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How exactly do you send tweets while "playing" football?

by spectre 17y ago

gojomo 17y ago
Active players on the sidelines, during timeouts, and between periods can still easily be considered to be "playing" the game-in-progress, even for those moments they are not strictly "in play" or "on the field". But you could even imagine -- with a team's permission for promotional purposes -- that players with helmet radios could dictate tweets to someone else.
- tvon 17y ago
  > But you could even imagine -- with a team's permission for promotional purposes -- that players with helmet radios could dictate tweets to someone else. That would never happen, not in any foreseeable reality.
  - gojomo 17y ago
    After things like live player-helmet and umpire cameras, I don't think you can be so sure. About those cams: http://www.cbssports.com/info/about/press/2000/nfle http://www.cbssports.com/info/about/press/2000/nfle Sure, it'd be banal -- "we really need to make this 3rd and long"... "my linemen are doing a great job today"... etc. -- but it could happen. And if not on Twitter, it could be official league-sanctioned Facebook status updates, etc. as part of some other promotional tie-in with the league websites or cable network. And if not the NFL, a scrappy upstart, like the UFL or new USFL or AAFL could try it.
    - tvon 17y ago
      Ah yes, when you put it like that I could see it happening easy, at least in an "NFL Films" or "mic'd up" kind of way where the player is only passively taking part. My reaction was to the word "dictate" really, the idea of a player (which would have to be the QB) actively twittering in-game while on the field, eg actually saying "hey coach, tell twitter we're going to go long and school the Browns secondary". As for non-NFL leagues, well I wouldn't put anything past them, they have no brand to protect so they'll try anything.
hristov 17y ago
Hehe, if you watch a game you will notice that most players spend most of the game sitting on the sideline surrounded by sophisticated cooling or heating devices (depending on weather). Forget tweeting, they have time to write a novel out there.

How exactly do you send tweets while "playing" football?

by spectre 17y ago

How exactly do you send tweets while "playing" football?

Active players on the sidelines, during timeouts, and between periods can still easily be considered to be "playing" the game-in-progress, even for those moments they are not strictly "in play" or "on the field". But you could even imagine -- with a team's permission for promotional purposes -- that players with helmet radios could dictate tweets to someone else.

tvon 17y ago
> But you could even imagine -- with a team's permission for promotional purposes -- that players with helmet radios could dictate tweets to someone else. That would never happen, not in any foreseeable reality.
- gojomo 17y ago
  After things like live player-helmet and umpire cameras, I don't think you can be so sure. About those cams: http://www.cbssports.com/info/about/press/2000/nfle http://www.cbssports.com/info/about/press/2000/nfle Sure, it'd be banal -- "we really need to make this 3rd and long"... "my linemen are doing a great job today"... etc. -- but it could happen. And if not on Twitter, it could be official league-sanctioned Facebook status updates, etc. as part of some other promotional tie-in with the league websites or cable network. And if not the NFL, a scrappy upstart, like the UFL or new USFL or AAFL could try it.
  - tvon 17y ago
    Ah yes, when you put it like that I could see it happening easy, at least in an "NFL Films" or "mic'd up" kind of way where the player is only passively taking part. My reaction was to the word "dictate" really, the idea of a player (which would have to be the QB) actively twittering in-game while on the field, eg actually saying "hey coach, tell twitter we're going to go long and school the Browns secondary". As for non-NFL leagues, well I wouldn't put anything past them, they have no brand to protect so they'll try anything.

hristov 17y ago

Hehe, if you watch a game you will notice that most players spend most of the game sitting on the sideline surrounded by sophisticated cooling or heating devices (depending on weather). Forget tweeting, they have time to write a novel out there.