots, presumably. Even though Chicago Scots are not exactly a downtrodden minority, I was chastened by the accusation of ethnic insensitivity.

Since then I had, albeit somewhat casually, sought to make amends.

I found a way last month. The Chicago Highland Games, the annual two-day festival of all things Scottish, would feature a haggis-eating contest, in addition to the bagpipe-playing and tossing around of phone poles and such. So I could pay my debt to local Scottish society by cheerfully nauseating myself.

Hearing my plan, my pal Mike Martinez, managing editor of several minor metropolitan newspapers, told me, “I know a guy who can help you get this haggis thing done.”

But as it turned out, Jack Crombie had not the slightest knowledge of Highland Games haggis. What he did know about was rugby.

In a delightfully rich Scots brogue, he told me how his mates of a tavern team of yesteryear would once again trod the rugby pitch in search of honor. They would play in a 35-and-over Old Boys exhibition during a break in the festival’s official tournament.

“I just want to play enough so that I’m gloriously covered in mud when I go to the beer tent,” he said.

It sounded cooler when he said it than it looks here.

The cool factor may have something to do with why I eventually agreed to not only compete at the haggis table, but also play in the Old Boys game as well. I did so even though, as it turned out, Martinez himself is one of the Old Boys, and now seemed to be filling the role of both instigator and witness.

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