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There's one thing that will be missing from Sunday NFL games this fall: Twitter. The league brought down the hammer on the microblogging site Tuesday, instituting new, strict rules that will limit when players, coaches, team personnel, and media can tweet.
According to CNET News, the folks mentioned above must stop tweeting 90 minutes prior to a game and cannot resume until post-game interviews are complete. These limitations are supposed to protect "[longstanding] policies prohibiting play-by-play descriptions of NFL games in progress," according to a statement from NFL officials. Not only targeting Twitter, the rules apply to other social networking sites like Facebook, too.
While it's no surprise that the NFL has put the clamp down on its players, coaches and team personnel, it's a shame that the media won't be allowed to tweet from games. With the news that a man had received credentials to tweet from press row at St. John's University men's basketball games, there was hope Twitter might gain some legitimacy among traditional sports journalists. Oh well, like the old sports axiom says, "There's always next year." [From: CNET News]
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Subscribe to commentsvidarbrekkeSep 2nd 2009 1:47PM
NFL's rules here are antiquated. The players and their connection to their fans are the most valuable resource and they stand to alienate fans of the players by getting in between the two.
It's clear that this is about saving juicy post-game comments for the press that has paid the NFL-tax, but this is not going to work in the long term. Social media and celebrity-to-fan direct communications goes beyond just sports and is here to stay.
I'll be checking which NFL players are tweeting both before and after the game on my new favorite iPhone app: "Realtime Pro Football '09"
IsellTelecomSep 2nd 2009 3:05PM
It's Great only the NFL has always tried to make sure that all of the information and distribution of any details result in them making money first. You want to talk about building a monopoly. The NFL is as close as it gets.
Thats from pushing cable companies to pay higher prices to carry thier NFL Channel < that is good, but not really all that great. To now not letting people update the players fans real time. Soon you wont be able to take a phone into the game at all. That would give them complete control.
patsyterrellSep 2nd 2009 4:30PM
This just tells me the NFL is out of touch. Duh.
bigrob77Sep 5th 2009 4:36AM
I actually kind of agree with this policy...I want my coaches and players to be focused on the game rather than focused on updating their twitter for facebook.
paloeSep 7th 2009 7:51AM
I understand not permitting players and coaches to tweet while a game is in progress, but I think the restriction on the media is anti-free speech and should not be tolerated. Coaches and players work for the NFL, they are not there to cover the game. Media is there to cover the game. I wonder how we would all feel if the NFL passed a rule that said that the media can't say anything unkind about football.