the understatement of the day

I enjoy watching the show "The Amazing Race" mainly because I like to see the places they travel to.  I also, I must admit, frequently get a chuckle from some of the comments made by competitors as they go through their assigned challenges.  On this evening's show they spent quite a bit of time in Rome and one of the challenges they could take part in was crossing swords with a "Roman Gladiator".  The comments I liked best, "If you were a gladiator back in those times fighting in front of thousands to the death, that would have been intense." 'Ya think?