Curiosity Exchange x The Dirt Diaries: Cursing the Competition
Oct 16, 2026 · 29 min · 8 segments
This Curiosity Exchange is with The Dirt Diaries! For the full episode of this excerpt: YouTube…
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Oct 16, 2026 · 29 min · 8 segments
This Curiosity Exchange is with The Dirt Diaries! For the full episode of this excerpt: YouTube…
The ancients were taking cursing to the fullest extent of the word.
They were not only screaming from their seats, they were working overtime because they were getting the gods involved for this.
That's right, they were making curses.
And while we know of all the teams that have certain mascots, named sometimes after animals, the ancient sports teams weren't necessarily... named in the same manner.
They didn't have anything like that.
They had their teams based on colors, and they were based on the colors that they wore.
So if we were to make this kind of associated into modern day, Where we have, of course, I live in Philadelphia, so I'm going to use that as an example.
Or if we want it to be a little blue, razzle dazzle with it.
We could call the Seahawks the neon green team if we want to take that color out of it.
But that is how the Ancients were really rooting for their teams.
The teams were known by their colors.
And we do know what these different teams were.
We have ancient factions known as the Reds, the Whites, the Greens, and the Blues.
Now, these teams, they were made up of charioteers, and each charioteer, the driver, they would be pulled by four horses, which is both good and bad when you think about it, right? You got more horses, more horsepower, you can go faster, all of that kind of good stuff.
But if you don't cut right...
when you are turning in a chariot and there's other chariots running next to you with a ton of other horses, it could spell disaster.
And when I always think about ancient charioteers and the arenas that they were racing in, I often think of, especially because we just had the Winter Olympics, I think of the short track speed skating because as soon as somebody goes down because they take the turn a little too tight, they are knocking other individuals and other athletes out of the competition with them and they spin out into the wall.
It's kind of the same thing here.
If you do not turn properly, you could end up in a not great place for both you and your horses.
The ancients were taking cursing to the fullest extent of the word.
They were not only screaming from their seats, they were working overtime because they were getting the gods involved for this.
That's right, they were making curses.
And while we know of all the teams that have certain mascots, named sometimes after animals, the ancient sports teams weren't necessarily... named in the same manner.
They didn't have anything like that.
They had their teams based on colors, and they were based on the colors that they wore.
So if we were to make this kind of associated into modern day, Where we have, of course, I live in Philadelphia, so I'm going to use that as an example.
Or if we want it to be a little blue, razzle dazzle with it.
We could call the Seahawks the neon green team if we want to take that color out of it.
But that is how the Ancients were really rooting for their teams.
The teams were known by their colors.
And we do know what these different teams were.
We have ancient factions known as the Reds, the Whites, the Greens, and the Blues.
Now, these teams, they were made up of charioteers, and each charioteer, the driver, they would be pulled by four horses, which is both good and bad when you think about it, right? You got more horses, more horsepower, you can go faster, all of that kind of good stuff.
But if you don't cut right...
when you are turning in a chariot and there's other chariots running next to you with a ton of other horses, it could spell disaster.
And when I always think about ancient charioteers and the arenas that they were racing in, I often think of, especially because we just had the Winter Olympics, I think of the short track speed skating because as soon as somebody goes down because they take the turn a little too tight, they are knocking other individuals and other athletes out of the competition with them and they spin out into the wall.
It's kind of the same thing here.
If you do not turn properly, you could end up in a not great place for both you and your horses.
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