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 the enactment of the metric system, many countries in Europe used their own official acres.

Before there was an official standard for C, many users and implementors relied on an informal specification contained in a book by Ritchie and Brian Kernighan ; that version is generally referred to as " K & R " C. In 1989 the American National Standards Institute published a standard for C ( generally called " ANSI C " or " C89 ").

Before the release, Everlast announced on his official message board that he was not endorsing the compilation album.

* Before 2: 30 PM, the official New York City missing count has risen to 4972.

* Before 2: 30 PM, the official death count at the Pentagon has risen to 189, including the 64 in the plane.

Before March 5, 1973, Telnet was an ad-hoc protocol with no official definition.

Before the official development tools were released, most map development was done using aging tools such as Pfhorte-a Marathon map editor created in March 1995 by Steve Israelson.

Before its official release date on October 5, the band played at the Austin City Limits Music Festival and KBCO's World Class Rockfest.

Before Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire, local Christians were being persecuted by the Romans.

Before his official adoption as a Roman deity, Liber was companion to two different goddesses in two separate, archaic Italian fertility cults ; Ceres, an agricultural and fertility goddess of Rome's Hellenised neighbours, and Libera, who was either Liber's female equivalent or became so through assimilation.

* @ Toon ( 2001 – 2004 ): Before each first commercial break for most of the shows, the block featured some viewer submissions and game high scores from the official website.

* 30 May 1958: Before the official opening, Transair operated the first commercial air service from the new Gatwick ; a Jersey Airlines de Havilland Heron was the first scheduled aircraft to arrive at the newly reconstructed airport.

Before Utah was ever an official state Beaver was established as a county in 1886 by the Legislature of the Territory of Utah.

Before her trip to Lebanon she visited Derry on one of her last official engagements to Northern Ireland, becoming the inaugural speaker at the first Conversations Across Walls and Borders event in First Derry Presbyterian Church.

Before the introduction of the official written form of Rumantsch Grischuni in 2003, books for pupils in public schools were printed in the five different idioms throughout the state.

Before the end of the 1960s, Trudeau would pass the Official Languages Act ( 1969 ), which aimed to ensure that all federal government services were available in both of Canada's official languages.

Before the official adoption of the yotta prefix, the multiple was also known as otta.

Before his political career Sorsa worked for UNESCO in Paris 1959 – 1965, and was Secretary-General of Finnish UNESCO board 1965 – 1969, and official in the Ministry of Education 1967 – 1969.

Before Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire during the reign of the Emperor Constantine I, Diocletian and Maximian passed strict anti-polygamy laws in 285 that mandated monogamy was the only form of legal marital configuration, as had traditionally been the case in classical Greece and Rome themselves.

Before any official announcement, reports began running during April 1965 within the automotive press that Chevrolet was preparing a competitor to the Ford Mustang, code-named Panther.

Before the civilian government was established, Afghan air force colonel Abdul Qadir Dagarwal was the official ruler of Afghanistan for three days, starting from 27 April 1978.

Before 1967, " Zionist entity " was the standard term used by Arabs and the Arab media to refer to Israel, and was particularly popular in official broadcasts of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan during the 1960s and ' 70s.

Before the successful recall of Gray Davis, no California statewide official had ever been recalled, though there had been 117 previous attempts.

Before 2000, when the Seoul government changed the official Romanization of Hangul, Jeju-do was spelled Cheju-do.