Cadillac Ranch Celebrates RWC 2011!!

Published: Thursday, 8. September, 2011 in category Nigel Melville

by Nigel Melville
Nigel Melville Direct

Cadillac Ranch is a public art installation and sculpture in Amarillo, Texas, U.S. Bruce Springstein sang about it. It was created in 1974 by Chip Lord, Hudson Marquez and Doug Michels, who were a part of the art group Ant Farm, and it consists of what were (when originally installed during 1974) either older running used or junk Cadillac automobiles, representing a number of evolutions of the car line (most notably the birth and death of the defining feature of early Cadillacs; the tail fin) from 1949 to 1963, half-buried nose-first in the ground, at an angle corresponding to that of the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt.

Why am I telling you this on the opening day of the Rugby World Cup 2011....look at the latest addition to the Cadillac Ranch...
 

With an impressive resume as player, coach and administrator, Nigel David Melville took over as CEO and President of Rugby Operations of USA Rugby, the National Governing Body of the sport in America, in 2006.  In addition to his full time job promoting the sport in the U.S., Melville has launched his own blog, Nigel Melville Direct, to further the discussion and his passion for what it will take to make the U.S. a great rugby playing nation.

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