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- Some modern scholars assume that Attis must have followed much later; or that the Galli, described in later sources as shockingly effeminate and flamboyantly " unRoman ", must have been an unexpected consequence of bringing the goddess in blind obedience to the Sibyl; a case of " biting off more than one can chew ".
- Speculation was that the NBL had to pay UCI a considerable fee ( some say as large as US $ 500, 000 ) for these rights, and the whole affair, from August to December was starting to look ( even to NBL loyalists ) like an extreme risk, a critical misstep and a textbook example of " biting off more than one can chew " all at once.