The NFL's latest dividing issue? Game of Thrones.


Pete Carroll's questionable Super Bowl call? So last season.
Last season on Games of Thrones? As debate-worthy as ever.
The Wall Street Journal reports that NFL players are showing up to training camps ready to talk wins and losses — just not for their team. More likely to come up at the lunch table or in the locker room is who currently holds power in King's Landing, and whether a certain Snow is really dead. HBO's popular show, which wrapped its fifth season earlier in 2015, has its NFL fans seriously divided when it comes to spoilers.
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Washington's Niles Paul shows his teammates no mercy: "If you don't know that Jon Snow died, if you don't know what the White Walkers are, that's not my problem. It means you aren't a fan and you don't watch the show."
But Pittsburgh's Vince Williams offers a response: "You have something going on in the South, the North, the Westeros and all of these conflicts have one main overall theme... I dare anyone to spoil it."
Free suggestion for teammates of Williams, a 250-pound linebacker: Tell him Jon Snow died — right before the first snap.
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Sarah Eberspacher is an associate editor at TheWeek.com. She has previously worked as a sports reporter at The Livingston County Daily Press & Argus and The Arizona Republic. She graduated from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.
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