Show and Match Review & Gallery: Dropkick Murphys and Shaquille “DJ Diesel’ O’Neal at Major League Rugby National Championship. (Bridgeview, IL – 7/8/23)

Punk and Sports once again intersect here at Dying Scene, as Dropkick Murphys capped off the Major League Rugby National Championship at Bridgeview, Illinois’ Seatgeek Stadium. Known formerly as the home stadium of Major League Soccer club the Chicago Fire FC, it now serves as the home pitch for Chicago Hounds Rugby Club. Dawgtown, as the stadium has since been dubbed, hosted an absolute kicker of a day, with the New England Free Jacks taking the title with their win over the San Diego Legion 25-24. Even Shaquille “DJ Diesel” O’Neal showed up to add a bit of literal fire to the festivities. In my decades-long photojournalism career, I have shot a lot of sports. NBA, NFL, NHL, and MLB, the Indy 500 and Nascar, Division I and below college sp...

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