Is it just us or does the regular world seem to stop for the wide world of sports every weekend? That was a rhetorical question. It’s not just us. The entire world does pause so pigskins can be tossed, fastballs can be launched into the upper deck, and speeding vehicles can repeatedly circle around tracks for hours at a time in anticipation of capturing a checkered flag. It’s just the natural order of work giving way to leisure as soon as Friday comes around. This weekend was really no different as several huge sports stories overwhelmed the social web.
The Hawkeyes of Iowa continued to clog up the BCS Bowl picture by remaining undefeated thanks to a splendid 2nd half comeback engineered by QB Ricky Stanzi. However, Stanzi was not the biggest QB to make a dent on users of the realtime web. Brett Favre proved to Packers fans that he could still sling the football as he returned to Lambeau Field for revenge against the Green Bay Pack attack. CBS had a handle on the importance of this event and they oversold it by instituting the Brett Favre cam, which apparently showed everything Brett did all day prior to and during the game against his former mates, bringing new definition to realtime web. We tuned out during the bathroom breaks but the cam-page has garnered a lot of shares by social web users even still today. We hope no one is following us that closely when we turn 40 and are overly-glorified bloggers who no doubt will warrant our every move being broadcast to the farthest reaches of the broadband universe. (more…)
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