#20020 football

[cordership]

In light (haha) of the recent eclipse, I’d like to point out that it was during an eclipse in 1868 that French Astronomer Jules Janssen observed an unusual spectral line produced when he pointed his telescope at the partially obscured sun. He assumed that it corresponded to the spectrum of Sodium.

Observation by English astronomer Norman Lockyer later that year revealed it to be a different element. The first one discovered on a distant celestial sphere before it was discovered on Earth. He chose to name it after the sun.

In 1968, one hundred years later, a space probe was launched to orbit around and study the sun.

[notwerewolf-art]

funny satellites from funny webventure

[17776-enjoyer]

hello, it is me, 17776. i am here to foot ball

[thatsmimi]

😳 esa canon juice pronouns confirmed?!?!

[kajamnikk]

i made a sona for 17776 bcus im CRINGE and FREE

[cometmothman]

big image of my 17776 ocs + ten, juice, and nine obviously! feel free to ask questions about them because ohhhggthrhr my children

@kitsumo made the little pics for me! i just smooshed them all together

[much-significant-harassment]

2 years until people stop aging or dying!!@

[vforvalensa]

everyone loves Jon Bois, 17776, and the big long Dorktown docuseries, but i feel like i never see anyone talk about my personal favorite Jon Bois opus, Breaking Madden and the Saga of Clarence BEEFTANK.

Breaking Madden is a pretty early early Bois joint from way back in 2013 and it's like a text based precursor to the modern Fumble Dimension series hosted by the excellent Kofie Yeboah. The inaugural installment and first of 4 chapters in the BEEFTANK saga features Jon attempting to reinvent the pathetic 2012/2013 Jackson Jaguars/explode his xbox 360 by installing the living bowling ball that is Clarence BEEFTANK as the jaguars' primary quarterback.

There are some excellent early 2010s xbox 360 video capture gifs in the article and some truly sublime Jon Bois prose.

I still think about the phrase "glass of some milks" and laugh to myself.

[mercury-lurks]

opinions on 17776 :3c

ive never loved football more. anyway you asked for this.

Opinions on story:

I love what Jon Bois did!! So much!!! The concept of humans living forever and just doing FOOTBALL?? INCREDIBLE SHOWSTOPPING I LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT!! Having the main characters be satellites was a move I was not expecting but HOT DAMN did it work!!!

Opinions on characters:

JUICE: MY BOY MY EVER MY THINGY!!! ham and cheese ham and cracker mwah mwah mwah love juice. Love forever.

Nine: poor bby. hold. forever. i wish i could give them infinity battery pleeassseee!!! they need to see Nick and Manny get to San Diego together!!! WHICH IS GOING TO HAPPEN I'M NOT CRAZY (<- IS CRAZY)

Ten: OLDER SISTER EVER!! THE OLDER SISTER EVER!!! I would literally die for her I love Ten I love her Ten my beloved.

Nancy: NANCY YEAHH FUCK YEAH I LOVE NANCY

Hubble: :)

Nick and Manny (must not separate): RHEJFJEJDJDJJFFN FERAL FERAL FERAL FERAL FERAL FERAL FERAL FERAL FERAL FERAL!!!! THE FOOTBALLERS EVER!!! I AM GIVING BOTH OF THEM 10,000 MINUTES OF OBT RN!!! THEY DESERVE TO WIN FOOTBALL!!!

Sharks: I CAN'T REMEMBER HER NAME WHICH IS SO SAD BUT I'M BAD WITH NAMES ANYWAY I LOVE HER

500 Ball Girl: SHE DESERVES BETTER

The Bulb: rip you were gone too soon 😔

Tucker: LMAOOOO

Other Opinions:

I love the format of this so much???? The Google maps/Earth style videos and layouts was so cool???? He did not have to go so hard??? What the fuck???

LOVED that the videos didn't require sound to experience. I LOVE SUBTITLES!!!!

NOOOO FLORIDA IS UNDER WATER POOR NINE 🥺🥺🥺

That Koy Detmer game was so cool fuck that guy for burning those balls tho.

Also I thought it was really cool how when characters are talking about nonspecific people they always use she and her!! Like!!! Wow!!!

Boredom is a 911 call worthy offense lmaooo I mean yeah I get that!!! Truth!!!

SAN DIEGO STATE GOT FUCKED OVER SO HARD BUT THE GAYS ARE TAKING US TO THE FINISH LINE!!!!

That lighthouse hiding spot from UAB??? SHOWSTOPPING INCREDIBLE ETC ETC

What the fuck is up with Illinois chess. What the fuck. I love it but what.

LMAOOO that guy that just walked off the field no hesitation I get you friend you're a real one.

I am literally so upset about Nick and Manny. They will Not be able to get home together for THOUSANDS OF YEARS I'm going to die and scream and suffer painfully please boys I don't care if you never come up in the storyline again just walk off the field and be gay together please please please get the balls to San Diego line and JUST WALK OFF PLEASEEE!!!!!! :(

@eldritchdemonfox pinging you for your thoughts as well

[cordership]

I posted this on a discord a while back, but I decided I should post a version here too. That being said, I present to you:

I HAVE GAZED INTO THE ABYSS AND THE ABYSS ASKED ME IF I WANTED TO WATCH A GAME

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The culmination of a feverish night of theory crafting after a sudden epiphany like a vision from an angry god, which may or may not be pertinent to the plot of “20021, a Football Story” by Jon Bois, whenever that comes out

See, okay, the whole deal with this thing is; If either Nick and Manny get caught and fail to bring the footballs home, or succeed and bring the footballs home, it will become a big story that it was only two guys who stole the footballs from Georgia Tech. This tells Michigan State that the locomotive lateral was performed by two guys, and thus, it would have been almost impossible for them to split the balls up, meaning the 9 balls that MI ST went up by at the end of the locomotive lateral would have been all the balls that GTECH had (given that it dropped in rank to the 0 ball teams at the same time as MI ST increased by 9). If someone from MI ST took a screenshot of their scoreboard before and after the lateral they would be able to tell that by the time the lateral was completed:

1: MI ST has 24 balls

2: GA SO has at most 14 balls because they were a place below MI ST before the lateral when Michigan had 15 balls

3: SC ST has at most 8 balls because they were a place below GTECH, which (based on the number of balls MI ST increased by and GTECH’s ranking afterward) had 9 balls before the lateral

4: CIN, HOW, and TEX likely have 3 balls each, and if they’re not sure MI ST can collaborate with one of them. Additionally, if you know that a certain team has a certain number of balls at any point in the game, then if the ranking group that team is in never drops below 2 teams, then you will always know everyone in that ranking group will have that same amount of balls even if the original team drops out of that ranking group, due to the sheer unlikelihood of every team in a ranking group gaining or losing exactly the same amount of balls at the same time. Remember, it can be days between scoreboard changes. There is a good chance that every team already knows the tied for 5th ranking group have 3 balls each.

5. If you know CIN, HOW, and TEX each have 3, then MO through to UTEP must have 2 balls each

6. There are 28 teams with exactly one ball each. The 1 ball teams extend into the remaining teams section, where you normally would not be able to see rankings and wouldn’t be able to tell which ones are 1 ball teams and which ones are goose egg (0 ball) teams. However: all teams in the same rank are organized alphabetically, and you can see that the alphabetization resets between Washington State University and Air Force Academy. Therefore a MI ST player would be able to know there are 28 one ball teams.

So: 24+14+8+3*3+2*5+1*28=93

111-93=18 balls hidden off the field, one more than the number UAB is hiding in Stannard Rock Lighthouse

Will Michigan State find 18 missing balls alarming? I don’t know. Depends on the kind of story Jon Bois wants to write. I want to believe they will, starting a frenzy that uncovers UAB’s hidden dynasty as the most powerful team in the entire college bowl, which somehow forces UAB to resurrect their steamroller play One Last Time.

Maybe that’ll give Val something to talk about, other than loathsome mosquitoes lurking in limestone quarry ponds, which may or may not have contributed to the construction of the Empire State Building.

I can only say one thing for certain:

Stay in school, kids. It makes you better at cross-country football.

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i think i might have to start a 17776 blog this shit it too much /pos

[17776-enjoyer]

gonna start describing 17776 to friends as "big football"

maybe even big football and the sentient robots

[thatsmimi]

JUICE is launching on April 13th!

You can watch Juice's launch on ESA's youtube channel at 13:45 CEST (11:45 GMT/07:45 EST)

Schedule Milestones (CEST)

14:15 Juice launch on Ariane 5 14:42 Separation of Juice from Ariane 5 upper stage 14:51 Earliest expected time to acquire Juice’s signal 15:55 Solar array deployment expected to be completed

More details about the launch can be found here:

If you want to watch see off our space cowboy with other 17776/20020 fans, we are hosting a watch along event here at the Class of 17776-20020 (16+ only) discord server! Come join and hang out!

[paradise-and-cola]

[Image description: A list of prompts for the 2022 edition of 17776 Tober. The background is a Google Earth image of the Southeastern United States, from chapter 3 of 20020.

Large white text in the top center reads "17776 Tober". Small text in the upper left reads "an art challenge for October of 2022. concept and prompts by @paradise-and-cola". Small text in the upper right reads "17776 belongs to Jon Bois and the Secret Base team. image credit to Landsat, Copernicus & Google Earth."

Below are the 31 prompts, arranged in three columns, formatted so they look similar to the text Nine, Ten and Juice type out in the webcomic. The prompts are as follows:

year

state

television

probe

train

cave

team

transmission

question

time

pizza

radio

argument

goldfish

revelation

exam

observer

tornado

number

child

earth

intersection

battery

card

mistake

lake

stream

marathon

message

player

rest

End description.]

It is once again time for 17776tober, a daily art challenge for all fans of Jon Bois' Future Football universe and stories. Same rules as last year (if you can even call them rules) - do as many or as few prompts as you want, use any medium (visual art, writing, etc), and most importantly, have fun! You can also use the tag #17776tober to share your creations with other participants.

Last year's post can be viewed here, if you're interested.

[embarressment-erradicated]

WHAT!?!?!?!?!??

WHAT IS THIS WORK OF ART?

I love everything about this series