Football is often called a "gladiator game." This past semester, several football players took a class at the University of Washington that explores the idea. It turns out that both the professor and her football-playing students found that it's not just a glib analogy.
Apart from the extreme fact that the Roman slaves actually killed each other in their games, there are certain fascinating parallels.
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