FANQPlaybook

You’ve watched a hundred games.
Nobody ever taught you one.

FanQ teaches football in order. 72 lessons, about five minutes each, from where the ball is to what the officials are checking on a replay. Everything through this week opens the moment you install, and the rest opens three a week as the season goes. By the end you’ll follow all of it, without asking anyone what just happened.

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The first three lessons are free. After that it’s $29 once, for the 2026 Founding Season.

The FanQ Home screen: the season bar, the week’s three lessons with the next one marked, the Sunday Card slot, and Start Lesson

Everyone in the room reacts before you know where to look.

You’ll spend something like fifty hours watching football this season. More than most college courses take.

At the end of it you’ll know roughly what you know now. Watching isn’t teaching. The broadcast assumes you’re already fluent, and the announcers use the words without ever stopping to define them.

Looking it up mid-game doesn’t work either. By the time you’ve found the answer the play is over and you’ve missed the next three.

The lesson

Here’s what a lesson actually does.

Four screens, about five minutes. A Pre-Snap Read sets up the question. The Film Session teaches it one beat at a time, and where there is a call to make it asks you before it shows you. A quick check follows every beat. The Locker Room ends on what to watch for on Sunday.

The first three lessons are free. This is one of them.

A Film Session beat from Lesson 2 in the FanQ player: the lesson bug, the drive strip, the beat heading and the reading column
A beat. Lesson 2, free.
The quick check that follows the beat, answered correctly, with the explanation under Good Call
The quick check after it.

How it’s paced

Start today. Everything through this week is open.

The first three are free, and everyone starts there. Install mid-season and every lesson the season has already reached is waiting for you, the day you arrive.

From there the lessons open three a week, matched to the season’s calendar, so what you learn this week is what you’ll see on Sunday. Where a lesson sits is decided by the season, not by anything you kept alive.

Miss a week and you catch up. Nothing punishes you, because nothing is counting. Every lesson you’ve bought is yours for good, in any month.

  1. PreFree
  2. Wk 1
  3. Wk 2
  4. Wk 3
  5. Wk 4
  6. Wk 5
  7. Wk 6
  8. Wk 7
  9. Wk 8
  10. Wk 9
  11. Wk 10
  12. Wk 11
  13. Wk 12
  14. Wk 13
  15. Wk 14
  16. Wk 15
  17. Wk 16
  18. Wk 17
  19. Wk 18
  20. Wild Card
  21. Divisional
  22. Conference
  23. Off Week
  24. Title Game
a lesson that week’s Sunday Card
The Season tab in the FanQ app: a map of the 24 weeks, three lesson ticks and a Sunday Card slot in each
The Season tab. One cell per week, kept forever.

While the season is on

One thing to watch for. Monday, did you spot it?

During the regular season a Sunday Card lands on your Home screen: a single thing to watch for, drawn from what you’ve already covered. Monday it asks whether you spotted it.

That last button is the whole product. Not whether you finished a lesson. Whether you said it out loud.

The card is always drawn from what you’ve covered. Keep pace with the season and it’s about this week’s lesson.

The card shown here is Lesson 2’s instruction.

Sunday Card

Next time you have a shot of the entire field, count it in three pieces: ten yards, a hundred yards, ten yards.

Spot it in any game today — check in tomorrow

Did you spot it?

I saw it
I said it out loud
Missed it

Honest answers only — missing it costs nothing.

Game Ball

It’s on your Season page. That’s the whole point of this app working.

Where this takes you

Sentences you’ll say before the announcer does.

Every lesson ends on something to watch for. A few lessons in, these are yours, in the lessons’ own words:

  • PreseasonOwn 30, so they’ve got 70 to go.
  • Week 1Ball’s at the 25, so that’s a 42-yard try.
  • Week 3The play clock’s under five. They have to snap it or lose 5 yards.

And later in the season

  • what the officials are actually checking when they review a catch
  • why coaches kick, and why they sometimes go for it instead
  • what actually decides games

That is the fundamentals, finished. You can stay right there. Plenty of people watch happily for decades at exactly that level and never want more.

Or come back in 2027, when Module 2 goes deeper.

The offer

$29once
  • All 72 lessons, kept for good. Take them at any speed, in any month. The first three are free.
  • Everything through this week is open the day you arrive. The rest opens three a week as the season goes, through the championship.
  • A Sunday Card most weeks of the regular season, and the Monday check-in.
  • Your season on one map. Game Balls, weeks covered, and your Season Score, which is what the lessons add up to across the year.
$29 for the 2026 Founding Season. It’s a Season Pass, not a subscription. Nothing renews, so there is nothing to cancel.
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You buy the pass in the app. Nothing is charged on this page.

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A short card most Sundays, one thing to watch for in that day’s games. No scores, no recaps.

Check your email and click the confirmation link. That last step is what puts you on the list.

Who this is for.

This is for you if

  • You watch with friends or family but don’t follow closely
  • Your kid plays and you want to understand it better
  • Your partner watches and you’re trying to keep up
  • You’d rather understand the rule than memorize the highlight

This isn’t for you if

  • You already follow closely
  • You want scores, highlights, or news. There are apps for that, and they do it well
  • You’d rather look things up occasionally than learn in order