I don’t know that much about American football. That’s why when most of the other patrons were glued to the bar’s television sets as the referees screwed the Detroit Lions, I was busy doing what most bar patrons do: drinking. Turns out, George R.R. Martin opted for the TVs.
According to the author’s Livejournal, Detroit Lions fans should be “screaming for referee blood.”
Picking up that flag on a FLAGRANT pass interference by Dallas in the fourth quarter was the worse call… or non-call… the NFL has seen since… well… since the non-call on the botched field goal attempt in the Giants/ 49ers playoff game ages ago.
Shocking. Really shocking.
The Lions could still have won the game. They did lots to blow it afterward, from penalties of their own (none as flagrant, none picked up) to blown coverages to a shanked punt and a fumble. But still… Detroit could well have locked up the victory on that drive, the play was textbook pass interference, the penalty needed to stand. The defender mugged the tight end.
Sounds bad, but I literally have no idea what Martin is talking about. Whenever “football” or any similar word pricks my ears, I remember my early days as the team water boy…
Source: Livejournal
