Although they failed to make the playoffs in 2009, the streak ended when the team rallied to win their final three regular season games to record back-to-back winning seasons for the first time in franchise history.

Although every Major League Baseball team cultivates fans from outside its immediate metropolitan area, and even though the greater Phoenix area has 2 / 3 of the statewide population, Colangelo still decided to call the team the " Arizona Diamondbacks " rather than the " Phoenix Diamondbacks ".

Although the team has been sold to Los Angeles investor Mark Attanasio, questions remain regarding Selig's past involvement.

Although Nelson's biographer Ernle Bradford assumed in 1977 that the remains of Orient " are almost certainly unrecoverable ", the first archaeological investigation into the battle began in 1983, when a French survey team under Jacques Dumas discovered the wreck of the French flagship.

Although Hill, no longer a front-runner since his 1969 accident, took his final Formula One win in the non-championship BRDC International Trophy at Silverstone, the team scored only seven championship points.

Although the team kept black jerseys, white jerseys, and white pants, they were now trimmed with orange and black tiger stripes.

Although the Cowboys finished the 1989 season with a 1 – 15 record, their worst in almost 30 years, " The Trade " later allowed Dallas to draft a number of impact players to rebuild the team.

Although the team does not officially retire jersey numbers, some are kept " unofficially inactive ", so it is uncommon to find any current players wearing the number of one of the " Ring of Honor " inductees.

Although they finished second in the conference to the San Jose Sharks, the Wings became the first team in NHL history to top 100 points in nine straight seasons.

In July 2007, new forensic evidence was presented in the case and a status report jointly issued by the State and the Defense team stated, " Although most of the genetic material recovered from the scene was attributable to the victims of the offenses, some of it cannot be attributed to either the victims or the defendants.

Although Walter Winterbottom was appointed as England's first ever full-time manager in 1946, the team was still picked by a committee until Alf Ramsey took over in 1963.

Although supposedly equal to all other members, Kusanagi fills the leadership role in the team, and is usually referred to as " the Major " due to her past rank in the Japanese Self-Defense Forces.

Although the 1984 – 1985 squad was made up of a healthy mix of emerging players and mature stars, at the beginning of the season no one would have regarded the team as having the necessary ingredients to make it to the end.

Although the team enjoyed ultimate success, 1955 was the worst year of Robinson's individual career.

Although the original organisation went into administration in 1992, the name was attached to a German company selling cars and accessories in 2008, and an unsuccessful attempt to set up a new Formula One team the following year.

Although the Washington team endured long bouts of mediocrity ( immortalized in the 1955 Broadway musical Damn Yankees ), they had a period of prolonged success in the 1920s and 1930s, led by Hall-of-Famers Bucky Harris, Goose Goslin, Sam Rice, Heinie Manush, Joe Cronin, and above all Walter Johnson.

Although its opponents would include winners of 9 of the last 15 NFL MVP awards, the team advanced to the 2010 NFC Championship game where they defeated the Minnesota Vikings, led by Brett Favre, 31 – 28 in overtime ( at 9: 19 CST ), and then went on to win their first Super Bowl appearance in franchise history.

Although Riviera is a sociopath, Armitage coerces him into joining the team.

Although the baseball team moved to San Francisco after the 1957 season, the football team continues to use " New York Football Giants, Inc ." as its legal corporate name, and is often referred to by fans and sportscasters as the " New York Football Giants ".

Although there are team sponsors, the sport is still an amateur sport financed by a mixture of private funding and commercial sponsors.

Although Ibsen died in 2008, her son Michael gave a mouth-swab sample to the research team on 24 August 2012.

Although the team used fifteen different starting pitchers, the 1989 Giants won the National League pennant.

Although used for similar purposes, transparent colors and image masks do not permit the smooth blending of the superimposed image pixels with those of the background ( only whole image pixels or whole background pixels allowed ).

In the center of the helmet was a center black stripe surrounded by 2 gold stripes and 2 white stripes, These colors represented the two college rival schools in the state of Georgia ; rival schools Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets ( White and Gold ) and the Georgia Bulldogs ( Red and Black ) Although the gold was later taken out, the white remains to this day.

Although colors can be mixed, pigments are often not specified.

Although traditionally considered one of seven colors of the rainbow or the optical spectrum, modern color scientists do not usually recognize indigo as a separate division and generally classify wavelengths shorter than about 450 nm as violet.

Although still referred to as " neon ", all other colors are generated with the other noble gases or by many colors of fluorescent lighting.

Although most puffers are drab, many have bright colors and distinctive markings, and make no attempt to hide from predators.

Although blue is their most well-known color, sapphires may also be colorless, and are found in many colors including shades of gray and black.

Although pure spectrum violet is outside the color gamut of the RGB color space, the three colors displayed below are rough approximations of the range of colors of actual spectral violet, although the accuracy of the approximation can vary depending on the individual's color vision.

Although they can be less noticeable because of the similar colors of the surrounding skin, darker skin shades have equivalent incidences of moles to lighter skin shades.

Although the slime was usually green, other colors, such as red, blue, yellow, and even black and white, were occasionally used.

Although the shirts are uniform, they usually come in various colors, and allow students to customize and express themselves even while wearing a uniform.

Although the lens does not restore normal color vision, it allows some colorblind individuals to distinguish colors better.

Although the blue-white-yellow flag of the Patricia Vieja was the most recognized, other versions utilized a different arrangement of the colors, such as white-blue-yellow, for example.

Although, since it has been said that they chose the most stable color of the spectrum, it is possible that the Guardians may have limited access to all colors.

Although ULA is a fictional school, its colors ( blue and white ) and mascot ( peacock ) belong to Upper Iowa University and thus the producers approached the school to request permission before using them in the scenes.

Although this would require the guns to be very carefully aligned with the phosphors on the tube in order to ensure they hit the right colors ; with Miyaoka's new tube this appeared possible.

Although the Party later adopted the Nazi red and black colors and the swastika symbol, the original NSB flag used the Prince's Flag.

Although its colors are lighter, the light is less strong.

Although it implies the use of a light shade of blue, such as on the flag of the United Nations, the colors of the Greek flag tend to be darker, especially during the dictatorship and in recent years, with the exception of the years of the rule of King Otto, when a very light shade of blue was used.

Although Frederick died in May 1912, no new stamps were issued until 1915, when another set of the 1907 design was issued in new colors.

Although the original game allows up to four players ( that is, the board counts four colors: yellow, blue, red and green ), six-player versions are not hard to find ( adding orange and purple, in that order ), and eight-player boards can be found in big toy stores.

Although the IBM PC Enhanced Graphics Adapter ( EGA ) standard offers a fixed 64 color space, it only allows 16 simultaneous colors ( 16 out of 64 ), and then only in the relatively slow and barely accelerated high-res ( 640x350 ) mode.