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A full Jeopardy-style board built entirely around your team’s history, lore, disasters, and occasional moments of glory. Four categories. Five clues each. $200 through $1,000. The $1,000 questions are genuinely hard. We verified every fact. We are not kidding about that part. Click on any one of the boxes and start the game!
| The Flight Plan | The Dirty Bird Era | The Stefanski Rebuild | Twenty-Eight to Three |
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| $400 | $400 | $400 | $400 |
| $600 | $600 | $600 | $600 |
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Nine satirical classified ads, three columns, all team-specific. FOR SALE. WANTED. LOST & FOUND. HELP WANTED. ANNOUNCEMENT. NOTICE. PERSONALS. OBITUARIES. The CONTACT line is always the punchline. Always.
Cousins signed a $100 million guaranteed contract with Atlanta in 2024. He started before losing his job to M. Penix Jr. He was released in 2026. The Falcons then signed Tua Tagovailoa for $1.3 million. The contrast between the Cousins contract and the Tagovailoa contract has been noted by everyone. The contrast is $98.7 million wide. Both left-handers are competing. The competition is genuine. The price differential is also genuine.
The Falcons have M. Penix Jr., who tore his ACL in his ninth game and is recovering. They have Tua Tagovailoa, who was released by Miami after throwing 15 interceptions in 14 games in 2025. Both are left-handed. Both have legitimate NFL talent. Both have significant injury or consistency concerns. K. Stefanski has confirmed he is equipped to coach through quarterback uncertainty in Atlanta.
Penix was the No. 8 overall pick in 2024. He lost his job to Cousins before taking it back. He tore his ACL in November 2025 in his ninth game. He is recovering and has said he will be ready for the opener. Tagovailoa is emerging as the early training camp favorite in Penix's absence. Penix has confirmed he is competing. Both left-handers are competing while one is recovering.
The Falcons are the only team in NFL history — outside two previous cases in 1991 and 1997 — with two left-handed quarterbacks on their roster simultaneously. K. Stefanski has said he will let the competition determine the starter. Tagovailoa is the early favorite due to Penix's injury recovery. The competition will be resolved by Week 1 at the latest.
The Atlanta Falcons announce that the quarterback competition between M. Penix Jr. and Tua Tagovailoa is genuine. K. Stefanski has a plan. The defense under J. Ulbrich, retained from the previous regime, is considered a strength. The Falcons went 8–9 in 2025 and missed the NFC South tiebreaker. Both left-handers believe they are the reason 2026 will be different.
Morris coached the Falcons from 2024 to 2025. The team finished 8–9 in 2025 and lost the NFC South title on a tiebreaker. He was dismissed. K. Stefanski was hired. The defense Morris helped build was retained under J. Ulbrich. The quarterback situation was addressed by acquiring Tagovailoa and retaining Penix. The two left-handers are the most visible element of the transition.
The Atlanta Falcons formally notify the NFC South that they have M. Penix Jr. and Tua Tagovailoa competing for the starting role — the only team in the modern NFL with two left-handed quarterbacks simultaneously. The Panthers have B. Young in Year 4. The Saints have T. Shough in Year 2. The Buccaneers have B. Mayfield in a contract year. The Falcons have K. Stefanski, who has been through championship-adjacent seasons in Cleveland without winning one.
Falcons Nation, lifelong, Atlanta and beyond. Have watched the Cousins era. Have watched Penix lose and reclaim and lose to injury the starting job. Have Tua Tagovailoa for $1.3 million, compared to the $100 million Cousins amount. Have K. Stefanski, who has a plan and a defense. Would like a settled quarterback situation by September. Have been patient with the unsettled situation.
Passed at the end of the 2025 regular season, when the Falcons finished 8–9 in a three-way tie for first in the NFC South and lost the tiebreaker to the Carolina Panthers. It had a strong finish and a strong defense. It had M. Penix Jr. for nine games before the ACL. It did not win the division. It is survived by K. Stefanski, J. Ulbrich, and two left-handed quarterbacks, all considered motivation for 2026.
A full team-specific Top Ten list. Completely deadpan. Treats every item with total journalistic seriousness. The list below is a sample. Yours will be specific to your team’s particular situation, history, and ongoing triumphs and disasters.
Seven team-specific fake eBay listings, ready to go every cycle, styled exactly like the real site — photo, description, seller, and current bid. The items are always something your team has misplaced, squandered, or never possessed. Reserve has not been met, and never may be met.
One team-specific Outer Limits Enquirer front page, every cycle. Completely straight-faced. It sells itself — that’s how funny it is.
Four new proposed NFL rules, each presented with complete regulatory seriousness. The title is always “THE NFL COMPETITION COMMITTEE PROPOSES:” followed by the rule name. Three to five sentences of deadpan satire. A new batch of four rules, every seven-week cycle.
Effective immediately, any player who is visibly sad after a penalty will be allowed to challenge the call on emotional grounds. The replay official will review the player’s expression in slow motion. If certified “genuinely devastated” by a panel of three therapists stationed in the press box, the penalty is waived. The Dallas Cowboys have already filed 847 pre-season challenges.
Starting in 2026, head coaches will be required to answer one post-game question with complete honesty. The question will be selected at random by a wheel spin. Early testing was abandoned after three coaches resigned, one cried, and Bill Belichick’s honest answer was legally classified as a threat.
In an effort to make fumbles less discouraging, any fumble recovered by the opposing team will now be referred to as an “unintentional lateral.” The player who fumbled will receive a certificate of effort. The team that recovered it will receive six points. Both outcomes will be celebrated equally on the official broadcast.
All play-by-play announcers will now be graded in real time by a panel of former players. Phrases such as “he just wanted it more,” “that’s a football player right there,” and “you cannot teach that” will trigger an automatic fine of $500 per occurrence. Early projections suggest the league will be debt-free by Week 3.
A fully illustrated satirical children’s book, team-specific, written for the fan who has a child who needs to understand why Sunday afternoons are like this. The illustrations are beautiful. The subject matter is not. Both things are intentional.
In the upcoming weeks and months with your paid subscription, you can also look forward to titles like these:
“I explained the two-left-handed-quarterbacks situation to my coworker, a Saints fan. He just stared at me. I don’t blame him.”— R. Okafor, Midtown Atlanta · 4-Month Subscriber
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