The Detroit Lions are a professional American football team based in Detroit, Michigan.

The Lions have not had much success during the Super Bowl era: the Lions are one of four current NFL teams that have yet to qualify for the Super Bowl, and the team is 1-10 in post-season play during that period.

Supernatural animals are found, ranging from unicorns to seven types of merfolk and the Goddess of Lions.

These divisions are important parts of Lions Clubs International.

They are formed under a parent Lions Club.

Leo Clubs are an extension of the Lions service organization which aims to encourage community service and involvement from a young age.

Leo Clubs much like Lioness Clubs are sponsored by a parent Lions Club.

Leo Clubs are required to have a Leo Club Advisor, a member of the sponsoring Lions Club who attends meetings and provides general advice to the club.

There are more than 125 Campus Lions clubs in the world including nearly 2, 500 members on college and university campuses in Australia, Brazil, China, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, England, Ethiopia, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Mongolia, Nepal, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Russia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Uganda, United States, Venezuela, Kenya, Zimbabwe and Ghana-Lions KNUST.

These figures are slightly inflated due to the inclusion of areas within the Regional Districts which are not normally considered to be part of the Lower Mainland, notably the lower Fraser Canyon and the heads of Harrison and Pitt Lakes, which are within the FVRD, and Lions Bay and Bowen Island, which are within the GVRD

Social organizations, such as the Lions Club and Rotary International, have also formed stamp collecting groups specific to those stamps that are issued from many countries worldwide that display the organization's logo.

Devlin and Emmerich gave the rights to the franchise to MGM when they were working on their 1996 film Independence Day ( the rights to the Stargate film are currently owned by StudioCanal, with Lions Gate Entertainment handling most distribution in terms of international theatrical and worldwide home video releases ); however, MGM retains the domestic television rights.

Lions are opportunistic hunters and may occasionally take young or infirm individuals, but they usually concentrate on larger prey such as the gemsbok.

Lions are unusually social compared to other cats.

Lions are apex and keystone predators, although they scavenge as opportunity allows.

Lions from Tsavo in eastern Kenya are much closer genetically to lions in Transvaal ( South Africa ), than to those in the Aberdare Range in western Kenya.

In 1931, Lions Clubs International began a program promoting the use of white canes for people who are blind.

Lions are occasionally successful in climbing trees and fetching leopard kills.

New roads are opened, including the way of King Ferdinand ( now Via Vittorio Emanuele ), in 1842 the Bridge of Lions is erected near the old Roman bridge Arena ; installed gas lighting at night.

There are a number of Service Clubs in Lewes of which one is the Lewes Lions Club which is a member of Lions Clubs International, the largest Service Organisation in the world.

The Cheyenne Botanic Gardens ( 9 acres, 3. 6 ha ) are located in Lions Park in Cheyenne, Wyoming, with an associated High Plains Arboretum located five miles ( 8 km ) northwest of Cheyenne at an elevation of.

On their 1950 tour of New Zealand and Australia they also adopted the nickname British Lions, first used by British and South African journalists on the 1924 South African tour, after the lion emblem on their ties, the emblem on their jerseys having been dropped in favour of the four-quartered badge with the symbols of the four represented unions.

To avoid the ambiguity of the term British, and to more emphatically associate the team's identity with both the United Kingdom and Ireland, from the 2001 tour of Australia the name British and Irish Lions has been used.

For the 2005 tour to New Zealand the Lions management commissioned a song, " The Power of Four ", although it met with little support amongst Lions fans at the matches and was not used on the 2009 Tour.

For more than half a century the Lions have been synonymous with the red jersey that sports the amalgamated crests of the four unions.

It is the 1924 tour that is credited as being the first in which the team were referred to as " the Lions ", the irony being that it was on this tour that the single lion-rampant crest was replaced with the forerunner of the four-quartered badge with the symbols of the four represented unions, that is still worn today.

The New Zealand side, by then already synonymous with the appellation " All Blacks ", had an all black kit that clashed with the Lions ' blue.

In 1927 a short nine-game series took place in Argentina, with the Lions winning all nine encounters ; the tour did however become a financial success for Argentine rugby.

In 1955 the Lions toured South Africa and left with another imposing record, one draw and 19 wins from the 25 fixtures.

The management of the Lions concluded that the Springboks dominated their opponents with physical aggression.

The Lions decided " to get their retaliation in first " with the infamous " 99 call ".

The tour to South Africa in 1997 was a success for the Lions, who completed the tour with only two losses.

The Lions faced the World Cup winners South Africa, with Ian McGeechan leading a coaching team including Warren Gatland, Shaun Edwards and Rob Howley.

In a break with tradition, a " home " fixture against Argentina took place at Millennium Stadium in Cardiff on 23 May 2005, before the Lions went to New Zealand.

Room 6-Pair of Lamassu | Human Headed Winged Lions and Reliefs from Nimrud with The Gates of Balawat

Matthews, who was voted " Player of the Century " in 2000, played his entire career with Hawthorn and brought many of the Hawthorn disciplines to the Lions.

It was an important way of connecting with Melbourne-based Lions fans, many of whom had previously supported Fitzroy, and of winning over disaffected Fitzroy fans who had not started supporting the Brisbane Lions post-merger by honouring the history of the club.

The 1952 and 1953 seasons followed a similar pattern, with Cleveland reaching the championship game but losing both times to the Detroit Lions.

The team finished 11-1 in 1953, and narrowly lost the championship game to the Lions by a score of 17-16 on a 33-yard Bobby Layne touchdown pass to Jim Doran with just over two minutes left.

After trying it out in training camp, Brown used the helmet to call in plays during a September 15 pre-season game against the Lions with Ratterman behind center.

These jerseys were white, with a single bold red stripe on the sleeves and chest, and a uniquely-styled white Old English " D " ( a Detroit sports tradition, but formerly used by the Wings, Detroit Lions, and the University of Detroit Titans ) centered on the chest stripe, but not to be confused with the Old English " D " used by the Detroit Tigers.