Nfl Bans Tweeting By Players During Games

[theblackdog]

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2009/07/09/league-wont-allow-in-game-tweeting/

So as to be expected the NFL has said that players will not be allowed to use Twitter during games. It makes sense, they shouldn't be distracted.

However, our dear friend Chad Ocho Cinco is trying to start drama over it, by saying he's going to defy the rule.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2009/07/07/league-will-look-into-chads-vow-to-tweet-during-games/

http://twitter.com/OGOchoCinco/status/2553490687

I'm so glad he's not a Raven, someone who's going to be a jerk like that is not needed on our team. Shall we start a pool on how many times he gets fined and/or the amount of all of his fines by the end of the season?

[Moderator 3]

I thought they weren't allowed to use cell phones at all during a game.

[theblackdog]

[quote name='Moderator 3' date='10 July 2009 - 10:37 AM' timestamp='1247236670' post='205858']
I thought they weren't allowed to use cell phones at all during a game.
[/quote]

I would be really surprised if that wasn't a rule already. AFAIK there's no other way to use twitter except via an application on a computer or smartphone, or via text, and all of those would probably not allowed during a game.

All it would take though is someone like Chad thinking he can sneak off a quick text from his locker during halftime to be able to Twitter.

[Reddawn36]

question.... how could the prove that it was a player, and not a regular person..... the internet can be very tricky

[MKdave]

[quote name='Moderator 3' date='10 July 2009 - 03:37 PM' timestamp='1247236670' post='205858']
I thought they weren't allowed to use cell phones at all during a game.
[/quote]

No but they're allowed them in the locker room. Which I think was Chad's plan originally, but the NFL has banned that now.

I don't see the big deal with that, especially from the NFL's point of view. The first guy to tweet from the locker room was Charlie Villanueva, saying that he needed to step it up in the second half, which he did, and his team came from behind as underdogs. Where's the distraction?
I could understand teams not loving it, incase they give up something schematical or tactical, but why would the NFL care? I'm guessing for no other reason than their evident and insatiable power lust.

[Reddawn36]

[quote name='MKdave' date='12 July 2009 - 06:03 AM' timestamp='1247393016' post='206077']
No but they're allowed them in the locker room. Which I think was Chad's plan originally, but the NFL has banned that now.

I don't see the big deal with that, especially from the NFL's point of view. The first guy to tweet from the locker room was Charlie Villanueva, saying that he needed to step it up in the second half, which he did, and his team came from behind as underdogs. Where's the distraction?
I could understand teams not loving it, incase they give up something schematical or tactical, but why would the NFL care? I'm guessing for no other reason than their evident and insatiable power lust.
[/quote]

but if they were allowed cell phones in the locker room in the first place... couldn't they do that texting?

I think it has more to do with a player saying something wrong during the game.... that could get the player, the team, and/or the NFL as a whole into a lot of trouble

[theFRANCHISE]

I just see this as Chad Johnson/Ochocinco/whatever trying to get back to his old self. If you notice, his play declined the more he tried to stay quiet. He needs to run his mouth in order to boost his confidence, which usually translates to (individual) success on the field for him. If it works, it works.

But other than that, I wouldn't care if a Raven wanted to do something stupid like Tweet during a game. Is it unnecessary? Sure. But, there's far worse things these players could be doing to incur fines and attract media attention.

Chad Johnson is harmless compared to a Terrell Owens-type distraction.

[McBurks]

I was watching Mike & Mike and they had a tennis player on and he said he just got someone else to tweet for him.Why doesn't Chad just do that.

[Reddawn36]

[quote name='Simba' date='12 July 2009 - 05:31 PM' timestamp='1247434293' post='206138']
I was watching Mike & Mike and they had a tennis player on and he said he just got someone else to tweet for him.Why doesn't Chad just do that.
[/quote]

that would be like you telling somebody to get a cookie out of the cookie jar.... than later you get in trouble for it..... and you didn't even get the satisfaction of having the cookie

[Neil]

[quote name='theFRANCHISE' date='12 July 2009 - 12:26 PM' timestamp='1247423182' post='206112']
I just see this as Chad Johnson/Ochocinco/whatever trying to get back to his old self. If you notice, his play declined the more he tried to stay quiet. He needs to run his mouth in order to boost his confidence, which usually translates to (individual) success on the field for him. If it works, it works.
[/quote]
I dunno. He drove himself into a frenzy before last season, and then Carson Palmer got hurt and Johnson had a season that you could barely consider average, and certainly not elite. How much of that was his injured shoulder I can't say.

That said, I don't give much credence to the media myth of 'distractions'. These guys are pros, and a teammate shooting his mouth off in the media isn't going to be a big deal. Bad behavior in front of the cameras is nothing. Bad behavior in the locker room is something else.

[thewarden86]

[quote name='Simba' date='12 July 2009 - 05:31 PM' timestamp='1247434293' post='206138']
I was watching Mike & Mike and they had a tennis player on and he said he [b]just got someone else to tweet for him.Why doesn't Chad just do that.[/b][/quote]

My guess is that if anyone's going to say something stupid, he wants to be sure it's him.

[jfc13]

[quote name='Reddawn36' date='12 July 2009 - 04:03 AM' timestamp='1247385792' post='206075']
question.... how could the prove that it was a player, and not a regular person..... the internet can be very tricky
[/quote]
Well, there's the fact that it's all on film, so they would see him doing [i]something[/i].

I know we don't see the sidelines on TV constantly, but that doesn't mean that there aren't cameras filming the sidelines much of the time.

[quote name='MKdave' date='12 July 2009 - 06:03 AM' timestamp='1247393016' post='206077']
No but they're allowed them in the locker room. Which I think was Chad's plan originally, but the NFL has banned that now.

I don't see the big deal with that, especially from the NFL's point of view. The first guy to tweet from the locker room was Charlie Villanueva, saying that he needed to step it up in the second half, which he did, and his team came from behind as underdogs. Where's the distraction?
I could understand teams not loving it, incase they give up something schematical or tactical, but why would the NFL care? I'm guessing for no other reason than their evident and insatiable power lust.
[/quote]

I heard it hat something to do with betting. Like if someone were to send out the word that the guy taken for x-rays was or wasn't coming back before it was announced on television and people could get their bets in on the game's outcome before the odds-makers could change things. Suppose someone like, oh, Tom Brady, was taken out of a game in the first quarter for an injury. Knowing that he wasn't going to return to the game could cause someone to get a bet in for the other team before the odds-makers could change the odds - and if they knew it was a season-ending injury, then they could make bets across the board.

[neepo13]

[quote name='Neil' date='14 July 2009 - 09:38 PM' timestamp='1247621880' post='206971']
I dunno. He drove himself into a frenzy before last season, and then Carson Palmer got hurt and Johnson had a season that you could barely consider average, and certainly not elite. How much of that was his injured shoulder I can't say.

[b]That said, I don't give much credence to the media myth of 'distractions'. These guys are pros, and a teammate shooting his mouth off in the media isn't going to be a big deal. Bad behavior in front of the cameras is nothing. Bad behavior in the locker room is something else.[/b][/quote]

I agree with that in the case of Chad Johnson but not in general. If a guy is running his mouth to the media about other guys on his team like T.O. for example that is going to cause some tension in the locker room. If I am Jeff Garcia or Donovan McNabb, and one of my teammates, T.O. actually, alludes to the press that I am gay or that I quit during a game, thats going to be a problem.

Thats why I dont neccessarily believe that the comparisons of T.O. and any other prima donna wr are warrented. T.O. is in a class all his own.

[neepo13]

[quote name='jfc13' date='17 July 2009 - 10:37 AM' timestamp='1247841433' post='207847']
Well, there's the fact that it's all on film, so they would see him doing [i]something[/i].

I know we don't see the sidelines on TV constantly, but that doesn't mean that there aren't cameras filming the sidelines much of the time.



I heard it hat something to do with betting. Like if someone were to send out the word that the guy taken for x-rays was or wasn't coming back before it was announced on television and people could get their bets in on the game's outcome before the odds-makers could change things. Suppose someone like, oh, Tom Brady, was taken out of a game in the first quarter for an injury. Knowing that he wasn't going to return to the game could cause someone to get a bet in for the other team before the odds-makers could change the odds - and if they knew it was a season-ending injury, then they could make bets across the board.
[/quote]

That makes sense but I doubt thats why. The NFL always maintains that they have nothing to do with that type of bussiness, meaning betting. I doubt they'd make rules to protect the interest of a bussiness that they claim they dont support.

[plesiosaur]

[quote name='thewarden86' date='14 July 2009 - 09:51 PM' timestamp='1247622692' post='206977']
My guess is that if anyone's going to say something stupid, he wants to be sure it's him.
[/quote]

Yeah, and he has an edge in that capacity.

[Marc2k6]

Instead of concerning himself with a bunch of nonsense, he should concentrate on playing football. If he put as much thought in to football as he puts in to all of his TD celebration, the sky would be the limit. As a matter of fact Chad Johnson has not done anything since he put on that fake Hall Of Fame jacket during the first game of the season Vs the Raven's in 2007.