Before becoming the studio host for The NFL on NBC in 1984, Costas did play-by-play of NFL games with analyst Bob Trumpy.

Before use, hanks are wound into balls in which the yarn emerges from the center, making crocheting easier by preventing the yarn from becoming easily tangled.

Before becoming public, the movement was secretive and held closed meetings in what was known as Sessions of Wisdom.

Before becoming member a party needs to have been observer of the EFA for at least one year.

Before becoming president, Madero published another book, this one under the pseudonym of Bhima ( one of Arjuna's brothers in the Mahābhārata ) called a Spiritualist Manual.

Before he dies, Heracles throws Lichas into the sea, thinking he was the one who poisoned him ( according to several versions, Lichas turns to stone, becoming a rock standing in the sea, named for him ).

Before becoming a full-time actor, Spader held a variety of jobs including being a yoga instructor, busboy, truck driver, stable boy, and railroad-car loader.

Before becoming the UN Ambassador he was the Attorney General of Missouri and United States Senator from Missouri.

Before knitting, the knitter will typically transform a hank into a ball where the yarn emerges from the center of the ball ; this making the knitting easier by preventing the yarn from becoming easily tangled.

Before becoming a manga artist, Asamiya graduated from the Tokyo Designer School, then worked as a character designer for a number of anime series, and even designed models for some of the later Godzilla films ( 1980s ).

Before becoming an astronaut, Armstrong was an officer in the U. S. Navy and served in the Korean War.

Before becoming Pope, he spent time at the then very liberal and cosmopolitan University of Padua, which maintained considerable independence from the Church and had a very international character.

In the episode " Before and After ", Kes participates in Voyager's year-long battle with the Krenim, becoming infected with particles from a chronoton torpedo.

Before becoming President, he held offices at the city, state, and federal levels.

Before becoming President, Taft was selected to serve on the Ohio Superior Court in 1887.

Before becoming a Christian, he was an orator, " pleader in the courts ", and a teacher of rhetoric.

Before entering politics, he had been a classical scholar, becoming a full Professor of Ancient Greek at the age of 25.

Before becoming a polka artist, and founding Chicago-based Bel-Aire Records in 1963, Eddie Blazonczyk recorded under the name Eddy Bell for Mercury Records and Lucky Four Records, both labels also based in Chicago.

Before becoming a director himself, he built his reputation as a film writer with articles in Esquire.

Before becoming a Hollywood filmmaker, he had been an amateur boxer, reporter, short-story writer, portrait artist in Paris, a cavalry rider in Mexico, and a documentary filmmaker during World War II.

Before becoming king he was 4th Duke of York, 7th Earl of March, 5th Earl of Cambridge and 9th Earl of Ulster.

Before becoming an actor, Milland served in the Household Cavalry.

Before becoming a judge, Marshall was a lawyer who was best known for his high success rate in arguing before the Supreme Court and for the victory in Brown v. Board of Education.

Before becoming a Roman deacon, Hormisdas was married, and his son became pope under the name of Silverius.

Before becoming king, Harald spent a period in exile as a military commander in Kievan Rus ' and in the Byzantine Empire.

Before making the leap to provincial politics, he got his feet wet at the municipal level as both alderman and then mayor for the city of Sarnia.

Before becoming an alderman he worked as an investment banker for SBK Brooks Investment Corporation.

Before his first run for mayor, Abramson also served as alderman for two terms and as general counsel to governor John Y.

Before his election as alderman, Banks served as Chief Research Aide and Legal Counselor to Congressman Morgan F. Murphy.

Before the construction of the current Teatro Colón, opera performances were given in several theatres, of which the first Teatro Colón and the Teatro Opera were the most important.

Before the 2003 season, Colón was traded to the Chicago White Sox with minor leaguer Jorge Nunez for Orlando Hernández, Rocky Biddle, Jeff Liefer and cash.

* Brian Eno's album Before and After Science includes a song entitled " King's Lead Hat ", an anagram of " Talking Heads ", a band Eno has worked with.

Before meeting Cesare, Leonardo had worked at the Milanese court of Ludovico Sforza for many years, until Louis XII of France drove Sforza out of Italy.

Before going to Germany, Evans continued her interest in theological work with a translation of Feuerbach's Essence of Christianity, and while abroad she wrote essays and worked on her translation of Baruch Spinoza's Ethics, which she completed in 1856, but which was not published in her lifetime.

Before joining NASA as a member of the first group of scientist-astronauts in June 1965, he worked at the U. S. Geological Survey's Astrogeology Center at Flagstaff, Arizona, developing geological field techniques that would be used by the Apollo crews.

Before the advent of machine tools, metal was worked manually using the basic hand tools of hammers, files, scrapers, saws and chisels.

Before James Brown appeared on stage, his personal MC gave him an elaborate introduction accompanied by drumrolls, as the MC worked in Brown's various sobriquets along with the names of many of his hit songs.

These were interrupted by service in the U. S. Army Signal Corps during World War II, where he worked as a codebreaker and participated in the landing at Casablanca. Before leaving for Europe in 1943, Greenberg married Selma Berkowitz, whom he had met during his first year at Columbia.

Before the Anglo-German summit at Berchtesgaden on 15 September 1938, Henderson and Weizsäcker worked out a private arrangement that Hitler and Chamberlain were to meet with no advisers present as a way of excluding the ultra-hawkish Ribbentrop from attending the talks.

Before Kerrigan left him, Moon was already dating Georgiana Steele, a British-born former fashion model who worked at Ramport, the band's quadrophonic recording studio in Battersea.

Before Monty Python, they had worked on other shows such as the Ken Dodd Show, The Frost Report and Do Not Adjust Your Set.

Before election to the papacy, Pacelli served as secretary of the Department of Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs, papal nuncio to Germany ( 1917 – 1929 ), and Cardinal Secretary of State, in which capacity he worked to conclude treaties with European and Latin American nations, most notably the Reichskonkordat with Nazi Germany.

Before leaving Hollywood for Europe in 1952, following the problematic production The Crimson Pirate for Warner Bros., his third and last film with Burt Lancaster, Siodmak had directed some of the era's best film noirs, more than any other director who worked in that genre, twelve in all.

Before the fourth edition, skill and ability checks worked as follows: all actions in the game, from the use of skills to making attacks in combat, are first given a target number that reflects the difficulty of the action which is then raised or lowered by various modifying factors, such as environmental conditions, the condition of the character, the use of mechanical aids, and so forth.

Before leaving for Europe, Agnew worked at the Maryland Casualty Company where he met Elinor Judefind, known as Judy.

Before his breakthrough as a writer, Zola worked as a clerk in a shipping firm and then in the sales department for a publisher ( Hachette ).

Before and during their marriage, Crawford worked to promote Tone's Hollywood career but Tone was ultimately not interested in being a movie star and Crawford eventually wearied of the effort.

Before World War II, he spent periods working in hotels, wrote a play, worked as a coal miner and produced his best known novel.

Before entering politics, the young Jimmy Walker worked as a songwriter, his most popular composition being " Will You Love Me in December ( as You Do in May )?

Before he began his writing career he worked as an illustrator in New York and, in 1960, as an art director in a London advertising agency.

Before they went on to become major stars in the country music recording industry, Kathy Mattea and Trisha Yearwood worked as tour guides at the Music Row museum.

Before his term as President, he worked as an aerospace engineer with Defence Research and Development Organisation ( DRDO ) and Indian Space Research Organisation ( ISRO ).

Before then, Chancellor had worked at Reuters news agency and had been a scriptwriter and reporter for ITN.

Before joining The Spectator as editor, Johnson had worked for The Times, the Wolverhampton Express & Star, and The Daily Telegraph.

Before becoming famous, for a couple of years Susana worked as an executive secretary for a large factory, but realizing that she needed a more exciting career at 19 yrs.