Ready for football season? Here are a few Windows Phone apps to help you keep up with all the Gridiron action

Windows Phone Central App Roundup: Football Apps

Our Windows Phones are great tools to continue upward with life while on the get. Be information technology checking your email, making calls, surfing the internet or checking in on your favorite social network. With football game season being correct around the corner, many volition be turning to their Windows Phones to keep tabs with all the scores, standings and stats from their favorite College or Professional football team.

To help you get ready for some football, this week's app roundup, we accept a peak at 4 football oriented apps for our Windows Phone.

Football Pro 14

Football Pro 'xiv (free): Billed equally the ultimate football game app for our Windows Phone, Football Pro has been around for a few seasons and the 2022 version landed in the Windows Phone Shop merely the other solar day. Football Pro 'fourteen is nicely laid out to help you proceed track of all the scores, stats and standings from the National Football League.

Fundamental features for Football game Pro 'xiv include live streaming radio broadcasts of games, the latest news from every team, full rosters and detailed information nearly all players (including a player comparison tool and stat leaders), a sports talk chat area, admission to various NFL podcasts and a Fantasy Playoff Prediction game for bragging rights.

With Football Pro '14 you can also tag your favorite team for quick and piece of cake access on stats, standings, scores and news on that team.

Football Pro '14 is a free, ad supported app for your Windows Phone seven.x and 8 devices. You can pick up Football Pro '14 here in the Windows Phone Store. Delight notation that if you lot're already enjoying Football Pro '13, an update is available that volition refresh the app to the 2022 version.

NFL Mobile

NFL Mobile (free): NFL Mobile was recently re-released for Windows Phone 8 and is the official app of the NFL. You lot tin use NFL Mobile to tap into your NFL.com account or skip all that and just enjoy a well laid out football game app.

When you showtime launch NFL Mobile you'll be asked to tag a favorite squad and choose which alerts you desire active. From there you are taken to the main pages that covers NFL news in general, news from your favorite team, NFL videos, and a bill of fare page that will take you to news, scores, your team page, your fantasy team page, schedules, standings, other team pages, access to the NFL shop, find tickets to the game (via TicketMaster), and access NFL Mobile's settings.

Settings cover everything from your profile information, a help section, alert settings, and NFL.com subscriptions. Equally an added bonus, Verizon Wireless subscribers can upgrade to premium features for access to the NFL RedZone on Lord's day, live NFL games on Th, Sunday and Monday nights and live game sound and the NFL Network 24/vii.

I squeamish characteristic on NFL Mobile is a one touch button that sits at the lesser of the screen throughout the app that will take you straight to scores. It's handy way to stay on elevation of all the games in progress.

NFL Mobile is merely bachelor for Windows Phone 8 devices, it's a free app and you can selection it up hither in the Windows Telephone Store.

College Football Scoreboard

College Football Scoreboard (complimentary): For those who follow the college games closer than you do the pro league, we have the Windows Telephone app, College Football Scoreboard.

There's non much to Higher Football Scoreboard but it does offering a respectable corporeality of information on NCAA football. Main pages cover news stories, schedules and scores. You can view the information for all FBS and FCS teams or tap the "change" link towards the pinnacle of the folio to filter things down to your favorite league or the top 25 teams.

College Football game Scoreboard has Live Tile support with scores updated every thirty minutes and you lot can update scores within the app automatically as quickly as every thirty seconds. Need to conserve your data? College Football Scoreboard will permit yous limit when news images can be downloaded (over WiFi only, data or WiFi, and never).

Lastly College Football game Scoreboard has lockscreen support to throw out the scores on your Windows Phone lockscreen. Information technology may not take many bells and whistles but if prefer game day being on Saturdays, College Football game Scoreboard is worth checking out.

College Football Scoreboard is a free, advertisement supported app for both Windows Phone viii and vii.x devices that you tin find here at the Windows Phone Store.

ESPN Fantasy Football

ESPN Fantasy Football (complimentary): Fantasy football game has grown past leaps and premises over the years and is an integral part of the NFL experience. It should exist no surprise that ESPN is one of the leading sources for fantasy football leagues.

With that being said, the ESPN Fantasy Football app for our Windows Phones is a great way to keep rail of and manage your ESPN fantasy football game teams. You'll still need to go to ESPN.com and create your fantasy team merely once you have your lineup gear up, the Windows Phone app kicks into gear.

The ESPN Fantasy Football app will let you manage your squad by starting or benching players; add, drib and merits players off waivers; and advise, have or reject trades with other owners in your fantasy league. Y'all as well accept access to ESPN's Fantasy League news, videos and tweets from ESPN analysts.

Scoring is provided through the FantasyCast Alive Scoring that provides existent-time player and matchup scoring updates. ESPN Insiders can also manage push notifications for the Fantasy Football game app.

All totaled, if you are participating in an ESPN fantasy football game league, you lot need the ESPN Fantasy Football app on your Windows Phone. It'south a complimentary app that yous can download here in the Windows Phone Shop.

There are still tons of football apps in the Windows Phone Store. You accept the heavy weights such every bit ScoreMobile, ESPN Scorecenter, and the ESPN Hub but these cover the full spectrum of sporting events. Then there are the team apps that focus solely on College or Professional teams.

Football game flavor is only around the corner and if you have a favorite Windows Phone app to aid you keep up with the news, stats, scores and standings... sound off in the comments below.

Oh...and I tin't resist...WAR Eagle!

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