When we read about sacrifice at the end of the ball game, the losers were indeed sacrificed, but they had to be sacrificed because that’s their job, just as jesus had to be sacrificed, so yes there was sacrifice associated with the ball game as found in much of the art work, guys been sacrificed but the losers were the heroes, jesus was the hero, they were ultimately the losers but they resurrected and came back and triumphed over evil gods and death, that’s whats forgotten, this whole thing about the losers being sacrificed, well the losers were sacrificed as heroes according to the myth