If you haven’t already done so, I would encourage you to sign the petition to keep the mall open to recreational sports.

https://www.change.org/p/u-s-national-park-services-don-t-ban-sports-recreation-on-the-national-mall

Concern

The National Park Service (NPS) has proposed a ban on all sporting and recreational activity along the National Mall from 3rd to 17th Streets.  The ban includes eliminating currently permitted softball fields around the Washington Monument grounds and the first-come, first-served policy on the plots from 3rd-14th Streets.  The proposed policy is an extreme position and massive change from long standing practice.

Among the NPS-cited concerns, their primary reason offered thus far for the total ban is the perceived impact sports and recreation might have on the recently installed grass turf. 

Context

The total ban is antithetical to the purpose of the Mall.  Through the inception of the National Mall dating back to the L’Enfant plan of 1791 and the redesign by the McMillan Commission of 1901, a main intention of the Mall is to serve area citizens and the city by providing open recreation space. The National Mall represents the vast majority of open grass space in the city and is often cited as a contributing factor to the city’s frequent ranking as a best place to live or fittest communities.

The ban would dampen the vibrancy of the City by directly restricting access of tens of thousands of area residents and touching a much larger number of people through its negative impact on health and wellness and the local economy.  Exacerbated by an existing shortage of available play space throughout the city, the NPS ban would further stress the existing limited resources of the city and restrict groups like Congressional Softball, Senate Softball, House Softball, Flag Football, Soccer, Rugby, Ultimate Frisbee, Bocce, Kickball and others that have become a DC institution and part of the fabric of the city.

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If you haven’t already done so, I would encourage you to sign the petition to keep the mall open to recreational sports.

https://www.change.org/p/u-s-national-park-services-don-t-ban-sports-recreation-on-the-national-mall

It’s gonna be cold but we’ve played in much worse. I look forward to seeing you all out there for our first cold rugby session of the year! 930 am, 17th and Constitution.

Same as always, 17th and Constitution at 0930. See you out there!

At 17th and constitution. This is one of our last few Wednesday evening touch sessions so try to make it there if you can!

We’ve just moved 200 meters south across the walkway due to the soccer players.

Hey everyone just a friendly reminder that rugby will be on tomorrow morning at 9:30 am at 17th and Constitution.  See you out there!

National Park service has turned our field to nothing but dirt.

Moving rugby back to 17th and Constitution. See you there soon!

Tournament: as I mentioned last week, tomorrow we are participating in a touch tournament in VA and thus we will not have any regularly scheduled rugby in DC. I hope you are planning to join us for the tournmanet, it’s going to be a good time! DC Touch Rugby players, please wear your red jerseys from last year and if you don’t have one, any red shirt will do.

Transportation: Please use this thread to coordinate who needs rides and who is driving and might have space!

Again, start time is 1100 and will go until 2:00 pm and then the bbq and pool time begins! If you plan to play and eat please bring your donation money ($15).

Address:

Little River Farm

22006 James Monroe Highway

Aldie, VA 20105

Dear all,

The Roosters are hosting a touch tournament this coming Saturday.

Like last year the games will be played in Aldie, which is a bit of a drive but it is totally worth it! The food and drinks are provided and you can swim in the pool afterwards! There is a suggested donation of $100 per team, so please bring some cash (apprx. $15 per person would do it) to contribute towards this years’ charity cause.

Please respond to this post in a comment indicating if you are 100% in so that we can let them know if we’re going to put our one or two teams like last year. This is important so they can plan the food accordingly.

Round Robin rules, It will be laid back, from 11am to 2-ish then bbq and access to the pool.

Added bonus there might be after 3pm a DC Furies intersquad tackle game.

Address:

Little River Farm

22006 James Monroe Highway

Aldie, VA 20105

Alright folks, we’re back on over at our proper field at 15th and Independence. See you all out there at 9:30.

If we get kicked off for some reason, our back up meeting spot will be 17th and constitution.