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Originally Posted by Klondike
Zapras posted a link down in the free sites section that contained some pics I thought noteworthy enough to post here. How many pics like this have you ever seen? Topless cheerleaders?
OK, the location I believe is Southern France, and you are looking at a Rugby match involving a team from New Zealand. So its no chump Rugby league (too international). Anyway, we have the French to thank for this. Perhaps attendance has been down lately at local Rugby matches, and they wanted to "get it up". Indeed, i believe this may be the cure..
Klondike
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I know a bit about rugby and I did a little additional research so let me help explain what's going on:
The reason for the confusion over the nations involved: As someone else stated the game involves two professional teams from France. It's being reported in the New Zealand press because famous NZ rugger Dan Carter (he played #10, the equivalent of say the American quarterback, for the NZ national team for years) plays professionally for Perpignan. New Zealand is the rugby capital of the world but there's a lot of big money playing in Europe, so you can find a lot of Kiwis playing rugby in Europe and around the world for that matter.
The reason for the nudity: In this match, the home team is Stade Francais, who is apparently known for staging some elaborate stunts to liven up the action. In this case they celebrated the match against Perpignan by making it into a Roman coliseum-themed event. You'll notice there are guys in togas. They even had a tiger run out the game ball (I wonder how much the insurance went up for that match?). The topless girls may or may not be part of the regular cheerleading squad, but they're only topless on this particular occasion because their body-paint and semi-naked attire is a sexed-up french-up version of Roman garb. Hopefully we'll see something like this again, but it's not an every week occurence.