Brush up on rugby and then see "Invictus"...

Before you buy the movie tickets and order your popcorn, be sure to take about five minutes or so and brush up on the game of rugby.

Then head for the theatre door, grab a seat and watch Morgan Freeman portray South Africa president Nelson Mandela in Clint Eastwood's latest gem, Invictus.

In 1995, Mandela used the sport of rugby to bring a nation together, and now, Freeman, in 2009, uses his talent as an actor to show the world on the silver screen how one man's courage and fortitude brought together a nation of 43 million.

As for a quick-reference guide on rugby, it is football without pads and it is rough. Forty-minute halves and no timeouts. No forward passing...and if you have a kicker who can boot the ball a long way, that will help. Field goals are worth three points, extra points are two, and if you can battle your way across the goal line it is worth five points. There you go.

Of course, there's a few more rules (but not many), but that's enough to make you a little more knowledgeable then the fella next to you who just asked his friend next to him,"What is the score?"