WhiskyTangoFoxtrot

Quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur.

It threatens their bottom line. That's all that matters.

I thought our overlords were the cats.

I was thinking more about Olympians. The Romans had a standing army so they didn't need that sort of thing as much.

They used those events for military readiness. The skills that the athletes trained for were the same ones needed by soldiers.