The other thing Nolan has done is let players play. "He's done a very good job of identifying what are players are capable of doing and putting them in position to do what they do best," Smith said. "He's been a new set of eyes for us.While I was only 30 years old and the odds were tremendously stacked against us, I decided to do what I could to bring a big league club back to my hometown. My dream was to make Milwaukee and Wisconsin feel Major League once again. Trying and failing was one thing; quitting, however, was unacceptable.

Anybody who says that no rugby players could transition to the NFL simply don know the facts. It might be difficult for a pro rugby player who has played rugby his entire life to suddenly switch to the NFL in his midlate twenties but there are plenty of people who grew up playing rugby and eventually made it to the NFL. This includes Haloti Ngata of the Baltimore Ravens who led his team to the National Rugby Championship match in