Thanks to Isaac Johnson for the weekend summary. Thanks to Stuart Steele for the photographs of the Metropolis -vs- KC RFC match.

April 8, Kansas City

This past weekend, a bunch of Metropolis guys hopped on to a charter bus and headed south to Kansas City for a weekend of rugby and recruiting. We stopped in Ames, Iowa along the way to pick up the entire Iowa State team (minus those that were at LAU's), and here were our results:

GAME RESULTS
Saturday
41 Metropolis B
12 Iowa State

27 Metropolis A
33 Kansas Jayhawks

Metropolis B/Iowa State loses vs. Kansas University

Sunday
25 Metropolis A
21 Kansas City RFC

First half, Metropolis is down 21-0. 2nd half scoring:

5 5
5 10
5 (2) 17
3 22
3 25

Iowa State loses vs. KCRFC B

OTHER NUMBERS

Metropolis guys on the bus: 26
Iowa State guys on the bus: 16 + 1 girlfriend (Crystal)

Metropolis guys who drove down separately: 2
Metropolis guys who flew down separately: 2 + 1 wife + 1 girlfriend + 1 Major Payne (bussed back)

Each Metropolis player was paired with their position counterpart from Iowa State, and was responsible for that player's meals and fines throughout the weekend.
Fine for doing "a # 1" on the bus - 25 cents
Fine for doing "a # 2" on the bus - $50.00
More than 3 minutes in bathroom = "assumed #2" - $5 (plus $50 if determined that #2 was actually performed)
Sitting in same row with girlfriend - $1
Answering a phone call from Jason Payne - $1
Answering/making a phone call from significant other - $1 (loophole - your Iowa State Counterparts could speak to your significant other for you)
Not making it back to the hotel room after a night out - $10
Fine for not accruing any fines over the weekend - $1

Number of happy Iowa State guys after the weekend: 16 (girlfriend was a maybe)
Number of Milk Monsters on the bus coming home: 2
Number of guys on e-mail list wondering what a Milk Monster is: 163 (come to the next Thirsty Thursday to hear stories)

All in all, a fantastic weekend. The Iowa State boys, as well as all of the Metropolis folks, seemed to have a great time. This type of trip proved to be a great way to recruit more players.

I'd like to publicly thank John Hromadka and Chris Babiash for putting in so much of their time and effort to get this organized.