Before the N.F.L. shifted the kickoff for late games to 4 15 p.m. Eastern from 4 p.m., networks were allowed to show only two one-minute "cut-ins" from a game in progress after the main 1 p.m. game in a market ended.
For while rising temperatures shifted the Pirates' kickoff time five hours later to 6 p.m. Saturday, it's a hot streak that continued against host Long Beach that has OCC Coach Mike Taylor wiping his brow with satisfaction.
"In researching the kickoff time shift, the NFL analyzed games from the 2009-11 seandns and found that 44 games required part of the audience to be switched to a mandatory doubleheader game kickoff," NFL said in a statement.
"Jared threw an awesome pass to me and I broke off a tackle to score". Bonds said Hess' kickoff return shifted the momentum in St. Francis' favor following a sluggish start.
And then the focus shifted, about four hours before kickoff, in the fading daylight.
Wednesday's crucial qualifying match at Azteca has been shifted from an accustomed evening kickoff to midafternoon.
But as kickoff approached, the mood began to shift, and by the time the ball was in play, a collective, mostly unacknowledged gloom had overcome us all.
This was the final game of the 2012 NFL regular season, shifted a week earlier from a 1 p.m. kickoff to 8 20 p.m. by league and television officials who wanted it in prime time.
The Scarlet Knights then fumbled away the opening kickoff in the second half, but their offense finally shifted into gear on their first drive of the third quarter.
"It's something that's very important," Mangini said, "because when you have a kickoff return, they're always based off of momentum shifts in the game".
The focus has been on the quarterbacks so far, but it may shift to the defenses today when Penn State plays Southern California in the 18th Kickoff Classic at Giants Stadium.
