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unusual facts about pre-game



1897–98 Thames Ironworks F.C. season

On 11 September 1897, in their first game of the new season of the London League and also at their new ground, Thames beat Brentford F.C. 1–0.

1937–38 Detroit Red Wings season

In Europe, the teams played a nine-game series in England and France.

1941 American Football League season

At the beginning of the 1941 season, the Bullies accepted a challenge from the defending Western Interprovincial Football Union champion Winnipeg Blue Bombers for a three-game series; the Bombers had been banned from Grey Cup contention that year due to rules discrepancies between the WIFU and the other organizations playing Canadian football at the time.

2005 Fiesta Bowl

Paris Warren was Smith's go-to man during the game, as he caught a Fiesta Bowl record 15 passes for 198 yards and 2 touchdowns.

2006 Mountain West Conference football season

After being trounced by their former Southwest Conference rivals, 70-35, in Lubbock two years prior, the Horned Frog defense kept quarterback Graham Harrell and the Red Raider offense out of the endzone for the entire game, JR linebacker walk on Christopher Abbott led the defense with one sack, 8 tackles 3 for a loss of yards and one interception, to earn their fourth consecutive victory over the Big 12.

2006 National League Championship Series

The game would stay tied until the top of the fifth inning when Paul Lo Duca reached on an error by Cardinals second baseman Ronnie Belliard.

A-Train

Map construction adds the ability to build custom maps and terrains, and included pre-built cities Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe.

Akuji the Heartless

The game centres on the voodoo priest and warrior Akuji (voiced by Richard Roundtree), who had his heart ripped out on his wedding day, and through the use of voodoo magic is now cursed to wander the Underworld.

Ann Wilson

On November 22, 2012, Wilson sang an original arrangement of "The Star-Spangled Banner", accompanied by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, at the beginning of the Thanksgiving Day football game between the Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

Ashley Whippet

Ashley first gained notoriety on August 4, 1974 when Stein, then a 19-year-old college student, smuggled him into Dodger Stadium during a nationally televised baseball game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Cincinnati Reds.

Car numberplate game

This game plays a large role in Richard Herring's stand-up show, Twelve Tasks of Hercules Terrace.

Cee-lo

Many hip hop artists have referenced the dice game "Cee-Lo" in rap songs ever since the 1990s.

Celia Pearce

Her articles and book chapters include a section of Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Pat Harrigan's First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game.

Chuck Noll

Here, Saint Vincent returns to college football in a game against Gallaudet University.

Dave Gunning

The track "A Game Goin' On" from Gunning's album No More Pennies was submitted to the Great Canadian Song Quest (2013 edition: Hockey Night In Canada Song Quest).

Drop goal

The last successful drop kick in a professional American football game was when Doug Flutie successfully drop kicked a football for an extra point in the New England Patriots' regular-season finale against the Miami Dolphins on January 1, 2006; prior to that, the last successful drop kick in a regular-season game was in 1941.

Geimos

The game is set in the year 2135 AD on a military base that was created in one of the moons that make up the Solar System.

Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company

He partnered with fellow insurance salesman Norman O. Houston and businessman George A. Beavers, Jr. to secure 500 pre-paid life insurance applications as well as the $15,000 deposit required by California.

Gun safety

In 1902, the English politician and game shooting enthusiast Mark Hanbury Beaufoy wrote some much-quoted verses on gun safety, including many salient points.

Holborn tube station

The pre-war operation of the station and the branch line features in a pivotal scene in Geoffrey Household's novel Rogue Male, when the pursuit of the protagonist by enemy agents sees them repeatedly using the station's escalators, passageways and the shuttle service.

Howard Scott Warshaw

The first, The Complete Book of PAN, is a guide to the card game of the same name.

John Ducey Park

John Ducey Park was the site where in 1982 former Trapper Ron Kittle hit his 50th home run of the season on the last game of the year.

Kalan Müzik

It was named after the pre-1936 name of the town of Tunceli (its founder's birthplace), but also means "Surviving Music" in Turkish.

Kiss Symphony: Alive IV

The live versions of "Rock and Roll All Nite", "God of Thunder" and "Lick It Up" were featured on the soundtrack for the video game Tony Hawk's Underground.

Ladies of the Canyon

It features several of Mitchell's most noted songs, including "Big Yellow Taxi", "Woodstock" and "The Circle Game".

Lies Greed Misery

It was used in the promotion of Medal of Honor: Warfighter and got its premier in the multiplayer trailer for the game.

Liz Heaston

Ashley Martin, the first female to score in an NCAA game, and the first to score in a Division I game

Low-definition television

The PlayStation 2 generates 240p/288p if a PlayStation game calls for this mode, as do many Virtual Console emulated games on Wii.

Meaningful play

In Rules of Play, Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman introduce meaningful play as the goal of successful game design.

Mitchell Donald

Donald made no appearances in the Eredivisie in the 2008–09 season under manager Marco van Basten after being badly injured in pre-season at the Amsterdam Tournament in a challenge on Inter's Adriano, but he reestablished himself in the squad following the appointment of Martin Jol.

MotorStorm

The events of the game take place at the fictional MotorStorm Festival in Monument Valley.

Paul Bergmann

Bergmann was a starting member of UCLA's 1983 Rose Bowl, where he led all receivers with 6 catches, and the 1984 Rose Bowl Championship, where he caught the first touchdown pass of the game, thrown by Rick Neuheisel.

Peter Andrew Jones

He has also produced images for film publicity, creating the movie posters for The Sword and The Sorceror and Alligator, contributed during the early 1980s to television shows including BBC comedy The Two Ronnies Show and the BBC's '80s sci-fi adaptation of The Tripods, and has produced cover illustrations for video game publishers such as US Gold, Psygnosis and Virgin Interactive.

Poker Players Alliance

The Skill Game Protection Act (HR 2610), proposed by Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL), provides an exemption to UIGEA for games of skill, including poker, mah jong, bridge, and other games.

POMCUS

Originally, POMCUS sites were primarily simply guarded, fenced-in lots of pre-loaded, maintained vehicles and weapons systems ready to roll, although the precursor to POMCUS sites was a series of underground storage areas liberated from the Germans in Pirmasens and the outlying areas Husterhoeh Kaserne utilized to store combat-readied armor.

Pre-Columbian history of Costa Rica

The Costa Rican chieftains in the Intermediate Area had greater powers than those of Nicoya; for example, when Correque moved his residence from Ujarrás to Tucurrique, he brought with him many elders and gentlemen along with their sons, "because the place he wanted was settled and nobody contradicted him."

Riccarton, Ayrshire

A pre-reformation Riccarton parish church stood in the centre of the old burial ground; first noted, as a chapel, in 1229, sub-ordinate to the church of Dundonald.

Richard Gilliam

He devised the Movie Links online game in 1990, and it was played extensively on GEnie four years before the quite similar Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game was promoted in 1994.

Russell Beardsmore

He did not feature in a single competitive game when United won the first Premier League title in 1992–93, and at the end of the season signed for Bournemouth on a free transfer.

Space Eggs

Space Eggs is an unofficial port of the arcade game Moon Cresta to the Apple II.

Sudeki

David Leonard's review for PopMatters expresses considerable concern about the Orientalist packaging of the Asian setting of the game as well as the currents of "female hypersexuality", "racism, sexism and simulations of the war on terror".

Testdroid

Testdroid can use testing frameworks, such as Robotium, cisimple, and uiautomator for native and Selenium for web applications, targeted for mobile application and game developers.

The Belle Game

The Belle Game digitally released their first collection of songs, the Inventing Letters EP, on November 10, 2009.

Tim Dadabo

He has performed in several video game roles including the popular Halo series as the Forerunner Monitor 343 Guilty Spark.

Tim Harkness

On April 17, 1964, Harkness led off for the Mets in the bottom of the first inning and had a single off of Bob Friend in the third inning to become the first Mets player to bat and the first to get a hit in the team's first game played at Shea Stadium as part of a 4–3 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Translink Cup

Celtic Manager Tony Mowbray decided to use the game as a warm-up for European Champions League qualifiers and brought a near full-strength squad for the fixture, including Artur Boruc, Lee Naylor, Stephen McManus, Gary Caldwell, Massimo Donati, Marc Crosas, Georgios Samaras, Andreas Hinkel, Shaun Maloney and Scott McDonald.

Tyrell McCrea

In the first game of his senior year against historic Odessa Permian High School, McCrea had an 80 yard touchdown run during the first half to begin his season.

Wake the Dead

The album's main hit, the title track "Wake The Dead", was featured on the soundtrack of the video game Burnout Revenge, and Burnout Legends.

Zakaria Bakkali

After Bakkali's superb Champions League-debut, Belgium coach Marc Wilmots selected him in the 25-man squad in the friendly-game against France.

ZenGems

Former LucasArts game designer Hal Barwood known for several Star Wars and Indiana Jones titles of the early to mid 1990's designed several of the levels of ZenGems.


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1918 Michigan Wolverines football team

The start of the game was delayed by lengthy pre-game ceremonies featuring the French Blue Devils, performances by the U. of M. army and navy bands and the M.A.C. bands, parades by the Students' Army Training Corps and Naval Units, and a fly-over by former Michigan football captain Pat Smith in his aeroplane.

1974–75 Buffalo Sabres season

The Flyers came into the series with their own good luck pre- game singer in the form of Kate Smith who sang "God Bless America" before home games at The Spectrum.

51st Grey Cup

Monday Night Football aired the fight footage in a pre-game segment, and Mosca appeared on Dr. Phil to discuss the feud.

American Man: Greatest Hits Volume II

The album features three new songs, including the lead single "I Got My Game On", which was later utilized as the theme song to Howie Long's Tough Guys show during the FOX Super Bowl XLII pre-game show.

Billy Jaffe

Jaffe began his broadcasting career as an analyst on the pre-game, intermission and post-game radio show for the Chicago Blackhawks during the 1998–99 season.

Bob Gretz

He joined the Chiefs Radio Network broadcast team in 1990 and was the pre-game host and sideline reporter until 2008.

Bob Ojeda

In 2009, Ojeda joined SportsNet New York as a Pre-Game and Post-Game studio analyst for New York Mets Broadcasts with Chris Carlin

Don Stanhouse

Because of his Harpo Marx hairstyle and pre-game batting practice antics - where his primal scream would entertain early ballpark arrivals - he was quickly labeled Stan the Man Unusual, a pun on the nickname "Stan the Man" for Hall-of-Famer Stan Musial.

Dori Monson

Monson also anchors the pre-game, post-game and halftime shows during Seahawks broadcasts, when he is joined by Sam Adkins, Paul Moyer, and Dave Wyman.

Ellis Cannon

Cannon was an on-air member of the Pittsburgh Steelers radio network between 2004–2010, serving as gameday anchor and host of all pre-game, halftime and post-game coverage.

Grant Wistrom

To help prepare the child for the loss of his hair during treatment, Grant, and Nebraska teammates Jason Peter and Jared Tomich, included Kendall in their pre-game ritual of shaving their heads and presented him with an honorary blackshirt jersey.

Jussi Rynnäs

On March 29, 2012 a game against the Philadelphia Flyers, Leafs starting goaltender Jonas Gustavsson was injured during a pre-game warmup in the knee.

Maurice Archdeacon

While a player for Rochester of the International League in 1921, he set a speed record by circling the bases in 13.4 seconds during a pre-game exhibition (the record was broken by Evar Swanson in 1932).

Mike Blowers

During the pre-game broadcast of a September 27, 2009 bout between the Mariners and the Toronto Blue Jays, Blowers predicted Matt Tuiasosopo's first career home run.

Norm Marshall

CBC Television's pre-game segments for the 95th Grey Cup in November 2007 featured Marshall's recollection of the early Grey Cup broadcasts.

NRL Grand Final

After the pre-game entertainment it is traditional for the NRL trophy to be delivered to the field by an Australian Army helicopter shortly before kick off.

Raul Allegre

Allegre was later offered a position for a Dallas Cowboys pre-game show, and later eventually leading to his current work as color commentator for Monday Night Football with Álvaro Martín for ESPN in Latin America.

Sally Wiggin

Wiggin has stepped out of her anchor role to serve as a co-host for Pittsburgh Steelers pre-game shows, as well as her regular appearances on WDVE morning comedy show.

Scott Stanford

In 2008, he also started working for WNYW-TV, where he was the post-game reporter for the New York Yankees baseball team, along with hosting/reporting duties for the New York Giants Football pre-game kickoff shows.

Taylor Spreitler

An accomplished singer, Spreitler sang during a pre-game show for the Liberty Bowl on ESPN.

WRDQ

For example on January 1, 2009, WFTV aired pre-game festivities of the 2009 Capital One Bowl, while WRDQ aired ABC's coverage of the Rose Bowl Parade.