NBC began programming 3 hours 15 minutes before the kickoff of Super Bowl XV in 1981.
But as a result, "the kickoff of the holiday season is being redefined".
Sunday, two hours before the kickoff of the game between the Giants and the Eagles.
But, with the kickoff of election campaign advertising, that day has arrived.
The Brooklyn event was the kickoff of the inaugural Rookie Road Trip, a 16-city tour across America.
This would mark the kickoff of a parallel Cultural Olympiad intended to fill the city's arts venues.
Twenty minutes before the kickoff of Saturday's game between No. 3 Louisiana State and No. 17 Alabama, an L.S.U.
The event was also the kickoff of a nationwide public-service campaign for the weekend of the anniversary of the attacks.
Sander Philipse at bucsnation.com said efforts to reduce injuries have made plays like Wilson's and Jernigan's the exception, robbing the kickoff of its excitement.
On May 15 some 60,000 people turned out to witness the kickoff of Japanese professional football at the National Stadium in Tokyo.
The announcement on "The View" on Monday that Ms. Walters will leave ABC in 2014 was less a farewell than the kickoff of a drawn-out abdication ritual.
