Telemundo Marks Start of New Season with NFL KICKOFF 2014 PRESENTED BY XBOX

By: Caryn Robbins Sep. 04, 2014

Deportes Telemundo ushers the start of the new football season with its special "NFL Kickoff 2014 Presented By Xbox" from Seattle, Washington this Saturday, September 6 at 4:30 PM/3:30 C, featuring the stellar team of Karim Mendiburu, Ana Jurka, Leti Coo and Edgar Lopez.

Leti Coo, star of "Ritmo Deportivo," celebrates the launch of the NFL season in the home city of the reigning SUPER BOWL champs, the Seattle Seahawks. Leti will talk to some of the best, and liveliest fans in the NFL, and get their thoughts on a Seahawks championship repeat. Viewers will also meet the team's mascot, Taima the hawk, who leads the Seahawks as they take the field for their home games.

Saturday's show will also join fans of the ever popular Dallas Cowboys as they lived it up at the NFL Draft, and football expert Edgar Lopez will share his take on the favorites to make it to SUPER BOWL XLIX, scheduled for February 1 in Glendale, Arizona and airing exclusively in Spanish on mun2.

Wrapping up the evening's programming, Karim Mendiburu, Ana Jurka, Leti Coo and Edgar Lopez will offer their predictions as to who will raise the Lombardi Trophy at season's end, with a special surprise cameo appearance.

Deportes Telemundo, Telemundo Network's sports division, is one of the United States' leading providers of Spanish-language sports content. In addition to being "the home of the Olympic Games in Spanish in the United States," Deportes Telemundo presents Mexican national team games in the World Cup eliminations; all Club León and Club Pachuca home games in the Liga MX; and the leading boxing program in Spanish, "Boxeo Telemundo." It also has the TV and online rights in the US Spanish-language market to the FIFA World Cup, the world's top soccer tournament, on all platforms (except radio) from 2015 to 2022.

In addition to top sporting events, Deportes Telemundo provides content for mun2 Network and produces three leading sports and entertainment shows: "Titulares y más," "Titulares Telemundo" and "Ritmo Deportivo," which present analysis of the latest sports news along with entertainment and lifestyle segments. The award-winning Deportes Telemundo team of sportscasters is led by the world-famous Andrés Cantor, with Jessi Losada, Sammy Sadovnik, Carlos Hermosillo, Leti Coo, Edgar López, Karim Mendiburu, Ana Jurka, René Giraldo and Kaziro Aoyama.