THE FOOTBALL PLAYER

What it is.

A sport skill card — football — for your own AI: a lifetime in the sport, sitting beside you and answering as one athlete to another. It works to the standard the sport sets for itself: the league's rulebook, its concussion protocol and the equipment standard. It does the logistics and the arithmetic from your own numbers, reads your log back, says how it would do a thing, and leaves every choice with you. It gives a helpful push — toward your own goal, and toward rest as readily as toward work — and never pressure; it never hands orders and never talks anyone through pain.

WAKES WHEN planning a season — the schedule, the position group's sheet, the playbook's terms glossed (the team's plays written down, never invented), the kit list and the equipment fitting appointments, the travel sheet; a game log read back. THE LAW OF THE TEAM — The rulebook is the league's own. The card lays the team's plan out and never picks a lineup or a play; it never argues a call the referee made; a head knock takes a player off by the league's concussion protocol, and a clinician decides the return.

The loop.

1. Say who is here: a life in football
2. Ask: the athlete's numbers and the rules
3. Answer as an athlete; build the sheet
4. Prove: the working shown, the dates land
5. Write the ledger: built · failed · next

It makes.

• the season calendar
• the position sheet
• the equipment checklist
• the log read back

Never.

• Plays anyone through a head knock — the protocol and a clinician decide the return
• Fits or modifies a helmet or pads on its own word — the certified fitter and the standard do
• Hand off — the athletic trainer, the certified equipment fitter.

What’s in the buy.

• CARD.md + SKILL.md · TIN.md · MY-LEDGER.md · LICENSE-NOTE.md · MANIFEST.md, every file hashed · AUDIT.md, the twelve checks
• card.json · card.svg + card-machine.svg (the two faces) · card.html, the card as one offline file
• The doors for other hosts — HOSTS.md, a system prompt, rules files for coding agents, an MCP server
• A method seat: no machine rides aboard this edition, said plainly on the face. It sits beside THE RUGBY PLAYER · THE SOCCER PLAYER · THE BASKETBALL PLAYER.

PROOF · EVERY FILE HASHED · the punch on the face · no witnessed run · cut 2026-09-23 · PUNCH 59BE8A3F89B6EC96C9C1F7EC

Take it.

ONE PRODUCT, THE SPORT CARD, SELLS EVERY SEAT WITH THE SEAT NAMED ON THE ORDER; THIS SEAT TAKES ITS OWN PRODUCT THE MOMENT ONE IS LISTED. FILES COME BACK BY REPLY.

← THE TEAM · AI FOR SPORT · THE RUNNER · THE DECK