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The New Zealand All Blacks rugby team refused to play in South Africa for 10 years due to their forced exclusion of Maori players. This ended in 1970 when South Africa deemed Maori players "honourary whites" and allowed them to play

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Along with their rugby team "All Blacks", New Zealand has a basketball team nicknamed "Tall Blacks"

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1. The Haka, a traditional war dance of the Maori people of New Zealand has been performed by the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team before international games for 111 years

2. Many of the national sports teams of New Zealand have nicknames that are base off of their Rugby team, the All Blacks. Some of these team names include the DiamondBlacks (baseball), IronBlacks (football), Tall Blacks (basketball) and Black Cocks (Badminton).

3. The first time a national anthem was sung before a sporting event was 1905 by a Welsh rugby crowd attempting to reduce the perceived psychological advantage of the All Black's haka.

4. As well as the popular All Blacks rugby team, other national teams in New Zealand include the All Whites (soccer), Tall Blacks (basketball), Black Sticks (field hockey), and Ice Blacks (ice hockey).

5. Munster Rugby is the first Irish team (including the Irish National Team) to beat the All Blacks (New Zealand) in a competitive match in 1978. 38 years later (2016), the Irish National Team finally got their first win over AB.

6. I’m 2015 49 famous NZ actors, comedians, All Blacks players and musical artists came together to create a charity song that doubles as a support song for the All Blacks (NZ national rugby team) and a way to raise money and awareness for Batten disease. Children helped them write the song.

7. New Zealand's men's rugby team is called the "All Blacks", men's basketball team the "Tall Blacks", softball team the "Black Sox" and briefly in 2004, the badminton team the "Black Cocks"

8. In 1996 Nike had the opportunity to sponsor the New Zealand All Blacks Rugby team, but chose to sponsor Tiger Woods instead

9. The New Zealand Rugby Union team (the All Blacks) are considered the best sports team of all time with an overall winning percentage of 77% in all games since 1903.

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