Tag archive: NFL

As reported earlier today by the New York Times, over 2.1 million people watched a streaming version of Super Bowl XLVI through the Internet on Sunday according to measurements conducted by two separate research organizations. Representatives at NBC believe that this is the largest amount of people to watch any single sporting event through an online, streaming source. This also marks the first time that any network has simultaneously broadcast… Read More

Dubbed the “Super Bowl Social Media Command Center” by Raidious CEO Taulbee Jackson, the Indianapolis digital marketing firm will be handling all communication regarding the Super Bowl with 16 full-time employees and 30 volunteers, mostly journalism students from Butler University, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and Ball State University. Jackson moved Raidious employees into a brand new office for the event and… Read More

One of the longest and most storied rivalries in the NFL is that between divisional and geographic rivals, the Green Bay Packers and the Minnesota Vikings. Ubisoft decided to tap into that rivalry in order to celebrate the newest installment in its video game franchise that has sold over 30 million copies worldwide, Assassin’s Creed: Revelations. B.J. Raji, nose tackle for the defending Super Bowl Champion Green Bay Packers, recently faced off… Read More

DirecTV has seen sizable growth in the third quarter of this year likely attributed to the extremely popular NFL Sunday Ticket package that's exclusive to the satellite TV service. DirecTV added 327,000 subscribers during the months of July, August and September. This nearly doubles the amount of subscribers added during the third quarter of 2010. Adversely, competitors like Time Warner and Comcast posted losses of video subscribers… Read More

In one of the more unusual—but interesting—marketing gimmicks for an upcoming game, EA and Spike TV have come together to create a new reality TV show merging football, military combat and video games into one. The show, Battlefield: Operation Gridiron, features four of the most recognizable football players active today, and trains them to survive in a combat scenarios modeled after the upcoming Battlefield 3 game. The contestants/combatants… Read More

Update:  Now that Madden 12 has been released, we have revisted this article and updated it with the most recent victims.     It started as a joke. A player makes the cover of the Madden franchise and is subsequently seriously hurt the next year, or they take a dramatic downward turn in their performance. Everyone began to joke and say there was a curse, which all but the most superstitious dismissed with a laugh.  Then it started to get… Read More

Designed for camping in the great outdoors or entertaining guests while tailgating, Dish Network announced the release of the Tailgaiter, a mobile satellite television antenna that's compatible with Dish Network service. Weighing in at 10 pounds, the satellite antenna is encased in a 10-sided plastic shell with a handle for lugging around the device. The shell is designed to protect the antenna in poor weather conditions and allows the… Read More

The website TheFreedictonary.com defines the law of diminishing returns as “The tendency for a continuing application of effort or skill toward a particular project or goal to decline in effectiveness after a certain level of result has been achieved.” And that is my Madden 12 review, thanks for reading, folks. I kid, I kid. Well, sort of. The Madden franchise is one that has managed to defy expectations year after year, and again and again come… Read More

Sony announced a collaboration with DirecTV to bring the NFL Sunday Ticket to PlayStation 3 owners. Access to the programming doesn't require an installed satellite dish or DirecTV's service. PS3 owners will be able to view live streaming video of up to 14 out-of-market games per weekend. The games will be displayed in high definition and users will also have access to the Red Zone Channel. This channel shows highlights of every… Read More

Those of us in the over-30 set almost certainly remember the bygone days of baseball fandom, when many a rainy Sunday was spent in heated negotiations among friends over baseball card trades. After the Topps monopoly on the trading card game was broken in 1981, more competitors began to enter the market. Fleer and Donruss were first, but a newcomer called Upper Deck emerged in the late '80s that quickly rose to challenge Topps as one of… Read More

Although the NFL season may be in jeopardy of a lockout, the show must go on—or at least the show must go on for EA and the upcoming Madden release. As the negotiations continue to go nowhere between the NFL players and owners, one of the many victims of a potential lockout will be EA, who stand to lose a substantial amount if fans choose to skip buying the next Madden game. But don’t cry for the poor multi-billion dollar EA. The publisher… Read More

For at least the next few years if you wanted to play a football video game as your favorite NFL team, your options are limited to EA’s Madden games, and only Madden.  But with a potential work stoppage coming soon, EA has found itself in the unenviable position of being stuck with a hundred billion dollar fee for an adaptation of a product that may not exist next year (at least not in the form that we know it). But following new negotiations… Read More

To all the Packers fans reading this article: there is nothing to see here. Move along to the next selection. May I recommend the lovely piece about Google calling out Bing over search results? It’s good stuff. Trust me Green Bay fan, you’ll be much happier if you do. Every year EA Sports likes to roll its digital bones and try to predict the winners of some of the world’s biggest sporting event. The 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa title… Read More

It is just a video game analysis, and nowhere near a scientific study. In fact, they are probably way off. In other words, please don’t kill the messenger, Bears fans! EA Sports has issued its picks for the AFC and NFC Championships to be played this week, with the winners according to EA will be the Green Bay Packers and the Pittsburgh Steelers. The games were simulated using EA’s Madden 11, and while both games were close, neither were… Read More

The Philadelphia Eagles have announced plans to become the NFL's first franchise to play in a fully energy independent stadium. The Eagles organization announced yesterday that it plans to re-outfit Lincoln Financial Field with a number of green energy technologies over the next 12 months in an effort that will please both environmentalists as well as the team's accounting department. According to team officials, Lincoln Financial… Read More