AN ANCIENT SPORT TOO VIOLENT FOR THE MODERN WORLD

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Tug-of-War remains one of the most primal sports still played, and here’s hoping it makes it into the Olympics someday. You may have tugged a rope over a pond at summer camp, or even over a pile of mud at your sister’s wedding, but have you ever considered playing it over a pit of fire? The Vikings did.

Instead of rope, the players used animal-hides. And instead of overweight middle-schoolers in gym class, the players were Vikings.
Considering the Vikings’ unhealthy obsession with rape, murder and fire, it was only a matter of time before somebody mixed all three into one depraved triathlon. The result: A version of tug-of-war played over a fiery pit for the spoils of the town they had just ransacked, which included exclusive rape-rights to all the women. The winners got the plunder, and the losers got burned to death.

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