• Why You Should Never Call Your Sports Team the Spartans

  • Aug 15 2024
  • Length: 21 mins
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Why You Should Never Call Your Sports Team the Spartans

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  • Everybody loves the Spartans! Spartan races, Spartan Football, Spartan Youth Hockey, America is all about the Spartans: Those slavery loving, inbreeding, baby leaving on the mountainside, Greek Warriors who missed the Battle of Marathon and eventually got themselves beaten by the Sacred Band - an elite Theban unit composed of 150 committed gay couples- only to be turned into a Roman tourist attraction. Here are a few reasons why you might want to name your next team after some other Greek city state.
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