What football will look like in the future - Football 17776 Thread

https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football/chapter-1


This is honestly... I have no idea what the plan is here but damn if I'm not having fun with it. And I don't even care about football!

Also Dave Strider is here for some reason.

 

I am strangely intrigued (got there from Tumblr last night)

 

i fucking love jon bois so much. so many of his other works are similarly weird and top notch and hilarious, and i am personally delighted by him making all these satellites weird little shitheads. i cannot wait to see where he goes with this ridiculous premise about immortality and footbaw

cant wait to see how he fucks me up over these characters too, fuckin bois

Spoiler: obnoxious memeing

JUICE: john madden john madden john madden john madden

 

i am glad we have this thread because 17776 is a treasure

 

this is so bizarre and so enjoyable
i do not know what is happening but damn am i having fun.

 

I saw a post on tumblr describing this as a One of our Submarines sports AU and I can't get over that.

 

Relatable content.

 

everything I've seen of it: funny! jokes! reminiscent of Dave!
immediately at the start: extremely melancholic

:< guess I need to forge on, but. sad.

 

that's very jon bois. hes good at humor but for these very long segments he starts to get introspective and thoughtful about the human condition, especially what makes us human. he loves to talk about football and other sports, yeah, but he's absolutely a writer as well. but juice is there for The Goofs

he did that for his uh, last gigantic ffffoootball??? segment. it may have been basketball maybe...point is it was something like a novels worth of words about a weird dystopian future. its a fave of his

Spoiler: also todays update

9: God Damn
10: I know.
JUICE, ten minutes later: hey yall i found nancy

god this is such good writing of just...people. just immortals shooting the shit while they wait for football to continue

 

existential horror, ennui, existential horror-- oh hey, juice is there, nvm, everything is good

edit: but I have wet tissue emotions anyway. I'm enjoying it, just in a vaguely weepy way

 

Hey i started reading it yesterday and frankly, I'm quite delighted!

 

I know things are good in this weird earth but if everybody stopped aging from a single point (and if i missed that people stopped giving birth before that non aging time i must have missed it) are there kids and babies that are just
Forever kids n babies? What about pregnant women? Like
((Sorry if I've forgotten something I'll have to go back a bit when i can))

But anyway haha that thought stresses me out a bit lmao

 

Like i know u can mature mentally i guess but like, the brain isn't physically finished forming at that stage
It's like, not done
And i don't know what that will mean for non aging kids and babies? And teens

 

Spoiler: spoiler for bee, nebraska

its unclear if it means 'there are no kids in bee nebraska' or 'there are no kids in general'

 

@GlassesBlu Nope, looks like you're right.



I was wondering about the never-aging babies and kids myself. Seems like that could get pretty annoying for everyone involved.

 

huh didn't think about that

 

well, in today's update someone mentions that there aren't any kids running around... i wonder what that means, exactly?

 

unpopular opinion: juice is not dave and they.....really are Not similar at all beyond the way they both talk/type

juice is really brash and in your face about stuff in a way that is like......almost mean? it isnt really mean but he doesnt pad stuff for the sake of other peoples' feelings

whereas dave is p shy and reserved and most of his metaphor riddled rambling IS padding