Rugby player bites testicles

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<span style='font-size:22pt;line-height:100%'>Player Banned After Testicle Biting</span>

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.

[Tex -USMC- 0]

only 10 matches? lol, that is just insane

[Major Fubar 0]

Saw this on the news last night, and got a laugh out of it.

P.S. It's Autralian Rules Football (aka Aussie Rules, Australian Football League or AFL)....Rugby is a completely different game (which we also play in Australia).

Actually, it happened in the VFL (the state version of the national game).

For the record, I think he should have goten a permanent ban, not 10 stinking weeks suspension.

[Akira 0]

You gotta be REALLY in to the game to bite someones nuts.....

[Mister Frag 0]

>> Hopoate was sacked by his club Wests-Tigers but joined rival club Northern Eagles in June 2001.

Does anyone else think this choice of words is a bit funny???

[KingBeast 0]

Are you referring to "sacked"

[Aculaud 0]

All i have to say on this matter is That had to have hurt like a SONofabitch!

[ralphwiggum 6]

ouch!

don't they use cups?

[loopy 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Major Fubar @ May 03 2002,07:42)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">For the record, I think he should have goten a permanent ban, not 10 stinking weeks suspension.<span id='postcolor'>

Major I agree with you what sort of message is this sending out to up and coming Footy players(afl).put another way a NRL (qld cowboys)player got a 10 weeks for a late high tackle although it was very late!!!.

[KingBeast 0]

Real men dont use cups Ralph! raaaar!

*beats chest*

[red oct 2]

well looks like we can let Mike Tyson off the hook for bitting.

and king beast you shouldnt beat your chest soo violently,

if you strike your chest in the right millosecond, you could put your heart into fribulation and die.

[168GRN HPBT 0]

It was expected, AFL is a girls game

[Major Fubar 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (RalphWiggum @ May 03 2002,01:34)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">ouch!

don't they use cups? <span id='postcolor'>

Nope, not in Aussie Rules. No helmets, shoulder pads, cups or anything else. It's a pretty rough game (but not as rough as Rugby, which I hate BTW).

[Hilandor 1]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (RalphWiggum @ May 02 2002,02:34)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">ouch!

don't they use cups? <span id='postcolor'>

im sure what the man drinks out of hasnt got any relevance to his testicle fiasco

[Antichrist 0]

How come those things always tend to happen in Australia?

[second_draw 0]

The person who introduced gay behaviour to australian sport should be shot. I bet it was that bloody Hopoate pr!ck. At least i'm safe as it is very hard for ppl to bite your balls in soccer which is what i normally play. I was completely oblivious to any forms of protection gear (except for cricket which you defintely need when it comes to a head hunter from brett lee) in sport.

b.t.w. A head hunter is a the a solid cricket ball coming directly towards you head at 140-150km/hr which is extremely dangerous.

[Antichrist 0]

I thought Head Hunters were illegal

[Darkhawk 0]

I am so glad that was not me

and I feel sorry for that guy

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</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (KingBeast @ May 03 2002,01:40)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Real men dont use cups Ralph! raaaar!

*beats chest*<span id='postcolor'>

I don't think there's much "real man" left after you get bit like that, if ya know what i mean...

*beats chest*

[KingBeast 0]

lol

I guess in this particular case, size matters. Because if the guy happeend to be a little bit smaller, the teeth might have missed the mark

[loopy 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Major Fubar @ May 03 2002,16:14)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">but not as rough as Rugby, which I hate BTW<span id='postcolor'>

oh well major each to there own I love rugby have played both codes (rugby & league) prefer league.

[Tovarish 0]

lol Reminds me of the soccer player who "gently" bit the tip of his teamate's penis in celebration after his teammate scored a goal. I gotta say, this sort of thing seems to be happening pretty often in predominantly European sports. When was the last time anything like that happened in Hockey or Baseball?

[second_draw 0]

No to gays in sport!

[168GRN HPBT 0]

Yes hockey (ice) and Rugby may be the last 2 non-gay sports left in the world

[IceFire 0]

I feel bad for that guy. I mean realizing that somones testicles were just in your mouth!

Yuck!