were killed? right, i believe if you end up if the slave was killed,ia would have to pay the owner, so you didn t want them to do. this was the kind of entertainment for the kind. at the time, seeing death on the streets wasn t that uncommon. it was something people enjoyed and wanted to see. luckily, we have much more pacifistic sports, if you want to use that word, and we don t have death. in fact, we re trying to make our sports safer. it s sort of the difference in the way we view those competitions today than they were once viewed. the arrogance of the emperors increased in 169 b.c., 63 african lions and leopards, 40 bears, elephants, were hunted down in a single two-day show. tigers, crocodiles, giraffes, hip opotmouses, they would bring them in from all over the world to kill them, and the emperor would sometimes kill them themselves. today, we have sausage races,