On September 15, 1974, the revamped program debuted with a new three-segment format: highlights of the day's games and commentary, special features shot during the week, and a third segment covering the day's sports news, including scores and highlights at halftime.

The Yale Precision Marching Band has made a tradition of setting fire to the tops of the bells of their sousaphones, including in the fall of 1992 when sousaphones served as the " candles " of a " wedding cake " formed by the band when two band alumni were married during a halftime show.

A game has four 15-minute quarters with a 15-minute halftime.

Helen of Troy has also sponsored the halftime show, which has recently featured such artists as Los Lonely Boys, The Village People, Baby Bash, David Archuleta, Rihanna, and Diamond Rio.

Armed Forces Insurance is the official Insurance Partner of the Armed Forces Bowl and has sponsored the Great American Patriot Award, presented at halftime at the Bowl, since 2008.

Kornheiser continued to host PTI, and Wilbon joined him on the road as they broadcast PTI each Monday from the site of the MNF game, and there has also been an extra PTI segment inserted during halftime of ESPN's Monday Night games ( although in 2008, Wilbon stayed in the DC studios, on many Mondays ).

( Since 1997, the Dallas Cowboys Thanksgiving Day game halftime show has traditionally started the Salvation Army's Red Kettle Christmas Campaign.

The halftime special has also included celebrities, national recording artists and former NFL players such as Jenny McCarthy, Dennis Rodman, Chingy, Eric Dickerson, Lawrence Taylor, Cindy Margolis, Traci Bingham, and Jim McMahon.

He has stated in an interview that while his team was down 4 – 0 during halftime, he came on as a substitute for his Balkan youth team and dramatically scored eight goals.

* Max has " jersey " retired during halftime, 1 March 2006

The ad has since been broadcast elsewhere ( most notably on CNN during Super Bowl halftime ), along with several other finalists in the competition.

The Southern University marching band, nicknamed the Human Jukebox, has been featured in television commercials, and invited to participate in the annual Rose Parade in Pasadena, California, Presidential Inauguration ceremonies and several Super Bowl halftime presentations.

The West Chester University Golden Rams Marching Band, which has over 300 members, performs pre-game, halftime, or post-game at all home and select away WCU football games in Pennsylvania and in Delaware.

Indeed, for many years, the Fightin ' Texas Aggie Band's halftime show has begun with the drum major shouting " Recall!

Beginning with the 2012 season, Iowa has adopted a 35-point running clock mercy rule that begins any time the point differential is 35 or more after the end of the first quarter ( as opposed to the 11-man game, in which the same rule is invoked only after halftime ).

Musburger has also served as a studio host for games, a play-by-play man, and halftime host.

Spike TV has broadcast several IFOCE-sanctioned competitive eating competitions as part of its " MLE Chowdown " series, including the St. Patrick's Day Chowdown in 2007 ( corned beef and cabbage ), the " Turkey Bowl " on Thanksgiving day in 2007 ( whole turkeys with an undercard cranberry sauce contest ), " Wedges ' n Wings " in 2007 ( chicken wings and potato wedges ), and " Ham ' n Eggs " during Super Bowl halftime in 2008.

The Pride of the Southland Marching Band has been performing at halftime for more than one hundred years, but has existed since 1869 when it was founded as part of the Military Department.

As marching bands in the United States have started to focus more directly on halftime shows and less on parades, the traditional use of the mace has largely vanished from high school and college marching bands, in preference of hand movements, occasionally with the use of a conductor's baton or whistle.

On game days, the band has early morning Continuity rehearsals to review the halftime show and pregame.

Such a match-up has not yet taken place, though the Utah Flash of the NBDL did stage a halftime game between Russell and a Jordan look-alike.

His decision to leave terrestrial radio occurred in the aftermath of the controversy surrounding the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show in February that caused a crackdown on perceived indecency in broadcasting.

Among the PTC's largest campaigns for FCC complaints was over the 2004 Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show in which co-performer Justin Timberlake caused the brief exposure of lead performer Janet Jackson's right breast, leading the CBS network that carried the halftime show to be fined $ 550, 000 by the FCC.

Simpson was the last of three performances during the halftime show, and she later said that there were technical problems and that she couldn't hear herself properly, making the performance more difficult for her.

The Vikings held the Eagles 14 – 16 at halftime, but the Eagles, coming off of a 44 – 6 victory over the Dallas Cowboys, defeated the Vikings, 26 – 14.

The Giants were at home, and led 24 – 3 over the Eagles at halftime.

Jim Langer wrote that at halftime, " We definitely knew that this game was over.

Al Michaels and Jim Lampley hosted the pregame, halftime, and postgame ( Lampley presided over the Vince Lombardi Trophy presentation ceremony ) coverage for ABC.

But Green Bay's defense forced 2 pass incompletions from Bledsoe, causing the Patriots to turn the ball over on downs with just 19 seconds left before halftime.

The Rams ended up leading at halftime, 9 – 0, but their scoring margin over the Titans seemed somewhat small considering they drove into scoring range on every one of their first half possessions and outgained Tennessee in total yards, 294 – 89.

In the first regular season NBA game played in New Orleans in over 17 years, the Hornets defeated the Jazz 100 – 75, and posthumously retired # 7 of " Pistol " Pete Maravich during halftime.

After an easy 44-15 victory over the Chicago Bears in the divisional round of the playoffs, the 49ers jumped out to a 31-14 halftime lead over the Dallas Cowboys in the NFC Championship Game, holding on to win 38-28.

The Patriots ' 59 – 0 victory over the Titans tied the record for the largest margin of victory since the 1970 AFL-NFL merger, and set a record for largest halftime lead in NFL history ( they led 45 – 0 ).

Westwood One carried the game nationwide over terrestrial radio with Marv Albert on play-by-play and Boomer Esiason on color commentary, with Jim Gray hosting the pregame and halftime shows.

Another tradition carried over from Mile High Stadium is during halftime or towards the end of the game, the stadium's PA announcer will announce the actual attendance for the game as well as how many people didn't show up for the game, and if that number is generally over a thousand, Broncos fans chant a loud " boo " towards those empty seats.

Scotland led 7-3 when Aaron Stecker went over with a 36-yard first-quarter rush, exchanging field-goals for a 10-6 halftime lead.

In their first road game, the Americans overcame a 26-point deficit at halftime to win 32 – 29 over the New York Stars in front of 17, 943 at Downing Stadium on July 17, 1974.

Gamblers in Asia were said to have placed a large amount of money down during halftime, which raised concerns over the outcome.

He made his Bundesliga debut on 17 August 1996, appearing as a halftime substitute in the club's opening match of the 1996 – 97 season, a 4 – 2 home victory over Borussia Dortmund.

That losing streak finally came to an end with a win away from home over the Penrith Panthers, when they came from 14 – 0 down at halftime to win 28 – 24.

For the pre-game and halftime of each game, the band writes a script, intended to be humorous, which is read over the loudspeaker as the band scrambles into a formation which relates to the jokes in the script.

Previously, Ahn was selected for Korea's 2006 FIFA World Cup squad in Germany, and came off the bench to score the winner in Korea's 2 – 1 opening match win over Togo, after coming from a goal down at halftime.

Oguchi Onyewu made for a thrilling finish, as his header off a free kick won the match in stoppage time for the U. S. The underdogs, Panama, jumped all over Colombia and led by two at halftime.

Despite being outgained by every one of its eleven Division I FBS opponents, the Terrapins started the season 8 – 2, highlighted by a 28 – 26 victory over Virginia in which the team stormed back from a 20 – 0 halftime deficit to defeat the Cavaliers.

However, after Dreisbach struggled, Griese replaced him at halftime against Ohio State, where he led the Wolverines to another upset victory over the Buckeyes, 13 – 9.