Complete foolishness, but every region has its own customs and games. For example, in North Africa, there is the 'sheep fight,' where they bring two rams to butt heads against each other, and the winner earns money. and some people even bet on the winner..
This is serious, even though they place a bet on them. However, things are really happening in some countries you can imagine the confident that people have on this rams. Honestly, this is quite annoying to me because I have never seen such thing in my country, although just like as you mentioned that is how it goes because we all have different ways we do things, so is quite a normal thing that we can never change.