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In week 17, the Saints defeated division rivals Carolina ; however, the Saints needed other results to break their way and when the St. Louis Rams beat the New York Jets the Saints were eliminated despite having beaten the Rams, who finished with the same record.
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The most famous undergraduate of South Philadelphia High School is a current bobby-sox idol, Dreamboat Cacophonist Fabian ( real name: Fabian Forte ), 17, and last week it developed that he will remain an undergraduate for a while.
On October 17, 2007, a week before the first game of the 2007 World Series against the Boston Red Sox, the Colorado Rockies announced that tickets would be made available to the general public via online sales only, despite prior arrangements to sell the tickets at local retail outlets.
However, the Dallas team surged in the final three weeks of the season with a 24 – 17 victory at the Superdome, ending New Orleans ' previously unbeaten season in week 15.
Six days later, in the wild-card round of the playoffs, Dallas played the Eagles in a rematch of week 17.
The following season, the Cowboys avenged that defeat by beating the Eagles three times: twice during the regular season to claim the title as NFC East champions and once more in a wild-card playoff game by a combined score of 78 – 30, including a 24 – 0 shutout in week 17.
The show continued with 8 performances per week at the New World Stages until closing February 17, 2007.
In the first round of the NFL Playoffs, the Colts beat the Cincinnati Bengals 17 – 0 ; one week later in the AFC Championship, they beat the Oakland Raiders 27 – 17.
Originally scheduled to run 17 September through 10 October, the Morrison Hotel Gallery extended it a week to end 17 October.
It rose from No. 3 to No. 1 in the week of 17 August on the Australian singles chart.
They became the first NFL team to wear all-black uniforms in a week 5 road game against the Carolina Panthers, and again in weeks 16 and 17 in home games against the Washington Redskins and San Francisco 49ers ; the Saints were outscored 78-10 in the final two contests to end a 7-9 campaign.
After a 38-26 victory over the Raiders in week 17, the Chargers finished at 8-8 and in a numerical tie for first place in the AFC West along with Oakland and Denver.
Among believers, 55. 3 % assert they almost never go to any religious service, by contrast, 17. 0 % attend one or more masses almost every week.
Also, in week 15 of the regular season, the two teams met at Giants Stadium where the Bills defeated the Giants 17 – 13.
Tampa Bay did not win their first game until the 13th week of their second season, starting with a record of 0 – 26 ( though the Bucs had beaten the Atlanta Falcons 17 – 3 in a 1976 pre-season game before their first regular season ).
The season ended next week, however, when the Redskins lost to the Giants 17 – 0 in the NFC Championship game.
In mid-June, little over one week before the convention opened, Gallup reported that Willkie had surged to second place with 17 %, and that Dewey was slipping.
Still, the NYSE was determined to re-open on September 17, almost a week after the attack.
By mid-June, little over one week before the Republican Convention opened, the Gallup poll reported that Willkie had moved into second place with 17 %, and that Dewey was slipping.
In Essendon's horror 2006 season he returned one week early from a minor injury to lead his side to a drought-breaking win over Brisbane in round 17, 2006.
The death toll at one point reached a peak of 7, 000 in the week of 17 September.
* "( We're Gonna ) Rock Around the Clock "-US # 23 on May 29, 1954 only one week ; UK # 17, in December 1954
The first five of the initial panelists were to later appear on the first broadcast week ( October 17 – 21, 1966 ) and become the five initial regulars on NBC-TV.
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Minnesota would travel to New Orleans the following week to face the top-seeded Saints in the first conference championship game held at the Superdome.
In the first week of the 2010 NFL regular season, the Vikings played the defending Super Bowl champions, the New Orleans Saints.
At that point Haslett's job appeared to be in jeopardy ; however, he managed to win the three straight games leading up to the season finale, leaving the Saints in playoff contention in the final week of the season.
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 ).
Starting in week 13 of the 2006 season, the Saints wore black pants with the black jerseys against the San Francisco 49ers, and in a Week 16 game in The Meadowlands against the New York Giants ( a 30 – 7 Saints win ), the Saints wore the black pants with their road white jerseys.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints spend one evening per week called Family Home Evening ( FHE ) or Family Night usually Monday, that families are encouraged to spend together in study, prayer and other family activities.
Foreign dignitaries were described as Ministers in other Churches: for example, George W. Bush usually appeared in the Parish News each week as " Rev Dubya Bush of the Church of the Latter-Day Morons " ( or, in some issues in 2003 — during the Invasion of Iraq and early Iraq War — the Latter-Day Morbombs ), in reference to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( Mormons ).
Already before the 5 days working week was generally adopted in Finland in the late 1960s, working hours in most cases were shorter on Saturdays ( 4 ... 5 h ) than on other weekdays ( 8 h ), but they were equally shorter also on all eves of public holidays, for example on the eve of Epiphany, the eve of All Saints ' Day, and even including Christmas Eve and Midsummer Eve.
Celebrated during the last week of October for the preparations for All Saints day and a thanks giving celebration for good harvest particularly ( Iniruban ) and good quality of meat products particularly the Chicharon or Bagnet.
In the second week of the 2005 season, the New Orleans Saints used the stadium for a " home " game against the Giants because of extensive damage to the Louisiana Superdome after Hurricane Katrina.
The first semester runs from September 1 till the middle of January and is divided by the fall vacation, which is around All Saints ' Day and lasts for a week.
The semestral break for all universities and colleges usually occurs between the second week of October to the second week of November, normally including the All Saints ' and All Souls ' holidays ) and can be between two to three weeks long.
The next week, Brees led the Saints to a 48 – 22 win over the Philadelphia Eagles, throwing for 311 yards and three touchdown passes.
The next week, Brees threw for 308 yards on 25 of 33 passing along with two touchdowns and one interception in leading the Saints to a 35 – 27 victory and franchise tying best start at 7 – 0 against the rival Atlanta Falcons.
In week 12, Brees led the Saints to an 11 – 0 record, defeating the New England Patriots 38 – 17 on Monday Night Football.
The Saints then lost their last two games, with Brees sitting out the week 17 finale against Carolina.
In week 12 ’ s Monday night hosting of the NY Giants, the Saints routed the Giants 49-24 aided by Brees ' stellar performance with passing for 363 yards and 4 TDs passes extending his streak to 38 games.
In 2009 he appeared in all 16 games as the holder on the Saints place-kicking unit, and saw his first playing time at quarterback in 3 years during a week 17 loss to the Carolina Panthers, as the Saints had already clinched homefield advantage and rested starter Drew Brees, as well as many other starters.
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One day last week, Nixon faced a painful constitutional chore that required him to officiate at a joint session of Congress to hear the official tally of the Electoral College vote, and then to make `` sufficient declaration '' of the election of the man who defeated him in the tight 1960 presidential election.
The team's season ended the next week in the Divisional Round as the New York Jets defeated the Jaguars 34 – 24.
The Vikings defeated the Detroit Lions 24 – 10 in the third week of the season.
The Vikings ' other loss was in week 12 to the Cincinnati Bengals, whom the Dolphins defeated in the AFC divisional playoffs.
One week after losing to the division rival Philadelphia Eagles, 31 – 13, the 10 – 1 Giants were defeated on Monday Night Football in a 7 – 3 defensive battle with the 10 – 1 San Francisco 49ers, who had won the previous two Super Bowls and ultimately finished the regular season with an NFL best 14 – 2 record.
After Major's challenger, John Redwood, was defeated, Powell wrote to him, " Dear Redwood, you will never regret the events of the last week or two.
One of the great upsets in College Bowl history — or indeed, in the history of any intercollegiate competition — came on March 6, 1966, when a small women's college, Agnes Scott College, took on the defending champions from Princeton University, which had challenged and defeated a team from Mount Holyoke College the previous week.
Agnes Scott came back the next week, but was defeated by Marietta College, 230-115 ; the 1966 games constituted its only College Bowl appearance.
They fought a successful delaying action against General George Crook's army at the Battle of the Rosebud, preventing Crook from locating and attacking their camp, and a week later defeated the U. S. 7th Cavalry in 1876 at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, which the Lakota call the Greasy Grass Fight.
When his father abdicated on 4 April 1814, he named his son Emperor, but the coalition partners that had defeated Napoleon refused to acknowledge his son as successor, so he was forced to abdicate unconditionally a week later.
However, just one week later at the Lipton International Players Championships in Miami, Sampras defeated two top-40 players before losing to world number 18 Emilio Sánchez.
One week later, Williams defeated Davenport in the semifinals of the TIG Tennis Classic in San Diego before losing to World No. 2 Hingis in the final.
The following week the Pros defeated the Columbus Panhandles 37 to 0 using former guard, Frank McCormick as a wingback.
A week later the Bisons defeated the Columbus Tigers, 17-6.
A week later, the Bisons were defeated by the Frankford Yellow Jackets 12-3.
However, a week later they were defeated by the Detroit Lions 40-7.
A week later the Indians were defeated 62-0, by the Akron Pros.
At the Dubai Tennis Championships one week later, Henin defeated former World No. 1 Monica Seles in the final 4 – 6, 7 – 6, 7 – 5 after Seles had a match point at 5 – 4 in the second set.
At the Tier I Zurich Open the following week, Henin reached her sixth consecutive final where she defeated Serbia's Jelena Dokić.
The following week, Mysterio and Kidman teamed with each other and defeated Flair's Four Horsemen stablemates Chris Benoit and Dean Malenko to win the WCW World Tag Team Championship, making Mysterio a double champion.
The following week, Mysterio defeated Miz to win his first ever WWE Championship, nine years to the day of his WWE debut, also becoming a three-time world champion.
* East vs. West Rivalry – IHS football beat the Eastridge football team several times in a row, but the 9 year streak came to an end when the Eastridge Lancers defeated IHS 48-10 in week 2 of the 2008 Section V football season.
After this victory he moved his capital to Konya and defeated a force led by William II of Nevers who attempted to march upon it as well as the subsequent force a week later.
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