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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.
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.