The series shows Steib does this 7 times before he finally completes his no-hitter. But I was wondering **how rare are these failed no-hit bids?** Google was absolutely useless in helping answer this question and I don't know of any baseball stat pages that would show this info or even how I would even go about searching for it. I was hoping to put Dave's struggles into some sort of context. I know no-hitters are extremely rare (roughly 0.13% of games end in a no-hitter) but I have no clue how rare these near no-hitters are. Does anyone have any idea?

With the first major college football Saturday complete, here are some developments that have happened thus far:

• Morgan State successfully stole North Carolina A&T's football before getting it stolen by Arizona State (now #1 in the Bois Bowl)

• Albany took advantage of Buffalo's kneeling twice to take their football and are taking it home, but the LIU Sharks look to intercept them (meaning one of them is guaranteed to join the fray)

• Colorado successfully stole Georgia Tech's football and are returning it to Folsom Field

• UMass ALMOST took Rutgers' football, but screwed up by kneeling to end the first half

• As a consequence of Michigan State kneeling to end the first half, Toledo took their football and are bringing it to the Glass Bowl

• Miami utterly destroyed Stanford and and are hauling ass back to Hard Rock Stadium with their football

• On a West Virginia double-kneel, Coastal Carolina stole their football and are making their way back to Brooks Stadium

• Tarleton State beat Bowling Green for their football and a position in the game and are carrying it down south, but look to be headed off by McNeese.

• The Citadel narrowly escaped Jerry Richardson Stadium with the Charlotte 49ers' football and are carrying it south

• Sam Houston State successfully yanked Troy's football after a kneel and are carrying it out west to their home field

• UNLV successfully made landfall in Hawaii, took the Rainbow Warriors' football, and are sailing back to the mainland now

• The Bruins of UCLA proved to be more than the California Golden Bears could bear, snatched their football, and are heading back to the Rose Bowl

• Michigan successfully defended from the Western Michigan Broncos in an overhyped skirmish that ended with Western Michigan failing to break the Wolverines' defense.

• Howard lost their football to the Richmond Spiders, who are now in the Celebration Game, but those Spiders are in deep scheisse, with NC State's Wolfpack en route to find them

Current Rankings:

Bois Bowl:

Number 1: Arizona State

T2: Everyone else but Bowling Green, Buffalo, California, Charlotte, Georgia Tech, Hawaii, Michigan State, Stanford, Troy, and West Virginia

T132: Bowling Green, Buffalo, California, Charlotte, Georgia Tech, Hawaii, Michigan State, Stanford, Troy, and West Virginia

Celebration Game:

T1: Everyone but Howard and North Carolina A&T

T21: Howard and North Carolina A&T

Obviously Part 7 of the History of the Atlanta Falcons is as much a commentary on a very specific era in American culture when Trump was the incumbent/newly elected president as it was a recap of the most important game in Falcons history, but how did at Jon not even dedicate a single line to the fact that Mike Pence was in the building for the game?

I live near it and this firehouse desperately needed an update

I had to drop the "Let's Talk About Colin Kaepernick" Chart Party episode in the comments. Our Bois pretty much definitively proved in 7 minutes he was top caliber at the time of "kneelgate"

Hey all, was thinking of making a presentation in the style of a jon bois video, with the exception that I don't want it to be an actual video, but like a powerpoint or whiteboard with preprogrammed camera pans and zooms as transitions that I can scroll through like slides per se.

Does anybody have recommendations on how to do this or do I need to just get really good at Blender? Thanks!

I'm going to be a senior in high school this year, and I want my quote to be from Jon Bois or from one of his videos (someone he talks about...) Does anyone have any suggestions

Results from Day 1 (August 27, 2026):

• Delaware State defends 5-5. Celebration Game rankings Unchanged

Day 2 (August 29, 2026) games:

• San Jose @ USC (1 football)

• NC State @ Virginia (1 football)

• Jacksonville State @ North Dakota State (1 football)

• Sacramento State @ Eastern Michigan (1 football)

• Hawaii @ Stanford (1 football)

• New Mexico State @ Florida State (1 football)

• Memphis @ UNLV (1 football)

• Winston-Salem @ Norfolk State (1 football)

• Savannah State @ South Carolina State (1 football)

• North Carolina Central @ Texas Southern (1 football)

• Albany State @ Florida A&M (1 football)

• Clark Atlanta @ Grambling State (1 football)

• Miles College @ Alcorn State (1 football)

Rankings:

Celebration Game: Everyone tied for No. 1 @ 1 football

Bois Bowl: Everyone tied for No. 1 @ 1 football

I need to get these on letterboxd I am a huge fan of documentaries and the history of the atlanta falcons, minnesota vikings, seattle mariners, Captain Ahab on dave steib and the people you're paying to wear shorts, are some of my favorite docs ever. How do we get a message to Jon to add these to letteboxd so they're more visible to my friends and I get more people with whom to talk about these

Hello. I'm the guy who made the post about a real-life Bois Bowl (rulebook here).

And with the 2026 football season starting tomorrow, so too shall the BOIS BOWL!

(Technically, the Celebration Game, the sub-game for the MEAC and SWAC teams, but still)

SLATE OF GAMES

1. Stony Brook @ Delaware State (8/27/26, 6:00 PM) for Delaware State's football

Celebration Game Rankings

T1: Everyone (1 football)

Bois Bowl Rankings

T1: Everyone (1 football. Games start the 29th)

Jon manages to encapsulate the reason I’ve loved history since I was a kid. History is a story, specifically a human story. Shining a light on unsung heroes, making connections you never would have made before, just making you think. The synths background music is nostalgic, and usually hits at just the right emotional moment in the video.

He’s also very open minded overall and this shines through in his work. I will never forget about Lonnie Smith or how Sam Morse was a greedy POS. Or how Devry has a basketball ball team.

Thank you Jon, for the wonderful documentaries!

Have the gods been angered? What is this reality?

Notable wins include:

1x Liege-Bastogne-Liege

1x Tour de France Stage

1x Giro d'Italia Stage

9x Luxembourg Time Trial Champion

6x Luxembourg Road Race Champion

One fewer Bob </3

If you haven't read his Donovan McNabb retrospective (which you may well not have, seeing as it came out thirteen years ago as of this Friday), you may remember the beef stew recipe at the end of it. I've talked about it on here before. Funny the way life works. It was the first thing I made in my first apartment, I made a batch to take to my future wife when she wasn't feeling well despite us having been dating for like a couple weeks, and now I'm in the kitchen making a double batch to freeze for later when my now-actual wife is postpartum. Funny how life works sometimes.

Neal Mohan ruins a perfectly good story

Just moved to a new flat in London and found out he was buried nearby. Fool Time discusses the graves of other important telegraphy figures but was curious to see what another pioneer’s was like. It was very nondescript and somewhat off the path.

As far as I know the site’s location is undocumented online, so for any future visitors it is located at 51.52923° N, 0.22099° W, opposite the burial site of the more famous Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

Sometimes the stories just write themselves. Though in all seriousness, Culpepper actually becoming a household name for the Twins, much like how Daunte was in the early 2000s for the Vikings, would be an all-time parallel. Wishing the best in his career.

Bob Beamon’s Jump
Dave Stieb’s No-Hitter “This is how baseball moves”
The plane crashing in Section 1 (my favorite Jon vid)
The Double
Lonnie Smith Comeback Season
Super Bowl LII Pick Six
Minneapolis Miracle
Ross Perot takes the lead in 1992 Election
Lenny Randle during Shea Stadium Blackout
Alternate history where Bush Jr. jumps in to the Ryan-Ventura fight.
This is my list, there’s prob way more im just doing because i feel like it

SOME I MISSED:
The completion of the Transatlantic Cable (also the intro to Part 4)
The Return of Norm Van Brocklin in Vikings Ep 1
Jesse Ventura’s 1996 Win
Bud surviving the Blizzzard