Jon Bois

Every team has its highs and lows, frustration, heartbreak, greatness and confusion, but no other team is like this one. The Seattle Mariners are eminently lovable, profoundly human and stunningly, outrageously weird. (imdb)

On February 5th, 2017, millions flocked to the bandwagon of the Atlanta Falcons, the protagonists of the first-ever politically-charged Super Bowl. Newcomers to the Falcons saw a buttoned-up team that had caught fire and was taking care of business week in and week out. But there was so much about this team that they did not understand. So much they could not know. (letterboxd)

For more than a century, many of our greatest sports heroes were named Bob. It seemed as though that would never change. Why would it? Why did it? Where did they go? (imdb)

The Pittsburgh Steelers of the 1970s won four Super Bowls and fielded some of the greatest teams ever assembled. However, the most important game they ever played was not a Super Bowl, but a 1976 playoff matchup against the Baltimore Colts. Though they couldn't possibly have known it in the moment, lives were on the line. (imdb)

Throughout its history, mixed martial arts have served as a refuge for people disillusioned and confounded by the world at large. The sport was invented by those who were thought too small, evolved by those who were thought too poor, and enjoyed by outsiders who just wanted to find some measure of escape within the honesty of primal combat, even if only for a few hours on a Saturday night. It's no accident that it has become so massively popular in such a lonely time. (imdb)

It’s 2011. For Michael Jordan, the year ahead will be a very strange one. Once a player who could seemingly deliver championships through sheer force of will, the owner of the Charlotte Bobcats is finally developing the one skill he had always denied himself: patience. Nothing about that is easy, and nothing about the lovable, unforgettable 2011-2012 Bobcats will be easy. But as much as he despises losing, Mike has always seemed to love the struggle. (youtube)

To punt is to give up, and in the 21st century, NFL teams have given up nearly 50,000 times. Most of those punts were reasonable decisions. But a few were so cowardly, and in such defiance of all reason, that they must not be forgotten. (imdb)