NFL celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month 2010.

Cincinnati Bengals, Cleveland Browns, Dallas Cowboys, Detroit Lions, Green Bay Packers, Indianapolis Colts, New York Jets, and Washington Redskins – get things started this past Sunday, when they host Hispanic Heritage Month games at their stadiums.

The NFL, Telemundo and NBC Sports have teamed for a unique broadcast for viewers of the “Sunday Night Football” New York Jets-Miami Dolphins game on Sunday, September 26. Telemundo will broadcast its first-ever “Sunday Night Football” game on its New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas and Miami stations.

NBC Sports’ “Sunday Night Football” production team will partner with Deportes Telemundo to broadcast the game from Miami in two languages. Deportes Telemundo will provide its own Spanish-speaking award-winning commentators, Jessi Losada, Rene Giraldo and Edgar Lopez.

In-stadium festivities at the game include a tailgate performance by Texas rocker Alejandro Escovedo, the national anthem by Grammy-award winner and Dolphins’ limited partner Marc Anthony, along with Dolphins’ limited partner Fergie of The Black Eyed Peas, and a special halftime performance by international superstar Enrique Iglesias. Dolphins’ limited partner and seven-time Grammy-award winner Gloria Estefan will introduce Iglesias.

The celebration continues with “Monday Night Football.”

The NFL, ESPN and ESPN Deportes have teamed to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month on ESPN and ESPN Deportes during the Green Bay Packers at Chicago Bears “Monday Night Football” game on Monday, September 27.

The game telecast on ESPN will feature special graphic integrations and features, as well as Hank Williams Jr. singing some lyrics in Spanish during the show’s opening video. The commentator team for ESPN Deportes, the official Spanish-language television home for all MNF games, will feature Spanish-language Emmy-nominated play-by-play voice Álvaro Martín, analyst and former NFL kicker Raúl Allegre, and sideline reporter John Sutcliffe.

The NFL, ESPN and the Bears will host a MNF Chalk Talk Luncheon the day of the game at Carnivale Chicago with commentators and alumni players from both teams. A local Hispanic high school student-athlete will be recognized with the ESPN RISE Above Award for overcoming adversity and excelling in his/her sport and school.

Many teams will extend the national platform with local efforts. Teams will designate home games in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month and plan special in-stadium or pregame events with local organizations. Team events include:

Arizona Cardinals The Cardinals will celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month as they take on the Oakland Raiders on September 26. Fiesta Tailgate will take place on the South Lawn, and will offer fans an opportunity to experience live entertainment, food and beverage, meet Cardinals cheerleaders, listen in on “Conteo Progressivo,” the Spanish language pregame show, along with a meet and greet from Cardinals alumni. For kids, the team will provide an interactive zone that lets them test their football skills. Spanish-language pocket schedules will also be available for fans. In stadium, local talent Nicole Jimenez will sing the national anthem. Cardinals Mascot Big Red will dawn the “Pajaro Rojo” Spanish-language jersey and during Big Red’s t-shirt toss, “Cardenales de Arizona” t-shirts will be launched into the crowd. The halftime performance will feature Alma de Folklore y Música, a performance group comprised of over 100 mariachi band members, and folkloric dancers from Tucson and Mesa in a celebration of Spanish culture through music and dance.

Atlanta Falcons In celebration of Hispanic Heritage month, the Falcons will host a Junior Gatorade Clinic at Sugar Hill Elementary in Gainesville the morning of September 28, followed by an afternoon of salsa with players and cheerleaders at a local dance studio with a group of kids. At the October 3 game, the Falcons will have students from a local school participate in pre-game ceremonies as part of the Falcons FitnessFlag Crew, there will be a second in-stadium announcer who will announce portions of the game in Spanish and cheerleaders will perform routines to top 10 Spanish songs.

Baltimore Ravens The Ravens will host a Hispanic Heritage Month/Worldwide Day of Play Football Clinic for 150 youth (ages 5-11) on September 21, to encourage physical activity and healthy lifestyles among youth. The clinic will be held at Patterson Park’s Utz Field in East Baltimore. Several Ravens players, including WR Justin Harper, LB Jameel McClain and FB Le’Ron McClain, will be on hand to demonstrate the fundamentals of football. A raffle will be held at the end of the clinic where one participant will be selected to be the Tee Kid at the Ravens Hispanic Heritage Month game on September 26.

Buffalo Bills The Bills will celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month on October 10 with themed messaging during the game including banners, PA announcements and graphics on the jumbotron. An ad honoring Hispanic Heritage Month will be featured in the weekly magazine Bills Digest.

Carolina Panthers The Carolina Panthers will kick off the team’s Hispanic Heritage Month celebration beginning the week of September 20 with a series of Junior Training Camps at four local elementary schools. Panthers players will participate in the September 21 event. The Junior Training Camps will help launch a new Panthers-supported flag football initiative at each of the four schools. On game day, the team will award a $12,500 grant during a pregame on-field presentation to the Hispanic Scholarship Fund. The grant will be made in partnership with Norsan Multimedia, which operates the flagship radio station for the Panthers Spanish broadcast radio network. Grant funding will provide financial aid for Hispanic college students in North and South Carolina.

Chicago Bears The Bears will celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month beginning on September 21 when G Roberto Garza visits Clearview Elementary School in Waukegan. Garza will take part in the reading program, which is part of the United Way of Lake County’s Success by Six initiative. On September 25, the Bears, along with the NFL, will host an NFL FLAG regional tournament at the Waukegan Park District football field. Los Diablitos, the NFL Tochito flag football team from Mexico City, will participate in the tournament as well. Los Diablitos will be guests of Garza, through the Bears “Home Team Hand-off” ticket donation program, at the Bears Hispanic Heritage Month game on September 27. A mariachi band will perform at the Bears Ultimate Tailgate outside Soldier Field.

Cincinnati Bengals The Bengals will celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month at their game on September 19 with Hall of Famer Anthony Muñoz serving as an honorary captain. Muñoz will be introduced on the field prior to the coin toss as the Bengals recognize Hispanic Heritage Month.

Cleveland Browns On September 19, the Browns will host Esperanza, a local Hispanic non-profit, at the Tailgate Terrace prior to the game, in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month. The mission of Esperanza is to enhance educational and economic opportunities for Hispanic-Americans by offering scholarship opportunities and offering enriched educational services.

Dallas Cowboys The Cowboys will celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month at their game on September 19. There will be a pregame performance featuring Ballet Folklórico from San Antonio and the Guadalupe Dance Company. The national anthem will be performed by four-time Grammy award winner Jay Perez. A pregame performance by the Guadalupe Dance Company and Ballet Folklórico Festival of San Antonio is courtesy of the San Antonio Convention and Visitor’s Bureau. The groups will perform a traditional dance from Jalisco, Mexico – “El Son de la Negra” – with time-honored costumes and movement. A special presentation of Latin American flags will also accompany the performance. Former Dallas Cowboy and two-time Super Bowl player Tony Casillas will serve as an honorary team captain and assist with the coin toss. Additional Hispanic heritage game day elements include mariachi bands and ballet folklorico troupes from San Antonio’s Mexicapan Dance Academy performing in the East Plaza, the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders performing an exhilarating halftime routine to music from Latin Superstars Pitbull and Enrique Iglesias, in-game bilingual messaging on the Cowboys video board featuring fans and Cowboys players and celebratory Hispanic Heritage Month graphics and signage throughout the stadium.

Denver Broncos The Denver Broncos will celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month at their September 26 game with themed messaging during the game including banners and graphics on the jumbotron. An ad honoring Hispanic Heritage Month will be featured in the gameday program. The team hosted a Broncos en Español event at Fiestas Patrias, a bi-centennial celebration at Civic Center Park in downtown Denver, on September 12. Cheerleaders and alumni were on-site. The team will also host Gatorade Junior Training Camps at elementary schools in recognition of the month.

Detroit Lions The Lions will celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month on September 19. Fans will be greeted during the game with a taped message in Spanish by Lions G Manny Ramirez. The Lions have donated 150 tickets to local Hispanic non-profits.

Green Bay Packers On September 19, Lambeau Field will display Hispanic Heritage Month banners in stadium and fan giveaways will be gold pompoms with the message, “Tu equipo…Tu pasión” (Your team…Your Passion). Packers LB Brady Poppinga, who speaks fluent Spanish and spent his two-year Mormon mission in Uruguay, has recorded crowd cheers in Spanish that will be played on the video board during the game. The Packers-Bills game also is a part of the team’s annual alumni weekend and former Packers kicker Eddie Garcia (1983-84) will be on hand to be introduced. Additionally, Poppinga, in October will be making a visit to Green Bay’s Danz Elementary School. He’ll be speaking to the students in both English and Spanish.

Houston Texans The Texans will celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month at their game on September 26. Mariachi bands and folkloric dancers will perform at the entrances to Reliant Stadium. Four-time Grammy award winning musical group La Mafia will sing the national anthem. Children from the Association for the Advancement of Mexican Americans (AAMA) will hold the Texans flag on the field pregame. A special performance featuring folkloric and samba dancers will take place at halftime in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month.

Indianapolis Colts On September 19, the Colts will recognize Hispanic Heritage Month in-stadium at their game against the New York Giants. In addition, the team will host a free flu clinic on September 21 at La Plaza, a local Hispanic community center. Also on the 21st, the Colts will host 200 Hispanic youth at their training facility for a free football clinic. Each youth will take home a football with a bilingual hang tag on it with information on how to view basic football instruction videos in English and Spanish on NFLRUSH.com.

Jacksonville Jaguars The Jacksonville Jaguars will celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month at their game on September 26 as they host 100 members from the First Coast Hispanic Chamber of Commerce at their game against the Eagles.

Kansas City Chiefs The Kansas City Chiefs have designated the September 26 game vs. the San Francisco 49ers as a Hispanic Heritage Month game. In stadium, the team will feature 2010 highlights with play-by-play calls from its Spanish-language radio partner. Additionally, the team has provided game tickets to El Centro and the Guadalupe Centers, which are community centers focused on improving the quality of life for Hispanic individuals in the area.

Miami Dolphins The Miami Dolphins will start celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month on September 21 when Dolphins players take children from Hispanic Unity, a non-profit organization that offers a wide range of services to immigrants and refugees, bowling at SpareZ in Davie. In addition, the Dolphins and their Special Teams volunteer organization will take part in a beautification of Barbara Goleman Senior High School on September 25. More than 200 children from the school will participate, along with Dolphins volunteers. Dolphins alumni will also conduct a football clinic at the school for youth. The Dolphins celebration will culminate at their September 26 game. Texas rocker Alejandro Escovedo will perform pregame at the tailgate stage.Marc Anthony will perform the national anthem along with Fergie of the Black Eyed Peas. Fans will be treated to a halftime performance by Enrique Iglesias. Gloria Estefan will introduce Iglesias.

Minnesota Vikings On September 26, the Vikings will recognize Hispanic Heritage Month in-stadium at their game against the Detroit Lions. Latin pop artist Ricky C will perform the national anthem.

New England Patriots The Patriots will celebrate Hispanic Heritage month at their September 26 game at Gillette Stadium. The gameday program will feature Rich Camarillo as the Alumni Spotlight, and rookie TE Aaron Hernandez in an Under The Helmet feature. The Patriots Spanish-language newsletter, as well as Football Patriotico, the Patriots Spanish website www.espanol.patriots.com, will have information about Hispanic Heritage Month and an interview Hernandez.

New Orleans Saints The New Orleans Saints will celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month at their September 26 game with themed messaging during the game and a special halftime production.

New York Giants The New York Giants will celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month on September 21 by hosting an NFL Play 60 youth football clinic at the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club. Players will help students from MS 302 Luisa Dessus Cruz in the Bronx stay active for 60 minutes a day, as part of the NFL PLAY 60 youth health and fitness campaign. Kids will learn and develop NFL FLAG football skills and discuss healthy habits. Players will also talk to the students about Hispanic Heritage Month and celebrate the cultural traditions and contributions of Hispanic-Americans in our community. The Giants will also celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month at New Meadowlands Stadium on September 26 when they face the Tennessee Titans.

New York Jets On September 19, the Jets will celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month at their game with in-stadium festivities including a halftime performance by NOTA, the 2009 winner of NBC’s The Sing-off. NOTA is an a cappella sextet from San Juan, Puerto Rico who sing in harmony to a beat that includes Latin, R&B, pop, and fusion jazz. Adrienne Bailon, formerly of girl groups 3LW and the Cheetah Girls, will perform the national anthem. On the plaza pregame, fans can enjoy a salsa dura band featuring Ray Rodríguez and Swing Sabroso, watch performances from Colombian and Salvadoran folklorico dancers as well as a Peruvian dance group. A traditional Columbian party bus, “La Rumberita,”, will be parked outside of the West Great Hall gate while cigar roller José Reyes de “Da la vieja Havana Cigars” Hill be demonstrating his talents every 5 minutes. WADO 1280AM, 96.3FM AND 92.7FM, all Univision stations, will be broadcasting from the plaza and giving away prizes with special guest, AJ el Kallejero from el Detox Party on 96.3 FM. The Jets will host groups from El Primer Paso and the Morris County Organization for Hispanic Affairs (MCOHA) at the game. Jets Hispanic Heritage Day is presented by El Diario/La Prensa and Mastercard. In addition, as part of Hispanic Heritage Month and the NFL’s annual Hometown Huddle, the Jets will donate and complete installation for a fitness zone at El Primer Paso in Dover, NJ on October 5. The mission of El Primer Paso is to be culturally and linguistically responsive to families with limited English speaking ability by providing high-quality, developmentally appropriate preschool programs, transitional education experiences for adults, and services to support affordable childcare for the community. The fitness zone will include bi-lingual signs with descriptions and instructional tips.

Oakland Raiders The Raiders will celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month when they take on the Houston Texans on October 3. The ninth annual Fiesta Latina, presented by Bud Light, will offer a variety of Hispanic music performances which include traditional Mexican dancers, mariachis, and a salsa band. The Compañia Mexico Danza will also offer a special performance at halftime. The Kids Zone at the Coliseum will have a Latin flavor. Representatives from the official Spanish radio station of the Raiders, La Kaliente 1370 AM, and Telemundo, the Spanish television home of the Raiders, will also be on hand at Raiderville.

Pittsburgh Steelers In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, the Steelers October 17 game will feature Latin performances pregame including Puro Queso Jazz Quartet, Cal U Marching Band, and Miguel’s Mariachi Fiesta.

St. Louis Rams The St. Louis Rams will host an NFL Play 60 clinic in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month on September 21 at a local elementary school. Each youth will take home a football with a bilingual hang tag on it with information on how to view basic football instruction videos in English and Spanish on NFLRUSH.com.

San Diego Chargers The Chargers will celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month at their October 3 game with halftime festivities featuring performances by Mariachi Real de San Diego and traditional ballet folklórico dancers from Chula Vista.

San Francisco 49ers The 49ers celebrated Hispanic Heritage Month at their game on September 2. Pregame festivities included a Futbol Fiesta in the parking lot and an on-field performance by the Ballet Folklórico Costa de Oro which is dedicated to the preservation of Mexican traditions and culture, using dance and music to educate youth and the community about Mexico’s rich and beautiful history. As part of this Hispanic Heritage Celebration, the 49ers Foundation and Coors Light announced the kickoff of a program that will support the National Latino Peace Officers Association (NLPOA) of the Bay Area. Fans can help support the cause with 25 cents from every purchase of a 12-pack or above of Coors Light going to the program. The total investment given by the 49ers and Coors Light will be $20,000 dollars, being designated for scholarships and training for the Hispanic community.

Seattle Seahawks The Seahawks celebrated Hispanic Heritage Month at their game on September 12. Mariachi Wenatchee, composed of local high school kids, performed in the North Plaza, along with the Mexican folkloric dance group Bailadores de Bronce.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers On September 26 the Buccaneers will celebrate Hispanic Heritage month at their game against the Steelers. Tampa Hispanic Heritage, Inc.,one of Tampa’s oldest organizations, is in its 31st year of coordinating Tampa’s Hispanic heritage events and will be on-site. The recipients of their 2010 Hispanic Man and Woman of the Year award will participate in the coin toss. This year’s honorees are Mr. Arturo Fuente, Jr., renowned businessman in the Tampa Bay Area, and Ms. Margarita Romo, founder and executive director of Farmworkers Self Help, Inc.Tampa Hispanic Heritage, Inc. will be present in the concourse of Raymond James Stadium where they will feature the winner of their 2010 poster contest. The artist, whose poster depicts their interpretation of Hispanic heritage in the Tampa Bay area, will be signing prints of the poster for a donation to the organization.

Washington Redskins The Redskins will honor Hispanic Heritage Month at their game on September 19 with a pregame feature on the video boards saluting two former Redskins players of Hispanic heritage, tight end Joe Aguirre