Posted on 02/06/2016 10:26:13 AM PST by EveningStar
The enormous arena was empty, save for the seesaws and the dozens of condemned criminals who sat naked upon them, hands tied behind their backs. Unfamiliar with the recently invented contraptions known as petaurua, the men tested the seesaws uneasily. One criminal would push off the ground and suddenly find himself 15 feet in the air while his partner on the other side of the seesaw descended swiftly to the ground. How strange.
In the stands, tens of thousands of Roman citizens waited with half-bored curiosity to see what would happen next and whether it would be interesting enough to keep them in their seats until the next part of the "big show" began.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
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What is worse... that or putting up with Lady Gaga for the halftime show?
Evidently, the editors at Live Science are not football fans.
There you go, trying to make us pine away for the good old days again.
Sounds like American TV. Which is in the home for the children to watch...
The Romans would be horrified.
(Glass houses and all that)
This year it is supposed to be Coldplay for the halftime show.
Yikes... too soon? Its too soon right?
I thought she was doing the anthem...
-JT
Shouts of “Let ‘em play through the entire 4 quarters non-stop,” could be heard from the mezzanine section...
Fascinating read, thanks!
It's worse than that! Some really dopey and awful new band called Coldplay is doing the halftime show (I checked them out on YouTube), with vastly overrated Beyonce joining him. Lady Gaga, believe it or not, will be singing the National Anthem! And all this for the 50Th ANNIVERSARY of the Super Bowl! They should have someone like the Stones doing halftime for the 50th Super Bowl.
Coldplay disdains everything about American football. It’s sort of amusing that they’d deign to play halftime on the one hand, but irritating on the other because they’ll no doubt get their little digs in.
Whitney Houston - Star Spangled Banner (Super Bowl 25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_lCmBvYMRs
“Among the annals of national anthems as a prelude to sporting events, few have topped the one delivered by Whitney Houston before Super Bowl XXV in 1991 in Tampa. Just a woman, her incredible voice and the bare minimum of
extraneous notes. Her rendition came at a particularly patriotic time, just after the onset of the Persian Gulf War, and was released as a single.
It was re-released after the September 11th terrorist attacks. Houston donated all proceeds to charity. She ranks among the best of all-time because of the circumstances and ... that voice!”
Oh, I don’t know. Put Crazy Uncle Bernie on one side and The Hillary on the other and...
Great article, one seems to forget the absolute evil of the Roman Empire. I was glad to see Christianity was not left out of the equation, it prevailed in the end.
Thanks for posting.
Also, please let Gaga (she is no lady) be dressed decently tomorrow. That is my only wish.
I don't know anything about them, other than the crappy music of theirs I heard when I checked them out on YouTube.
As for Beyonce, not only is she tremendously overrated, she and her hubby JZ are big supporters of Fidel Castro. Well at least they don't have HER or him doing the National Anthem!
Except for the scale, it was quite a bit like ISIS.
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