How to Follow the NFL Playoffs

If you are a football fan, you will follow the NFL playoffs whether your team advances or not. The NFL playoffs provide several weekends of high-quality football broadcast to millions of eager fans. In order to maximize your NFL playoffs experience, you need to learn how to effectively follow the league's postseason.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Recording device (VCR or DVR) for television

Follow the Fast-Paced Action of the NFL Playoffs

1. Head to the official team websites for every NFL playoff participant to follow the NFL playoffs properly. You can read through press releases, injury updates and player journals to gain insight into a team's mentality heading into the postseason.
2. Check out social networking websites to find team pages created by NFL fans. You can add yourself to these pages and speak with NFL fans as the playoffs begin to feed your need for football conversation.
3. Record cable sports programs that cover the NFL playoffs from start to finish. Former players, journalists and analysts pour over hours of tape to provide their insight into upcoming games. You should record these using a VCR or digital video recorder to go back and determine whether the analysis was accurate.
4. Navigate your way to pre-game and post-game coverage provided by major networks to follow each game attentively. These shows are ideal for football fans like you who want to hear reports from every stadium directly from the team broadcasting each game.
5. Listen to radio programs in your city as well as on the national level to follow the playoffs while getting other stuff done. Listen to local football show hosts to find out about your favorite team or tune in to webcasts to hear what other analysts feel will happen in the playoffs.
6. Increase your enjoyment of the NFL playoffs with friendly wagers or games while you follow teams on TV. You can make a one-on-one bet with a friend on the final score or use football bingo to keep your interest during a blowout of your favorite team.
7. Travel to playoff cities to follow NFL teams in their home environments. Have plenty of fun without a game ticket by hanging out at a local sports bar or enjoying the tailgating experience with fellow fans.

Tips & Warnings

• Subscribe to football-related magazines and newspapers to follow the NFL playoffs. There are dozens of national magazines with feature stories and analyses of upcoming playoff games that can enable you to speak with authority to your friends.