Comments on: The Washington Redskins Crowd-sourcing Their Games

By: Brooke Davidson

Brooke Davidson — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:32:09 +0000

This is all over the news lately. At least it is a change from hearing only about Michael Jackson!
Go Redskins,
Brooke

By: Alexa

Alexa — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:02:52 +0000

I don’t like to sound like a capitalist, but I can see that players, coaches, or anyone closely related to a pro team making cell phone calls or sending text messages and tweets during a game are in a unique position to influence really big money on sportsbooks and possibly leaking vital information to the other team to give them an unfair advantage. When the big organizations make tough rules and set policy it is usually because there is a lot of money to be gained or lost.

By: David Lawyer

David Lawyer — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:00:04 +0000

I agree with Addison. Players, coaches, staff should be able to tweet whenever they want. You know the next big invention to come along don’t you? A voice-activated tweet mechanism that wirelessly transmits the voice-tweet. Players will sending tweets while they’re pinched and bitten under the pile!

By: DCan

DCan — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 14:49:16 +0000

redskin is my fave, and yeh im the biggest fan. ;)

By: Brian Roy

Brian Roy — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:02:47 +0000

Has anyone every read a tweet about a sporting event and wanted to do anything but find a TV to see “that play”? I mean please, play-by-play? Get serious.
What Social Media is good for is fan engagement (with each other AND with the team/coaches/players).
And yes, justSignal does that… and more. We will be releasing a justSignal tracker for every NFL team (we already have all of the MLB) in the next week or so…

By: Spelling Police

Spelling Police — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:24:40 +0000

I before E except after C. I had to stop reading after that to get to tweeting.

By: Jim DeLorenzo

Jim DeLorenzo — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:18:39 +0000

Octagon actually owns Twackle.com, and has developed partnerships with a number of teams, including the PHX Suns (www.sunstwackle.com) and the Orlando Magic (www.magictwackle.com). Currently, the iphone app is read only, but we plan to mirror the functionality found on Twackle.com (including the surfacing of trends) soon.

By: Lahne aka Steelergurl

Lahne aka Steelergurl — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:08:24 +0000

Hey, I will buy a ton of beer for the person I meet who can tweet fast enough to do a play by play – that’s like a tweet every 5 seconds…and obtw, I will also “unfollow” someone who tweets that much quickly as well!! That’s a helluva lot of tweeting!
As for enforcement, I think that’s called lawsuit!!!

There’s also justsignal.com which can do what Twackle does….along with lots of other stuff…and no, I don’t have stock in the company, but I know the developer :)

By: Aaron Brazell

Aaron Brazell — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:38:00 +0000

Corrections made. Notably, the Twackle iPhone app is a generic app, not a Redskins Twackle app – though it will work with the Redskins Twackle as well. Due to licensing/partnership agreements, the Redskins say they are not pushing the app, but do note it’s availability as a free app in the iTunes store (linked in the story).

By: Addison PSF

Addison PSF — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:54:53 +0000

The NFL doesn’t mess around. They are always swarming Youtube and other websites to have anything related to the NFL taken down… I think that players should be able to tweet whenever they want, but oh well…

By: Aaron Brazell

Aaron Brazell — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:32:16 +0000

Lahne- Thanks for the clarification.

It’s important to note that the NFL has no enforcement mechanism to keep fans from tweeting play by play.

By: Lahne aka Steelergurl

Lahne aka Steelergurl — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:28:20 +0000

Hey Aaron -

So, that’s not really quite accurate. Yes, they NFL said they can’t tweet (players/coaches) 90 min before a game, and there’s not a definitive time after, but what you are missing IS WHAT they don’t want fans/media to tweet and that’s the “play-by-play.”

Now, I don’t know about you, but I can’t tweet fast enough during games to do a play by play…but that’s what they are talking about.

The NFL encourages live tweeting, however, by fans. I was part of this during the draft and have had many interactions with both NFL and the Steelers on this.

So, while I think I get what you are saying, it’s not quite accurate.
The NFL actually encourages use of social media by fans – they have their own twitter and facebook accounts…

Quite frankly, I am gonna kick any Steelers player’s butt who is tweeting 90 minutes before the game – they need to be focused and ready to take on their opponent. But hey, if the Ravens or Redskins wanna tweet and force the issue, by all means do so! LOL…just don’t cry when the Steelers reach SB # 7.

Also, I would, if I were you, check in with @nflprguy on the real rules….though I have also posted them here: http://www.tailgate365.com/myblog/the-real-deal-nfl-statement-on-use-of-social-media-on-game-day.html?blogger=Steelergurl

By: Joe "Giuseppe" Zuccaro

Joe "Giuseppe" Zuccaro — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:25:21 +0000

Wizards, Nationals, Ravens, Orioles, Caps, take note!

By: Joe "Giuseppe" Zuccaro

Joe "Giuseppe" Zuccaro — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:23:58 +0000

It’s great to see Shripal Shah and his organization doing something for the fans. Shripal is a shrap individual and an asset to the Redskins, which have not been getting the best of local PR press lately.

The concept of what he is doing is simple but great. The technology is clearly affordable to do this; but we’ll see if the other franchises get over their organizational and logistical humps to actually deploy similar capabilities.