The 2005 season saw Essendon miss the finals for the first time since 1997, finishing with their second-worst result to that time under Sheedy's coaching, 13th position with 8 wins and 14 losses.

* Essendon Team of the Century ( back pocket ) 1997

This goalscoring ability enabled him to top the Essendon goal scoring every year from 1997 to 2009, except for 2006 when he only played three games due to a serious hamstring injury.

He played 206 games from 1984 to 1997, kicking 190 goals, and was assistant coach at Essendon from 1998 to 2005.

As an 18 year old developing forward Tredrea found his opportunities for senior football limited, with his largely anonymous debut in Round 2 against Essendon being his sole outing for the Power in 1997.

It was also the home stadium of the London Monarchs American Football team for the 1997 season.

The trio would man the booth for ABC's Monday Night Football from 1987 to 1997 and call Super Bowls XXV and XXIX.

This was the broadcast team for Monday Night Football from 1987 – 1997.

The game was rematched on October 27, 1997, as a near-national telecast on ABC's Monday Night Football, the only time ABC aired a rematch of the previous season's Super Bowl.

The Scottish Football Association adopted " Flower of Scotland " as its pre-game national anthem in 1997 although it was first used by them in 1993 ,.

They had a spell in the Football League from 1972 to 1997 reaching the second tier of English football in 1976, and were relegated to non-League status in 1997 before returning to beat Halifax Town A. F. C.

The are two senior clubs, the Traralgon Maroons ( which briefly competed in the Victorian Football League between 1996 – 1997 ) currently competing in the Gippsland Football League and Traralgon-Tyers United competing in the North Gippsland Football League.

In 1990, it obtained partial rights to the Sunday Night Football package for the National Football League, which it retained until 1997.

* Philosopher Footballers: Sporting Heroes of Intellectual Distinction ( Philosophy Football, 1997 )

The High School teams were MSHAA Class B Football Champions in 1986 and 1992, and Class B Volleyball State Champions consecutively from 1997 to 2004 inclusive, and again in 2006.

The Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League have held the majority of their summer training camps at EWU, from 1976 – 1985, and again from 1997 through the 2006 training camp.

In 1997 they were Northern Premier League champions and gained promotion to the Football Conference, the highest level of English non-league football, although they only spent two seasons at that level before being relegated.

As previously mentioned, Monday Night Football began using a score bug in 1997, the second network to do so after NFL on Fox began in 1994.

Parfitt underwent quadruple by-pass surgery in 1997 but was able to make a full recovery and returned with a performance at the Norwich City Football Club ground three months later.

Nakata began his professional career in 1995 and won the Asian Football Confederation Player of the Year award in 1997 and 1998, the Scudetto with A. S. Roma in 2001, played for Japan in three FIFA World Cup tournaments ( 1998, 2002 and 2006 ) and played in the Olympics twice ( 1996 and 2000 ).

* 28 September-Sydney, Australia: The 1997 ARL season's grand final is won by the Newcastle Knights who defeated the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 22-16 at the Sydney Football Stadium before a crowd of 42, 482.

Reasons for this include the proximity of Macclesfield to cities with large football clubs such as Manchester and Liverpool, and a lack of historical success, as Macclesfield Town have only been a Football League club since 1997.

Despite avoiding financial oblivion, Thistle were relegated to the third tier of Scottish Football in 1997 – 98, and only narrowly avoided a further relegation the following season, finishing in eighth place.

Coulter was inducted as a builder in the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1997.

The CFL survived into 1997 and was buoyed by a new television deal with The Sports Network which, along with the launch of its popular Friday Night Football program, has been credited with saving the league.

BRP games in Japanese are Houkago Kaiki Club ( 1997, school life and horror, Hobby Japan ), Genom Seed ( 2004, mutant action, Shinkigensha ) and Taitei no Ken RPG ( 2007, SciFi-jidaigeki, based on movie of the same title, Shinkigensha ).

* 1908 – Stéphane Grappelli, French jazz violinist ( Quintette du Hot Club de France ) ( d. 1997 )

The Lake Eyre Yacht Club is a dedicated group of sailors who sail on the lake's floods, including recent trips in 1997, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2007 and 2009.

On April 27, 1997, one of the last bastions of rowing was breached when, at an Extraordinary General Meeting, Leander Club voted to admit women as members.

With other turn-of-the-millennium films such as Fight Club, In the Company of Men ( 1997 ), American Psycho ( 2000 ) and Boys Don't Cry ( 1999 ), American Beauty " raises the broader, widely explored issue of masculinity in crisis ".

In 1997, Hawn, along with her co-stars from The First Wives Club, Diane Keaton and Bette Midler, were recipients of the Women in Film Crystal Awards.

Between 1997 and December 2008, at least 37 eventing riders died as a result of injuries incurred while competing in the cross-country phase of eventing at national or international level or at Pony Club.

* El Gouna Golf Club, El Gouna, Egypt, 1997

An all acoustic album, Live at the Town & Country Club, was recorded by the group in September 1997 ( and released in 1999 ) that featured a line-up of Downes, Payne, Ibrahim, and drummer Bob Richards.

Other side-projects include the limited-release House of Mayors EP in 1996 through the Hello CD of the Month Club and in 1997 a flexi disc of the song " Olive the Other Reindeer " accompanying promotional copies of the children's books, Olive, the Other Reindeer.

The classic programming changed to feature only Disney-produced television series and specials such as Zorro, Spin and Marty, The Mickey Mouse Club and the Walt Disney anthology television series, along with older Disney television specials ; older Disney feature films also were part of the lineup from 1997 to 2000, but aired in a reduced capacity.

In 1997 The film and CD Buena Vista Social Club, produced by Ry Cooder was a big hit in the United States.

Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club, located just outside of town, was where David Duval won the Nike Tour Championship in 1993, and was home to the U. S. Women's Open in 1997 and 2003.

In 1997 she established Raisa Maksimovna's Club, meant to galvanize the participation of women in politics.

Simon Fuller has commented that he came upon the concept of S Club 7 the day after he was fired by the Spice Girls in 1997.

Mike ( Michael Simpson ) and King Gizmo ( John King ), famous for their sample-based music in the 1980s and 1990s, and specifically for their work on the albums Paul's Boutique by the Beastie Boys, Odelay by Beck, the soundtrack to the film Fight Club and the massive 1997 hit " MMMBop " by Hanson.

Stéphane Grappelli ( ; 26 January 1908 – 1 December 1997 ) was a French jazz violinist who founded the Quintette du Hot Club de France with guitarist Django Reinhardt in 1934.

Afterward, the band co-headlined with Culture Club and Howard Jones on VH1's 1980s " Big Rewind " nostalgia tour and made other concert and public appearances throughout 1997 – 2000.

Creator of the philatelic Club de Monte-Carlo in 1997, he organized with its members some exhibitions of rare and exceptional postage stamps and letters.

Nixon was a founding member of the theatrical troupe The Drama Dept., which included Sarah Jessica Parker, Dylan Baker, John Cameron Mitchell and Billy Crudup among its actors, appearing in the group's productions of Kingdom on Earth ( 1996 ), June Moon and As Bees in Honey Drown ( both 1997 ), Hope is the Thing with Feathers ( 1998 ), and The Country Club ( 1999 ).

Also, during 1997, playwright Susan Mosakowski adapted it to drama, performed at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club.

Carter has won numerous awards for his significant contributions to typography and design, including an honoris causa Doctorate of Humane Letters from the Art Institute of Boston, an medal in 1995, the TDC Medal from the Type Directors Club in 1997, and the 2005 Typography Award.

Ry Cooder produced the Buena Vista Social Club album ( 1997 ), which became a worldwide hit.

In the late 1990s Cooder played a significant role in the increased appreciation of traditional Cuban music, due to his collaboration as producer of the Buena Vista Social Club ( 1997 ) recording, which became a worldwide hit and revived the careers of some of the greatest surviving exponents of 20th century Cuban music.