Prior to that team's existence, other early football teams ( such as the Buffalo Bills of the AAFC ) used the nickname, solely due to name recognition, as Bill Cody had no special connection with the city.

Prior to the start of the campaign, the Predators announced defenceman Kimmo Timonen as the team's new captain, while naming Kariya and Steve Sullivan as alternates ( the two served in that role the previous season, as well, but not on a permanent basis ).

Prior to this, the team's three supporters groups ( The Crew Supporters Union, The Hudson Street Hooligans, and La Turbina Amarilla ) sat apart because of differences between the groups ranging from age to ethnicity.

Prior to that he was the team's hitting instructor from 2004-05.

Prior to the 1984 season, he and Fairbanks sold their interest to Trump, the team's original owner.

Prior to the draft, the team signed free agent Kevin Pritchard, the team's first player.

Prior to that the brand served as a primary sponsor for Ricky Rudd's # 88 Robert Yates Racing Ford as well as an associate sponsor for the team's # 38 car driven first by Elliott Sadler and then by David Gilliland, and an associate sponsor for the MB2 Motorsports # 36 Pontiac driven by Derrike Cope, Ernie Irvan, Ken Schrader, and others.

Prior to the Canucks ' final home game of the season a week later, he was awarded the Cyclone Taylor Award as the team's most valuable player ( MVP ) and his third Cyrus H. McLean Award as the team's leading point-scorer.

Prior to this, the ICT supporters had become increasingly concerned about poor performances and rumours of dressing room unrest, leading to a protest by fans at the team's 1-0 defeat by Hamilton on the weekend before the sacking

Prior to the 1903 season, Arthur Mosse was recruited from the University of Kansas to become the team's new coach.

Prior to the team's final game in the qualification campaign, against Zambia, coach Marcos Paquetá claimed that the team was now " not only playing for football success but for a new government and a new country ".< ref > 7 October 2011, < u > Libya eye unlikely qualification < u >, BBC Sport, Accessed October 8, 2011 .</ ref > The match was played on 8 October 2011, and resulted in a 0 – 0 draw which was good enough for both teams to qualify.

Prior to the race weekend Michael Andretti was informed by McLaren that the race would be his final Formula One start with the team due to poor performances, and he was to be replaced at the next race by Finland's Mika Häkkinen, the team's test-driver.

Prior to the start of the 2004 NFL season, the Bears fired Jauron and hired Lovie Smith, who declared Grossman the team's starting quarterback.

Prior to each challenge, each team nominates a group of three males and three females within the team for elimination ; after that challenge, the winning team's nominated group picks the matchups for the " Ruins ", which consist of a male Challenger against a male Champion, and a female Challenger against a female Champion.

Prior to the team's mission, he records a video will and testament telling his sister he is happy in life.

Prior to the team's appearance in the national championship game ( the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, Louisiana ), Janikowski declared his intentions to declare himself eligible for the 2000 NFL Draft, saying his primary reason for foregoing his senior year was to pay for his mother to come to the United States.

Prior to the battle between the Society and the Six, Deadshot visits Scandal's room to talk about the team's future.

Prior to 1931, as soon as the first necessary run to win the game scored, the play was over, and the batter was credited only with the number of bases needed to drive in the winning run.

Prior to the passage of the United States Constitution, several States passed their own various copyright laws between 1783 and 1787, the first state being Connecticut.

* Prior to her first record deal, British singer-songwriter Kate Bush recorded at least thirty officially-unreleased but much-bootlegged demos of original material, circa 1972.

Prior to the end of the slave trade and widespread abolition, when indigenous labour was unavailable, slaves were often imported to the Americas, first by the Spanish Empire, and later by the Dutch, French and British.

Prior, whose authority is great in the origin of popular names, says " It seems probably that the name was in the first place, foxes ' glew, or music, in reference to the favourite instrument of an earlier time, a ring of bells hung on an arched support, the tintinnabulum "... we cannot quite agree with Dr.

Prior for it seems quite probable that the shape of the flowers suggested the idea of a glove, and that associated with the name of the botanist Fuchs, who first gave it a botanical name, may have been easily corrupted into foxglove.

Prior to the start of the Civil War, Governor Samuel J. Kirkwood declared Davenport to be Iowa's first military headquarters and five camps were set up in the city to aid the Union.

Prior to the introduction of the ubiquitous fax machine, one of the first being the Exxon Qwip in the mid-1970s, facsimile machines worked by optical scanning of a document or drawing spinning on a drum.

Prior to this, they were not limited as to how many terms they could serve ; John Engler, the governor at the time, served three terms as his first term occurred prior to the restriction.

Prior to the rise of Kizzuwatna, the heart of that territory in Cilicia was first referred to by the Hittites as Adaniya.

Prior to the start of the Great Depression, Hoover's first Treasury Secretary, Andrew Mellon, had proposed and seen enacted, numerous tax cuts, which cut the top income tax rate from 73 % to 24 % ( under Presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge ).

Prior to 1820, the bark was first dried, ground to a fine powder, and then mixed into a liquid ( commonly wine ) which was then drunk.

Prior to v3. 0, Firefox Mobile 4. 0b2 ( beta ) for Android was the first browser running under Android to support SVG by default.

Prior to this, Canada had relied on British diplomats who owed their first loyalty to London.

Prior to the first X-ray diffraction experiments, the spacings between lattice planes in a crystal were not known with certainty.

Prior to the release of HP-UX version 11. 11, HP used a decimal version numbering scheme with the first number giving the major release and the number following the decimal showing the minor release.

Prior to the mid 1990s, WNV disease occurred only sporadically and was considered a minor risk for humans, until an outbreak in Algeria in 1994, with cases of WNV-caused encephalitis, and the first large outbreak in Romania in 1996, with a high number of cases with neuroinvasive disease.

The first known definition in the West is by Aristotle around 350 BC, in his book Prior Analytics, where he classified it as a material fallacy.

Prior to the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Boris Yeltsin had been elected President of Russia in June 1991 in the first direct presidential election in Russian history.

The Prior Analytics contains his exposition of the " syllogistic ", where three important principles are applied for the first time in history: the use of variables, a purely formal treatment, and the use of an axiomatic system.

Prior to the first act, an induction frames the play as a " kind of history " played in front of a befuddled drunkard named Christopher Sly who is tricked into believing that he is a lord.

Prior to the release of the first film, she was noted for her Seven Gothic Tales, for which she is also known in Denmark.

Prior to his first visitation date with Zackary, an unknown assailant shot Gilbride dead by automatic weapon fire as he sat in his car shortly after midnight on September 27 while parked outside his home in an execution-style slaying.

Prior to 1888 the first two fences were located approximately halfway between the first to second and second to third jumps.