The Mesoamericans had a crazy ball game. They played in a narrow passageway between 2 stone walls, trying to get a rubber ball into specific locations. They believed that the gods would bless one group, so often there was a lot of gambling around these games, and the losers would be killed as a sacrifice to the gods. At this "stadium" there are hills nearby for common people to watch the game and big rocks sitting nearby as "box seats" for the important people.
I am not sure I would want to be a player - 50% chance of death is kinda scary - and I also don't think i'd like to watch - games sometimes went on for hours. But now it's fun to imagine what the game would have really been like. (no one knows for sure; the game died out when the Spanish came)
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