Jon Bois is an American sports writer, video producer, and YouTuber.
20 Facts About Jon Bois
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Jon Bois is the creative director at SB Nation, a sports blogging network.
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Jon Bois is known for his documentary videos and their unique style.
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Jon Bois is the inventor of the concept of scorigami.
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Jon Bois was born on September 24,1982, in Kansas City, Kansas, and grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, until moving to Atlanta, Georgia, aged nine.
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Jon Bois worked at RadioShack sometime in the early to mid 2000s, later publishing multiple articles detailing his personal experiences as an employee.
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Jon Bois started as an editor at SB Nation in 2009.
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From 2013 to 2015, Jon Bois published "Breaking Madden," a series of articles in which he created unusual football scenarios in the Madden NFL video games.
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In May 2015, Jon Bois published the first episode of a documentary video series called Pretty Good.
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In 2016, Jon Bois began another documentary video series called "Chart Party," in which he used statistical analysis to explore and understand sports stories.
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In July 2017, Jon Bois published a serialized multimedia narrative called 17776, a work of speculative fiction describing unusual forms of American football played in the distant future.
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Jon Bois began a sequel to 17776, entitled 20020, in September 2020.
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In 2018, Jon Bois collaborated with Felix Biederman of Chapo Trap House on the five-part documentary Fighting In the Age of Loneliness, presented in style influenced by British documentary filmmaker Adam Curtis, which focuses on the development of Mixed Martial Arts from the early development of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Vale Tudo in the development of more complex fighting styles.
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In 2019, Jon Bois released a two-part series on professional athletes named Bob.
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Jon Bois has previously written on this topic, referring to it as "The Bob Famine" in a 2012 article about Bob Sanders, believed to be the last Bob in major American sports.
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Similar to Jon Bois's earlier "Breaking Madden", it consists of using in-game mechanics of sports video games to create unusual scenarios, usually with fan input.
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Jon Bois has a very distinctive audiovisual style, heavily utilizing Google Earth as a medium in which to place various visuals, making heavy use of newspaper articles, charts, and timelines to create a collage that builds over the runtime of a video.
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Jon Bois has been praised for making them accessible to a general audience in a way that makes them interesting and gripping, rather than background material.
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Jon Bois's work has been noted to cover less successful teams.
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Jon Bois got married in June 2021, and became a father in October 2024.