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1 posted on 04/13/2023 10:56:32 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: SunkenCiv

Play Ball! PinGGG!......................

Play your heart out! Because you are!................


2 posted on 04/13/2023 10:57:20 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_ballgame


3 posted on 04/13/2023 10:58:10 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

The “ball” is facing to our right, in profile. You can make out the eyebrows, nose, and ear.


4 posted on 04/13/2023 10:59:26 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: Red Badger

An apparent stone scoreboard has been discovered at the Chichen Itza archaeological site in southeastern Mexico, archaeologists have said.


So what was the score?


5 posted on 04/13/2023 10:59:44 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Red Badger

Wash down that still-beating heart with a cold Dos Equis!


8 posted on 04/13/2023 11:08:02 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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Didn’t they decapitate the losing teams?

The reason why we ask which is ‘ahead’ in the score today.


10 posted on 04/13/2023 11:09:03 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Red Badger

I was fortunate to tour Chichen Itza many years ago (maybe 30 or so?). Visitors were still allowed to climb the Temple of Kukulkan. It was fascinating, and the trip remains one of my most vivid memories.

I know it is not in vogue to visit Mexico these days, but I would encourage anyone going to Cancun to book a bus tour trip to see Chichen Itza.


11 posted on 04/13/2023 11:09:38 AM PDT by NEMDF
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To: Red Badger

Carving stone to keep score of a ball game seems ... extreme.


12 posted on 04/13/2023 11:09:47 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (“You want it one way, but it's the other way”)
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14 posted on 04/13/2023 11:10:22 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Red Badger

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAALLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!


20 posted on 04/13/2023 11:22:52 AM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: Red Badger

When they can carve the score in stone before hand it seems likely that old assertions that the games were rigged and the destined losers (captives) to be killed may have been accurate.


21 posted on 04/13/2023 11:23:44 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Red Badger

a little hard to see from the nose-bleed section.


23 posted on 04/13/2023 11:26:51 AM PDT by griffin (When you have to shoot, SHOOT; don't talk. -Tuco)
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To: Red Badger

I had money on that game!


29 posted on 04/13/2023 11:52:16 AM PDT by bwest
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It does say the Mesoamerican series champs in 78 BC. They are playing the Aztecs...

Sorry, that was UConn on April 3rd...

31 posted on 04/13/2023 12:22:39 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Guns don't kill people, LIBERALS DO!! Support the Second Amendment...)
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