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Also known as the D-Backs, Arizona has one World Series title, in 2001, becoming the fastest expansion team in the majors to win a championship, doing it in only the fourth season since their expansion in 1998.
Arizona had postseason victories over the St. Louis Cardinals ( 3 2 in the NLDS ) and the Atlanta Braves ( 4 1 in the NLCS ) to advance to the World Series where, in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York City, they beat the three-time reigning champions, the New York Yankees, 4 to 3, to become the youngest expansion franchise to win the World Series ( in just their fourth season of play ).
One month prior to the end of the 1961 season, Richards resigned as the team's skipper to become the general manager of the expansion Houston Colt 45s.
In their inaugural season, he led the Panthers to a 7 9 record, setting a record for the most victories by an expansion team.
Still, the team finished the season with 67 wins, setting a record for a National League expansion franchise.
The two teams met in the first regular season game the Cowboys ever played in 1960 ( a 35 28 loss to the Steelers ), the first-ever regular season victory for the expansion Cowboys in 1961, and would later meet in three Super Bowls, all of them closely contested events.
The first team was a collection of cast-offs culled mostly through an expansion draft after the 1961 season.
Although they were better than their expansion cousins, who won only eight games in their inaugural season, the Kansas City Scouts began to suffer from an economic downturn in the Midwest.
The Vikings joined the National Football League ( NFL ) as an expansion team in 1960, and first took the field for the 1961 season.
The Brewers were part of the American League from their creation as an expansion club in 1969 through the 1997 season, after which they moved to the National League Central Division.
Their first season record was 3 11, which set an NFL record for most wins by an expansion team.
Collins was the first ever draft choice of the expansion Carolina Panthers in 1995, and led the Panthers to the NFC Championship game in his second season.
20 teams compete in the Premier Limited-Overs Tournament, which is an expansion from 16 in the last season.
As of the 2011 season, the Seattle Seahawks have competed in 36 NFL seasons, dating back to their expansion year of 1976.
( Before the season, Taylor had informed the team that instead of returning to the Packers in 1967, he would become a free agent and sign with the expansion New Orleans Saints.
The Bucs played their first season in the AFC West as part of the 1976 expansion plan.
The Buccaneers are the first post-merger expansion team to win a division title, win a playoff game, and to host and play in a conference championship game, this was accomplished during the 1979 season.
Steve Spurrier was the quarterback for Tampa Bay during their expansion season.
Williams ' best season as a manager was 1969 when he led the expansion Senators to an 86 76 record in the team's only winning season in Washington.
Although the NFL expanded by two teams in 1976, that expansion had been planned before the WFL's first season.
The Bears were one of three teams to join the league for the 2011 season, with the traveling New York Federals and the expansion Rockland Boulders.

expansion and 1967
" However, the phrase is on the cover of the 1967 self-published edition, after the title, in " Presentation of ... SCUM ( Society for Cutting Up Men ) ....", where it is not an expansion of a title word.
Dixon had been a key player in the expansion of the NFL into New Orleans and the New Orleans Saints began play in 1967.
The Rangers played a legendary semifinal series against the Philadelphia Flyers in the 1973 74 playoffs, losing in 7 games and becoming the first of the " Original Six " to lose a playoff series to an 1967 expansion team.
Part of the 1967 NHL Expansion, the Flyers were the first expansion team in the post-Original Six era to win the Stanley Cup, victorious in 1973 74 and again in 1974 75.
The franchise was founded in 1967 as one of the first expansion teams during the league's original expansion from six to twelve teams.
The 1967 NHL Expansion depended on securing votes from the then-current NHL owners ; to ensure that Pittsburgh would be selected for expansion, McGregor enlisted Rooney to petition votes from James D. Norris, owner of the Chicago Black Hawks, and his brother Bruce Norris, owner of the Detroit Red Wings.
The effort was successful, and on February 8, 1966, the National Hockey League awarded an expansion team to Pittsburgh for the 1967 68 season.
On October 21, 1967, they became the first team from the expansion class to beat an Original Six team, as they defeated the Chicago Black Hawks 4 2.
The Rockets were founded in 1967 in San Diego, and after being bought by Robert Breitbard for US $ 1. 75 million, they joined the NBA as an expansion team for the 1967 68 NBA season.
Hall was drafted by the expansion St. Louis Blues for the 1967 68 season, while Pilote was traded to the Maple Leafs for Jim Pappin in 1968.
An apparent deal was in place to move the team to Vancouver, but the NHL did not want to see one of their franchises from the expansion of 1967 move so quickly and killed the deal.
Another group, headed by Minnesota entrepreneur Tom Scallen, made a new presentation, and was awarded an expansion franchise for the price of $ 6 million dollars ( three times the cost in 1967 ).
The team was founded during the 1967 NHL expansion as the Minnesota North Stars, based in Bloomington, Minnesota.
The Minnesota North Stars began play in 1967 as part of the NHL's six-team expansion.
ASEAN ( ), the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, is a geo-political and economic organization of 10 countries located in Southeast Asia, which was formed on August 8, 1967 by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand as a display of solidarity against communist expansion in Vietnam and insurgency within their own borders.
The building was expanded in 1967, and a second major expansion was completed in 1999.
In 1967, with the expansion of the National Hockey League, the Metropolitan Sports Center was built near the site of the Metropolitan Stadium and the Minnesota North Stars began play later that year.
The Brentford site closed in 1967 with the expansion of Bracknell.
He also became a minority owner in the NFL expansion New Orleans Saints in 1967.
With the expansion of Oslo city after the second World War, Oslo Kommune allowed OBOS to build a new borough in 1967 and this project was started in 1969.
:* The expansion Senators club mainly used caps with a stylized cursive " W ," first in blue with a red letter ( 1963 1967 ), then in red with a white letter ( 1968 1971 ).

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