Jack Crowley: 'I wouldn't change a thing... I don't think I was hard done by'

Munster out-half Jack Crowley says physical edge and reflection on past challenges have shaped his game and mindset. 

REFLECTION: Munster out-half Jack Crowley says physical edge and reflection on past challenges have shaped his game and mindset. Picture: ©INPHO/Dan Sheridan

Jack Crowley has a few fictions that he’d prefer to leave behind him in Chicago, if that’s okay. Just like a nickname, an impression can stick, even when it’s just that — an impression but not a reality.

This Windy City, on the other hand, lives up to its billing, the gale-force gusts that blow in off Lake Michigan and rumble up the east-to-west streets of its gridded downtown shoving pedestrians off the sidewalk every time the shelter of a city block gives way to an open junction. The windchill Wednesday morning, for example, shaved a full 10 degrees off the actual temperature, from 11C to barely above freezing.