Learn Google+ Hangouts As Well As The Nfl: Fantasy Football, Face-To-Face-To-Face

The 2012 NFL season is but over a calendar month away, which way 1 matter for millions of fans around the world: it’s fourth dimension for fantasy. Fantasy football game has been around since the 1960s, together with has expire a dandy way to follow your favorite athletes—and rest inwards touching on with the people you lot aid about. This year, amongst the NFL, we're giving fantasy football game fans a novel way to connect throughout the season: Google+ Hangouts. Here’s how it plant inwards a nutshell:

• From whatever NFL.com/fantasyfootball page—including the Draft together with Game Centers—you tin straight off click a unmarried push to get-go a hangout with your league
• Later this month, you’ll run into a alive indicator on NFL.com/fantasyfootball if anyone inwards your league is already hanging out

Because most fans pick out their fantasy rosters inwards existent time, together with many leagues consist of people from across the globe, nosotros retrieve you'll detect that hangouts are a natural extension of your (healthy) obsession. Not exclusively tin you lot connect alive with your friends on draft day; you lot tin truly gloat celebrate inwards person, regardless of where your league members are located. We're likewise upping the disclose of hangout participants from 10 to 12 on NFL.com/fantasyfootball, since the touchstone fantasy league has a dozen players.

Fantasy football game hangout (top window), alive indicator on NFL.com (right), chat bar on NFL.com (bottom-left)

Fantasy football game hangouts don’t halt at the draft, however. Throughout the flavour you’ll live able to:

• Hang out with your friends to comport trades, review league trouble organisation or but chat acre watching the game on TV
• Enjoy fantasy hangouts on the expire or on the couch using the novel Google+ app for phones together with tablets (Android, iOS)
• Get advice from superlative NFL Fantasy commentators equally they hang out with fans together with speak over the week’s results

The +NFL Network volition broadcast weekly highlights from some of these commentator hangouts. And of course, you lot tin ever portion fantasy articles together with tips with your circles—either from the NFL’s site, or their newly-launched Google+ page.

Visit NFL.com/fantasyfootball today to sign up, together with to prep for your draft via hangout. If you lot similar football game but haven’t yet played fantasy, this year’s a dandy fourth dimension to start. After all, hangouts assistance brand fantasy football game nearly to a greater extent than than but the game; they’re a dandy way to construct lasting relationships on whatever given Lord's Day (and every twenty-four hr menstruation inwards between).

Posted past times Nikhyl Singhal, Google+ Product Director

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