Common questions.
What is Endzone Zodiac right now?
The site you're on: 32 team chart reads, player cards by sun sign, a compare tool for any two teams, and a Draft-weekend editorial piece. All free. The real product — the app you'll have open on the couch while games are on — ships with the NFL season in September. Leave your email on the homepage and you'll hear when it's ready.
Is this serious astrology or a joke?
Both. We take the astrology seriously enough that the chart math is correct and the readings are coherent. We take the football seriously enough that we don't reach for cosmic explanations when a team just lost because their offensive line broke down. Witty-sincere. Not camp.
Where do team founding dates come from?
We use the date the NFL officially awarded the franchise — typically the date the league records a team's existence. For pre-AFL/NFL-merger teams, that's the original APFA or NFL approval. Some dates are contested by historians; we pick the most commonly cited one and note when there's ambiguity in the team's profile.
Where do player birth dates come from?
We pull active rosters from the Sleeper public API, which aggregates date-of-birth data from team-published rosters. Birth times for NFL players are almost never public, so we use solar charts — the sun sign is accurate, and we don't surface ascendants or houses we can't compute honestly. Each player card notes when we're working from a solar chart.
How often does the player data update?
A scheduled GitHub Actions workflow refreshes rosters every Tuesday morning. After a major roster move (waiver claim, trade), the data updates within a day or two of Sleeper publishing the change.
Is any of this paid?
No. Everything on the site today is free. When the app ships in September there may be a paid tier alongside the free one, but we're not going to charge for anything until there's enough product to justify it. No subscriptions, no 'early access' pricing, no gates today.
Is there a mobile app?
Not yet. It's what we're building. The app is the product — the thing you'll have open while football is on, with whoever you watch with, reading both teams' charts in real time. It ships with the NFL season in September. The site you're on is the foundation; the app is where it lives when the games start.
Is this affiliated with the NFL?
No. Endzone Zodiac is independent commentary on publicly known team and player information. Team names are used editorially. Trademarks belong to their owners. We don't use any official NFL or team imagery.
When the Cosmic MVP busts, what then?
We frame the read in supported and challenged energies, not guaranteed outcomes. When the supported player has a bad game, the chart still showed what it showed; the read still stands. We don't double down on bad calls and we don't rewrite history. Astrology is entertainment.
Are you a sportsbook? Do you give betting picks?
No. We don't take wagers, we don't give explicit picks, we don't link to sportsbooks, and we don't use prediction language framed for wagering. Everything is editorial entertainment.
Why this name?
"Endzone" is football to anyone who has ever watched football. "Zodiac" is astrology to anyone who has ever opened a horoscope. Both are positive words. Together they tell you exactly what the product is in two seconds. That was the test we needed the name to pass.
Will you add other sports?
Possibly. NFL is the wedge — the cultural overlap with astrology is biggest, the seasonal rhythm creates tentpole content moments, and the chart-friendly franchise structure works. NBA, MLB, college football, soccer — all candidates if the NFL product proves the format. Not in v1.