I love that 17776 has such a big fandom on here but I'm sad (not entirely surprised) that so few of the fans have seen any of Jon Bois's other work. There's so much of the same essence of whimsy in the videos and his way of storytelling is so genuinely captivating that it doesn't even matter if you care about sports to enjoy them (and not all of his videos are about sports).
So I want to provide a choice selection of my favorites in the hope that some people get to experience them for the first time. If you decide to watch any of them, please tell me what you think because I like to live vicariously through showing people things.
All of these can be found in this playlist, or else will be linked directly.
An *asterisk indicates that video has caused me to cry or sit in slackjawed silence
*The History of the Seattle Mariners: a docuseries about the strangest baseball team ever. I don't even know how to describe it but I cry at multiple different parts.
Scorigami, or Every NFL Score Ever: an exploration of some very strange football games and the secret dark arts of scoring
The People You're Paying to Be in Shorts: a documentary about the worst basketball team ever and how it was all Michael Jordan's fault.
*The Bob Emergency: a two-part study of athletes named Bob. self-explanatory
*We're Serious About Success: the highest-scoring basketball game in history through the lens of the Iliad and the Tower of Babel
*Captain Ahab: the story of Dave Stieb and his quest to pitch a no-hitter
How to score 10 runs in the first inning and lose: a harrowing lesson in hubris
Section 1: that time a plane crashed in the stands of an NFL playoff game
*The History of the Atlanta Falcons: a surprisingly political tragedy comedy about a football team and its trickster god mascot
*God Hates a Coward: the story of baseball, the Goodyear blimp, Treasure Island, and the dumbest world record ever
*God is coming to get me: the complicated story of Lennie Randle and the worst promotional stunt in baseball history (link)
222-0: the spite-fueled worst blowout loss in any sport ever, performed with action figures (link)
Rat Poison and Brandy: the story of the horrible, horrible 1904 olympic marathon (link)
Lonnie Smith: the story of a coke addict who plotted to murder his boss and beat up his mascot (link)
The History of Slipping on Banana Peels: self-explanatory and surprisingly long
*Fool Time: the story of the transatlantic telegraph line through the lens of 90s sitcom Home Improvement.
Would You Like to Buy a Mattress?: Jon's 35 minute lament about spam emails
That's Not Entirely Accurate: a video about the most annoying character in Independence Day
I Wish Everyone Else Was Dead: a video about the tv show 24 and the bizarreness of post-9/11 america (link)
The Dumbest Boy Alive: the stupidest internet fight ever, the time grown men argued about how many days were in a week (link)
Larry Walters has a flying lawn chair and a bb gun: where the creators of Up got the idea from (link)
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