“I think we’re going to have sell-out crowds.”
Rodd Newhouse
COO and Co-Managing Partner
Dallas Jackals
.…on the potential success of Major League Rugby in Dallas-Fort Worth, via Dallas Business Journal.
You’d think that Newhouse, who grew up in a football-focused home with the 12-season Dallas Cowboys fullback Robert Newhouse as his dad, would have eyes only for the NFL. But Rodd always had a thing for the sport of rugby, according to the Dallas Business Journal’s David Moreno—preferring the helmet-less brawn of muscular scrums where a “try” is scored when you touch the ball down in the “in-goal” beyond the goal line.
“When I was younger, I didn’t know what it was because you didn’t really see rugby in the States,” Newhouse told the DBJ. “I was the guy flipping through channels at 1 a.m. or 2 a.m. trying to find this sport.”
Well, he’s found it all right. Shown above with Dallas Jackals GM Santiago Sodini and team president Steve Violetta at Arlington’s Choctaw Stadium, Newhouse is part of the team bringing the Major League Rugby squad to a region that’s long felt the gravitational pull of the Dallas Cowboys, as Dallas Innovates told you last August.
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