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
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
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.
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.
Sure, if you describe it by making things up. A game of football is at least 90 minutes of play. The forwards and midfielders run two or three times as much as players in the NHL, or basketball for that matter. The last match I watched had 4 goals and 26 goal attempts in the 90 minutes. The average shots per team per game is between 8 and 15.
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
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
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
Sure, if you describe it by making things up. A game of football is at least 90 minutes of play. The forwards and midfielders run two or three times as much as players in the NHL, or basketball for that matter. The last match I watched had 4 goals and 26 goal attempts in the 90 minutes. The average shots per team per game is between 8 and 15.