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LAS VEGAS \u2014 No one has mastered the art of putting on a big show better than Las Vegas.<\/p>\n
And, for the second consecutive year opening its season in Sin City, the National Rugby League was up to the task, delivering a week-long show of its own, climaxed by Saturday\u2019s entertaining quadruple-header at Allegiant Stadium.<\/p>\n
For the four NRL clubs who came to Vegas for the league\u2019s second year of a five-year commitment \u2014 the Canberra Raiders defeating the New Zealand Warriors, 30-8, and the Penrith Panthers beating the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks, 28-22, in the night\u2019s finale \u2014 Saturday was about getting a result in their respective opening fixtures.<\/p>\n
With regard to the bigger picture, though, the week was about more than the bone-bruising blows and the final scores. It was about the NRL\u2019s effort to globalize the sport, expose it to an American audience, though much of the 45,209 in attendance was made up of Aussies, Kiwis and Brits.<\/p>\n
As good as the \u201cfooty\u2019\u2019 was at Allegiant Field Saturday, the highlight of the week may have been the splashy fan fest the city put on Thursday night at Fremont Street in downtown Vegas, where some 10,000 revelers were treated to an electric red-carpet entrance by the teams, each of which gathered one-by-one on the stage and were feted.<\/p>\n
Last year\u2019s NRL first-time foray was a success in that, like this week, a good show was delivered and the uninitiated who watched got to witness a fast and physical game most of us in the U.S. aren\u2019t familiar with.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s go-\u2019round was bigger and better, partially because it was smartly expanded from two to four games.<\/p>\n
The week began with an embarrassing alcohol-induced scrap between Raiders teammates Hudson Young and Morgan Smithies inside an elevator of the team hotel. Both players were temporarily booted from the hotel. Contrition and apologies followed. But boys being boys.<\/p>\n
Saturday\u2019s game day began with an English Super League match in which the Wigan Warriors routed the Warrington Wolves, 48-24. Bringing the Brits into the fray was a brilliant move, because no fan base sings and parties harder than the Brits. They were heard all week up and down Vegas Strip and in every casino.<\/p>\n
The second match featured the NRL\u2019s Warriors and Raiders and that was followed by the Australian Jillaroos, the best women\u2019s rugby league team in the world, annihilating England\u2019s women\u2019s national team, 90-4, with England scoring its only points on the final play of the match.<\/p>\n
Adding the women\u2019s game to the program was equally as brilliant as bringing the Brits. Because, if it\u2019s even possible, the women\u2019s game features even more violent collisions than the men\u2019s game.<\/p>\n
Early in the second half, Sarah Togatuki of the Jillaroos hit England\u2019s Vicky Whitfield so hard with a head-on collision that Whitfield had to be carted off strapped to a stretcher and sent to the hospital. The hit would\u2019ve made former Raiders head hunter Jack Tatum blush.<\/p>\n
The star of the Raiders win was Xavier Savage \u2014 on and off the pitch. Savage got engaged during the week and capped that off by scoring two tries (the equivalent of touchdowns in the NFL).<\/p>\n
It was a marathon day at Allegiant Stadium that capped an animated week with fascinating storylines on all of the teams. In Penrith, you had the most dominant team in NRL history, their version of the NFL\u2019s Patriots and Chiefs.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t reckon there\u2019s a club in the NRL that hasn\u2019t got their hand up to come here, mate,\u2019\u2019 Raiders coach Ricky Stuart said after his team\u2019s win. \u201cIf you want to miss out on this, you\u2019re missing out on something very special.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
Raiders star prop forward Joseph Tapine described the week as \u201cunreal, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cTo be out there in that atmosphere was unreal to play in America, the biggest sporting nation in the world,\u2019\u2019 Tapine said. \u201cAnd, promoting our game is huge.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
When the storylines were exhausted, the fans\u2019 throats sore from singing and chanting and the long day\u2019s matches into night was over, the same questions persisted as the NRL prepared to return to its everyday life on the other side of the world:<\/p>\n
\u2014 Are these annual visits going to lead to a more global rugby league audience, including piquing the interest of American sports fans who are very set in their sporting ways?<\/p>\n
\u2014 Or will this simply continue to be a cool week of pomp, circumstance and good times for those visitors to trek to Vegas for the show?<\/p>\n
\u201cThe truth is, apart from the people of this area no one really knows this is going on,\u2019\u2019 Sean Rutgerson, the coach of the U.S. national rugby league team, which was visiting Vegas to experience the NRL week, told The Post. \u201cI\u2019m hoping it\u2019s going to build over the next five years and get bigger and better. Maybe more people will find out about it. But it\u2019s a big country and there\u2019s a lot of sports here, obviously.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
If the NRL keeps putting on the show it\u2019s delivered the past two years, its Last Vegas week should live on.<\/p>\n
Viva Last Vegas. Long live NRL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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