Sprint and AT&T recently announced how it’s going to help the tens of thousands of people that will visit downtown Indianapolis for the Super Bowl. It’s no surprise to find out Verizon, the biggest of the national carriers, is planning its own series of upgrades and improvements inside and around Lucas Oil Stadium.

The NFL has announced that beginning this season, players, coaches, and league officials will be banned from tweeting or posting Facebook updates starting 90 minutes before games and until all post-game interviews are completed. The ban extends to anyone who represents a player or coach on any such accounts as well. But wait, there’s more. more »

Sporting News Pro Football application, developed by Sporting News and Zumobi, is a new app designed to give football fans the latest information. For instance, users will have the ability to find out the latest stats, scores, standings, headline stories, breaking news, and insights and analysis. Team customization allows for specific information updates based on more »

Ah, Superbowl Sunday, just typing this makes me feel excited. Whether or not your favorite team is still playing, or whether or not you are even a fan, I’m sure you enjoy partying it up with a few friends and watching the game. If you are a hardcore fan and plan to be at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa for the game, you might experience some delays when sending texts and even not being able to get a call through. There will be a lot of network traffic that week and Sprint has been preparing for this for a year now.

Since 2008, Sprint has invested nearly $49 million and more than $11 million specifically for the Tampa Bay area. They are not messing around with anything, they seem to be pretty serious about providing the best possible coverage.

This is where we call out the tech moves that seem odd, out of touch or just plain straight up smokin’ crack. This week sees posturing, positioning and flat out insanity. Here is what caught my eye this week:

Follow to see me call out:

• LG and its ridiculously square phone
• AT&T thinks Android is on crack
• Sprint thinks we want to watch football (American) on our phones.
• Moto wants to be on crack
• and our own Natesh who finds more than his share of obscure gadgetry

So, you like football and you like your Sprint cellphone. Unfortunately, you are not always home during the big game, or you don’t get the NFL channel where they broadcast a bunch of games per season and so you miss those big games. Now, you can enjoy all the football games on NFL’s exclusive channel straight from your Sprint phone.

The deal signed by NFL and Sprint started back in 2005 and they have now reached another agreement for Sprint to carry the 40% of games the NFL channel shows. The first game available on a Sprint phone will be tonight (11/6/08) with the Cleveland Browns playing the Denver Broncos. It’s unfortunate that the NFL season has already started, and so Sprint won’t be able to carry every game, but they will continue carrying the 8 games on the NFL network over the next 7 weeks. . . .