Look, you and I can never fully appreciate the high-stakes world of professional sports. We can’t understand the culture of an NFL team and what it takes for a coach working 90-hour weeks to motivate his players. If something works, use it, right?
The New York Giants open their season on Sunday on the road against the Dallas Cowboys. In an attempt to send a message or set a tone, Giants first-year coach Ben McAdoo used a scene from Game of Thrones to give his players an idea of what he’s expecting from them.
What scene did he use? Perhaps Arya Stark exacting revenge on someone from her list? Maybe Brienne avenging the murder of Renly Baratheon? Or could it be Khal Drogo killing Viserys Targaryen by pouring liquid-hot gold over his head for how he treated his sister, Daenerys Targaryen?
According to the New York Post, McAdoo went with the scene from last season when Ramsay Bolton’s dogs turn on him and eat him alive. Football!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO90kBcdt2M
Some of the players seemed confused by what they saw.
“He showed a dog attacking somebody, and basically that’s our mindset,” one Giant told The Post.
“It was about being hungry, he showed us like a scene from Game of Thrones, and it was just about being hungry, and coming to work every day. Just being the hungriest team in the NFL, in the NFC, all that,” another Giant said.
This would be like a sex therapist showing a patient a clip of Jaime having sex with sister Cersei and saying, “It’s about letting love guide your heart.” The dogs were hungry, yeah, but it’s because dogs were starved. Is McAdoo feeding his players?
The dogs were also tortured and transformed into killing machines by Ramsay, who raped and terrorized Sansa Stark, who loosed the dogs on him in what was a bittersweet moment for the character, since it may be a sign of her turning into a dark, violent person as a result of Ramsay’s torment.
But hey, let’s go beat those Cowboys, right?!
