* If the 49ers or Raiders win the Super Bowl, the NFL may take advantage of the opportunity by scheduling an opponent from the opposite conference for the Kickoff Game at the beginning of the following season.

If the 49ers host the Kickoff Game ( on a Thursday night ), the Raiders can possibly host a Week 1 season opener on Fox, unless the schedule of the Raiders ' Major League Baseball counterparts, the Oakland Athletics, creates a conflict ( the Raiders and Athletics share O. co Coliseum ).

* Kickoff specialist, a position in American football and Canadian football responsible for handling kickoff duties

According to the website, the Kickoff Classic " pits high school teams from the states of Ohio and Texas against prep football powerhouses from across the nation " over the Labor Day weekend.

In 2011, the team played in the Barry Sollenberger Kickoff Classic — which features top Arizona teams against top Nevada teams — in the same year, losing to Las Vegas's Bishop Gorman High School 42-22, but the team won a third state title — this time in the new Division II, over Cienega High School from Vail, Arizona.

It is still the most points ever scored against Penn State in Happy Valley as Nebraska's 1983 Turner Gill led 44-6 victory over Penn State was at the Meadowlands in the Kickoff Classic.

Beginning in the 2012 season, there will be a Thursday night game every week of the season except weeks 16 and 17, and NBC, not the NFL Network, will air NFL Kickoff and Thanksgiving games.

Eventually there would be twenty Kickoff Classics, many of which were carried by ABC Sports nationally.

For the 2010 season, Sanders joined Eisen, Mariucci and Marshall Faulk on the road for Thursday Night Kickoff Presented by Lexus, NFL Network ’ s two-hour pregame show leading into Thursday Night Football.

This show was succeeded in 1962 and 1963 by NFL Kickoff ( with Kyle Rote hosting ).

During NFL Network's Thursday Night Football schedule, Mora, alongside analysts Kurt Warner, Sterling Sharpe, Brian Billick, Jay Glazer, and host Fran Charles can be seen on Thursday Night Kickoff Presented by Sears from Los Angeles.

Geoff has also hosted and co-produced a number of video game launch specials for Spike TV, including “ Madden NFL 08 Kickoff ” featuring a performance by Ozzy Osbourne and “ Halo 3: Launched !” featuring a performance by Linkin Park.

Its coverage also includes pre-game and post-game shows, with the pre-game show Countdown to Kickoff hosted by BYU Cougars alumni Alema Harrington, Dave McCann, and a rotating panel of analysts in Gary Sheide, Blaine Fowler, David Nixon, and Brian Logan.

Starting in 2006, when the series moved to cable, two games are played on the opening Monday night to capitalize on fan interest during " Kickoff Weekend ".

The Washington Interscholastic Activities Association puts on the annual Emerald City Kickoff Classic at the stadium.

On September 8, 2009, the group performed live for Oprah Winfrey's 24th Season Kickoff Party, on Michigan Avenue in Chicago.

The stadium hosted college football games, including the Garden State Bowl from 1978 – 1981 ; the Kickoff Classic from 1983 to 2002 ; the New York Urban League Classic since 1981 ; a number of Rutgers homes games ( including all their home games during the 1993 season ); several Notre Dame – Navy and Notre Dame – Army games ; and the Army – Navy Game on three occasions, most recently in 2002.

Kickoff will be at 7: 00 PM CST, 8: 00 PM EST and will be televised live on ESPN.

Kickoff parties are often held the weekend before November to give local writers a chance to meet and get geared up, although some are held on Halloween night past midnight so writers start writing in a community setting.

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He served as state chairman of the South Carolina Heart Fund drive, was roasted several times on behalf of the Multiple Sclerosis Society, and was active in selling the Kickoff Publication out of Knoxville, TN.

Garcia attended WWE's SummerSlam Kickoff Party in Hollywood, on August 14, 2010.

Less than two weeks later, on August 2, 2007, the couple were seen together at the Rockstar Energy Drink X Games Kickoff at new club Opera in Hollywood.

On January 22, 2007, FUNimation Entertainment announced the U. S. license of Ragnarok on the website's Kickoff 07.

Will wrote a blog post which featured the song on Dipdive, and released in February 2009. will. i. am attended and spoke at the FIRST Robotics Competition Kickoff on January 8, 2011, declaring, " I am a FIRST fan.

Freeman now appears on Redskins Kickoff and Redskins Postgame Live as a commentator on Comcast SportsNet Washington.

The award was presented posthumously at the AFCA Kickoff Luncheon on Monday, January 7 at the 2008 AFCA Convention in Anaheim, California.

* Kickoff meeting, the first meeting with the project team and the client of the project to discuss the role of each team member

* AIFA Kickoff Classic ( American Indoor Football Association All-Stars vs. expansion team )

In the spirit of the 12th Man, the football coach Jackie Sherrill created the " 12th Man Kickoff Team " in the 1980s composed of non-athletic scholarship students who tried out for the team instead of players who were recruited, as is the normal practice in college football.

When asked at We Vote ' 08 Kickoff Party " What would Jesus do this primary season ", Sarandon said, " I think Jesus would be very supportive of John Edwards.

Lebanon hosts the Heart Of Kentucky Bluegrass Music Kickoff in January.

Throughout the 2009-2010 school year, the school celebrated its centennial year with the Kickoff celebration at Varsity Stadium and the Homecoming weekend to be held in the school itself.

Nebraska hasn't played a game in New York City proper since, although they have since played in the Kickoff Classic in suburban New Jersey.

All games are counted, including Kickoff Classics and conference title games.

On November 18, 2008, a first one was released for the Nintendo DS, titled Tecmo Bowl: Kickoff.

ET, switching with SportsCenter Monday Kickoff, all programs were moved to the Bristol studio, and the second version's hosts ( see below ) were also assigned to the earlier show.

The Kickoff Classic was a season-opening college football game played at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey from 1983 to 2002.

It was the beginning for the Kickoff Classic but the end for WKBS ; the station signed off for the final time following the game.

While not cut from the same mold, the Chick-fil-A College Kickoff held its inaugural game in Atlanta, GA in an effort to direct the nation's attention to one site for the start of the college football season.

Pepsi Twist made a brief return in the Summer of 2008 with the NFL Kickoff Limited Edition Flavor, which boasted that it was Pepsi " with a kick of Lemon.

* Countdown to the NFL Network ’ s Real Kickoff November 20, 2006 ( from Howard Bloom's Sports Business News. com )

He has lent his name to the Kirk Herbstreit National Kickoff Classic in Columbus, Ohio, and Arlington, Texas.