Mayan ball game scoreboard thought to be over 1k years old found in Mexico
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#2I really wish ancient sports would make a comeback. I would give an arm and leg to spectate at an ancient sports demo event. Sort of Renaissance fair meets Olympics vibe.
Re: Mayan ball game scoreboard thought to be over 1k years old found in Mexico
#3I really wish ancient sports would make a comeback. I would give an arm and leg to spectate at an ancient sports demo event. Sort of Renaissance fair meets Olympics vibe.
For an arm and a leg we’ll let you fight the gladiator!
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#5I really wish ancient sports would make a comeback. I would give an arm and leg to spectate at an ancient sports demo event. Sort of Renaissance fair meets Olympics vibe.
Saw some little youtube documentary about a group in mexico trying to resurrect the ball game.
I have a feeling it would be tough to weigh where to keep things to 100% to what we know vs. filling in the blanks to make it more entertaining. Seems to have been going on during the olmec period too which would indicate at least around 3000 years of play... lots of different variations over that time. Tough to decide which one to pick.
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#6I really wish ancient sports would make a comeback. I would give an arm and leg to spectate at an ancient sports demo event. Sort of Renaissance fair meets Olympics vibe.
They used to flood the Colisseum and re-enact naval battles - would pay good money to see that tbf.
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#7I really wish ancient sports would make a comeback. I would give an arm and leg to spectate at an ancient sports demo event. Sort of Renaissance fair meets Olympics vibe.
The incessant commercialization is a limiting factor as well. Getting rid of uniform logos and going back to the days where all the competitors were naked and covered in oil would certainly boost interest.
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#8Apparently, the score was:
Chelsea - Ajax 4-4
Happy weekend everybody! :)
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#9Howcome everything old we dig up get this "probably ritual use" stamp?
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#10The real interest is where it was found. There's so many sites that are not able to be excavated due to the limit of efficiency of the Mexican government and a very select few universities, after the pilfering of colleges in the northern hemisphere