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Horseback Wrestling. Bone Tossing. Dead Goat Polo. Let the Nomad Games Begin!CHOLPON-ATA, Kyrgyzstan — The American team that played a brutal version of polo at the World Nomad Games does not expect the sport to get picked up by the Olympics any time soon.
Why not?
“We use a dead goat,” said Scott A. Zimmerman, a team co-captain.
Waste of good food if you ask me.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/15/w...mad-games.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/15/w...mad-games.html
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Gee just when Burning Man Was moving up the list, this may take it's spot.
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I thought Ernest and Sweet Thang retired that trophy years ago...Dead Goat Polo...Ben
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Ain't nothing wrong with your memoryOriginally Posted by Truckman
I thought Ernest and Sweet Thang retired that trophy years ago...
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That “sport” was the origin of the more civilized polo known in our parts of the world, and has been going on uncessated for thousands of years. Nice to see the NYTs is catching up.
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I watched a bunch of Turk soldiers play street soccer with some guys head.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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I read an article yesterday in which a pack of dogs were scrapping over a severed human head in a street in a Mexican town right below the border, and here we are supposed to get all exercised over the barbarity of Americans participating an ancient game featuring a goat carcus (and welcome the illegal immigration of the detritus from the Mexican drug wars!). It’s tough all over.
Sorry to inject a downside in a post meant to be jocular, but the irony could not be missed.
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