When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing

Re:When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing by sonnyblarney on Monday July 16, 2018 @01:28AM (#17538965)

Yes, there were a few 'games' some time ago, but in the context of history it's nothing.

Ongoing international games as we understand them are a new phenom, dating back to the mid 19th century, and then only a few games.

The modern Olympics are not that old.

There were almost no such games for most of antiquity until late into the Enlightenment.

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Re:When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing by Godel_unicode on Monday July 16, 2018 @02:01AM (#17539072)

Again, that's absurd.

The ancient Greek Olympic games lasted for close to 1200 years. Unless your definition of ongoing is longer than that, I think they qualify.

The ancient Olympics carried a truce enforced by Zeus, unless your definition of international doesn't include "independent political entities who engaged in war" I think they qualify.

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