Bad Event Idea #167: All Abba All The Time.
Were there Native American casinos and ABBA tribute bands 12,000 years ago? Well, when the last Ice Age was ending, Native Americans in the present-day Southwestern U.S. were getting together to gamble. Researchers have found evidence that dice and associated activities based on the concepts of chance, randomness and probability were first developed in the area 12,000 years ago.

Researchers have studied Native Americans’ use of dice for more than a century. Evidence now shows that they have been in continuous use from 12,000 years ago all the way up to the present-day. Did prehistoric Native Americans turn their caves into casinos? Not likely. But Native American oral histories refer to gambling frequently. Written accounts of Native American dice games tell of large crowds gathering around the game and all kinds of side bets going on during the contest. Gambling has been bringing people together for centuries. Listening to ABBA tribute bands? That’s a more recent phenomena. It’s also a bad event idea, because, ABBA.