However, the Vikings lost to the Dallas Cowboys in the playoffs, 17 – 14, on a controversial touchdown pass from the Cowboys ' quarterback Roger Staubach to wide receiver Drew Pearson that became known as the Hail Mary.

However, they would fall victim to the Dallas Cowboys in week 14, going on to end the season with a 3 game losing streak ( Saints became the first team to win a Super Bowl after losing its last three regular season games ).

However, a few days before the game, he received a verbal challenge from Dallas safety Cliff Harris, who stated " I'm not going to hurt anyone intentionally.

However, he has coached three other teams since then: the New England Patriots ( whom he helped bring to Super Bowl XXXI ) from 1993-1996, the New York Jets from 1997-1999, and the Dallas Cowboys from 2003-2006.

However, on third down and 2, Aikman's pass to Novacek in the end zone was overthrown, forcing Dallas to settle for Lin Elliot's 20-yard field goal.

However, Dallas cornerback Dave Thomas was penalized for running into the punter on the play, giving Buffalo a first down.

However, Chris Mohr matched Jett's feat with a 45-yard punt that was downed at the Dallas 1-yard line by Buffalo special teams expert Steve Tasker.

However, Bills defensive back Nate Odomes intercepted a pass intended for Irvin and returned it 41 yards to the Dallas 47-yard line with 1: 03 left in the half.

However, on third down, Cowboys cornerback Larry Brown intercepted O ' Donnell's pass at the Dallas 38-yard line and returned it 44 yards to the Pittsburgh 18-yard line.

However, and just as the year before, Colorado lost in the Conference Finals against the Dallas Stars in a seven games after beating the Phoenix Coyotes and Detroit Red Wings in five games.

However, Dallas would be put to rest after Wade captured the rebound, fittingly ending the game by tossing the ball in the air after a missed three-point shot attempt by Jason Terry.

However, some metropolitan areas contain more than one large city with no single municipality holding a substantially dominant position ( e. g. Dallas – Fort Worth metroplex or Minneapolis – Saint Paul ).

However, the highways in and near these cities included some of the first freeways in the state: the Gulf Freeway ( Houston ) and the Central Expressway ( Dallas ).

However, High Shoals Elementary was closed in 1998 for financial reasons and consolidated with Costner Elementary School near Dallas, North Carolina.

However, it is also coincidentally located nearly midway between Dallas and Houston.

However, that was found to be unlikely after an investigation with alumni, and the president of the Debbie Does Dallas production company said such a claim " was purely inconclusive ".

However, the terms honky tonk, honk-a-tonk, and honkatonk have been cited from at least 1889 in the " Daily Gazette " ( Fort Worth, Texas ), from 1890 in the " Morning News " ( Dallas, Texas ), and 1892 in the Galveston Daily News ( Galveston, Texas ), which used the term to refer to an adult establishment in Fort Worth.

However, one American act that emulated the style was The Reverend Horton Heat, formed in Dallas, Texas in 1985.

However, the band when on to finish the tour and played at the Animefest in Dallas, Texas ( Aug 2001 ).

However, the film also received critical acclaim, with The Dallas Observer claiming it to be better than both Wild at Heart ( 1990 ) and Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me ( 1992 ): " His most thoroughly surreal work since Eraserhead, this two-hour-plus fever dream is more of one piece than Fire Walk with Me and less desperate and jokey than Wild at Heart.

However, the team retained its place in the NFC West division despite the fact that St. Louis is further east than Dallas, Texas, home of the Dallas Cowboys.

However, GSW's traffic continued to decline relative to Dallas Love Field.

However, the Total Force Concept led to pressure to upgrade the reserve forces to front-line aircraft and beginning in 1974, new LTV A-7D Corsair II ground attack aircraft began to be sent to Air National Guard units directly from the manufacturing plant in Dallas.

However, this difficulty is not too serious if it is realized that a surveying team can establish a true north base line with a few days' work.

However much football has been over-emphasized, the public likes to measure its collegiate favorites by the scoreboard, so, while Yale need never give its record a thought again since outscoring its opponents 694 to 0 in the season of 1888, Dartmouth had to wait until its championship team of 1925 for national recognition.

However, the team could not sustain its status and is now back in the second division.

However, when a speaker wishes to emphasize that the individuals are acting separately, a plural pronoun may be employed with a singular or plural verb: the team takes their seats or the team take their seats, rather than the team takes its seats.

However, such a sentence would most likely be recast as the team members take their seats.

However, these negotiations came to nothing, since the Bidwills insisted on retaining a controlling interest in the franchise and were unwilling move their team to a city where a previous NFL franchise had failed in 1952.

However, with engine rule changes for the 1990 season and the launch of the new Aston Martin Volante model, Ford provided the limited supply of Cosworth engines to the Jaguar cars racing team.

However, the run scored by the batter is counted as earned against the relief pitcher, but unearned to the team ( since there should have already been three outs ).

However, if the wild-card team and the division winner with the best record are from the same division, the wild-card team plays the division winner with the second-best record, and the remaining two division leaders play.

However, if the wild-card team and the division winner with the best record are from the same division, the wild-card team plays the division winner with the second-best record, and the remaining two division leaders play.

However, Walsh used this as a motivating factor for his team, who felt they were disrespected.

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However, the team finished the 2009 season with 64 wins and 98 losses, making it the worst record in the 2009 American League season.

However, many major league baseball and NFL teams in the United States also promote 24 ounce cans marked with team logos.

However, other professionals that play a more peripheral role in the field of professional sports ( e. g. coaches, general managers, referees, commentators and announcers, sports team owners and executives, sports commissioners ) who are more active in the internal aspects of field tend to remain in obscurity and are less likely to achieve celebrity status.

However, possibly as an insult to Art Modell, or possibly as an homage to his own start as a head coach to the Massillon Tigers, Paul Brown chose the exact shade of orange used by his former team.

However, the team was wracked with dissension, with some players ( including Feller and Mel Harder ) going so far as to request that Bradley fire manager Ossie Vitt.

However, the pitching staff — a strong point for the team in 1995 — was beset by injuries: Bill Swift, who went 9 – 3 in 1995, started just three games, and the staff ERA ballooned to 5. 60.

However, he finished just fifth in MVP voting, perhaps because the team finished fourth in the division and also possibly due to bias by voters because he played half of his games in hitter-friendly Coors Field.

However, perhaps because of the trade of Walker and several consecutive losing seasons, the team fell all the way to fourteenth in the National League in attendance ; for the first time in team history, the Rockies drew under 2 million fans for the season.