There was a funny moment the other day during a conversation with Seattle Sounders GM Garth Lagerwey. Someone had asked him about “The Red Card Wedding” and he sort of laughed, pointing out that he and his wife had only recently caught up on Game of Thrones. He had always understood the reference in a broad sense — that it was referring to something awful that people recognized in pop culture — but he came away appreciating it at a different level.
Lagerwey noted that what made the original Red Wedding so powerful wasn’t just that a bunch of key characters were killed off.