Thumbs Up. Smiley Face. High Five. It’s hard to remember what the world was like without emojis and now SportsManias is combining America’s love of tiny cartoons and football.
SportsManias, which is known for its real-time news for fantasy players and fans, is releasing a first-of-its-kind football emoji keyboard that will allow app users to send football-themed emojis, GIFs, and memes through a variety of messaging platforms.
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With the new keyboard, football fans can select and send their favorite stars, including Peyton Manning and his football helmet-imprinted forehead, Bill Belichick and his hoodie, and even Aaron Rodgers and his “Discount Double-check” belt.
The emoji keyboard is available starting today on iOS and is compatible with all your favorite messaging apps including iMessage, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger. You can also add it into your texts like the standard emoji keyboard by simply setting it up through your iOS keyboard systems.
But it isn’t just about new emojis. The new feature allows for the creation of emojis, GIFs and memes for nearly every fantasy football situation.
Curated by SportsManias’ fans, the emoji keyboard gives fantasy competitors the ability to say what they want in one quick image. As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words, right?
Whether you want to use it for a quick party emoji as Rob Gronkowski enters the field, or you’re mad at your fantasy team and want to express your frustration through Richard Sherman, the keyboard gives you the ability to say it all with the press of a button.
Not sure what each emoji means? Not to worry. Every emoji comes with a description of who it is and how to use it. And most importantly, throughout the season, SportsManias will update the emojis, GIFs and memes based fan suggestions and their favorite moments.
“We created this keyboard because fantasy football trash-talking is an art form, and we want SportsManias users to dominate this aspect of the game, too,” Vincent Fernandez, co-founder of SportsManias, told Sporting News. “Nothing like this has ever existed for fantasy football. Between our new fantasy news feeds and this keyboard, SportsManias users will be fully equipped for the season.”
So rather than wasting time trying to find that perfect GIF, or meme, fantasy football fans can now use the SportsManias emoji keyboard to spice up their smack talk.