Super Bowl Scores on Your Cell Phone
February 1st, 2007 MobileFreak
Don’t you hate it when your non-sports-loving side of the family plans a non-sports event during a big game? If you find yourself in this situation for Sunday’s Super Bowl XLI between the Bears and the Colts, fear not. MobileMammoth is here to help with resources to help you keep track of the big game.
NFL Wireless from NFL.com
The league’s NFL Wireless offerings do provide a few different options fulfilled through their partners. One option is simply to navigate to the www.nfl.com URL from your cell phone browser.
Like many large sites today, nfl.com detects that you are browsing from a mobile device, and displays a mobile-friendly page. There are seven menu options including News, Scores, Stats and Help. Navigating to the Scores link, and then to Super Bowl, it presents you with a clean, simple display of the score, as you can see in the image to the right.
Of course, I don’t want to have to check the score myself every 10 minutes. Bring the score to me. Tell me when something happens. Me, Me, Me. For this, NFL.com has partnered with Sprint to offer the NFL Network channel on Sprint TV. While this package does include alerts, clearly it provides much more than our topic of getting NFL scores on your cell phone. So let’s look at some other options.
Super Bowl 41 Scores from SportsAlert.net
SportsAlert.net offers three different score alert packages, with fees ranging from free to $20 per year. There is no charge for the “Standard” package, which provides final scores to the sports and teams selected upon registration.
The “Custom” package lets the user select specific sports, and teams within those sports, to receive live scoring updates. You can set it up to receive scoring updates upon each score, after each period, or after lead changes, for example. This service also enables you to get scores on-demand by sending specific text messages with the team name your are interested in. In addition to scoring updates from the NFL, you can also select teams from NCAA Basketball, NCAA Football, NBA, NHL, and Major League Baseball.
Finally, SportsAlert.net also provides a “Premium” package. At a rate of $20 per year, you can select a seemingly unlimited number of teams within the sports listed above. If a user initially selects the Custom package and selects 3 or more teams, they will automatically change that to a Premium package so that it is more cost effective for the user. It’s nice to see someone looking out for their users.
Sports Alerts from Yahoo! Alerts
Of course, may of the larger Web portals/search engines/communities also offer mobile alerts. The description of the Yahoo! Alerts service from their page here is as follows:
Yahoo! Alerts enable you to get score updates on your favorite teams sent directly to your cell phone or pager! You choose your teams and when you want the alerts: start of game, every score change, when game ends, etc. Never miss crucial game updates while working or traveling.
So if your niece’s birthday party might possibly hover past kick-off time on Super Bowl Sunday, get yourself on one of these services now.
What mobile alert service do you subscribe to? How instantaneous are the updates?
Entry Filed under: Free, SMS, Sports, Sprint, Yahoo
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