BUFFALO, NY •The Gotham Knights, the gay rugby football club from the New York City area, came to Buffalo on Saturday April 9, 2008 to play the South Buffalo Thugs in the North Eastern Division III Rugby Playoff.
The two Clubs met at the Father Crowley Park in the area of Buffalo known as the "old First Ward"
The Knights brought a squad of about thirty players and played the South Buffalo Squad on a cold April afternoon that saw temperatures barely reach 45 degrees.
The Gotham squad played a hard game but loss to their opponents 37-7.
The Knights played the Washington, D.C. Renegades in April 2002 to play in their first ever match and later that spring played in the inaugural Mark Bingham Cup. Since then Gotham teams have played in the finals of the plate division at Bingham Cup II and London and in 2006 hosted Bingham Cup III, where their two sides finished fourth in the cup and plate divisions. They followed that up with their first ever multi-win season in the New York Met Union and their first ever overall winning season in the spring of 2007. Now into their seventh year of playing rugby, the team takes part in their first Division III playoff.
For more information about The Gotham City Knights Gotham Knights RFC
http://gothamrfc.org/ •Tim Moran
