Sports Editor's Note: The following was submitted by Norwich High School Athletic Director Joseph Downey, and was written by Tom Rowe.

Throughout musical history there have been scores of songs that used the word kick in their titles or was incorporated as a primary theme in the body of that work. And even a few artists have used the word to define their act, such as Alive And Kicking, who recorded “Tighter, Tighter” in 1970.

Paul Revere and The Raiders reached Top 10 heights with their 1966 anti-drug anthem “Kicks”, and a few years later in 1969 The MC 5, who hailed from Detroit but with no Motown ties, recorded the heavy metal classic “Kick Out The Jams.” Even Chuck Berry, the Poet Laureate of Rock ‘N’ Roll, crooned “I have no ‘kick’ against modern jazz unless they play it too darn fast” in his immortal Chess disc “Rock And Roll Music” in 1957.

The list goes on and on with Big Band tunes meeting folk endeavors which in time came head to head with British Invasion recordings – all using that most adaptive word kick. And, during the “Disco Era” the City of Norwich was abuzz with a special air never before heard as a young British lad by the name Graeme Tosh ‘kick-started’ its high school’s fledgling soccer program to never before dreamed of heights.