The Back Story: SB's rugby team is low on numbers. This makes it hard for him to fulfill his dream of being a sub; he envisions not having to spend 80 minutes tackling some beefy islander import who is almost 20 years younger than him. He can handle 40 minutes but 80 is a bit much.. and sometimes he is too bruised to play ice hockey on Monday, and ice hockey is his favorite sport in the world to play. So anyway, his team did not have numbers earlier in the pre-season when all the imports had not yet arrived. They only could commit a 10s team to the Valley 15's. The Rams have provided a full side for this season's matches now that everyone is here, even if they had to drag up a couple of 5th division guys to fill in.
The other night at Carnegies some men walked by us and one of them told SB, "You better front up this season." SB was not sure if they were talking to him since he did not know them. We surmised that they must have been rugby players, maybe from the Football Club since who else would have the chutzpah to come to our sponsor bar and bother us. Another thing is that Americans do not use that colloquialism. We assumed that they were indeed giving us grief about our numbers and fronting up had something to do with showing up with the correct numbers to play. Ummm, yeah, as far as I remember we have always "fronted up" during the season.
Had we realized who these goons were when they spoke to SB we would have told them that SB's New Year's resolution was to quit fronting.
Front (American vernacular; from Urban Dictionary): to put on a fake or false personality; not keeping it real.
Front Up (from Use English): to appear somewhere for a short time
The other night at Carnegies some men walked by us and one of them told SB, "You better front up this season." SB was not sure if they were talking to him since he did not know them. We surmised that they must have been rugby players, maybe from the Football Club since who else would have the chutzpah to come to our sponsor bar and bother us. Another thing is that Americans do not use that colloquialism. We assumed that they were indeed giving us grief about our numbers and fronting up had something to do with showing up with the correct numbers to play. Ummm, yeah, as far as I remember we have always "fronted up" during the season.
Had we realized who these goons were when they spoke to SB we would have told them that SB's New Year's resolution was to quit fronting.
Front (American vernacular; from Urban Dictionary): to put on a fake or false personality; not keeping it real.
Front Up (from Use English): to appear somewhere for a short time
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