To celebrate the 20th Super Bowl game, the Most Valuable Players of the previous Super Bowls were featured during the pregame festivities.

The Tyler Junior College Apache Belles drill team performed during the pregame and halftime festivities.

The Longhorn Band from the University of Texas at Austin performed during the pregame festivities.

The Grambling State University Band performed during both the pregame festivities and the national anthem.

The performance event group Up with People performed during both the pregame festivities and the halftime show titled " 200 Years and Just a Baby: A Tribute to America's Bicentennial ".

The pregame festivities featured the Los Angeles Unified School District ( LAUSD ) All-City Band and frisbee dog Ashley Whippet.

The pregame festivities featured the Southern University Band along with the cheerleaders of both teams.

The pregame festivities featured the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders and several military bands.

The pregame festivities featured the University of Michigan Band.

The pregame festivities, which paid tribute to George Halas, featured the University of Florida Fightin ' Gator Marching Band and the Florida State University Marching Chiefs.

The pregame festivities featured a tribute to the NFL and an appearance by various team mascots.

The pregame festivities featured a tribute to entertainer Bob Hope, who was approaching the age of 85.

It is also played during football pregame festivities at Mississippi State University and at USHRA Monster Jam events to introduce Grave Digger ( regardless of driver ).

" Dion would perform it again in 2003 during pregame festivities for Super Bowl XXXVII in San Diego.

In October 2006, Trammell returned to Comerica Park for the first time since his firing to participate, along with Sparky Anderson, in pregame festivities prior to Game 2 of the World Series.

In addition, the building is used to host pregame festivities prior to each home football game.

The pregame festivities featured the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders and several military bands.

Bob Costas and Dan Patrick ( who also presided over the trophy presentation ceremony ) hosted the pregame, halftime, and postgame coverage for NBC with Football Night in America analysts Tony Dungy and Rodney Harrison and special guest analysts ( who were seated next to Costas during the pre-game festivities ), Aaron Rodgers and Hines Ward.

It is played by The Pride of Oklahoma and sung by fans and alumni during pregame festivities prior to home football games in Oklahoma Memorial Stadium.

The game also featured pregame festivities featuring Green Day and U2 performing a song that would become the team's unofficial anthem, " The Saints Are Coming ".

To commemorate the 20th Super Bowl, all previous Super Bowl MVPs were honored during the pregame ceremonies.

The game was thus held under patriotic fervor, as the pregame ceremonies honored the end of the crisis.

Guerin is honored as the Pittsburgh Penguins | Penguins nominee for the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy | Masterton Trophy during a pregame ceremony in April 2010.

The Parker name is still honored at Parker Plaza, located between Reser and Gill Coliseum, the site of many pregame activities.

Pittsburgh Penguins past and present were honored during a pregame ceremony prior to the final regular season game at Mellon Arena, April 8, 2010.

The Giants honored Rueter's career during pregame ceremonies on " Kirk Rueter Day " at SBC Park on August 19, 2006, by giving Rueter a lifesize bobblehead of his likeness and giving him and his family a trip to Hawaii.

One sports studio show, whether a pregame or a nightly news show, was honored each year.

* In a pregame warm-up, Quarterback Michael Bishop threw a pass from one end zone, across the field, through the uprights, and into the stands.

He performed the ceremonial coin toss to end the pregame ceremonies.

Near the end of his tenure with the Bucs, Wyche participated in a lighthearted pregame promotional piece for NFL Films.

The pregame show held before the game featured country music singer Hank Williams, Jr., who performed his theme song for Monday Night Football, which was based on his single " All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight ".

He received the actual award from NBA commissioner David Stern during a pregame ceremony at the Nuggets first home 2006 – 07 playoff game, which was against the San Antonio Spurs on April 28, 2007.

" Before the game at RFK Stadium between the Washington Nationals and Arizona Diamondbacks, Howard walked out to left field and was greeted by a loud ovation during pregame ceremonies which featured players from both former Senators clubs.

Perkins considers that his training as a mortgage loan processor is important and has stated, " Goalies can usually play until they're around 40, so you have to think about a job after retirement ," He has an " austere pregame routine, which entails shutting off all electronics and not talking to anyone for 24 hours.

The show includes segments like the CarQuest Chalk Talk, in which commentators and program guests discuss team strategies, and Outside the Huddle with computer-animated PUNT TV pregame host Thurston Long, who makes fun of people around the NFL.

The game was preceded by The Super Bowl Today, a four-hour pregame show hosted by James Brown and featuring analysts Dan Marino, Boomer Esiason, Shannon Sharpe and Bill Cowher along with several other commentators, which started at 2 pm US EST.

The band performs a traditional pregame show prior to the start of football games, which usually features school songs such as The Cavalier Song and Hoo Time.

Fox NFL Sunday, which debuted in 1994 on FSN's network brother-Fox Sports, quickly became the top-rated NFL pregame show due in part to the personalities of NFL veterans Terry Bradshaw and Howie Long.

ABC's pregame show, which Jackson was a part of, will air from the site of the main game each week ( much like ABC's first season in 2003 ).

Starting in 1995, NBC unveiled a new theme composed by veteran composer Randy Edelman, which was used for both their pregame show ( now simply titled The NFL on NBC ) and during the game.

At each game, besides playing in the stands during pauses in the game, the band performs a pregame show and a halftime show, each of which consists of one to three songs with accompanying formations, accompanied by a humorous script.

They would sometimes call in to his pregame show, which pleased Villamán enormously.

The kick-off to start a game is awarded to the team that lost the pregame coin-toss ( the team that won the coin-toss chooses which direction they wish to play ).

It returned as a pregame show for its Saturday afternoon Major League Baseball telecasts, replacing In the Zone, which had a similar format to NBA Inside Stuff and was listed as part of the Fox Kids / 4KidsTV line-up.

In 2012, Fox Saturday Baseball premiered its new pregame studio show, which is produced by, and features personalities from, MLB Network.

The pregame ceremonies included the unveiling of a special historic plaque, which now hangs near the entrance of the ballpark.