why are almost all brit males called "rump rangers"?
why are almost all brit males called "rump rangers"?
800 dude wrote:
Cross country evolved from "hares and hounds," a footrace in which which the "hares" would depart with a head start and leave a torn up paper trail (the scent) for the "hounds" to follow over hill and dale. Dogs that chase hares can be called "harriers," so that's where the cross country nickname comes from.
Thank you for imparting some actual information to this moranic conversation.
kkkkk wrote:
Because there is no need for it! Call runners runners. No need to try and be creative when it's not needed. My other pet peeve as a runner and coach is when the SID calls your meets a game or a match.
But back in England, I remember when the Chiltern X-Country League had a year end event called a "Mob Match"
british teeth wrote:
why are almost all brit males called "rump rangers"?
that's true. Why is that?
Explains why they prefer "harriers" though.
I don't hate it. I never met a coach or runner who hated it.
Bad Wigins wrote:
because it's yet another obscure English tradition that needs to be replaced with something modern.
"Turf guerrillas" would be a better term. Okay, how about "speed ranger." "Wind warrior."
Turf guerillas is tip top. chapeau.
Any name or word that conjures up memories of a youthful scalp is off putting to aging male coaches.
It just sounds too old-timey
Yeah, old fashioned or British.....just not known by Americans.
I mean these Brits refer to soccer as football.
Nu Skool wrote:
It just sounds too old-timey
exactly. and i've never even heard a person say it out loud. Have only come across it in reading. SOmething that would only be written by a boomer, no doubt.
Harriers are no joke wrote:
My college coach's entire family was murdered by a pack of harriers when he was a child, that's why he hates the name, I suspect other coach's have similar stories.
The first response of a thread is at ways the best.
If you call runners harriers you are a complete p******. Our sport is already suspect enough, don't add to it.
Whilst you refer to hand-egg as football.