> but ultimately it's not much more than gladiator fighting. In Australia, where I'm from, there is a NRL match between Queensland and New South Wales called "

> but ultimately it's not much more than gladiator fighting. In Australia, where I'm from, there is a NRL match between Queensland and New South Wales called "State of Origin". One of the key draws for it is the "grudge match" in-group bias that comes along with it, and the very high probability of big fist-fights breaking out (which they do, with regularity, though less so the past few years). It's also one of the biggest games of the entire year. Those two things are not unrelated.