{"id":4862,"date":"2005-10-29T00:06:05","date_gmt":"2005-10-29T00:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4862"},"modified":"2025-09-24T00:16:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T00:16:41","slug":"i_played_rugby_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4862","title":{"rendered":"I played rugby with Patrick Fitzgerald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\"><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> Here&#8217;s my March 7th post, after the Libby decision <a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/2007\/03\/the_libby_case_.html\">Tom Faranda&#8217;s Folly: The Libby case and the prosecutor<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\">&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\">Yup. The federal prosecutor who indicted &quot;Scooter&quot; Libby, and whose face was all over the newspapers and TV today, played rugby in the late 80\u2019s with my club, OMEX. He played in the back row at wing forward and #8. He was a solid B team player \u2013 pretty average athlete, with good skills and good understanding of the game. At the time, OMEX was one of the top ten teams in the Northeast, so he played a very good standard of rugby. Blood, mud, and beer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\">&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\">He was an excellent guy and club member. Quite sociable and enjoyed a few beers. He played for at least four years, but as he gained responsibility in his federal attorney job in New York, we saw less and less of him. I probably haven\u2019t spoken to him in fifteen years. I had a conversation this evening with an attorney and judge \u2013 Rich McCord &#8211; who also played at that time (good player; big second row). He\u2019d seen Pat in Chicago over the summer and said his personality hadn\u2019t changed. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\">&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\">I am happy to vouch for Fitzgerald \u2013 a straight shooter and upright guy. Maybe I should get a t-shirt saying &quot;I Played Rugby with Patrick Fitzgerald&quot;.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: Here&#8217;s my March 7th post, after the Libby decision Tom Faranda&#8217;s Folly: The Libby case and the prosecutor &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Yup. The federal prosecutor who indicted &quot;Scooter&quot; Libby, and whose face was all over the newspapers and TV today, played rugby in the late 80\u2019s with my club, OMEX. He played in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9897,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4862\/revisions\/9897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}