Game On Sign

Go to gameonsign.com on any device. Without a team picked it opens the setup page, where you build your sign. Nothing to install, no account.

• Single team: one team fills the screen, with the next game, a countdown, live scores and the upcoming schedule.
• Grid: a sports-bar wall of up to 12 teams from any mix of leagues.

1. Tap a league tab (NHL, NFL, NBA, MLB). A red number on a tab means that many games are live right now.
2. Tap a team. Teams playing right now glow red with a LIVE badge, the score and the period; teams playing later today show the start time in blue.
3. For a grid, keep tapping teams, switching league tabs as you go (up to 12). Tap a team again to unpick it.
4. Your picks appear as chips below the teams. Tap the × on a chip to remove it.

Every team card also has quick buttons: ▶ View opens that team's display right away, Schedule opens its full season, and ☆ saves it to your Favorites (see step 9). These buttons never change what you've picked.

Choose a dark or light theme, the time zone for game times (automatic uses the device's zone), a 12- or 24-hour clock, and whether to tint the cards with team colors. You can skip this step.

Press the red ▶ Open display button. Your sign opens right away in the same tab. Use Open in new tab ↗ (or Ctrl/⌘-click Open display) to keep the setup page open. Copy link copies the sign's address so you can paste it on another device or share it.

The buttons at the bottom right of the display:

• ＋ Teams: back to setup with your current team(s) and options already filled in, so you can switch teams or add more to build a grid.
• Schedule: the team’s full season schedule (see step 8).
• ☆: save the team as a favorite (on a grid, it saves all of its teams).
• ?: opens this Help page.
• ⛶ Full screen: on and off. You can also press F or double-click anywhere.
• ⚙ Settings: the same setup page.

Tap to see schedules: the team name at the top and every team logo open that team’s schedule, and tapping an upcoming game opens the schedule right at that game. On a grid, tap a tile’s name or a logo.

Tidy up a grid: hover over a tile (or tap its ⋯ button / long-press it on a phone or tablet) for a small menu: × Remove (with a 5-second Undo), move it left or right, its schedule, open it on its own, or ☆ favorite it. When two of your teams play each other, both tiles show the game and are marked “Same game as …”.

The buttons and mouse pointer hide after a few seconds so the screen stays clean. Move the mouse or tap the screen to bring them back.

• Bookmark the sign's link (or set it as the browser's home page) on the TV, tablet or monitor. Everything is in the link, so it opens the same way every time.
• Tick “tap to go full screen” before copying the link. Browsers only allow full screen after a tap, so the sign shows a one-tap prompt when it opens (it disappears after a minute if nobody taps).
• The sign refreshes itself, keeps the screen awake where the browser supports it, and keeps showing the last scores if the internet drops for a moment.
• Old tablets and smart-TV browsers work fine. A grid looks best on a big landscape screen.

Every team has a full-season schedule page. Open it with the Schedule button on the display, by tapping the team name or any logo, or with the Schedule button on any team card in setup. It opens at today; scroll up for results and down for what’s next.

• Next game countdown: a card under the team name counts down to the puck drop, kickoff, tip-off or first pitch (days, then hh:mm:ss on game day). When the game is on it shows LIVE with the score and a button to the display; if the start time isn’t set yet it says Time TBD and counts down to game day.
• Past games show W or L and the final score (OT/SO or extra innings noted).
• Upcoming games show the date and start time in your time zone, with vs for home and @ for away.
• Tonight’s game glows red with the live score; playoff games are marked in gold with the series and game number.
• From a grid, use the team chips at the top to switch teams. ◀ Back to display returns to your sign.

Star the teams you follow and they appear in a Favorites box at the top of setup, with their live or later-today status (and how long until a later-today game starts, e.g. in 2h 14m). There are no accounts: favorites are saved in this browser on this device.

• Tap ☆ on a team card in setup, on the display, or on a schedule page. Tap ★ again to remove it.
• Each favorite has ▶ Display, Schedule and + Add to grid. Use ↑ ↓ to reorder.
• Open all favorites as grid shows up to 12 of them at once.
• Copy favorites link makes a link like setup.html?fav=nhl:TBL,nfl:TB. Open it on the TV or another device to add the same favorites there.

On phones the buttons sit in their own bar at the bottom so they never cover the scores, and the Schedule button is always there. Swipe the upcoming games sideways; tap one to jump to it in the schedule. Turn the phone sideways for a bigger scoreboard.