NFL Football and Social Networks
NFL football has always been characterized by being the tip of the sports betting spear as far as technology goes. Year after year the NFL teams spend millions of dollars to have the best and newest technology in equipment.
Now there’s a new development that goes beyond irony as far as microblogging goes. Social networks have turned into the NFL’s worst nightmare, as far as the teams’ interests go.
Around the beginning of July, the National Football League prohibited players, coaches, trainers, and any official employee of each team from communicating sports betting information through these social networks by updating statuses concerning upcoming games.
Players cannot tweet or update their Facebook status an hour and a half before a game, until after the postgame interviews.
7% of the income for all 32 teams in the NFL comes from deals made with CBS, NBC, Fox, and ESPN, TV stations that together paid $94 million per franchise last season. On top of that, DirecTV’s Sunday Ticket paid each one of the teams an additional $22 million.
The National Football League is also asking fans that attend the football games not to tweet or record sports betting videos to broadcast on YouTube or MySpace.
