Sunday, October 9, 2016

NFL is the No Fun League

The National Football League has recently made a new rule for all of their 32 teams. They will not allow for teams to post any unapproved gifs or pictures from their social media accounts. With the growing popularity of Twitter and all social media platforms, many companies have been posting much more frequently, especially on Twitter where there is a high producing content of posts. Many NFL organizations have been trying to keep with today's young teenagers by posting funny videos and pictures. The NFL apparently has a problem with the teams posting.

Roger Goodell and his team of fun ruiners have recently said that teams will be fined up to $500,000 for posting pictures and videos that are unapproved by the NFL. I want to ask why the NFL feels the need to take all of the fun out of the league. Teams are using social media in a great way to relate to a younger audience and correctly use social media platforms and now they are going to be punished if they do. Why, Roger Goodell? Why do you take a good use of PR and marketing for teams and make it a punishment? I don't understand why the NFL would take the fun out of social media for the fans and for the teams. Hopefully this rule changes and teams and fans can interact with fun posts on social media again.

3 comments:

  1. I read about this same new league policy and still can not seem to understand why the league would put such a policy in place. I never really thought about how this would effect the younger generations, but you are correct that this stunt will potentially hurt the teams fans and make it difficult to stay up-to-date with our favorite teams.

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  2. Wow, I didn't even know this happened but I have to agree, I'm pretty mad about it. It really doesn't make sense and I don't understand how removing gifs/videos from the media benefits the NFL. I also don't understand how celebrating after a touchdown is wrong. The NFL needs to rethink some policies.

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  3. The only thing that I shake my head about is that some players will still completely ignore this. With salary caps being so high, even that amount might now be enough.

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