St Vincent of Lombard and the origins of Superbowl Sunday

[ewagner]

Linking to Kos..where the foolishness of Superbowl Sunday is given proper treatment...special meaning for us cheeseheads too

http://www.dailykos.com/

and a snippet:

The Roman historian Tacitus tells us that as part of the Germans' celebrations for their god he identified as Mercury (believed by modern historians to be the same as Wotan in the Germanic pantheon, or Odin from Norse sources), they would toss pigs back and forth while drinking and feasting. For reasons that are obscure, during the Migration Period this grew to become one of their most important religious festivals, eclipsing the ceremonial duels between the sixty five greatest warriors of the land held every spring, and even the Serius Mundi, as Roman authors called it, held every fall.