Since the 1970 NFL-AFL merger, league rules were changed to allow the Super Bowl home team to pick their choice of jersey.

Since 1985, the UMC has been exploring a possible merger with three historically African-American Methodist denominations: the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, and the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church.

Since the merger, they have made the playoffs 24 times, third most in the league.

Since the merger, the 2000s has been the decade with the fewest playoff berths for the franchise.

Since 2006, the Vikings have been known especially for their strong run defense (# 1 in the NFL in 2006, 2007, and 2008 ; they are the first NFL team to accomplish this since the AFL – NFL merger in 1970 ), anchored by the Williams Wall consisting of defensive tackle Kevin Williams and nose tackle Pat Williams ( no relation ).

Since its foundation in 1980 and merger with Alliance 90 after the German reunification, Kelly's party, now named Alliance ' 90 / The Greens, has become one of Europe's most important Green parties.

Since 2003, the city's borders have been coterminous with those of the county because of a city-county merger.

Since the merger, the black background has been replaced with green, to symbolize the new parent company.

Since Apple Inc's merger with NeXT in 1996, EOF has evolved into a fully integrated part of WebObjects, an application server also originally from NeXT.

Since the merger of the two categories in 1967, the academy has traditionally avoided giving out the award to contemporary films.

Since the merger into one singular category for color films in 1967, films set in modern times have won only twice, despite the majority of those nominated being contemporary.

Since the post merger Matsumoto's ( the new city of Matsumoto ) area is too big because the city now includes the mountainous areas, the data of the former city ( the old city of Matsumoto ) is listed on the right.

Since the merger the head of this major nature conservation area has been Andreas Pusch.

Since the merger of the communes of 1977, the small commune of Pironchamps was integrated into Farciennes.

Since the arms officially became obsolete after the merger, they were re-granted in 1974.

Since the merger of Age Concern England and Help the Aged, Age UK has taken over the mantle of the national face of Age in the UK, and several local organisations have also adopted the new name, many local organisations continue to operate as Age Concerns.

Since the merger with the rival American Football League ( AFL ) in 1970, it has been officially called the AFC – NFC Pro Bowl, matching the top players in the American Football Conference ( AFC ) against those in the National Football Conference ( NFC ).

Since 1974, Tipton has been part of the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, which was created by a merger of the former West Bromwich and Warley boroughs.

Since then several economists, media and shareholders have questioned the intentions of Arcelor in announcing its merger with Severstal due to a perceived opacity in the transaction.

Since the Total-Petrofina merger in 1999, all of FINA's former marketing assets and the Big Spring refinery have been owned by Texas-based Alon USA.

Since the merger, it forms a part of the University commonly known as Gløshaugen, after the geographical area in which it is situated.

Since the merger of Euronext and NYSE since 2006, now completed in 2007, this market is now a division of NYSE Euronext, named NYSE Alternext.

Since the Sprint Nextel merger the company determined that because Sprint's CDMA network was already 3G and going to EVDO ( broadband speeds ), and then EVDO Rev A, it would be redundant to keep upgrading the iDEN data network.

Since the merger, it has been claimed that the name change took place upon the merger, but the historical record to the contrary is clear.

* Since 2005 Major redevelopment and modernization of the station and surrounding area.

Since then the bridges have been restored to their original forms using as many of the remaining materials as possible, but the buildings surrounding the Ponte Vecchio have been rebuilt in a style combining the old with modern design.

Since 2002, most of the campus and surrounding city is covered by a wireless network.

Since sunspots are darker than the surrounding photosphere it might be expected that more sunspots would lead to less solar radiation and a decreased solar constant.

Since the defeat and expulsion of the ruling Kuomintang ROC government by the Communist Party of China from mainland China in 1949, the ROC government has controlled only Taiwan and its surrounding islands.

Since the time of Bussard's original proposal, it has been discovered that the region surrounding the sun has a much lower density of interstellar hydrogen than was believed at that time ( see Local Interstellar Cloud ).

Since then, most of the Hanford reactors have been entombed (" cocooned ") to allow the radioactive materials to decay, and the surrounding structures have been removed and buried.

Since it provides the graphical elements surrounding the area in which the engine paints documents, the term chrome is sometimes used to refer to it.

Since a large part of the original railway line is now submerged by the Vajiralongkorn Dam, and the surrounding terrain is mountainous, it would take extensive tunneling to reconnect Thailand with Burma by rail.

Since its opening, Langham Place and surrounding areas has become a popular night-time destination for both locals and tourists.

Since then, the locality has been intensively studied by scientists from throughout the world, yielding a constant flow of new discoveries and triggering an extensive scientific debate surrounding the interpretation of discoveries.

Since BRAC, and the relocation of the Human Resources Command ( HRC ) to Fort Knox, which is expected to have a net gain of about 5, 000 full-time civilian and permanent military personnel assigned to the base, creating a more stable population, and providing an economic boost to Radcliff and the surrounding areas.

Since Hillsdale County has county-wide school of choice, the local school district has many students from the surrounding areas.

Since Auburn has an agreement with the city of Manchester that the city and the surrounding towns can use Massabesic Lake as a water source, Manchester, Chester, Candia, Hooksett and Derry pay Auburn an estimated $ 3 million for Lake Massabesic.

Since then several million dollars have been spent rehabilitating and restoring the castle and surrounding structures.

Since the late 1990s an epidemic of prescription drug abuse has swept the town and surrounding areas.

Since then, there has been constant talk of reinstating service because of recent strong population growth in the surrounding area ; however, this has not materialized.

Since that time, the borough has grown in area as a result of annexation of the surrounding land, the largest annexation having taken place in 1953.

Since the hotel was a popular place to stay, eat and dance, Amherst Junction must have been a gathering center for many of the surrounding communities.

Since then, the town has extended to the surrounding countryside.

Since Expo 2000 bridges over the Oker in Brunswick and its surrounding area were artistically designed ; after 2004 this was carried out as part of the Okerlicht project.

Since Henry Hudson had claimed Hudson Bay, and the surrounding lands for England, English colonists had begun expanding their boundaries across what is now the Canadian north beyond the French-held territory of New France.

Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the main campus of the university and its surrounding streets have been the site for Tehran's Friday prayers.

Since 2000 prosperity has returned as large numbers of farms in the surrounding area were converted to dairy farms to take advantage of high prices for dairy produce.