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What Comes With Your Subscription
A year inside football’s inner sanctum — in print, and built to last.
Both premium issues this year — large-format, coffee-table quality, published twice per year.
A numbered copy of the collector's first edition — one of only 1,000 ever printed.
Your founding rate, locked — $147/year, the lowest it will ever be.
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Built to Remain
Most football media is designed to disappear. A take goes up, trends for an afternoon, and is buried by the next one before the night's over. That's not coverage — it's noise engineered to be forgotten.
Gridiron Aficionado is the opposite of all of it. Print creates permanence, and permanence changes how a story is read, valued, and remembered. This is a magazine built for the shelf, not the feed — oversized, numbered, printed on premium stock, and made to be held, revisited, and handed down.
“Built for the shelf, not the feed.”
I've spent my life inside this game — as a player, a coach, and a publisher. I'm building Gridiron Aficionado because football's best stories deserve to be printed and kept, not scrolled past and forgotten. If that's how you feel about the game too, I'd be honored to have you in the first edition.
— Manny Matsakis, Founder
A First Edition That Will Never Be Reprinted
The first issue of Gridiron Aficionado will be printed once, numbered, and never reprinted. One thousand copies — and then it's finished. No second run. No revised version. No digital reprint.
Records fall. Rosters turn over. The feed forgets by morning. Print is the one place football still keeps its word. Your first edition is a numbered, collector-grade volume, built to sit on a shelf for decades and be handed down.
It is not a periodical. It is an object.
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✓ First access to limited Aficionado merch drops
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✓ Delivered before the Super Bowl
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