Two more non-Victorian clubs, the West Coast Eagles and the Brisbane Bears began playing in 1987.

The club was formed in 1996 from the merger of the Brisbane Bears and the Fitzroy Lions.

In 1996, the ten-year-old Brisbane Bears had enjoyed their best season to date, losing a preliminary final to the eventual premiers, North Melbourne.

The merged team would be based in Brisbane, and Bears coach John Northey would become coach of the merged club.

* Alastair Lynch – Australian Rules Footballer who played 306 game for Fitzroy, Brisbane Bears and the Brisbane Lions, including the 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004 Grand Finals

He was the joint winner of the 1996 Brownlow Medal with Brisbane Bears ' midfielder Michael Voss.

In 1994, Hird won the first of three consecutive best and fairests, culminating in his 1996 season, where he was jointly awarded the Brownlow Medal for the League's fairest and best player with Brisbane Bears midfielder Michael Voss.

The club ran into financial difficulties in the 1980s after decades of poor on-field performance and was forced to merge its playing operations with the Brisbane Bears at the end of the 1996 season to form the Brisbane Lions, the latter of which won three consecutive premierships between 2001 and 2003.

** Brownlow Medal awarded to James Hird ( Essendon ) and Michael Voss ( Brisbane Bears )

** At the end of the season Fitzroy and the Brisbane Bears merge, forming the Brisbane Lions.

** The West Coast Eagles and the Brisbane Bears join the league.

The club was founded in 1986 as an expansion team, and entered the competition the following season, along with the Brisbane Bears, making the finals series for the first time in 1988.

The West Coast Eagles were selected in 1986 as one of two expansion teams to enter the Victorian Football League ( VFL ) the following season, along with the Brisbane Bears.

However he left a financially struggling Fitzroy to become a prize recruit for a new look Brisbane Bears after the club's move from the Gold Coast.

In 1994, Lynch transferred to the Brisbane Bears.

At the time, the Brisbane Bears, like the Fitzroy Football Club, were experiencing lean times, but improving somewhat under the coaching of premiership coach Robert Walls.

When Fitzroy merged with the Bears after the 1996 season to form the Brisbane Lions, Lynch was made a semi-permanent forward but was unable to perform at his peak for the next two seasons due to minor recurrence of his illness.

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: For the Brisbane Bears player, see Ashley Green ( footballer ).

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The club had some early success before relocating its home games several times and finally running into financial difficulties in the 1980s, forcing it to merge with the Brisbane Bears in 1996 to form the Brisbane Lions.

* Brisbane Lions Leading Goalkicker 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003

Leading West Indian batsmen Chris Gayle and Shivnarine Chanderpaul returned for the opening Test of the 2009 – 10 Australian cricket season starting on 26 November in Brisbane, after the industrial dispute was resolved.

* Franks, Daniel, Fidler, Courtney, Brereton, David, Vanclay, Frank and Clark, Phil ( 2009 ) Leading practice strategies for addressing the social impacts of resource developments Brisbane, Australia: Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland & Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation, Queensland Government.

The Brisbane Lions were officially launched on 1 November 1996, joining the national competition in 1997.

The two met in Brisbane, Australia, in 1996, and as of 2008 she ran his merchandising operation.

It is believed to have been first used in print in a 1996 edition of The Courier-Mail, also approximately the time of the opening of the Treasury Casino in Brisbane and the popularisation of poker machines in Brisbane bars and clubs, a play on the popular gaming ground of Las Vegas.

He delivered his decision 29 January 1996 in Brisbane.

With the appointment of Professor Peter Swannell as Vice-Chancellor in 1996 the University underwent a further period of exceptional growth which included the establishment of a Wide Bay Campus, later renamed USQ Fraser Coast, and a Brisbane Centre in 1997, the USQ European Study Centre in Bretten, Germany in 1998 and the building of a number of landmark structures on campus.

A then record grand final crowd of 40, 000 people saw the Brisbane Strikers become the first Queensland side to win the title in season 1996 / 97, but it never resulted in Brisbane gaining much bigger crowds in the following seasons than they were accustomed to.

He was born in Brisbane, Queensland, and was a television station production manager and General Manager of Townsville Television from 1972 to 1996 before entering politics.

In 1996 Stokes acquired a strategic 19 per cent stake in the Seven Network ( now about 43 per cent ), a network of commercial free-to-air television stations in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide, as well as regional Queensland & Perth.

It was adopted in Sydney in 1993 and Brisbane in 1996.

* Fitzroy Football Club-in 1996 the Melbourne based club merged its playing operations with the interstate Brisbane Bears, a club 1669 kilometres north of its original home, with the Bears becoming the Brisbane Lions.

1996 Brisbane, Australia

Kasprowicz was one of the top performing fast bowlers in Australian cricket over the past decade, and his solid performances for Queensland earned him a Test debut against West Indies in his native Brisbane in November 1996.

In 1996 the midfield wishbone " C " was changed to a large blue Bears head, and the end zone design were painted with " Bears " in cursive.

After the end of the 1996 season, ironically as Diliberto had suggested before Mora's resignation, former Chicago Bears coach Mike Ditka was hired to replace Mora.

The Bears have won 19 NCAA Division III Championships — one in women's cross country ( 2011 ), one in men's tennis ( 2008 ), two in men's basketball ( 2008, 2009 ), five in women's basketball ( 1998 – 2001, 2010 ), and ten in women's volleyball ( 1989, 1991 – 1996, 2003, 2007, 2009 ) – and 144 UAA titles in 15 different sports.

* Most own fumble recoveries for touchdowns, season: 2 ; Chicago Bears, 1953 ; New England Patriots, 1973 ; Buffalo Bills, 1974 ; Denver Broncos, 1975 ; Oakland Raiders, 1978 ; Green Bay Packers, 1982 and 1989 ; New Orleans Saints, 1983 ; Cleveland Browns, 1986 ; Miami Dolphins, 1996 ; Buffalo Bills, 2000.

Richmond, caught short, appointed the Bears ' ex-coach Robert Walls for 1996.

He retired following the 1996 season, which finished with a Green Bay Super Bowl victory over the New England Patriots in New Orleans, eleven years to the day of the Bears ' Super Bowl victory over the Patriots in the same venue.

* Dancing Bears, ( Tor Jan. 1996 )

The Bears have won two Division II Football National Championships in 1996 and 1997.

Devane appeared in the films McCabe & Mrs. Miller ( 1971 ) with Julie Christie and Warren Beatty ; Lady Liberty ( 1971 ) with Sophia Loren ; Family Plot ( 1976 ) directed by Alfred Hitchcock ; Marathon Man ( 1976 ) with Dustin Hoffman and Laurence Olivier ; Rolling Thunder ( 1977 ) with Tommy Lee Jones ; Red Alert ( 1977 ) with Ralph Waite, based on a novel by Harold R. " Hal " King ; The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training ( 1977 ) with Jackie Earle Haley ; Yanks ( 1979 ) with Richard Gere ; Testament ( 1983 ) with Jane Alexander ; Timestalkers ( 1987 ) with Lauren Hutton and Klaus Kinski ; Forgotten Sins ( 1996 ) with John Shea ; Exception to the Rule ( 1997 ), with Kim Cattrall and Sean Young ; Payback ( 1999 ) with Mel Gibson ; Hollow Man ( 2000 ), with Elisabeth Shue and Kevin Bacon ; and Space Cowboys ( 2000 ) with Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, James Garner, and Donald Sutherland.

In the 1996 ARL season the Bears came within one match of the Grand Final.

Other sporting events include the 1992 United States Figure Skating Championships and the IHL Finals in 1996, 1999 and 2001, when the Orlando Solar Bears won the Turner Cup in the IHL's last season of operations.

* Bears Discover Fire and Other Stories ( 1996 )

Hoping in part to capitalise in part on the bad feeling many Victorian based Fitzroy supporters had about the failed merger with the North Melbourne Football Club, and about the way the merger with the Bears was executed, the Premiers for 1996, North Melbourne, recruited a number of former Fitzroy players, including Pike, in the 1996 draft.