Typing error means All Blacks will perform pre-game haiku

[T_i_B]

http://eveningharold.com/2015/09/30/typing-error-means-all-blacks-will-perform-pre-game-haiku/

An error in the promotional materials means the All Blacks will have to perform a haiku before each of their remaining matches in the Rugby World Cup.

Cup organisers apologised for the mix-up, but said consumer protection rules meant their hands were tied – if the advertisements promised an All Blacks pre-game haiku, a pre-game haiku needed to be delivered.

New Zealand coach Steve Hansen said he and his players were initially worried about the prospect of coming up with 17 syllables of poetry, but were relieved when they we found out a syllable was not necessarily even a whole word.

England coach Stuart Lancaster said his team were perfectly relaxed when the All Blacks perform their blood curling, throat slitting haka, but the thought of facing Richie McCaw, Ma’a Nonu, and co reciting Japanese poetry was absolutely terrifying.

[malthaussen]

1. Okay...

The game will not start
Until each black makes haiku.
Sorry about that.

(And I'm not even black)

-- Mal

[KamaAina]

6. The All Blacks are New Zealand's national rugby team

their uniforms are all black. The players, not so much.

[malthaussen]

8. I admit no responsibility for cultural misunderstanding

American poet
Knows nothing of rugby
Craves your indulgence

-- Mal

[KamaAina]

9. This American

Lived in Hawai'i where he
heard All Blacks bar talk.

[BlueJazz]

2. I was reading some of the articles in the "Evening Harold" They're a riot!

[magical thyme]

3. damn auto-editor!

“Poems black as night. Give us the heebee jeebies. Relieved soon knocked out” said Lancaster.

[geardaddy]

4. Brilliant!

[KamaAina]

5. We give you these words

before we go play rugby:
What the flying fuck?!

[kentauros]

7. And their haku has changed yet again with this article:

"blood curling, throat slitting haka"

So, now they have to combine haiku and Olympic ice-curling with their opening?