In the cold light of day, thanks to the cold light of last Saturday night, New Zealand has gone through yet another transitional phase since a young Flaxmere lady strutted her stuff, minus her clothes, across McLean Park in the latter stages of the rugby test.
As streaks go, Rose Kupa's frolic had just about everything, although a lot more of it was tied-up in the debate that followed rather than the moment itself. But, ultimately it came down to two points; a matter of decency, or a matter of security.
The matter of decency raised many issues, making us wonder what the response may have been had it actually been part of the official entertainment.
Like the undies dash involving a bunch of likely lads at halftime in the ITM Cup match between Hawke's Bay and Taranaki at McLean Park on August 22. Indeed, the prancing of the cheerleaders who, while wearing more than twice as much as those dudes, still weren't - nor ever are - exactly lost in their raiment. Indeed, All Blacks prancing in their Jockeys for the sponsors.
It was, thus, a little trite for last Saturday's effort to be condemned for its nudity, as it was in some quarters. Or the fact that the police let Ms Kupa off with something less than a smack on the bottom. Or even its sense of naughty rebellion - the game of rugby, indeed, might never have been had it not been for the antics of a schoolboy in England in 1923.
