NFL distracting Game of Thrones author George R R Martin from finishing the damn series Make: CanonModel: Canon EOS-1D Mark IVDate/Time: 2012:02:23 10:36:39 Source: Supplied IMPATIENT Game of Thrones fans who are wondering what is taking author George RR Martin so long to finish the series should blame it on the NFL. The author of the fantasy series took to blogging website LiveJournal last night to rant about his grid-iron team, The New York Jets and their lousy losing streak. In a post called "Jets Crash Again," Martin wrote that it was "hard to be a Jets fan," mainly because they just traded one of their best players, defensive back Darrelle Revis to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. "Only the Jets," Martin writes. They have a pretty good defense and a godawful offense, so what's their big offseason move? 'Hey, let's get rid of our best player, bring the D down to the same level as the O.' The post comes as the Jets prepare for the NFL Draft, the annual player recruitment drive that can make or break a team's upcoming season. Revis's departure leaves the Jets with even more holes to fill - so we get why he's more preoccupied with the Draft than the Dothrakis. But his LiveJournal rant comes about a month after he admitted that he needs to hurry up and finish the last two books in the series. This is a metaphor for how Game of Thrones readers feel. Lost in the wilderness with no end in sight. "I need to write faster," he told Mashable on the red carpet premiere of Game of Thrones season two. The last two books took a really long time, so I'm hoping this one (the Winds of Winter) will go a little faster. But I make no promises. I found out long ago that when you look at the overall task, the cathedral you have to build, it looks so daunting that you just give up and sit down and play a video game. For years now, fans have been up in arms about George RR Martin's inability to deliver the sequels on time. They're concerned the 64-year-old author might die before he gets to finish the series. The first book of the series, A Game of Thrones was first published in 1996. It's now 2013 and there's still no end in sight. So far Martin has published five books over 17 years meaning it has taken him roughly 3.4 years to publish each edition, but he still has two more to go. If Martin continues at the same rate, it will be another seven years before the seventh book in the series is published. But fellow fantasy author Neil Gaiman has jumped to Martin's defence telling an irritated fan who wrote to him about the Thrones delay that "George RR Martin is not your bitch." Neil Gaiman called for Game of Thrones fans to stop being so entitled and said Martin would finish the seires in due time. "This is a useful thing to know, perhaps a useful thing to point out when you find yourself thinking that possibly George is, indeed, your bitch, and should be out there typing what you want to read right now, is sometimes, and it's as true of authors as it is of readers, you have a life," he wrote. People in your world get sick or die. You fall in love, or out of love. You move house. Your aunt comes to stay. You agreed to give a talk half-way around the world five years ago, and suddenly you realise that that talk is due now. Your last book comes out and the critics vociferously hated it and now you simply don't feel like writing another. Your cat learns to levitate and the matter must be properly documented and investigated. There are deer in the apple orchard. A thunderstorm fries your hard disk and fries the backup drive as well. You get the point. Nonetheless, perhaps George RR Martin should probably spend less time writing on LiveJournal and more time in Word (or whichever word processing software / typewriter / pen and paper he uses to get the job done).