Reviews

17776: What Football Will Look :like in the Future by Jon Bois

mutmedia's review

5.0

bom demais, a historia é escrita numa forma bem experimental, mas não se deixa levar só como experimento formal, é uma historia divertida e os personagens são todos cativantes. é como um livro ilustrado na internet, com gráficos esperados se você conhece os videos do SB nation. Jon Bois tem uma compreensão e imaginação sobre o jogo de futebol americano, e a relação da humanidade com esporte, que é lindo de se ler e ver.

danibeliveau's review

5.0

You click on a link to an SB Nation article titled, “What football will look like in the future,” and suddenly you’re in a mixed-media, 178th century speculative fiction about three conscious probes hurtling through space trying to understand what it means to be human. 17776 explores what people would do if they didn’t have to worry about aging, disease, or dying, and their lives could be completely safe, predictable, and dedicated to leisure. One of those answers is football, but not in the way that you think.

17776 is a beautiful, uniquely transformative experience, something that I continue to think about long after I've stopped reading. Jon Bois and SB Nation went out on a really weird creative limb for this story, and the internet is a better place because of it.


Because I'm like you, I kinda look at the big long life ahead of me that stretches out forever and disappears. And I get scared. And I think, "this can't be Heaven if I'm getting scared, right?"

And then I think, "maybe I am in Heaven, and Heaven is scary."

ellimister's review

5.0

I read this in 2017. I think I even added it to Goodreads but when #2 came out I couldn't find it. Maybe there was a conflict when my version and the official one was en route. I don't know. I just remember checking every day for new "chapters"

bartlebies's review

5.0

"I wonder if there's a single place in the world that's never had a story. I bet not. I just about guarantee you there's no places like that in America. Every little square of it, every place you stomp your foot, that's where something happened. Something wild, maybe something nobody knows about, but something. You can fall out of the sky and right into some forgotten storybook.

You run and run and run and you keep turning pages and none of them are empty. They're all full of stories. There's nowhere left to write.

I think I'm just a bookmark."

staghunters's review

5.0

Bookmarking this for my next existential crisis

lastsilversunset's review

emotional funny inspiring reflective fast-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

acoelomate's review

5.0

Wow. I clicked on this because I saw on twitter a while back a link to it saying "this is the best writing I have ever seen." I figured I had the time to read a quick article, even one about sports.

Well, it wasn't that!

But honestly, this is one of the most incredible things I have read in a long time. 17776 is one of those works that plays with the idea of storytelling and medium, and also manages to play with tone a lot. It's very existential, but in a weirdly hopeful way.

17776 is a beautiful love letter to humanity, the universe, and above all else, the fascinating activity that is American football.