Sports was heavily promoted at the turn of the 20th century to occupy the minds and distract the tribal instinct of the masses at a time when they were beginning to make great gains in leasure time so as to avoid people paying too close attention to political matters.
The memes you've been seeing on the front page, I have been sharing. Let me tell you a secret about that. I'm just doing a clearing of my archives. These all came to me on the same day, but rather than flood Poal with all of them at the same time, I post one every day or two.
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