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Pate's Porch
The community room — your mailbag, your ledger, your leagues, the watch parties, and the tour. This is where citizens live.
From the Mailbag
🔑 Citizens only · free
Still free, forever.
Citizenship is just how the porch knows who's home.
Become a CitizenYour Corner of the Porch
Ledger · Leagues · Patches
Your logged games, your pick'em leagues, your stadium passport, and your poll-vote streak — all in one profile.
Open My ProfileFollow the Mayor
Josh, Everywhere
The show lives on YouTube. The takes live on X. The clips live everywhere else.
Wall of Champions
The Honored Citizens
Where the Porch Is Loudest
Join the Conversation
Preseason preview — live data arrives with the season
Find Your People
City Chapters
Citizen-run rooms by city and by team — plan tailgates, fill watch parties, argue in good faith. Atlanta, Dallas, Columbus, Nashville and 36 more.
CHAPTERS OPEN THIS SEASON
Start Something
Host a Chapter
No chapter in your town? Claim it. Hosts get a State Store kit, early tour tickets, and the founding-citizen badge.
HOST SIGN-UPS OPEN THIS SEASON
Saturdays Together
Citizen Watch Parties
Citizen-hosted watch parties are spinning up for the season — find your bar, claim your table, wear the flag. Hosts get a State Store kit on us.
The Tour
The Porch, Live
Free the Moment You Join
Become a Citizen,
Get the Guide.
The 2026 JP Preseason Football Guide — the Top 50 ranked, analyzed, and explained, the playoff picture, the X-factors, and the breakout players — yours free (digital edition) the moment you claim citizenship.
Who's In? See the Playoff Picture.
THE BRACKET, THE RANKINGS, JOSH'S PICKS — AND AN AI TO RUN YOUR OWN