Ironically, the following two seasons also saw the Cubs get off to a fast start, as the team rallied to over 10 games above. 500 well into both seasons, only to again wear down and play poorly later on, and ultimately settling back to mediocrity.

Ironically, only Prost was able to agree terms with Williams for 1993, leaving a seat free for Patrese had he remained with the team.

Ironically, in 1926, when the National Football League added traveling teams to nominally represent the West ( with a team nominally representing Los Angeles ) and South ( with a team nominally representing Louisville, Kentucky ), Buffalo, New York's NFL team renamed itself the Buffalo Rangers and represented Texas in the league.

Ironically, a wave of F1 drivers went to the Speedway in the 1960s, and the mid-engine revolution that was started in F1 by the Cooper team changed the face of the 500 as well ; since Jim Clark's win in 1965, every winner has driven a rear-engined car.

Ironically, while the Jackson 5 were noted instrumentalists, none of the members played any of their own instruments on the albums, as Motown had a hired team of West Coast and Detroit musicians playing on their recordings.

Ironically he isn't, but his friends Sara Kodama and Bello Korissha along with his schoolteacher Mamado Azaf are members of the Gauli team, a militia unit of the local Exodus group.

Ironically the majority of the senior players on this Western Bulldogs team saw their debut and early development under the coaching of Wallace while he was with the Bulldogs.

Ironically, it was Waltrip's rival and long-time nemesis Cale Yarborough, the hard-charging, and hugely successful driver for legendary driver / owner Junior Johnson, that privately told Waltrip that he intended to cut back on his racing appearances and leave the highly coveted Junior Johnson team at the end of the 1980 season, opening the position for a new driver.

Ironically, the team behind the programme included Cillian Fennell, an ex-RTÉ producer who had worked on The Late Late Show during Gay Byrne's final season.

Ironically, Ancient Anguish has been cited by original EverQuest designer Ryan Palacio as being heavily played by the EverQuest development team.

Ironically, Ekman was assigned by DARPA to head the red team, that is to defeat his own measures.

Ironically, the South African team at that time was probably the strongest in the world.

Ironically the Cardinals had been the Browns ' tenants since 1920, even though they had long since passed the Browns as St. Louis ' favorite team.

Ironically, two of the longest standing and formerly most prominent Appleby team sports are no longer offered.

Ironically, the only century Gayle scored in the event ended in defeat as Mid West Rhinos's Brendan Taylor's outstanding 75 * outlasted his team.

Ironically on New Year's Day 1936, a combined Dinamo-Spartak team traveled to Paris to face Racing Club de France, then one of Europe's top teams.

Ironically, he was picked up by the same New England team that he suffered his injury against.

Ironically, Chiron himself, led by the lure of a superior car, had driven for the Mercedes-Benz team, which the Nazis were using as an object of propaganda for their philosophy of racial superiority, at a time when his Jewish colleague and rival René Dreyfus could not.

Ironically, his departure came at a time when he was getting more first team opportunities than he had done since the 1988 – 89 season.

Ironically, when Kidd first joined Blackburn after being assistant manager at Manchester United, McClair was one of several high profile names to be linked with the assistant manager's vacancy at Old Trafford, as was former team mate Steve Bruce – who was managing Sheffield United at this stage.

Ironically, Santa Clara's opponent in the final was Virginia, coached by Bruce Arena who would later succeed Sampson as head coach of the United States men's national soccer team.

Ironically, despite being dominated by the Bronx Bombers in the WS, the Reds would be the team to return in 1940 to win the World Series while the Yankees lost out to Detroit in the AL pennant race, snapping their consecutive World Series appearances streak at four.

Ironically, it was Hoyle who coined the phrase that came to be applied to Lemaître's theory, referring to it as " this big bang idea " during a BBC Radio broadcast in March 1949.

Ironically, one of the stronger arguments against this position came from an individual highly respected by their theological quarter, Bliss Knapp, who claimed that Eddy understood through her lawyer that these consent clauses would not hinder normal operation after her decease.

Ironically, the defense created to combat the West Coast Offense also came from Cincinnati.

.. Ironically, this change came about as the result of criticism from Wittgenstein in his 1919 Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.

Ironically, the announcement came on the ninth anniversary of their complex's official opening, a fact not lost on many people.

Ironically in view of Byrd's own religious beliefs, it was his Anglican church music which came closest to establishing a continuous tradition, at least in the sense that some of it continued to be performed in choral foundations after the Restoration and into the eighteenth century.

Ironically, given the intervention of the Hungarian guards during the war, that win came over Hungary.

Ironically the sale came at a time when the automotive press was enthusiastic about the proposed 1988 lineup of Renault and Jeep vehicles, and reports that the financial outlook for the tiny automaker were improving.

Ironically, his Salisbury title came with comparatively little in terms of wealth, though he did gain a more southerly residence at Bisham Manor in Berkshire.

Thousands of people came to ride the new ride, and it can be fairly stated that The Great American Scream Machine saved the park from an untimely demise ( Ironically, The Great American Scream Machine was removed in 2010 to make room for the new Green Lantern coaster ).

Ironically, given that many of the ideas which so appalled Pope Pius IX came from France via the revolutions of 1789 and after, Pius's control of the Papal States rested on France, whose army under Emperor Napoleon III defended the Papal States from attack.

Ironically, much of 1860's success came on the strength of the play of Konietzka, recently transferred there from Dortmund.

Only after weeks of debate did he come to see that a new document was necessary .< ref name =" Jared Ingersoll, Military History "></ span ></ font ></ ref > Ironically, his major contribution to the cause of constitutional government came not during the Convention, but later during a lengthy and distinguished legal career when he helped define many of the principles enunciated at Philadelphia.

Ironically, the injury, which will put Jeff Scheel out of commission for a few weeks, came less than a week before Junkie XL leader Tom Holkenborg injured his back in an onstage accident.

Ironically, one of the stronger arguments against this position came from Bliss Knapp, who claimed that Eddy understood through her lawyer that these would not constitute an impediment to normal operation after her death.

Ironically, this came just after the CRTC had granted it the right to charge seven cents per subscriber when carried on basic cable, whereas it was previously made available to these viewers free of charge ; the new charge had been expected to help sustain the channel's live programming.

Ironically, relegation came exactly a year to the day that they claimed the Powergen Cup.

Ironically, his release from the Panthers came just three days after he suggested, when working as an analyst for ESPN at the 2007 NFL Draft, that the Panthers should draft a young wide receiver, which they did with the selection of Dwayne Jarrett.

Ironically, it was an aircraft of Bomber Command that came closest to destroying the Priory.

Ironically, the word came to be used by historians of ideas to refer to music from 1850 onwards, and to the work of Wagner in particular.

Ironically, legal issues arising from the killing of Mr. Terry came before the Supreme Court in the 1890 habeas corpus case of In re Neagle.

Ironically, his seat was targeted by the anti-bilingualism Confederation of Regions Party in 1986, although this challenge ultimately came to very little.

Ironically, Weaver's ancestral region, Asheville, North Carolina, was not typical of the American South whose virtues he came to revere and extol.