UC Berkeley Stadium home of the Golden Bears in Berkeley, Calif., in an undated photo. (UC Berkeley via Bay City News)

Before the high stakes of the Super Bowl on Sunday in Santa Clara, there will be a football game on Thursday across the Bay in Berkeley with much lower stakes — the Celebrity Flag Football Challenge.

The 26th annual version of the game held during the NFL’s Super Bowl week will kick off at 7 p.m. Thursday at California Memorial Stadium on the UC Berkeley campus. Tickets start at $32 via Cal Athletics’ ticketing site.

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Dan McMenamin is the managing editor at Bay City News, directing daily news coverage of the 12-county greater Bay Area. He has worked for BCN since 2008 and has been managing editor since 2014 after previously serving as BCN’s San Francisco bureau reporter. A UC Davis graduate, he came to BCN after working for a newspaper and nonprofit in the Davis area. He handles staffing, including coaching of our interns, day-to-day coverage decisions and management of the newswire.