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9-11 Tribute
2002
ESPN-ESPY
Arthur Ashe Courage Award
Mark
Bingham
Rugby Player U. of
Cal. 2 time National Champion
Member of the San Francisco
Fog RFC
Jeremy
Glick
U. of Rochester Rugby Football Club
For their Courage on 9-11-2001
With A Cockpit Charge
And Taking Down United Flight 93 In The Farm Fields Of Pennsylvania
Ending The Plans Of Another Jet Aircraft Heading Towards Washington
DC And Into The White House
How Ironic is it, that two rugby players who never knew each
other before hand were the ones to charge up the aisle way
of Flight 93, and accomplish their mission of saving innocent
others by overtaking the controls of the airliner in a fight
to the death, and being unarmed, against 5 other armed terrorists.
Flight recordings do show proof that these ruggers actually
were able to gain full control of the cockpit seconds before
crashing after they took out the terrorists with their bare
hands. Since the rugby population is well below a thousandth
of a percent of the US population, the need to have a rugby
player on board, fit its need on that very flight.
Endless e-mails were sent by several successful businessmen
who are now in their 50's and 60's, who were rugby players
in their younger days, encouraging all rugby players to wear
there rugby jerseys instead of business suits during their
business flights in during the month of September to solute
both Bingham and Glick. 1st class and coach seats the next
week were checkered with jerseys on all business routes.
National TV news did have a female passenger quoted when
she walked off a flight a few days later. When she was asked
if she felt safe flying again after 9-11; she said, "I
was scared at first, but it sure did help when I saw a rugby
player on board, nobody's going to mess with him."
Another award was given
out for the ESPN-ESPY Awards
for the Disabled Athlete of The
Year.
Steve Pate was runner up to Erick Weihenmayer
who won the
award for being the first blind man to climb Mr. Everest.
Steve Pate plays rugby in a wheelchair.
Rugby Players May Fall In Defeat, But Will Never Kneel For
Mercy
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