Seriously Sportsball? This is how you thank Game of Thrones for giving you and your fans your own specially made trailer on network TV for Season 6? By trying to step on their all important Episode 9?
For those who don’t follow sportsball, and are surprised to discover that for some reason it now seems to be playing June when you swore that stuff, and all of the little charts that go with it, was supposed to be confined to March, you may be horrified to discover that the people who you usually spend time watching Game of Thrones will be tweeting about something completely different this evening. I don’t quite understand it either–clearly the choice between Battle of the Bastards, the biggest battle Game of Thrones has ever staged, not to mention television’s first foray into attempting cinematic-level, horse-based medieval battle re-creation, is no contest when placed against a bunch of people who, by accident of tall genes, find that they run around after a little pumpkin colored ball for a living. (Also, why are they called Cavaliers if there are no horses involved? This is false advertising.)
AND YET! Even though there are die hard Game of Thrones fans among those who chase after said little ball for a living, everyone seems to have screwed up and now one is airing opposite the other tonight, and it is causing quite a consternation.
Game 7 of the NBA Finals up against a Game of Thrones Episode 9.
Oh god what do we do
— Thomas Goldkamp (@ThomasGoldkamp) June 17, 2016
I have been reliably informed by others that this is not the first time the NBA has attempted to compete with Game of Thrones this week either. Apparently their version of the Hound slamming an axe upwards into someone’s bowels included a mouthguard being hurled into the stands and hitting a patron, which is both just as gross, and also was one of the choices that eventually lead to tonight’s scheduling conflict. And here we thought Robb’s choice to marry Talisa leading to the Red Wedding was shortsighted.
And some people just don’t understand that the internet isn’t going to completely alter it’s schedule just because they are choosing wrong.
If you're that person who is going to watch Game of Thrones during Warrriors-Thunder and tweet about it, you deserve to be on Arya's list.
— Sean Wagner-McGough (@seanjwagner) May 22, 2016
No sir, I do believe that Arya’s list will include all those who think that we’re going to stop tweeting about tonight’s amazing episode because you want to watch a bunch of oversized humans run back and forth for three hours first. After all, Wun Wun will be doing plenty of running, and may in fact stomp on some smaller humans while he’s at it. That far exceeds anything the pumpkin colored ball will accomplish.
At least some people understand that the NBA could have done the right thing and rescheduled.
yo @NBA change Game 7 to Monday or something we have Game of Thrones Episode 9 aka the pivotal episode of each season. come on change game 7
— Leesa Allmond (@leesology) June 17, 2016
(Spoiler alert: they did not.)
Lol #nba thinks game7=record viewership. That's Game of Thrones night. Imma be watching two bastards fight over a castle.
— Deandre Drane (@Runwitscissors) June 17, 2016
But if you really must choose poorly, Twitter invented the “mute a hashtag” option for a reason.
Via http://winteriscoming.net/2016/06/19/battle-of-the-bastards-faces-off-against-battle-of-the-nba/
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