An apology from Jon
This is a statement from Jon Bois regarding his actions earlier Thursday. This statement is for immediate release.Punctuality is the politeness of kings.- Louis XVIIIEarlier today, while working from...
View ArticleReal America: A real-ass look at what the United States has been up to lately
All over the country, people pull out their phones and broadcast live Periscope video feeds to the world. Maybe it's because they're bored, or angry, or happy, or stoned. But they're here, for any damn...
View ArticleLUNCH JUDGMENT: Jon will rate your lunch between 1 and 10
Believe it or not, lunch has been around for years! Did you eat lunch today? Do you desire judgment? We are here for you.It has been nearly six months since the last episode of LUNCH JUDGMENT. Since...
View ArticleYou tend not to matter: An excavation of the crap-heap that was our 2015...
This year's fantasy football season has seemed like an especially unknowable hallucination. A lot of us drafted our way straight into the cellar. Let's see if we can fix some of your awful fantasy...
View ArticleWhat's wrong with these Lakers? And other questions that don't have easy answers
Despite being led by Byron Scott and a 37-year-old Kobe Bryant, the Lakers have stumbled to a 2-11 start. What gives? Here, Jon tries his best to answer that and other tough questions.What's wrong with...
View ArticleA eulogy for RadioShack, the panicked and half-dead retail empire
This may very well be RadioShack's final holiday season. Jon, a former employee, looks back on a strange, craven, five thousand-fingered strip-mall monster from a forgotten age.RadioShack won't be the...
View ArticleWhat the heck is a catch in the NFL, anyway? An explainer
The NFL can't ever seem to decide what a catch is and isn't. So how are we as fans supposed to know, anyway? Here's an explainer to help explain the rule book once and for all.* * *SB Nation presents:...
View ArticleWhat the heck is a catch in the NFL, anyway? An explainer
The NFL can't ever seem to decide what a catch is and isn't. So how are we as fans supposed to know, anyway? Here's an explainer to help explain the rule book once and for all.
View ArticleChart Party: Aaron Rodgers threw a Hail Mary that never, ever, ever happens
Last night's Packers-Lions game finished with one of the weirdest endings to a football game in the 21st century. Let's make some charts.Thursday night, the Lions did an absolutely miserable job of...
View ArticleChart Party: The Falcons are trash
That isn't a criticism or condemnation of the Atlanta Falcons. Someone has to be trash, and sometimes it's your turn, even if you started the season 5-0. Here is one of the worst collapses in NFL...
View ArticleThe Star Wars Holiday Special: Some folks are in space for the benefit of nobody
The Star Wars Holiday Special aired exactly one time in 1978. It never aired again, and it was never officially released, because it is one of the worst shows in the history of American television....
View ArticleMatt Cassel is a child of God
Over the weekend, Cowboys quarterback Matt Cassel threw what was perhaps the worst pass in NFL history: an interception so errant that it was also called for intentional grounding. It deserves...
View ArticleGriffey in '96: The campaign that forever changed the American political...
In 1996, Nike and Ken Griffey, Jr. launched the 'Griffey in '96' advertising campaign. 20 years later, we look back on one of the most dynamic political movements America has ever seen.By 1995, Ken...
View ArticlePretty Good, episode 5: 'NO!!!!!!'
We need to talk about a Saints-Jaguars game from 2003. The end of it was so statistically unlikely that it probably won't happen again until the 35th century. I'll tell you about it, but I won't tell...
View ArticleI am going to watch the Super Bowl
Jon is going to watch the Super Bowl. Here's why.1. I'm a big football fanI've watched at least part of every Super Bowl since Super Bowl XXIII in 1989, when I was six. To boot, I've watched the last...
View ArticleThe 5 people you meet at every Super Bowl Party
The Super Bowl is like every other holiday, in that it's rife with cliché and its participants are entirely predictable. Here is a guide to the five people who will be at every Super Bowl party in...
View ArticlePretty Good, episode 6: The Dumbest Boy Alive
In 2008, there was an argument on a message board. It was closed two days later. Since then, it has been viewed more than three million times. It is perhaps the dumbest argument in the history of the...
View ArticleDave, The Bracket
There are more than 100 Daves or Davids in the world! Here are 64 of them. Narrow down this bracket to the best Dave, hit Submit, and find out how right you are.
View ArticleThe Dave Bracket, explained
Need a guide to The Dave Bracket? Well you're in luck.DAVID ARQUETTE is perhaps the only world champion of any sport who didn't want to be champion. As the sun was setting on the now-defunct WCW,...
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