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

The pregame ceremonies featured two giant figures, one dressed as a Packers player and the other dressed as a Raiders player.

The Los Angeles Unified School District All-City Band played during the pregame ceremonies.

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

A moment of silence was held in his memory during the pregame ceremonies.

The Los Angeles Unified School District All-City Band played during the pregame ceremonies.

The proceedings included a rousing rendition of " The Star-Spangled Banner " by Whitney Houston during the pregame ceremonies.

Although looking rather frail ( Buck at the time was sick with lung cancer ) and struggling to maintain his composure ( Buck was obviously showing the signs of Parkinson's disease as well ), Buck stirred emotions by reading a patriotic-themed poem during the pregame ceremonies.

In October 1968, at the height of protests against the Vietnam War, Feliciano was given the opportunity by Detroit Tigers broadcaster Ernie Harwell to perform " The Star-Spangled Banner " at Tiger Stadium in Detroit during Game 5 pregame ceremonies of the 1968 World Series.

A moment of silence was held in his memory during the pregame ceremonies.

Both were memorialized with a moment of silence during the pregame ceremonies.

He attended reunions for the 25th anniversary of the 1960 NFL Championship team in 1985 and the 40th anniversary of the 1948-49 NFL Championship team in 1988 ( though he had not played for the 1948 team ), held in pregame ceremonies at Veterans Stadium.

When the last game was played at the old Comiskey Park on September 30,, Miñoso was invited to present the White Sox lineup card to the umpires in the pregame ceremonies at home plate.

" 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.

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

He can also be seen rallying the crowd regularly during pregame on-field ceremonies, and, occasionally, he finds time to sit behind ( or on top of ) the dugout to get the crowd going.

As part of the pregame ceremonies, Georgia Southern's living mascot, Freedom, a Bald Eagle, makes a flight from the top of the press box down to the field.

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.

As part of the pregame ceremonies, the last Washington Redskin player announced comes on to the field holding the American flag.

The Steelers celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Steagles on August 17, 2003 during the pregame and halftime ceremonies at Heinz Field.

McDonough's TV experience included a stint as part of NBC's NFL Live pregame show from 1991-1993.

In 2009, The Blackhawks wore special camouflage jerseys on Veterans Day during their pregame warm-ups.

Since then, The Corner has been used periodically to videotape special segments, such as the appearance of Denny McLain on Fox Sports Net's Beyond the Glory and a pregame piece for the 2005 Major League Baseball All-Star Game featuring Ernie Harwell.

In February 2005, with the new format, the show traveled to Jacksonville, Florida to tape a special episode of the show aired on the Fox Broadcasting Company, as a part of Fox Sports ' pregame coverage of Super Bowl XXXIX.

On November 8, 2009, there was a special 2-hour pregame show that took place from Afghanistan.

Eisen also remains host of NFL Total Access and NFL GameDay Highlights, as well as NFL Network ’ s Thursday Night Football pregame, halftime and postgame shows and special on-location coverage from league events such as Kickoff, Pro Football Hall of Fame, NFL Scouting Combine, NFL Draft and Super Bowl.

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.

The pregame festivities honored the end of the Iran hostage crisis ( which was announced 5 days before the game ), which featured a performance by the Southern University 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 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.

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.