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.

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.

The Lions also played a test against Canada on their way home, winning 19 to 8 in Toronto.

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.

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 ).