Posts Tagged ‘NFL’

Football season is upon us. That means there will be a lot more sport tweeting as we enjoy our football, beer, chips and pizza.  Us fans will share our favorite plays and players during the breaks, and after each game, we will look forward to the tweets from our favorite players in return. Last year social media was shunned by the NFL. The league even told players to stay away from Facebook and Twitter. Today, that is no longer the case. The NFL has come to terms with using social media and embraces it as a necessity.

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The strangeness of Twitter is that there are so many people who will never learn from those who have made missteps on the medium before them. Athletes continue to use Twitter to connect with fans and let out their feelings, but so many of them still bring unnecessary attention to themselves or their teams, stir up controversy, and simply write dumb things. Here are the latest in the sad, continuing saga of unwise athlete tweets.

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The NFL season has yet to begin, and last year’s best running back has already stumbled out of the gate. Feeling the pressure of being a leader on team with high expectations and one of the top fantasy football players, Arian Foster tried, and failed, in an attempt to relieve people of their worries about his hamstring injury. Read more

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 fans aren’t watching and aren’t getting excited for what is ahead. The past few weeks have seen several teams take the lead in social popularity, all of which are located in the northeast. Read more

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 made some team more vigilante than ever. Read more

The NFL lockout has finally come to a close after five months of only shaky guesses about our professional football league’s future — thankfully, the new 10-year labor contract will let the season to unfold as normal starting tomorrow. Why should fans of Twitter be just as appreciative as fans of the NFL? Because like a lot of sports leagues, the NFL season provides great fodder for millions of tweets, and actually lets us micro-blog in some of the more creative ways out there. Read more

Atlanta Falcons wide receiver Roddy White took to Twitter to voice his frustrations with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution over a story about his cousin, Ali White.

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The National Football League lockout is no laughing matter to fans, as New Orleans Saints running back Reggie Bush was ripped by several of his Twitter followers for consecutive Tweets making light of the situation, ESPN.com reported.

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When Auburn University quarterback Cam Newton was selected by the Carolina Panthers with the first pick of the 2011 National Football League Draft last Thursday, millions of people were watching live on ESPN or NFL Network, or following along via any number of sports sites on the Web. When Texas A&M QB Jerrod Johnson was selected by the Hartford Colonials with the first pick of the 2011 United Football League Draft, hundreds of people followed the activities via Twitter.

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