ONLY A GAME is a rugby love letter to the world. It is a bittersweet tale of loss and the quest for success. Follow Tom, Michael T and the Gents on their hunt for the local rugby championship. This story is a rugby hybrid of BRIAN'S SONG and NORTH DALLAS FORTY. It is the archetypical novel of the rugby experience. There are other rugby novels, but rugby is only a backdrop to those stories. This book is about rugby. Its subject is the ruggers, the game, the lifestyle and the experience. It is more impressionistic than documentary and intended to relate the day in, day out, lives of those dedicated to the game. Get inside the essence of the game. Read ONLY A GAME. *** Includes a glossary for anyone not familiar with rugby terminology.