The Lions decided to paint the cane white to make it more visible.

Begun by the Lions Club in 1988, the family members thought about starting an Octoberfest, but decided that since the Lions were known for selling cider in the Loyal Oak area of the City, that a Cider Festival would best suit the residents of that area.

Even though the franchise is based in Vancouver and the " Lions " name was based on a local landmark and legend, Annis Stukus decided to reject the idea of naming the team as the Vancouver Lions.

Lions management had decided that the Springboks dominated their opponents with physical aggression, so decided " to get their retaliation in first ".

Another previously unknown group calling itself the Lions of Al-Mufridun also has decided to claim credit for the Madrid attack, perhaps attempting to copy Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades.

The management of the Lions concluded that the Springboks dominated their opponents with physical aggression, and so decided to match fire with fire.

If the South Africans resorted to foul play then the Lions decided " to get their retaliation in first.

When the British Lions tour ended, Johnston, together with Tom Crean, decided to stay on in South Africa.

After a second volume, Unfinished Music No. 2: Life With The Lions appeared in the spring of 1969, Lennon and Ono decided that all of their future endeavors would be credited to the Plastic Ono Band.

Undaunted, Rozelle decided to experiment with the concept of playing on Monday night, scheduling the Green Bay Packers and Detroit Lions for a game on September 28, 1964.

On occasion ( and regularly during preseason games ), WKBD produced broadcasts of Detroit Lions football games, as well as Detroit Pistons basketball games, until the late 1980s when the Pistons decided to produce and distribute the games itself, with WKBD responsible for advertising.

It is unsure when the union decided to switch over to a white jersey with a red hoop with black shorts and socks. There is also a school of thought that South African team Transvaal, now the Golden Lions Super 14 team, adopted the famous Kilmarnock strip of white top with red hoop as a Kilmarnock member, Alex Frew, captained them when they beat The British Isles touring team in 1903.

Leyland, in particular, thought differently, and with the Lion becoming the best-selling single deck bus and coach in Britain, the " long Lion " from early 1926 proving particularly successful, almost 3, 000 Lions and Lionesses ( which differed only in driving position ) sold by the end of the L-series three-year run, returning Leyland to profitability after catastrophic losses in the early 1920s Leyland's chairman Henry Spurrier ( the second ) decided to recruit design talent to give Leyland not just a temporary advantage but long-term technical and sales supremacy.

The Four Home Unions committee which organises Lions tours decided to go ahead with the planned tour, despite this opposition, in November 1979 and the rugby unions of England ( RFU ), Ireland ( IRFU ), Scotland ( SRU ) and Wales ( WRU ) all approved the tour by January 1980.

Hamilton won the 51st Grey Cup with a 21 – 10 victory, but the following year, the Lions would get their revenge.

# Darrell tries to get No Focus picked up by radio only to find out it is similar to Dead Lions song Psychosis.

The band get invited to a Dead Lions gig and to join them as a support act.

# The band want out of supporting Dead Lions but can't get out of their contract.

He once gave a speech called " Prelude to Hell " to a local Lions Club about what it would be like for a typical American city to get nuked as a result of " those mighty, terrible, pointless conflicts that the modern state inevitably creates.

It turned out that the Detroit Lions ' owner paid him $ 200 to " get his teeth fixed " and turn down other teams proposals.

After a scoreless third quarter, the Lions finally managed to get a touchdown when lineman Lamar Campbell blocked a 31-yard field goal attempt by Conway and Ron Rice returned the ball 94-yards for a touchdown with 9: 23 left in regulation.

However, they were unable to get a lease due to pressure from the Lions.

More of the same came from Wada in his second outing against the Saitama Seibu Lions, as he gave up four runs on five hits in five innings, but he managed to get the win.

In 2000, the Alouettes would finally get to play in the 88th Grey Cup but lost to the BC Lions, 28-26.

Originally, poorly organised Lions teams regularly suffered defeat at the hands of their hosts, but by 1955 the tourists took the matches seriously enough to obtain a 2 – 2 draw in South Africa.

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.

Although the lion had been dropped from the jersey, the players had worn the lion motif on their ties as they arrived in South Africa, which led the press and public referring to them as " the Lions ".

The Lions won all of their games that did not have test status except for the matches against Auckland, Wellington and Canterbury ; they did however lose three of their four test matches against the All Blacks, winning the first test 6 – 3 ..

In 1936 the Lions visited Argentina for the second time, winning all ten of their matches and only conceding nine points in the whole tour.

Two years later the Lions toured in South Africa, winning more than half of their normal matches.

The Lions won all their games in Australia except for their final fixture against a New South Wales XV in Newcastle.

The 1959 tour to Australia and New Zealand marked once again a very successful tour for the Lions, who only lost six of their 35 fixtures.

The 1962 tour to South Africa saw the Lions still win 16 of their 25 games, but did not fare well against the Springboks, losing three of the four tests.

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

The 1968 tour of South Africa saw the Lions win 15 of their 16 provincial matches, but the team actually lost three tests against the Springboks and drew one.

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

In August 1977 the British Lions made a stopover in Fiji on the way home from their tour of New Zealand.

The Lions, and their predecessor teams, have often played games against other nearby countries on tour.

In their first year in the AFL the Lions made the finals, finishing in eighth position after being defeated by the St Kilda Football Club in a Qualifying Final.

The Browns finished 8 – 4 in 1952, but lost that year's championship game 17-7 after a muffed punt, several Lions defensive stands and a 67-yard touchdown run by Doak Walker scuttled their chances.

The Browns, who lost the last game of the regular season to the Lions only a week before, won their second NFL crown 56 – 10.

In 1994, every NFL team wore throwback jerseys, and the Lions ' were similar to the jerseys used during their 1935 championship season.

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.

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.