No Twittering During the NFL

All the things in the NFL world that scares coaches from injuries and indescrestions, and a Tom Brady going all over your defense - the NFL has added a new threat: TWITTER

When training camp started last week, players were told: "Paranoia that applies to the flow of information to reporters also applies to Twitter."

In Green Bay players were warned that if the tweeted during team meetings or coaching sessions they would be fined.

When the Miami Dolphins head coach Tony Sparano met with his team before Sunday's practice, he automatically banned twitter.
“I don’t have an account,” Ferguson said. “I was thinking about getting one until I got the information. O.K., won’t get it now. Can’t do it. I don’t want to get fined, not yet.”

Football coaches worry that Twitter could inspire budding heads in locker rooms (which most locker rooms are already seperated), also that locker room bloggers will disclose more than they should about injuries, game plans, and what is said behind closed doors.

NFL does not have a policy about social media, but cellphones, computers, P.D.A.'s cannot be used by players, coaches, or other club personnel on the sideline, in coaches' booths or locker rooms from pre-game warm-ups through the end of the game. But NFL officials are working on a policy that will not allow players or coaches to se social media sites on the day of games.

Coaches did not have to look far for a reason why they don't like Twitter;after Minnesota quarterback Tarvaris Jackson sprained a knee ligament in practice Saturday, his teammate Bernard Berrian tweeted that he was out for the season. Berrian later said that he was joking, and Jackson is expected to miss only a few practices. A greater fear for coaches is that a player will mention that he turned his ankle in practice — or worse, that somebody else did — and that the news media and opponents will quickly read it.

Football coaches rather prefer that their players pick up their playbooks instead of their BlackBerrys.

“I’m naïve to the whole thing, I don’t really know what this is,” Sparano said, after warning his players about Twitter. “I just learned how to text a couple months ago.”

I guess we're just gonna have to wait til season starts to see what really happens..I can see Chad Ocho Cinco and T.O. maybe breaking th rules sneaking in their BlackBerrys on the sidelnes and twitting what they feel and think about everything.