Social media is something that has quickly became a huge part of our global culture. It has taken over the sports world, with most athletes, and all sports organizations having their own official accounts across the wide variety of social media sites. As a result, the governing bodies of all the professional sports leagues in North America have had to make policies that define what behaviors are unacceptable for their athletes and teams to do on their social media accounts. Many of the policies developed by the NFL, MLB, NBA and NHL are understandable, as it is clearly in the best interest of the respective leagues. Banning social media use during games is an obvious one. However, some of the rules made by the leagues go too far. These policies …show more content…
They all have policies restricting when players can be on social media, including the times when players are no longer allowed to be on social media prior to games. NFL policy says that players, coaches and operations staff cannot use social media less than 90 minutes before the start of the game. NBA players can be on their phone’s a little closer to game time, as the NBA’s social media deadline is 45 minutes before tipoff. NHL players are banned from social media use starting two hours before faceoff. The NHL’s policy is similar to the two previously mentioned leagues in that all three say their players must continue staying off social media after the game until all traditional media obligations have been completed. Baseball players have a slightly different set of rules to follow. MLB social media dictates that players, uniformed personnel and clubhouse staff cannot use cell phones or other devices in the clubhouse thirty minutes before game time, as well as on the field or in the bullpen once batting practice has started. That is not the only policy difference for MLB, because once the game ends, the rules are no longer in effect (Hums, 2013). Players can feel free to go on Facebook or Instagram immediately after the game, without worrying about talking to reporters …show more content…
The Philadelphia Eagles and Cleveland Indians did the best they could to update their followers on Twitter without the use of actual game footage. Instead, they created their own highlights using miniature football player figurines (Garcia, 2016). This display of mockery likely will not change things, and they surely did not think it would. However, it was a good way to raise awareness on this social media policy the NFL has enacted. This policy has annoyed many Twitter-friendly fans, myself included. The other three leagues allow teams to post video on their social media accounts and it greatly enhances the fan experience making it quick and easy to watch highlights from around the league. This is something the NFL now lacks, which they should realize is a disadvantage they now have compared to the other
Due to vast improvements throughout history, human rights has allowed people to freely speak their ideas and beliefs. Also, the transition from a modernized society to a more virtual society has allowed people to express their ideas more freely and have access to news from all over the world. Thus, people are entitled to their opinion,ideas, and beliefs. However, all expressed ideas have counter arguments for example in religion people might share different views based on their beliefs but they still have the security of their right to maintain their beliefs freely. Since society has took a dip in the virtual side of living, division due to power has strengthened through the use of social media. This has lead society into a dystopia, where control by a higher power is enabled. More over, associations such as the National Basketball Association have the power to enforce regulations on their players to maintain power and rule. For example, in recent years the NBA as enforced a strict dress code where players can no longer wear their desired choice of clothing but instead dress formal when entering and when leaving the stadium. Thus, from this action a dystopian environment is created, players no longer can express themselves freely and if they do they will be punished. Such regulations have caused higher authority over people inhibiting them from freely expressing ideas and beliefs which is completely wrong. People, especially players who are so highly valued, should be allowed the right to freely express themselves on interviews or even when dressing . This is because those who are allowed to freely express themselves are much more comfortable and happier.
ESPN writer Jeffri Chadiha claims the NFL is getting too “soft.” He also compares the NFL to the “pansy league”. Jeffri expresses his frustration with the NFL innovating the
Sport fans, sometimes also called sport devotees, followers, or supporters, are persons who are enthusiastically devoted to a particular athlete, team or sport. They may show their enthusiasm by often attending sporting events or watch on television, being members of a fan club, follow sport news through newspapers, online websites, and creating fanzines. Their disposition is often such that they will experience a game or event by living through their favored players or teams. These behaviors manifest itself in different ways. To enable better understanding of these behavioral patterns, we have to classify these sports fans into groups based on their devotion to teams: fair-weather fans, bandwagon and the super-fans.
The National Football League has always been evolved in some sort of scandal and Nick Anderson, the cartoonist of Football Emergency, has a very strong opinion of the NFL. His cartoon is easy enough for anyone to understand whether or not they follow the NFL but is much more interesting with a little football knowledge. He tries to argue that the NFL is focusing on useless scandals like deflated footballs instead of the more pressing issues of domestic violence and concussions.
The NFL (National Football League) is one of the four major professional sports leagues in North America and although it has been very successful to this point, in many ways it is the epitome of dysfunction. The league faces a multitude of problems, many of which are very complex. Many argue that since been chosen to succeed the retiring Paul Tagliabue in 2006 Roger Goodell has worked primarily towards improving the NFL for the sake of the players, coaches, refs, and perhaps most importantly the fans who actually make the organization viable. Sadly, those who hold this idealized view are delusional and should take into account that NFL is an unincorporated nonprofit association and that Goodell’s number-one priority always has to be appeasing the owners who fund each of the 32 teams (bar the Green Bay Packers who own the rare distinction of being the only non-profit, community-owned major league professional team in the entire country). This makes addressing problems very difficult and many have been unsolved ...
These are just a few ways of how the NFL has changed into the game it is today. Although I didn’t cover a lot of the other years I covered the starting years that got this show on the road. Most of the things I talked about in this paper are still in use today so that means that that transformed the game into the game it is today.
Media affects everyone and everything; There is no escape. Media is everywhere and surrounds everything. Henry Jenkins and Marshall McLuhan have differing points of view as to what the meaning of media is. They both, however, have their particular ponits which they describe well. Jenkin's talks about the different types of cultures that exist, focusing on popular culture, in his essay, "What Everyone Should Know About Popular Culture.
Even though football players are aware of the dangers the game can bring upon them, they take part despite it. The passion, the joy it creates; for professionals it’s also the devoted fans and compensation they receive is what keeps the players motivated. Today players are much bigger, faster, smarter, bigger, better. The game is more physical. The sport has never been so competitive. The popularity has reached new peaks, as much that the NFL has thoughts of moving a team to London, England. Additionally, Super Bowl XLVII (47) was one of the most watched television events of all time; an astonishing 108.4 million viewers (The Associated Press). Fans worship their teams and love to see big hits. Football is a contact sport; injuries are no doubtingly part of it. Concussions are one of the many detriments caused by the ruthlessness, but one of the few with perpetual effects: consequence of the brutality.
The NFL has implemented a lot of new rule changes that have tremendously helped with player safety. Like head to head contact isn't allowed as much anymore. If players commit the "crime" either they can be fined money, penalized during the game, or suspended if they are reoccurring offenders.the NFL is trying to get away from a lot of the head to head contact and stop being known. Some could say the NFL is almost a circus these players do so much and don’t always get a lot in return the NFL is concerned with the revenue and not always the player safety.
The National Football League (NFL) averages 290 million television viewers a week, four times the population of the United Kingdom. Football has become a massive part of society, whether it is at home watching the game on television or playing football in school. It is a worldwide culture that keeps people active, entertained, and socially occupied, all while creating multiple jobs.
One of the single greatest measurable facets of professional sports is attendance. A sport’s popularity is in direct correlation to the number of people that will show up to watch that sport. Overall 2000 regular season attendance in Major League Baseball was a record 72,782,013 in 2,416 games for an average per game crowd of 30,125 whereas official overall paid attendance in the National Football League for the 2000 season was 16,387,289 in 248 games for an average per game crowd of 66,077. The average per game crowd is the measurable statistic due to the fact that the number of games in a regular season for baseball and football are very different. A NFL team plays a regular season schedule of 16 game however a MLB team plays a regular season schedule of 162 games so average attendance per game presents an accurate picture of popularity. Therefore, football appears to be more than twice as popular as baseball when measured by ...
The National Football League is made up of 32 teams that were once founded in 1920 by a group of people who helped form the league. In the beginning the league wasn’t really structured to what it is now. Teams will just play and no playoff games, seeding’s, or the game itself matter because not only was the game was overshadow by America’s past time baseball, but it was difficult because the college game was established as well. Owning a team was extremely hard because owner’s will spent large amounts of cash and participate in bidding wars for players. Fast-forward to today’s day and age it is safe to say the NFL may be the most brutal and exciting game to play. Rule’s and norms are intact for teams to do things more ethical. Money is what really drives this business and of course constant advertisement to promote its brand. With some of that revenue, the NFL has opened a program called NFL: Play 60. The purpose of this program is to encourage kids to be physically active for 60 minutes in a day to reduce America’s child obesity. The NFL has been successful because in 2010 the first lady Michelle Obama announced it would be teaming up with NFL PLAY 60 as a health imitative for children. This was a great move for the brand because The First Lady’s office and...
The ball comes speeding over the net and slams down onto the face of the court landing just beyond the base line, the line running along the back of the court. I had called her winning point... "out." As I turned towards her, I could see the anger building in her eyes. We walked towards each other, and with only the net separating us, she began to confront me. She argued that, as she saw it, the ball was obviously in and that we should replay the point. I wanted this game as much as she did and we were both standing strong. I finally decided that there was no use in fighting. We had to resolve this argument between ourselves because there were no line judges to decide for us. We decided to replay the point and she won. I tried to convince myself that there would be times when a call would be questionable and that I should try not to point fingers. I still went home discouraged that night because I knew that the call I had made was fair.
the professional sports organizations want you to believe they are focused on playing a game,
Basketball has always been a vital part of my life. I could never see myself not being a part of some part of basketball, whether it’s playing, coaching, or even studying the game. From the age of six I have taken basketball very seriously. My goal is always to get better day by day, and if there was anything holding myself back from that, I ousted it right away. I started using social media in 6th grade starting with Facebook and YouTube. The only friends I had on Facebook other than family were my basketball teammates. I also always enjoyed search up basketball things on YouTube. As the years went by, that’s when more and more social media sites came around, such as the notorious Twitter and Instagram. At this point, not only did I have family and teammates following me, but there were college coaches and even random fans from around the nation. I kept to myself, for the most part, but if I felt like I had to get something off my chest, I was the first person to let it out on Twitter. Instagram was not too much different. One could go on my Instagram and see pretty much anything I did in my life. Some people enjoyed my profiles, so did not. The people who did not link my content were college, coaches. West Virginia University was not to happy about me arguing with my current girlfriend when. I was very