[Red Badger]

We still do!................................

[P.O.E.]

Knew they had to be on something when they did those carvings and paintings :)

[Yo-Yo]

[PGR88]

And when athletes playing hoops are tripping, it makes it so much more entertaining for the crowd.

[combat_boots]

The losers were killed, so yeah

[frank ballenger]

Yucatec Mayan found:

T’abik, sintonizar, p’atik ts’u’uts’ chamal

English: Turn on, tune in, drop out.

[No name given]

Nowadays, we just call them steroids.

[mabarker1]

Did they have an Exhibition Team like the Masa Trotters ?

[Seruzawa]

I guess this is why the Maya were still in the stone age while the Chinese invented gunpowder. And still later when the Europeans had square-rigged ships and globe spanning trade empires. Somehow we are supposed to admire the heart cutters.

[Redcitizen]

; Ballgame was a religious act, one that venerated the Maya gods and heroes, reaffirmed their devotion to their gods, and sometimes even included the sacrifice of important captives following a match.

These days coaches with a bad season recor of wins/losses are symbolically sacrificed aka fired.

[tet68]

Most people do nor realize that the flowers worn by the
ancient Maya as depicted in their art weren’t for just decoration but were because of their ethno-botanical relationship.

[Texan5]

Definitely not people you sould ever agree to a game of basketball with...

[NWFree]

When they weren’t sacrificing babies like modern day libtard pagans