Website Review: NFL.com

As a devoted fan of the National Football League and professional football in general, NFL.com is an important website in my daily activities. NFL.com brings current information to the public regarding players and teams, as well as provides fantasy football during the season, video interviews from the NFL Network, and analysis on the NFL Draft and Scouting Combine. This is the bread and butter website for any fan of professional football, but it certainly has its faults.

One of the largest faults NFL.com has is its quality of writing. I am not going to make claims that I am a better writer than any of them, but sadly, that should not be a conversation. These are professional sports writers, and I am just a amateur online columnist. However, in some ways, I provide better information to my readers than they do. The NFL.com writers, Gregg Rosenthal in particular, will make headlines about anything. They will base an entire 500 word article on a tweet a player made. I don't know about you, but I do not consider a tweet from Twitter as hard evidence.

The writers on the NFL's official website make many grammar and spelling errors that are usually caught by fans reading the article, and after the fact, they are changed. I rarely make spelling and grammar errors in my articles, but it is more understandable if I make a couple mistakes because I do not have an editor whose job is to correct the mistakes for me. However, the NFL.com writers do have editors, and they rarely catch their own mistakes.

Despite complaints about pedestrian reporting, NFL.com provides a lot of great information as well. The videos, usually provided by NFL Network, are very well-done and convey some important information to audiences. Their reports are always up to date, and they never fall behind on any story (that is half their problem - fact checking). NFL.com has a decent Fantasy Football league, but I feel that it is no comparison to ESPN's.

Overall, I give NFL.com a 5/10. NFL.com does perform its main function: to provide current information to fans with in-depth analysis. However, the NFL.com writers have turned the website into a gossip column, which is not appreciated. That being said, I hope that NFL.com will fact check a bit better as well as make their editors actually catch mistakes in their work. I have written more factual pieces for my college newspaper than I have seen on NFL.com in the past five months.

Written by R. Turk
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