it's all fun and games until the city that loses the superbowl retaliates with trade sanctions
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did that ever happen in greece? like, say, thracians wrecked the spartan contingent at the olypmics and sparta sent an army, in the throes of its butthurt?
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Didn't Argos and Sparta go to war over an athletic something or other? Like, they went to war a million times, I feel like this should be a fact
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Clearest counterexample of hikiko's idea is the Nika Riots, which were (i) obvious sports-driven mass murder and (ii) occurred during the period of Greece's greatest political coherence
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Not exactly? The team factions functioned clearly as political parties with enormous and complex social functions, where the athletes of classical Greece did not serve such purpose?
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that is true
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