Dacked
In rugby, more than any other sport, we see a player being tackled by an opposing team member grabbing him by the hem of his shorts, pulling them down and giving the audience an interesting view. This seems to happen in Australia more than anywhere else. Aussies call this getting dacked. Today's photos are all of Australian players getting dacked.
We start with a video clip of Penrith Panthers player Josh Mansour getting taken down by his pants, so you can see the purpose of the maneuver – to stop the guy with the ball.
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Above, Cameron Munster of the Melbourne Storm team gets dacked.
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Here's Cameron Munster again. This time he's not playing for his home team but for the Queensland Maroons, in one of a set of rugby matches between Australian states where each state team is composed of players from multiple regular teams.
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Corey Oates of the Brisbane Broncos being tackled by Brenk Lee of the Canterbury Bulldogs, whose face has ended up in an interesting spot.
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This photo of Dave Taylor of the South Sydney Rabbitohs went viral for showing frontal nudity, not normally seen on the field.
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Unfortunately, it was a fake. The original photo is above. It was a clever fake, though.
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Drew Mitchell playing for the Australian Wallabies, a team representing the nation of Australia in international competition, in this case against Italy, in 2010.
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Jake Mullaney of the Parramatta Eels in a game against the Melbourne Storm in 2013.
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James Tedesco of the Sydney Roosters gets up after being tackled and dacked.
And here's James Tedesco again in 2022.
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Joe Galuvao of the Penrith Panthers being taken down by the Canberra Raiders in 2003.
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John Sutton of the South Sydney Rabbitohs is stopped by multiple Brisbane Broncos in 2006.
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Josh Morris of the Sydney Roosters running with his pants down in a game against the Melbourne Storm in 2021. I can only assume that an an opponent grabbed and pulled down his pants but lost his grip, and Morris kept running with the ball.
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Nathan Hindmarsh of the Parramatta Eels. The guy who looks like he's hugging him is an opponent who grabbed him to stop him, and the guy behind him is the one who dacked him and now seems to be taking a closer look.
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Rocky Elsom, playing for the Australian Wallabies, the national team, against the New Zealand All Blacks in 2010.
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Christian Welch of the Melbourne Storm.
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We end with a rare frontal exposure, and I don't think this one is a fake. This is Jack Cogger of the Newcastle Knights.
6 comments:
Big Dude here. Gotta love the Aussies!
It's the teams that play rugby naked that I really like. And the fact that there are no restrictions on who is among the spectators has my total approval. That is definitely an example of unashamed males. It makes being 'dacked' look silly.
The dacking seems intentional rather than tactical, which makes the game so much more interesting to watch. I mean, who doesn't like seeing a good-looking guy getting his shorts pulled down?
How rules-ridden is rugby, and how likely are they to be enforced compared to all the dirty moves in American sports that don't?
Time to invest in a stripper's rip-away shorts so you can keep on running and win the game. Do rugby players get paid well? For a million's-worth of USD I'd be unashamed like that.
@Ike - Out of curiosity, I did a little searching about dacking. I only found one case of a player being penalized for dacking, when a player tackled another player over the boundary line, and after the ball was out of play, he pulled down the other player's pants. Apparently that's not OK, but pulling down the pants during a tackle is OK.
One way to solve the dacking issue is to require rugby players to go "full nude" for their games!
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