Following the regular season, in which the 12-4 Panthers won their third NFC South division title, they hosted the Cardinals at Bank of America Stadium in the Panthers first home playoff game since January 2004.

Following the ' 69 season, the club posted winning records for the next few seasons, but no playoff action.

Following another playoff upset in 1953 at the hands of the Bruins, the Red Wings won back to back Stanley Cups in 1954 ( over Montreal, when Habs defenseman Doug Harvey redirected a Tony Leswick shot into his own net ) and 1955 ( also over Montreal in the full seven games ).

Following two consecutive playoff losses to the Patriots, the Colts began the 2005 season with a 13 – 0 record, including a regular season victory over the Patriots, the first in the Manning era.

Following their two playoff years, the club quickly retreated to the bottom of the standings, never finishing higher than fifth ( out of seven ) in their division from 1983 to 1986.

Following the Winter Olympics, the Avs struggled, but clinched a playoff spot with 95 points on the season, a 26 point improvement from the previous year's effort, and good enough for 8th place in the Western Conference.

Following the All-Star break, the Magic went on a roll, winning 23 of their 28 remaining games, clinching their fourth consecutive playoff berth and winning their third consecutive division championship in the process.

Following the playoff loss, Tony DiLeo returned to his front office job, creating a head coaching vacancy.

Following their playoff exit, on August 7, 2007, Absolute Hockey Enterprises, a group led by Doug MacLean, announced it had signed a purchase agreement for the team and the leasehold on the St. Pete Times Forum.

Following the lockout of the 2004 – 05 season, new GM Dale Tallon set about restructuring the team in the hopes of making a playoff run.

Following the previous season's disappointing first round playoff upset at the hands of the seventh seeded Colorado Avalanche, the Stars made a number of changes during summer 2006.

Following his tenure with San Diego, he coached the Houston Oilers for two years from 1973 to 1974, helping bring the club out of the funk it had been in for many seasons prior, and closer to playoff contention.

Following the addition of Selanne, the Mighty Ducks pushed for a playoff spot, winning 12 of their final 15 games, but finished the season ninth place in the West ( the top eight teams qualify for the playoffs ); they had an equal 78 points to the eighth-ranked Jets, but finished a spot below them by virtue of having less wins.

Following the 2006 season, the NBA changed its playoff format so that the best second-place team in each conference would be able to obtain up to the # 2 seed should it have the second-best conference record.

Following the season, Detroit management felt that the team needed a strong veteran goaltender with Stanley Cup playoff experience.

Following his dismissal from the Knicks, CBS hired Brown as a broadcaster in 1987, and served alongside Verne Lundquist as the third team during select regular season and playoff games.

Following up on a disappointing playoff appearance in 2004, in 2005, Columbus got off to a slow start at 4-10-2, and Andrulis was fired.

Following a punt, Bush scored on a franchise playoff record 46-yard run.

Following the Colts playoff loss, Rhodes became a free agent.

Following the playoff defeat, van Gerbig began preparing the Seals for their move to the NHL.

Following five runner-up finishes in major championships without a victory, including losing a sudden-death playoff for the 1979 PGA Championship, in 1984 he won The Masters.

Following the team's playoff defeat in June 2003, he died in a one car accident.

Following that, the final eight teams competed in a playoff.

Following their first playoff season, Coach Moss was named the AF2 Coach of the Year.

Following ten consecutive draws, Korchnoi threw away a winning position in the seventeenth game to give Karpov a 3 – 0 lead.

Following work on the second entry in the Resident Evil series, Capcom began work on a Resident Evil game for the new PlayStation 2.

Following their bye week, Dallas went on a three game winning streak including wins over Atlanta and NFC East division rival Philadelphia.

Following the example of New Jersey, which enacted corporate-friendly laws at the end of the 19th century to attract businesses from New York, Delaware played the game of fiscal competition by adopting in 1899 a general incorporation act aimed at attracting more businesses.

" Following the Villanova-Carlisle game, The New York Times described the new passing game this way :" The passing was more of the character of that familiar in basket ball than that which has hitherto characterized football.

Following the original roots of modern graffiti as a political force came another game title, Marc Eckō's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure ( 2006 ), featuring a story line involving fighting against a corrupt city and its oppression of free speech, as in the Jet Set Radio series.

Following retirement from professional football, he developed a career in the media, initially on BBC Radio 5 Live and as a football pundit before replacing Des Lynam as the BBC's anchorman for football coverage, including their flagship football television programme Match of the Day, and as a team captain on the acerbic sports game show, They Think It's All Over from 1995 to 2003, where he was heavily ( though affectionately ) ridiculed for being a " goal hanger ", described as " lethal from twelve inches " – a parody of Lineker's short-range scoring prowess.

Following their Super Bowl championship, the Colts would go onto a 13 – 3 record during the 2007 season and would lose to the San Diego Chargers in the divisional playoffs, which would be the final game the Colts played at the RCA Dome, with the Colts moving into Lucas Oil Stadium in 2008.

Following the tension of Game Six, the Cardinals pitching and defense came undone in Game 7 and their offense was shut down by Saberhagen leading to the lowest batting average to date (. 188 by the Cardinals, later broken by 2001 Yankees ) and fewest runs ( 13 for the Cardinals, still stands ) of any team in a 7 game series, and the Royals won 11 – 0 to clinch the franchise's only World Series title.

Following the game, Wellington Mara fired coach Allie Sherman, and replaced him with former Giants fullback Alex Webster.

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Following what was becoming familiar annual speculation, Clemens unexpectedly appeared in the owner's box at Yankee Stadium on May 6,, during the seventh-inning stretch in a game against the Seattle Mariners, and made a brief statement: " Thank y'all.

Following the game's release, Eitaro Toyoda moved back to Sonic Team Japan to work on Sonic and the Secret Rings as a game designer.

Following this model the Mario series has gone on to become the best selling video game franchise of all time with 193 million units sold as of January 2007, almost 40 million units ahead of second ranked franchise ( Pokémon, also by Nintendo ).

Following that game, which sapped the team's bullpen strength, the Padres stumbled, dropping games at home, where they struggled to score runs, and on the road, where they committed uncharacteristic errors and failed to hold leads.

Following the game, NBC aired the premiere episode of The A-Team, beginning the tradition of the game's host network airing programming after the game.

Following the game, CBS aired the pilot episode of Airwolf.

Following the game was a 60 Minutes interview with future President Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton and an episode of 48 Hours.

Following the game ABC premiered the television drama Extreme starring James Brolin ; this was the last series to premiere following the Super Bowl until Family Guy premiered following Super Bowl XXXIII and is one of only four in the last fourteen years to premiere following a Super Bowl ( joining Family Guy, its spinoff American Dad !, and Undercover Boss which premiered following Super Bowl XLIV ), since the networks have preferred to have new episodes of established shows to catch as much of the post-game audience as possible.

Following the game, NBC broadcast an hour-long episode of Friends, re-starting a trend in which the prized post-Super Bowl time slot was given to an established program.

Following Street Fighter's lead, the use of command-based hidden moves began to pervade other games in the rising fighting game genre.

Following the House of M, Madrox's newfound wealth from winning a Who Wants to Be a Millionaire ?- style game show allowed him to recruit several of his former colleagues from the Paris branch of the now defunct X-Corporation.