My first thought was that the "novel about footbal" TFA was talking about simply _had_ to be 17776. And that whatever else had no chance of even being close to

My first thought was that the "novel about footbal" TFA was talking about simply _had_ to be 17776. And that whatever else had no chance of even being close to how mind blowing that story is. And lo, turned out to be a regular novel but by the same author. I'll go ahead and read it now, the man's brilliant.