A Worldwide Push To Bring Back Chariot Racing

SignOnSanDiego.com ^ | May 24, 2007 | THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

[Constitutions Grandchild]

Oh, I don’t know. From the horses point of view, I’m sure it’s a lot more fun. From the Charioteer’s point of view — well, he’s just looking a bunch of horses’ asses. ;-)

[Constitutions Grandchild]

Just, damn!!! Don’t they look fine!!!!

[Ancesthntr]

Actually, I’d be a lot happier if we brought back something else from Rome - the goal of utterly defeating our enemies, and salting the Earth when we do it. You’d have lots less wars if we did that a couple of times. Oh, and the salting process can be speeded up quite a bit by substituting uranium salts for common table salt.

[Hoof Hearted]

' "It's called "harness racing" today. "

Hardly! In harness racing there is only one "trotting horse", not a team of them. They aren't even allowed to run (gallop)!. If there wasn't a betting angle to harness racing, few people would pay any attention to it at all.

[taxed2death]

Ever hear of MotoGP?

Or WSBK?

[DogByte6RER]

I agree with you brother...

We wouldn’t even have to go back 2000 years to adopt the ancient Romans’ war tactics.

We only need to go back less than 150 years and adopt Sherman’s tactics as he marched to Atlanta.

Regardless of where your sympathies might reside (North or South) Sherman’s total warfare tactics in the South were militarily sound and decimated his adversary.

There’s a bit more about this at:

http://www.history.com/minisite.do?content_type=Minisite_Generic&display_order=8&content_type_id=53391&mini_id=51103

To put it simply...we should be vanquishing our enemies, not trying to win their hearts and minds.

[jordan8]

Never mind the chariots, bring back the cheetahs! A little known fact - cheetahs are native to the American plains and later migrated to Africa and other places over the Bering bridge. Cheetahs are very seriously endangered in Africa, time to bring them home. Bring back the cheetahs and pronghorns to feed them!

[endthematrix]

They brought back the Peregrine Falcon to combat the Pigeon problem. The Cheetah’s would certainly thin the heard of the homeless...

[jordan8]

Only the slow ones.

[SunkenCiv]

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