George R.R. Martin, after Patriots beat Giants: ‘Life is miserable and full of pain’
For George R.R. Martin, Sunday night was dark and full of terrors.
Famous for authoring the fictional book series Game of Thrones, the New York Giants and New York Jets fan expressed his dismay about the outcome of the Patriots’ 27-26 win, which finished with a last-second field goal by Stephen Gostkowski.
The victories were right there for the taking. So close I could taste them. But no, instead I had to choke down bitter defeats. What’s worse, both teams lost the games in THE SAME WAY, with truly inexplicable play-calling when the game was on the line. Deep inside the opponents’ territory, the goal line just a few feet ahead, the clock running down… all the Jets needed to do, all the G-Men needed to do, was RUN RUN RUN the ball, wind down the clock, make the opponent burn his final timeouts, then kick the winning field goal or score the winning touchdown.
Instead both the Jets and Giants chose to pass, pass, pass. Incompletions stopped the clock. The Jets did not manage to score at all, the Giants settled for a FG and a lead but left too much time for Tom Brady.
I guess they couldn’t hear me screaming at my TV set.
Life is miserable and full of pain.
Martin has called New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick, “Evil Little Bill,’’ and has also slipped a number of football references into his books. One character named Belicho, a Volantene patriot, was eaten by Giants.
It might be time to rethink — and rewrite — that character.
h/t — BostonMagazine.com
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