EVERYBODY PLAYS A LEGEND

THE
TAILGATE

Two season-long football games. Eight weekly picks. Zero dollars. Unlimited trash talk.

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352

Teams on the board

1,883

Games this season

30

Badges to chase

$0

At stake, ever

ONE APP · TWO TITLES

THE TWO GAMES

Four picks a week per game, each with its own leaderboard, its own tiebreakers, and its own champion. Play one, play both. Most points at the end of the regular season takes the title.

🎓 COLLEGE PICK'EM

Saturdays. The original. Rooted in your league's home turf.

Regional Game

Pick the straight-up winner of any game involving a team from your league's home states. Ride a favorite for 1, or call an upset for up to 5.

1–5 PTS

Top Underdog

Take the FPI underdog in any rated matchup, and an outright win pays the full FPI gap. Slay a giant rated 17 points better, bank 17.

FPI GAP

Against the Spread

Any game, either side, beat the line. Spreads lock Thursday at noon so nobody line-shops.

1 PT

The Outlier

Call the week's highest or lowest scoring game, your choice which extreme. Read the whole slate, not just one matchup.

UP TO 3

Ties broken by underdog points, then ATS wins. Co-champions split the bragging rights, awkwardly.

🔥 NFL BURN BOOK

Sundays. Higher stakes. Every team you use turns to ash.

Survivor

One team to win, straight up. Win or lose, they're burned for the season. 32 teams, 18 weeks. Spend the Chiefs wisely.

2 PTS

Longshot

Pick an underdog to win outright and bank the spread. A +7.5 dog that shocks the world pays 8.

THE SPREAD

Lock

Your sure thing of the week. Right? One point. Wrong? Minus one, plus a week of the Water Cooler reminding you.

+1 / −1

Bullseye

Call the final combined score of the standalone game everyone's watching. Within 3 pays 3, within 7 pays 1.

UP TO 3

💎 Sweep Survivor, Longshot, and Lock in one week for a +2 bonus. Ties broken by longshot points, then survivor wins.

A WEEK AT THE TAILGATE

1

Make your picks

Eight picks, two minutes, phone-friendly. NFL lines lock Wednesday at noon, college lines Thursday. Forgot? We'll email you before it's too late.

2

Kickoff means locked

Change your mind all week, but the moment a game kicks off, that pick is frozen. That's also when everyone else's picks are revealed. No copying homework.

3

Watch it play out

Live scores flow in on game day with an "on track / in trouble" read for every pick. Scoring is automatic. No spreadsheet, no arguments. Well, fewer arguments.

4

Face the recap

The weekly recap email names the winners, the losers, and the new badge owners. Then the Water Cooler opens for business.

THE HARDWARE

The championship takes eighteen weeks. Badges you can win on any given Saturday. Thirteen of them, earned once and kept forever, from gimmes to one that may never be seen.

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OPENING KICKOFF

Save your first pick. Welcome to The Tailgate.

Common
🗡️

GIANT SLAYER

Win a Top Underdog worth 12 or more points.

Uncommon
🚀

MOON SHOT

Win a Longshot worth 7 or more points.

Uncommon
🧊

ICE COLD

Win your Lock five weeks in a row.

Rare
💔

BAD BEAT

Lose an Against the Spread pick by a single point or less. Condolences.

Uncommon
🧹

CLEAN SWEEP

Win all eight picks across both games in the same week.

Legendary

…plus seven more, including a few nobody has figured out how to earn yet.

THE FINE PRINT

Want every clause? The full rulebook has you covered.

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