London, England, October 23, 2009 – England’s rugby team is dominating Sim Rugby so much, it is amazing.
 
We are talking about the latest craze that’s more popular than football, cricket or any other game that England invented but are no longer good at.
 
What is SIM rugby? It is rugby with a SIM card instead of the regular pigskin ball. Players don’t need to be over six feet tall and weigh about 200 pounds. They don’t need size 11 boots either. They do need to have good eye-sight. They also need to have nimble fingers to be able to pick up the SIM when a teammate drops it. Those who have passed out from the Artful Dodger’s School for Pickpockets would make excellent players.
 
The game’s inventor, Robert “Bob” Babbington, honorary World President and Global Guardian-in-Chief of the United World-Wide Intra-Continental SIM Rugby Federation (or WPGGCUWWICSRF for short) was all excited about his baby: “When I get up in the morning, I think SIM, I breathe SIM. I go and have a shower, what comes out of the shower head? Water. But I imagine that water is shaped like SIM cards but it is not. The shape is like raindrops, shower-drops, but in my mind it is shaped like little mini SIM cards that cleanse my body. SIM cards are it.”
 
The moment of truth: One day in 2008, as Bob was munching on some toast he noticed the piece of toast in his hand had a SIM card-like shape. Looking at his SIM card, he marvelled at its smooth lines and light weight. While warming up for a game of ball rugby that evening, Bob and a couple of players idly tossed his SIM card around. To their surprise, it seemed to fly through the air like some mini Frisbee-cum-flying saucer-cum-kingfisher. For a minute the three teammates were stunned by it all, but when they came around, they knew that this was their Eureka moment.
 
SIM rugby is all about passing it on and Bob shares some passes on the website. One pass, called The Billy Pass says it all: You imagine a cat, a cat with special powers, leaping from building to building like it is after a flying mouse. You bend the SIM card, which is slightly flexible, and flick it like a cat leaping through the air.
 
Bob believes the day will come when “SIM passing” will be taught in undergraduate courses as part of the Philosophy Studies.
 
Right now England are the undisputed world champions of SIM rugby. Other countries are catching up though and as England has shown in the past, they invent a game and others take it over.
 
Mobile phone companies, seeing the contagious popularity of SIM rugby, were prepared to splurge big bucks to sponsor the game. O2 won the right to be the official sponsors of the England SIM rugby team.
 
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For more information:
Contact: Robert “Bob” Babbington, WPGGCUWWICSRF.
Website: England Rugby Team