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<blockquote data-quote="GTNavyNuke" data-source="post: 396956" data-attributes="member: 322"><p>Actually, I found a game where it may not be good to "win". </p><p></p><p>The pre-hispanic cultures in meso America (Mexico) played a game where a ball was attempted to be put through a vertical hoop. Only the legs and hips could be used to put the ball through. Most games ended in a draw due to the difficulty and height of the hoop.</p><p></p><p>But the catch was that the winner got the honor of being sacrificed to the Gods. .... "<em>the ballcourts at El Tajín and Chichen Itza show the sacrifice of practiced ballplayers, perhaps the captain of a team.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_ballgame#cite_note-60" target="_blank">[60]</a>Decapitation is particularly associated with the ballgame—severed heads are featured in much Late Classic ballgame art and appear repeatedly in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popol_Vuh" target="_blank">Popol Vuh</a>. There has even been speculation that the heads and skulls were used as balls.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_ballgame#cite_note-61" target="_blank">[61]</a>" <span style="font-size: 9px"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_ballgame" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_ballgame</a></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 9px"></span></em></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">But I have a somewhat (tic) more relevant question about the game last night. Why were the GT coaches wearing those slime green ties?</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GTNavyNuke, post: 396956, member: 322"] Actually, I found a game where it may not be good to "win". The pre-hispanic cultures in meso America (Mexico) played a game where a ball was attempted to be put through a vertical hoop. Only the legs and hips could be used to put the ball through. Most games ended in a draw due to the difficulty and height of the hoop. But the catch was that the winner got the honor of being sacrificed to the Gods. .... "[I]the ballcourts at El Tajín and Chichen Itza show the sacrifice of practiced ballplayers, perhaps the captain of a team.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_ballgame#cite_note-60'][60][/URL]Decapitation is particularly associated with the ballgame—severed heads are featured in much Late Classic ballgame art and appear repeatedly in the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popol_Vuh']Popol Vuh[/URL]. There has even been speculation that the heads and skulls were used as balls.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_ballgame#cite_note-61'][61][/URL]" [SIZE=1][URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_ballgame[/URL] [/SIZE][/I] [SIZE=4]But I have a somewhat (tic) more relevant question about the game last night. Why were the GT coaches wearing those slime green ties?[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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