Condon, who watched with her brother and wore a New Zealand flag around her back, is a lifelong All Blacks fan but hasn’t been home since just before the pandemic. She hadn’t seen a pro rugby match in two years and hadn’t seen her home country’s team in longer than that. She was, like most of the black-clad fans in the crowd, enthralled once again by the Haka (a cultural display used by the All Blacks as a pregame ritual).