The campaigning Chrises were among the nervous New Zealanders watching the All Blacks on Saturday morning.
But the election race didn't stop, with National today making the huge promise to end the use of motels for emergency housing.
Chris Hipkins was sceptical of their plan, but was loving the weather in the sunny Whakatiki / Upper Hutt.
Down at the Hutt Cossie Club, there was a lot riding on the game, and it wasn't just the Racing Minister's cash.
"In that last second I thought: here comes 75 bucks! But no, so a disappointing morning all around, really," said Kieran McAnulty.
For their nerves, McAnulty and Grant Robertson both opted for a beer over breakfast.
Meanwhile, Hipkins had his fry-up with a side of sports chat.
At stake was the mood of the nation, and hopefully for Hipkins, not a sign of things to come.
Newshub asked him if the All Blacks' loss was a metaphor for his own match with National this election.
"No, no, I can't see one here."
His presence was a win for the Cossie Clubbers though.
"I'm going to vote for who I've always voted for and that's Labour. Labour all the way!" said one punter watching the game.
But one man wasn't too happy.
"They [Labour MPs] left their rubbish - they think it's a pub not a club," he told Newshub.
The MPs then moved to the weekend markets.
The All Blacks may have lost but the sun is shining and Chippy is chipper, because he's back in the place he loves - the Hutt - and these are his people.
"[I'm enjoying being out and about in Upper Hut in the sunshine," Hipkins said.
Remutaka is one of the safest red seats in the country.
"I really don't like Luxon," said one woman Newshub spoke to at the markets.
Newshub asked: why not?
"[He's a] bit of a tool" she replied.
Christopher Luxon caught the All Blacks' game, then handed the campaigning over to his housing team.
"Our aim is to end the use of emergency motels within our first term of Government," said National's Chris Bishop.
Taking the stage in Rotorua, which has become the epicentre of the housing crisis.
National says it would end the use of emergency motels in Rotorua within 2 years.
It would also build more social houses, and create a priority list for families who've been waiting more than 12 weeks.
Plus, the party would tighten eligibility for emergency housing and evict anti-social tenants.
"People who are in state housing causing mayhem and acting with impunity; they should not have a right to that state house," Bishop said.
"Rather than focusing on building houses and getting people into them, it looks like it's actually about throwing people out of them," said Greens' co-leader James Shaw.
"They've sold off state houses when they were in Government," Hipkins told Newshub.
"They're now somehow miraculously saying that they're going to build a whole lot of extra houses. They haven't said how much they're going to budget for it. They haven't said when they're going to do it.:
Hipkins himself had something to say in his swish new television ad.
"I've got your back. I'm in it for you," he says in the advertisement.
"There's a lot to campaign for," he told Newshub.
He's hoping it's a winner, not like the All Blacks today.
"What I'd say to the All Blacks is if you take a few knocks at the beginning of a tournament, there's still a whole tournament to go."
Words for Labour to cling to - down, but not out.
