Posts Tagged ‘football’

According to a press release from CBS Interactive, a huge number of people watched the game through digital platforms. In fact, the LSU/Alabama game is believed to hold the record for the largest number of fans to watch a football game via the web and iOS devices.

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Social networking and sports seem to be involved in a love-hate relationship, with some athletes finding themselves caught in Twitter snafus while some teams have been banned from tweeting altogether. But one football club—Mexico’s Jaguares—is fully embracing Twitter. This month they’ve done away with their traditional jerseys, replacing their names with their Twitter handles!

“I don’t think it’s smart,” Fisher told The Ledger. “There’s no benefit. Tell me a benefit for getting on it? Because the only thing that comes back is negative. They read all the stuff that people say. I’ve told them, ‘Be careful. Don’t listen to it and don’t reply back.’”

Being an American, I tend to have a limited view of European football, or “soccer”. Nevertheless, the rest of the world has a much boarder view of football, as “The World Game,” and it reflects in mobile and social media usage.

The NFL season is just over a week away, and the football world could not be more excited to welcome back the most popular league in North America, and one that threatened not to even take place this fall. While most people would agree that the preseason doesn’t mean very much, it doesn’t mean that [...]

Everyone seems to be using an iPad these days. So, why not professional football players? An iPad 2 has been given to each of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ 90 players. The iPads are loaded with playbooks, game videos as well as practice and situational videos of any NFL team.

With the preseason halfway done, fantasy leagues drafting, and the Packers and Saints game nearing, NFL fans are relieved and ecstatic about the 2011 football season. Only one game was lost to the lockout, and while training camps were shortened, much of the sport has proceeded with business-as-usual. However the prevalence of social media has [...]

The great NFL lockout of 2011 is over! Football is back and to celebrate its return ESPN has uploaded an awesome video to YouTube called ‘Evolution of the Touchdown Dance’. The ESPN video pays homage to ‘Evolution Of Dance’, the #1 top-favorited YouTube video of all time, with over 177 million views.

It is not just that the Pittsburgh Steelers and Baltimore Ravens are fierce rivals. It is not just that both teams are always perennially competing for the division title in the AFC North. It is that both teams will take any and every opportunity to stir the pot of drama and trash talk whenever the [...]

After much thought and more than a few examples both positive and negative in nature, the Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA) has made a determination about the usage of social media among its members. The goal will be to improve the image of the game, and conversely, come down hard on those that misuse Twitter, Facebook, [...]