Your premium pass to football’s inner sanctum
A large-format football magazine for people who still study the game, remember its people, and keep its artifacts. Published twice a year. Print-only, limited-edition, and built to be kept.
Annual: $119 per year. Lifetime: $500 once, limited to the first 200 lifetime subscribers.
Issue 001: Winter 2027. Planned delivery before Super Bowl 2027. You are subscribing ahead of publication; the first issue is not shipping today.
Here is why I’m building Gridiron Aficionado, and what I want it to become. A football publication with enough room for the stories that deserve to remain.
Choose an annual subscription or subscribe for life with one payment. Both bring you the same collector-grade print magazine.
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$119 per year
Two issues a year. Each one made to stand on its own, and to belong beside the next.
Limited to the first 200 lifetime subscribers
$500 once
One payment. The twice-yearly print subscription for life.
The 200-person limit applies to the lifetime subscription offer, not to the entire first printing. Both plans receive the same magazine.
Some football stories need more room. Room for the photograph you have never seen. The coaching idea explained properly. The recollection that changes the way you understand a game you thought you knew.
Gridiron Aficionado gives those stories space in a large-format print publication, made to be read slowly and revisited. Two issues a year, each intended to stand on its own.
A physical publication for the shelf, the desk, and the coffee table.
A place in the printed record, not another file in a downloads folder.
History, coaching, strategy, overlooked figures, and the culture around the game.
No newsstand hunt. No digital edition in place of the object.
The Editorial Promise
Twice a year, we bring together a carefully chosen collection of football stories, photographs, ideas, and voices. Every issue is a curated surprise. The contents change. The standard does not.
Some pages will take you deeper into the game you know. Others will introduce you to a person, a place, or a piece of football history you might never have gone looking for. Each volume is made to reward your curiosity and earn its place on your shelf.
I have spent my life in football, on sidelines and in publishing. The things I return to are rarely the loudest opinions. They are the conversations, the notebooks, the photographs, and the details somebody took the trouble to preserve.
That is the work I want Gridiron Aficionado to do. Give the game’s best stories enough room, treat the reader with respect, and make something worth keeping.
Gridiron Aficionado is a large-format, collector-grade football magazine published twice a year. This purchase is for the print magazine, not a paid email newsletter or digital edition.
Issue 001 is planned for Winter 2027, with delivery before Super Bowl 2027. You are subscribing ahead of publication; the first issue is not shipping today.
Two print issues per subscription year. Your subscription begins with Issue 001.
Yes. Annual and Lifetime are two ways to subscribe to the same print publication. Lifetime changes how you pay, not the magazine you receive.
No. The 200-person limit applies to the $500 Lifetime subscription offer, not to the entire first printing.
No. The magazine is print-only by design. The Show, essays, and Kept are separate ways to follow the work between print editions.
The first volume is where the collection begins. Choose how you want to receive it, and the volumes that follow.
Lifetime subscriptions are limited to the first 200 purchasers.
Thoughts, stories and ideas.
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