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Great Britain also entered a team at the Olympics Games in 1900 and in 1908, but they were organised separately from the Lions.
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.
Lions may have also preyed on the chimpanzees at Mahale Mountains National Park, where at least four chimpanzees could have fallen prey to them.
The Lions also wore ' 50s-style jerseys during their traditional Thanksgiving Day games from 2001 to 2004 as the NFL encouraged teams to wear throwback jerseys on Thanksgiving Day.
The other two wins were against eventual runners-up Sydney ( in a match where Matthew Lloyd flaunted with the Sydney defence, kicking eight goals ( six of which came in the opening quarter ) and being awarded best-on-ground in a game Essendon rightfully deserved to win ) and against the team that denied them the 2001 Premiership, the Brisbane Lions ( who also were in a rebuilding phrase ).
Although the white jerseys of the Minnesota Vikings at the time also had a similar striping pattern and continued as such ( as well as the throwbacks the New England Patriots wore in the Thanksgiving game against the Detroit Lions in 2002, though the Patriots later wore the same throwbacks in 2009 with truncated stripes and in 2010 became their official alternate uniform ), the Colts and most college teams with this striping pattern did not make this adjustment.
In the years 1953 – 66 the Colts played in the NFL Western Conference ( also known as division ), but were never known to have a significant rivalry with any of the other franchises in that alignment, seeing as they were the eastern-most team and the rest of the division included the Great Lakes franchises Green Bay, Detroit Lions, Chicago Bears, and after 1961, the Minnesota Vikings.
Naming of the Club is also like that of the Lions Club.
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.
In 2011 the Padthaway Netball Club, also called the Lions, has more than seven different teams for netball.
The Löwenburg (" Lions Castle ") is a replica of a medieval castle, also built during the reign of Wilhelm IX.
The Lions Eye Bank also maintains a waitlist of patients who require corneal graft operations.
In advertising the team has also won all the major awards including Cannes Lions, British Television Advertising Awards, Clios, D & AD and many more.
She is also the subject of Betty King's 1974 biographical novel Margaret of Anjou, Alan Savage's 1994 novel Queen of Lions, Anne Powers ' historical romance The Royal Consorts, and Susan Higginbotham's 2011 novel The Queen of Last Hopes.
Holloway was also the architect of the Baroque Lions building on West Quay, constructed around 1730.
Caine also starred in Austin Powers in Goldmember ( 2002 ) as Austin's father and in 2003 he co-starred with Robert Duvall in Secondhand Lions.
Paramount would also distribute theatrically certain releases that might have commercial appeal ( such as Bob Roberts, though video rights to that film were owned by Live Entertainment – which is now Lions Gate Entertainment ).
* The Terrace of the Lions also dedicated to Apollo by the people of Naxos shortly before 600 BC, had originally nine to twelve squatting, snarling marble guardian lions along the Sacred Way ; one is inserted over the main gate to the Venetian Arsenal.
Among these are Basketball Hall of Fame members Tex Winter, who coached the Ponce Lions in the early 1950s, Red Holzman, who also coached Ponce in the 1960s, and Phil Jackson, who coached Quebradillas and Isabela in the late 1980s.
* 87 Werner ( Verne ) Hippler, a German-born tight end who played 11 years in the NFL Europa League and has also been on the practice squads of the San Diego Chargers and Detroit Lions.
The city also boasts one of Ireland's two swimming pools, at The University of Limerick Sports Arena, as well as one of Ireland's top basketball teams, the Limerick Lions, whose home is also at the world class facilities on the University Campus.
During McNamee's tenure, he had drawn criticisms for holidaying in Wimbledon to compete in a legends match and after his sacking an attempt to lure Brisbane Lions star Jonathan Brown was also revealed.
The couple have four children: John David ( b. July 28, 1984 ), who signed a football contract with the St. Louis Rams in May 2006 and is currently playing with the Sacramento Mountain Lions of the United Football League ( John David also played college football at Morehouse ); Katia ( b. November 27, 1987 ), who graduated from Yale University with a Bachelors of Arts in 2010 ; and twins Olivia and Malcolm ( b. April 10, 1991 ) ( Malcolm attends the University of Pennsylvania ).

Lions and played
The Lions, and their predecessor teams, have often played games against other nearby countries on tour.
The tradition is often carried out at other sporting events, both professional or amateur, and even sometimes at non-sporting events where the anthem is played, throughout the Baltimore / Washington area and beyond, notably at Baltimore Ravens, Washington Capitals, Georgetown Hoyas, Maryland Terrapins, Virginia Cavaliers, Virginia Tech Hokies, West Virginia Mountaineers, Penn State Nittany Lions and Aberdeen Ironbirds games.
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.
* Alastair Lynch – Australian Rules Footballer who played 306 game for Fitzroy, Brisbane Bears and the Brisbane Lions, including the 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004 Grand Finals
Since then, the Alouettes have played the remaining team in the league, the BC Lions.
On October 11, 1964 the Vikings played the Detroit Lions at Metropolitan Stadium and the Lions mistakenly only brought their white jerseys to Minnesota.
Lloyd Carr, former head coach at the University of Michigan, former NFL coach Jerry Glanville, and Steve Mariucci, former head coach of the Detroit Lions, played football for NMU, and current Michigan State coach Tom Izzo played basketball at NMU.
The Super Bowl did return to Michigan for Super Bowl XL but that game was played at Ford Field in Detroit, which by 2006 had replaced the Pontiac Silverdome as the home site for the Detroit Lions.
Her brother, Ben Davis, played defensive back for the Cleveland Browns and Detroit Lions in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Displeased with the team's location in downtown Detroit, Davidson moved them to the suburb of Pontiac in 1978, where they played in the mammoth Silverdome, a structure built for professional football ( and the home of the Detroit Lions at the time ).
* Terrence Holt a free agent of American football for the National Football League at the position of Safety, formerly played for NC State and Detroit Lions.
He attended Regent House Grammar School in the town and played rugby for Ireland and for the Lions in the 1938 British Lions tour to South Africa.
* Clyde Scott born in Smackover went to the NFL and played football for the Detroit Lions and is in the College Football hall of fame.
* Antwan Lake, NFL defensive end who has played with the Detroit Lions, Atlanta Falcons, and New Orleans Saints
* Adam Taliaferro ( born 1982 ), played on the Penn State Nittany Lions football team.
* George Jamison ( born 1962 ), NFL linebacker who played for the Detroit Lions.
* Lou Creekmur ( 1927 – 2009 ), Woodbridge HS graduate who played in the NFL for the Detroit Lions, and was inducted into the Football Hall of Fame.
And the Orient Point Inn, which opened in 1796, played host to President Grover Cleveland, Walt Whitman, orator Daniel Webster, actress Sarah Bernhardt and James Fenimore Cooper, who wrote " Sea Lions ," set in Orient.

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