the part I related to was Jon saying he tried slipping on a bananas peel on purpose. One time as a kid I gave myself a papercut "to see what it was like"
Lucky you then that @jonbois.bsky.social and @secretbase.bsky.social have been making some fantastic videos like this for awhile now. Personal favorites of mine are “Fighting in the age of loneliness” and the series on the Minnesota Vikings.
Jon Bois' videos are basically all can't-miss even if you don't care much for sports; he has a wonderful eye for the human part of a story. But I'd like to encourage you & anyone else reading this to go read 17776, his mostly-text speculative fiction piece 'about' american football in the far future
If you’re genuinely new to Jon Bois then I am so happy for you. Go watch the Bob Emergency. Any video essayist is improved by watching Bois, although it also may throw you into a technical hellscape when you try to emulate his style. (Ask Bobby Broccoli.)
Not a video and not... *not* sports, but his stories 17776 and 20020 are fantastic works of.. sci-fi? About a fictional football game thousands of years into an immortal future.
I’ll try to remember to come back to this later with some of what you’re actually asking for, but for now let me say that I also do not care about sports even a teeny tiny bit. His videos aren’t about sports, they’re about the madness of humanity, which sometimes expresses itself through sports.
hope you go down a rabbit hole of jon's content now, because it's unbeatable. the "every single thing is an overlay in Google Earth" method is like if you were somehow connecting a mechanical computer from 1944 to the internet to post, but it really emphasizes his "anything can be interesting" credo
I understand if the lord will not forgive me, but this sent me into hysterics. I hope he made wacky sound effects and and a goofy face when it happened.
The image of someone waking up (either from the gunshot or the next morning) and walking downstairs while stretching and yawning to see that scene and have to piece together what must have happened is certainly unsettling.
god dude the work of jon bois & secret base is fuckin incredible
(a side note for people who don't know anything about secret base: a lot of their stuff is sports related but still incredibly approachable for non-sports people, i promise you'll love it)
him, William Lytle and the dude who fell out his third storey window and landed on his feet are living in my head rent free. Need them and the one woman who kept scamming insurance claims as the Banana Peel Expendables.
I mean, the dude who supposedly slipped on 10 banana peels. Specifically, the wedding aisle banana peel.
While I’m sure most slips were lies, I’m sure he wouldn’t shut up about them. So everyone gets fed up and some legend cousin threw one in the aisle. Just imagine the scene! The reaction!
Cut to a scene of Our Hero William Lytle in an alley, filthy, clothes covered in browning peel gore, drinking a bottle of 99 bananas from a paper bag, shouting to passersby about the plantain conspiracy.
Cut to an older, resigned Lytle in a faded yellow suit tying the noose around the ceiling rafter, carefully positioning the stool underneath, and gently placing the banana peel on the seat. Cut to black. The sound of a slide whistle and a sickening crack. Credits.
One time I saw a guy slip on a banana peel on a subway platform. He didn't fall down though, just slid about a foot. If he fell it would have been the greatest moment of my life.
reminds me of the leo vader video. to think all of these people had moments like that. you think the guy that slipped like 100 times had that moment every time?
I once saw a man in a nice suit on cap hill walking toward a banana peel spot it last second and adjust his gait to not step on it and damn that man forever for robbing me of a pure joy.
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we had no idea how far he'd go
https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P52G4Kyq5M&t=35s
https://youtu.be/L02gl9YoSFg?si=H1e5tVJtuArZT0Lv
(a side note for people who don't know anything about secret base: a lot of their stuff is sports related but still incredibly approachable for non-sports people, i promise you'll love it)
While I’m sure most slips were lies, I’m sure he wouldn’t shut up about them. So everyone gets fed up and some legend cousin threw one in the aisle. Just imagine the scene! The reaction!
Him, to the newspaper: we broke up because she couldn't handle being married to the banana guy. Too afraid of my curse