Player Banned After Testicle Biting Wed May 1, 8:56 AM ET MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Former Sydney Swans Australian Rules player Peter Filandia was suspended for 10 matches on Wednesday after pleading guilty to biting an opponent's testicles during a game last week. Filandia, 31, was playing for Port Melbourne against Springvale in the Australian Football League's feeder competition, the Victorian Football League (VFL). St. Kilda AFL player Chad Davis, playing for Springvale, suffered a perforated scrotum and lost a small amount of blood, a club doctor told the VFL tribunal in Melbourne. He also needed a tetanus injection. Filandia told the tribunal he could not breathe when he became entangled with Davis and bit him as a reflex action. However, Filandia did not know which part of his opponent's body he had bitten, he said. "It was a split-second decision," Filandia told reporters after the hearing. Tribunal chairman Eddie Power ordered Filandia to undergo player counseling before resuming playing. In a similar case last year, former rugby league international John Hopoate was banned by the Australian National Rugby League for 12 weeks after poking a finger up the backside of an opponent. Hopoate was sacked by his club Wests-Tigers but joined rival club Northern Eagles in June 2001.
This is probably on the list of the two worst words to use together. Perforated is pretty bad. Obliterated probably would have been worse. Ouch!
That's league, mate, not union. The working man's game. A year or two back there was a big hoopla about a guy sticking his fingers into his teammates' anuses in the scrum. Let me see if I can find that story too...
OUCH!!! Gotta wonder about these rugby players and the body parts they go for... why don't they just come out and admit it if they like it so much... and give everyone fair warning about those who are into biting so they can join the separate S&M rugby league...
Found a link to the story I was talking about, with an added bonus! http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/04/07/regrets/ Deeply regrettable: (PlanetOut/Gay.com Network) -- An Australian pro rugby player who resigned this weekend after being caught sticking his finger in opposing players' anuses during a match is now considering taking legal action against the New Zealand Cancer Society (NZCS) for using his picture in an advertisement for prostate cancer checks. ... "I sincerely regret that anything I may have done has caused stress, anxiety and disappointment to everyone involved with the West Tigers," AFP quoted Hopoate as saying in a statement he released through his manager. NZCS took out an advertisement in New Zealand's The Dominion newspaper with a color close-up of Hopoate apparently sticking his finger in North Queensland captain Paul Bowman's anus. According to the Australian Associated Press (AAP), the accompanying text reads, "A bloke's chances of developing prostate cancer increases as he gets older. If you have symptoms that you're concerned about, consult your local doctor. It won't hurt a bit -- promise." Bwahahahaha!!!
