As I recall the article I read on the subject didn't say they played to the
death but rather that the losers were executed after the game. A sacrifice
of some sort I think. There have been many sports where people played to the
death and some are still practiced today. Some slow moving sports just try
to bore you to death. I'll refrain from naming any to avoid a flame war.
/jmac
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Some of the 'playing' (I'm tempted to say 'killing') fields still
exist at Chichen Itza in Yucatan, Mexico. You can stand in the middle
of the Great Court - an eerie feeling.
I had a conversation with a gentleman from Meridia about the history
of the games and he insisted his ancestors did not play to the death.
Scientists say otherwise.
Tulum, another Mayan site, is right on the ocean. Great place to make
photographs with an Olympus camera and get right back on topic. ;o)
ScottGee1
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 15:59:34 +1100, Andrew Fildes
<afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 20/03/2005, at 1:37 PM, James N. McBride wrote:
>
> > Early people in Central or South America had
> > a stadium version of a ball game for which the rules are totally
> > unknown.
> > Anthropologists have determined that the losers were executed. Now
> > that's
> > incentive to play hard. The post-game show was a bitch.
>
> With an outcome like that I'll bet that there were no bloody rules at
> all apart from achieving a score!
> AndrewF
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