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== Classical Mythology ==
* Pandora's Box initially portrays the addition of Hope to the world as uplifting and positive. The myth, though, can be painting hope as another evil. Or, since hope is the only thing left in the box, there is no hope. Dark stuff, either way.
**A modern can take it that Prometheus' Fire is technology and all the gifts it has given to men. Pandora's box therefore is the curse that comes from when technology is misused.
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* In NFL [[American Football|football]], one of the most bitter rivalries are between the Dallas Cowboys and the Washington Redskins. It's also amazing if you think about the historical side of respective names of the two teams. Cowboys had always been one of the most iconic representation of the American pioneers and settlers who went to the Wild West. On the other hand, Redskins (or Indians or Native American, take your pick) are the native people of the Americas. Historically, the American pioneers tend to get into conflict with the indigenous people of the land. So the name Cowboys and Redskins are actually fitting names to show the bitter rivalries between the two teams.
** Consider further that until the Dallas Cowboys came around in 1960, the Redskins were the main NFL team for the South in a league with mainly East Coast and Midwest roots (do note that the public idea of the border between Yankee and Southern culture is has shifted southwards in the past century - until recently Baltimore and Washington were considered Southern cities in culture, and there is a reason the Mason-Dixon Line is the border between Maryland and Pennsylvania). When the Dallas Cowboys came around, they suddenly had competition.
**If you want to be technical about it, cowboys though they had their quarrels(like everyone had with everyone back then) were not the chief enemies of Indians. Pioneers, railroaders, and miners depended on absolute possession of land whereas cowboys lived a lifestyle analogical to that of the Plains Tribes and paid toll when they passed through their land. They also provided available work when the buffalo played out.
* Trevor Bayne winning the 2011 Daytona 500 has a few examples of this.
** NASCAR had put in place a rule where drivers could only compete for one championship (Hoping to limit the number of Sprint Cup drivers competing in the Nationwide Series). Over Speedweeks Sprint Cup drivers won both the Camping World Truck Series (Michael Waltrip) and Nationwide Series (Tony Stewart) races. Bayne, competing as a full-time Nationwide Series driver, wins the Sprint Cup Series biggest race with a part-time team with partial sponsorship.
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