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Wow, I didn't even know states had official sports haha. I wouldn't be surprised if Maryland had those medieval fairs.
They have one of those "Renaissance Fests" in Crownsville every year. My wife likes it. I found it uninteresting.
Unfortunately, jousting, as practiced for the state sport, does not consist of armor-clad horsemen trying to unseat each other with lances. Instead, a horseman uses a lance-like device in an attempt to skewer three little rings hanging from frames.
They have one of those "Renaissance Fests" in Crownsville every year. My wife likes it. I found it uninteresting.
Unfortunately, jousting, as practiced for the state sport, does not consist of armor-clad horsemen trying to unseat each other with lances. Instead, a horseman uses a lance-like device in an attempt to skewer three little rings hanging from frames.
The jousting in Crownsville is toned down for the safety of the participants. I have seen the "knights" unseated quite a few times though. There some element of realism to it, but they avoid having participants die (which was a huge problem in traditional jousting, you'd end up with half your knights dead or injured at the end).
I've been to many of the ring-jousting tournaments. They're still interesting for me, but if anyone is expecting to see something out of King Arthur they're better off watching staged productions like Medieval Times.
The jousting in Crownsville is toned down for the safety of the participants. I have seen the "knights" unseated quite a few times though. There some element of realism to it, but they avoid having participants die (which was a huge problem in traditional jousting, you'd end up with half your knights dead or injured at the end).
I've been to many of the ring-jousting tournaments. They're still interesting for me, but if anyone is expecting to see something out of King Arthur they're better off watching staged productions like Medieval Times.
I didn't see any of the jousting in Crownsville. I figured that it was staged pretty much the same way as Medieval Times.
The jousting in Crownsville is toned down for the safety of the participants. I have seen the "knights" unseated quite a few times though. There some element of realism to it, but they avoid having participants die (which was a huge problem in traditional jousting, you'd end up with half your knights dead or injured at the end).
I've been to many of the ring-jousting tournaments. They're still interesting for me, but if anyone is expecting to see something out of King Arthur they're better off watching staged productions like Medieval Times.
I forgot about nicknames too. I think most of the midwest ones are interesting, not so much because the names are cool, but because of the history behind it. For example Wisconsin is the Badger state not only because of the animal, but because the first settlers were lead miners and apparently people said they lived like badgers. Hence the badger state.
Iowa's is a little more obscure with the Hawkeye state. Apparently a newspaper editor really liked last of the last of the mohicans and felt it represented Iowa. As usual my home state is boring. Were the Cornhusker state and we just named it after the football team unlike most state colleges who took their name from the state nickname like the Badgers or Gophers or Hoosiers or Hawkeyes or Buckeyes or Wolverines. I think Nebraska needs to go back to being either the Treeplanter state or better yet, the Beef State, which was on our license plates in the 50's and 60's. I think Beef State promotes a pretty cool image. I guess Cornhuskers is alright, but no pun intended it seems corny and contrived. Beef state just sounds better.
I actually like Bugeaters. I think it sounds kind of cool. Also, the significance that people were so tough out here that they had to eat bugs, i like that.
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