After defeating the defending Super Bowl champions, the Dallas Cowboys, they advanced to the NFC Championship, but fell 30-13 to the Packers, who went on to win the Super Bowl.

After uneven commercial success in the late 1970s, Bowie had UK number ones with the 1980 single " Ashes to Ashes ", its parent album Scary Monsters ( and Super Creeps ), and " Under Pressure ", a 1981 collaboration with Queen.

After coming within a few plays of Super Bowl XLIV, Minnesota ended the 2010 season with a 6 – 10 record and a last place finish in the NFC North for the first time since 1990.

After advancing to Super Bowl XLII, the team's fourth Super Bowl in seven years, the Patriots were defeated by the Giants to end their bid for a 19 – 0 season.

After two unsuccessful years with Kotite, Hess heavily involved himself in hiring Bill Parcells in hopes to see his team again reach the Super Bowl.

After losing the conference championship in 2001 to the St. Louis Rams, in 2002 to the eventual Super Bowl Champions Tampa Bay Buccaneers and in 2003 to the Carolina Panthers, the Eagles advanced to Super Bowl XXXIX at the end of the 2004 season, where they lost to the New England Patriots, 24 – 21.

After trumpeter Wynton Marsalis performed the national anthem, Bart Starr, Super Bowl MVP of I and II, tossed the coin.

After returning the opening kickoff 17 yards, San Francisco's Amos Lawrence was hit by Bengals linebacker Guy Frazier and fumbled at his own 26-yard line ( the first time in a Super Bowl that a turnover took place on the opening kick ), where John Simmons recovered for Cincinnati.

After recovering the fumble, the 49ers drove for a Super Bowl record 92 yards, scoring on an 10-yard pass from Montana to fullback Earl Cooper, increasing their lead to 14 – 0.

After the 57-day strike, the NFL extended the regular season one weekend ( pushing the end of the regular season back from December 26 to January 2 ), moving back the start of the playoffs and eliminating the week off for the first time since Super Bowl IV.

After leading Washington to two playoff victories, he became the first African-American quarterback to play in a Super Bowl.

After trailing 10-0 at the end of the first quarter of Super Bowl XXII, the Redskins scored 42 unanswered points, including a record-breaking 35 points in the second quarter, and setting several other Super Bowl records.

After appearing in Super Bowl XXI and Super Bowl XXII, the team missed the playoffs with an 8 – 8 record during the previous season.

After Arizona voters rejected the 1990 ballot initiative to create an MLK holiday, the NFL voted to hold Super Bowl XXVII at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California instead of in Arizona.

After forcing the Chargers to punt, the 49ers advanced 79 yards in four plays, with Young rushing for 21 yards and then throwing 51-yard touchdown pass to running back Ricky Watters to give San Francisco a 14-0 lead less than 5 minutes into the first quarter, and setting a Super Bowl record for the fastest " second " touchdown scored by a team.

After taking over the Cowboys in 1989, team owner / general manager Jerry Jones and head coach Jimmy Johnson rebuilt the team into a Super Bowl contender with young talent.

After a many-year long tradition of presenting the Vince Lombardi Trophy to the winning team in its locker room after the game, the NFL instituted an on-the-field presentation ceremony for Super Bowl XXX.

After winning Super Bowl II after the 1967 regular season, the Packers became a losing team for much of the 1970s and 1980s, only making the playoffs in 1972 and the strike-shortened 1982 season.

After both teams exchanged punts, Favre threw a Super Bowl record 81-yard touchdown pass to receiver Antonio Freeman, putting the Packers back in the lead, 17-14.

After the game, Favre reflected on his long road to becoming a Super Bowl champion, which included the death of his friend Mark Harvy in a car accident during the season.

After Nintendo's action-adventure Metroid had been finished, more staff members were alloted to the development of Kid Icarus.

After Mario Bros., Yokoi produced several R & D1 games such as Kid Icarus and Metroid.

After she defeats it, all the Phazon on Tallon IV disappears and Metroid Prime sucks out the Phazon in Samus's Phazon suit in a last-ditch effort to survive, reverting Samus's armor to the Gravity Suit.

After destroying most of the planet's Metroids, Samus encounters and battles the Metroid Queen.

After completing Metroid Prime, the player can unlock Samus's Fusion Suit for use in Metroid Prime, and if they complete Metroid Fusion, they can unlock an emulated version of the first Metroid game.

After the critical and commercial success of Metroid Prime, Nintendo asked Retro Studios to produce a sequel.

* Metroid: After getting the best ending, the player discovers that the protagonist, who is believed to be male due to the instruction manual and general stereotypes, is actually a female.

After the player defeats the Metroid Prime creature on the Impact Crater table, the game unlocks a higher difficulty level, Expert mode.

After his last match, in the post-game presentation interview, he asked the fans, " Did I entertain?

After the dancer dropped one of her fans while trying to chase away a fly, Kaye was hired to be in charge of the fans so they were always held in front of her.

After over fifty years of the Astros in the National League, this move is unpopular with many Astros fans.

After being inundated by movie fans, Cagney sent out a rumor that he had hired a gunman for security.

After the death of Mary Hastings Bradley in 1976, " Tiptree " mentioned in a letter that his mother, also a writer, had died in Chicago — details that led inquiring fans to find the obituary, with its reference to Alice Sheldon ; soon all was revealed.

After the season began, the Royals ended April at the top of the AL Central, all of which raised excitement levels among fans.

After the Glazer family's takeover in 2005, a group of fans formed a splinter club, F. C.

After the publication of Ringworld many fans identified numerous engineering problems in the Ringworld as described in the novel.

After MLB's establishment of the three-division – Wild Card playoff format following the 1993 season, New York Times sports columnist Dave Anderson captured the feeling of many baseball purists regarding the thrilling ( and for Giants fans, heartbreaking ) winner-take-all outcome as the " last pure pennant race.

After that game, many sports writers and fans heavily criticized the team and Dawson for the poor play calling ( Dawson called between 80 and 90 percent of the plays during the season ).

After SofTech dropped the product, it was picked up by Pecan Systems, a relatively small company formed of p-System users and fans.

After fans noticed Mercury's increasingly gaunt appearance in 1988, rumours began to spread that Mercury was suffering from AIDS.

After moving from California to Richmond, Virginia, Lowery and Hickman recorded a demo tape, later nicknamed Big Dirty Yellow Demos by the group's fans, which included early versions of songs that appeared on later albums.

After numerous requests from fans to see the Balladeer on-screen, Waylon finally appeared in one episode, the seventh season's aptly titled " Welcome, Waylon Jennings ", in which he was presented as an old friend of the Dukes.

After beating Blackburn in the first leg of the play-off semi-final, the fans paid tribute with a tickertape reception in the second leg.

After years of declining fans ' pleas for her to sing Garland's signature song, " Over The Rainbow ", she concluded Act 1 with the final refrain of her mother's famous anthem, to an instant ovation.

After the race, Secretariat was brought to Aqueduct Racetrack where he was paraded before fans in his final public appearance.

After this win the Spectrum was known as the " most intimidating building to play in and has the most intimidating fans.

After Hal Greer's pass was stolen by John Havlicek — an infamous blow to 76ers fans, rubbed in by fabled Celtics announcer Johnny Most when he yelled into the microphone " Havlicek stole the ball!

After the 2002 – 03 season, Garry St. Jean's earlier mistakes of committing money to players like Danny Fortson, Adonal Foyle and Erick Dampier were painfully felt by Warriors fans when the team was unable to re-sign up-and-coming star Gilbert Arenas, despite Arenas's desire to stay in the Bay Area.

After the Cleveland Barons left in 1978, Ohio's hockey fans had to wait 22 years to host another NHL team.

After the game players and alumni threw balls and other keepsakes to fans in the stands, and fans were able to walk onto the field.

After winning their first qualifying match in Slovakia, England drew at home with Macedonia and were then booed off by their fans after losing a friendly to Australia.