Ed. note: Yesterday, while innocently patrolling the internet, we came across a link to Mark Cuban's Google+ gallery of old computer ads. We found this gallery to be very boring, and out of curiosity, we clicked back to Cuban's Google+ profile, where we found multiple public galleries of his rugby years at Indiana University.
These were not as boring. Many of the photos involved Cuban in various states of sobriety and undress, and there was even a series of an "elephant walk" at a rugby party. We emailed Cuban to see if we could post a few and link to the gallery, and he wrote back to say that he'd had no idea the photos had been made public. "I don't want to fuck up an old rugby buddy," he wrote, but: "Can u give me a day?"
A few hours later — Cubes being Cubes — he responded by narrating the entire slideshow for us.
Faces of innocent bystanders in these photos have been creepily blurred to protect the not-so-innocent.
All of these pictures are from old Indiana rugby parties from back in the day, from before and after I played for the team. The guys you see in the pictures — and many that aren't pictured here — are some of the best friends I have had in my life. They always have been and always will be. Playing rugby was a bond for us, and I'm proud that I played.
Did we do stupid shit back then? Absolutely. Even then, we knew it was stupid. We also knew it was harmless. We could beat the shit out of each other on the field and know that we would come together afterwards and drink and be stupid and be friends. Anyone who has played the sport will tell you what a beautiful thing it is.
But hey, this is on Deadspin, which means it must be embarrassing, right?
Wrong.
