Pretty sure that if you lost, you got sacrificed to the gods. Good incentive to really push the players for a good game. These days pro team games is just watching a bunch of millionaires refusing to sweat
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The usual claim is that the winners were sacrificed, although I think it's a myth
I watched The Road to El Dorado... It's definitely the losers.
My bad. I heard it from a Mayan guy at Chichen Itza. I'll tell him to watch the film next time I see him
In high school back 30+ years ago I was taught that they weren't sure if it was the winners or the losers who were sacrificed. It seems and odd thing not to know if you know that someone was sacrificed.
It's not even clear that ANYONE was sacrificed. There is apparently only one depiction in history that SUGGESTS that one time prisoners were forced to play a rigged ball game and were sacrificed at the end.
This is a game we don't even know the real rules for
This is a game we don't even know the real rules for
Have you not seen the animated classic The Road to El Dorado?
Sounds like American sports where there is more waiting around than sports. The last football (soccer) match I went to, a couple of the wingers clocked upwards of 7 miles in the 90 minutes. Those guys sweat.
so do american football players. sometimes steam rises from their faces
In a 60 minute NHL game you get about 15 minutes of actual play or less. I'm sure they're fit and all that, but if I go to watch a sport, I want to see plenty of the sport.
same for soccer then, all that game is a bunch of passing the ball around and every 15 minutes maybe a shot on goal attempt
Being sacrificed so Chaak could bring us some rains never felt so stylish
For the gods I throw these cheeks! 🍑
Is it from the cheeks that the ramen comes out? What shade of brown is it?
Is blood red a shade of brown?
When it's stale it is, quite dark brown.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_ballgame
US vs El Salvador, Pok-Ta-Pok (Ulama), 2023: https://youtu.be/Q4xpNCNXet4?t=21362
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