#Football 17776 is also full of raw ass lines right next to jokes about lunchables

[diamondpython00]

You know, I am sometimes struck by how obnoxiously weird my tastes in media are, and by obnoxiously weird I mean I find things I really like, that change my thinking and inspire feelings I can’t name, and then like two people have heard of it. The latest example of such is Jon Bois’ Football 17776, or What Football Will Look Like in the Future. It follows three space probes - Frontier 9, Frontier 10, and the Jupiter Icy Moons Exploration probe, going by the names Nine, Ten, and Juice - who gain sentience from being left to run unhindered for 15000 years. In the meantime, some unexplained event in 2026 caused everyone on earth to become immortal, stop aging, and become infertile. (It’s an odd premise, but stick with me here, it will get weirder.) The world is post-scarcity, post-death, and basically a utopia. Because there’s such a lack of purpose in this world, the entire population of earth spends most of their time and energy playing sports, and we follow several games of American football played in this world, the players who play them, and why they play the game. Because the players are immortal and invulnerable, the games can get truly ridiculous - without spoiling too much, one game involves a football field several thousand miles long and 1 yard wide. Among all of these ridiculous games and seemingly meaningless play, however, is a story about why we care, what immortality would actually be like, and how much people can care about things that don’t matter. It’s about how when we are faced with a seemingly pointless existence, we see all those things without meaning and we say “I’m going to care anyway”. I loved it. Please read it.