Using sports to glorify someone is not a new idea. You may already know that the athletic brand Nike is named after the ancient Greek goddess of victory. But perhaps you didn’t know that the original Olympic Games—which occurred hundreds of years before Christ was born—was an athletic festival held in honor of the Greek god Zeus. On the central day of the festival, one hundred oxen were sacrificed to him. (This rivals modern Super Bowls for the most absurd halftime