As the Lions do not represent a single nation-state, they do not have a national anthem.

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

This tour may have marked the occasion when the team first became known 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 ..

With the announcement of the 2013 schedule and home nation tours to other countries in non-Lions Tour years, it looks extremely unlikely that the British and Irish Lions will have the opportunity to tour Argentina before the 2017 tour of New Zealand.

Following the performances of the Canadian, American and Argentine teams at the 2011 Rugby World Cup, some commentators have suggested the Lions conduct a shortened tour the Americas in the future.

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

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 have won four NFL Championships, the last in 1957, giving the club the second-longest NFL championship drought behind the Arizona Cardinals.

Aside from a brief change to maroon in 1948 instituted by then head coach Bo McMillin ( influenced by his years as coach at Indiana ), the Lions uniforms have basically remained the same since the team debuted in 1930.

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.

Since then, the Alouettes have played the remaining team in the league, the BC Lions.

Due to the hierarchical nature of Lions Clubs International, members have the opportunity to advance from a local club to an office at the zone, district, multiple district and international levels.

Lions Clubs have since spread across the globe and have a current membership roster of 1, 368, 683 members world-wide.

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.

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.

Any future Super Bowl that would have such a combination would have to have the Detroit Lions playing either the Cleveland Browns, Houston Texans, or Jacksonville Jaguars in the game.

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

The Lions did however lose the first three tests to South Africa, winning the last one, though the series had already been won by the Springboks.

In contrast, the Fitzroy Lions, a foundation club of the VFL / AFL, had been among the dregs of the league for the better part of the last four decades.

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 shade was chosen by Cy Huston, the Lions first vice president and general manager, and of the choice, he said: " They had me looking at so many blues I am blue in the face ," Huston said about the selection.

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.

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.

In the NFC, Dallas ' first opponent in the playoffs was the Green Bay Packers, who were coming off a thrilling 28-24 win over the Detroit Lions in the wildcard round in which quarterback Brett Favre had thrown the winning touchdown pass to Sterling Sharpe with only 55 seconds left in the game.

Lions had trouble keeping up with its popularity, and by 1978 it was available only from Bell Labs.

Harry C. Meek, member of Lions Clubs International, claimed that he had first the idea for Father's Day in 1915.

For example, only the Charlotte Hornets had the right to offer contracts to players from the Buffalo Bills, Baltimore Colts, and Detroit Lions, and only the Chicago Winds could offer contracts to players from the Pittsburgh Steelers, New York Jets, and Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League.

As part of the Norris Division, Tampa Bay had rivalries with teams in Chicago, Detroit, and Minnesota, similar to how the NFL's Buccaneers were in the same division as the Bears, Lions, and Vikings.

* 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.

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.

This was followed up with a 10-point win over the Brisbane Lions at the Gabba where the Demons had not won since 2006.

New Zealand Sea Lion | New Zealand ( Hooker's ) Sea Lions. By the 21st century the islands had become its primary breeding location.

Two weeks later, one day after the Cowboys ' 27-17 loss to the Detroit Lions, a team that had come into the game tied with the Chiefs, Giants and Rams for the worst record in the NFL, Schramm said on his radio show " There's an old saying, " If the teacher doesn't teach, the student doesn't learn ".

In the 90 ’ s the team had an average decade with two more championships in 1995 and 1996 Both against the Ponce Lions.

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

Many sports writers predicted that the NFC Championship Game would be much closer than the Redskins ' win over the Lions in the season opening game because Detroit's future hall of fame running back Barry Sanders did not play in it due to injury.

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.

Carlton released much of this material on video and DVD via its own label in the UK, and via A & E Home Video, Acorn Media, MGM Home Entertainment, and Lions Gate Home Entertainment in the USA.

In 1938, the Lions Gate Bridge was completed and took away much business from the ferries, however, there was an increased demand with the onset of World War II because of the shipbuilding boom in North Vancouver.

In spite of the fact that Hall was a staunch Oldham Athletic fan, during the 1957 / 58 English football season, Hall took Lenny to The Den which was then the home of Millwall Football Club and allowed Lenny to pose with his " Fellow Lions " for publicity shots, much to the delight of all present in the ground.

The lucky few will bring home the much prized Junonia, Scotch Bonnet or Lions Paw.

Also in 2008 the Rugby Football League chose to abandon the traditional English lion on the badge in favour of a much simpler shield and cross design, nevertheless the team will still be known as " The Lions ".

Despite being only 22, he was selected for the 1993 British Lions tour to New Zealand, where he impressed so much that he was selected for the second and third tests instead of then-England captain Will Carling.

The Wallabies won the Test series 2-1, but it was very much a game of two halves, as the Lions had convincingly won the first Test and were in the driving seat at half-time during the second Test in Melbourne.

Additionally, the Lions dropped their much criticized black alternates in favor of the popular 1940's and 1950s throwbacks ( plain blue jersey, silver pants and helmets ) in 2008.

But the qualities which served him best on the difficult tour of New Zealand as captain of the 1966 Lions were his commitment and willingness which did so much to sustain a struggling tour party.

WKBD was Detroit's first FOX affiliate, from 1986-1994 ( for much of the 1994 NFL season, WKBD was the primary station for the Lions ; the team's last game on WKBD was the December 10 game at the New York Jets, with the games moving back to WJBK the next week ).

Famed as much for his great hands and line-breaking ability as his tactical skills and rapier boot, Gibson scored 112 Test points ( 9 tries, 16 penalties, 7 conversions and 6 drop goals ) for Ireland in a career that also saw him tour five times with the British & Irish Lions.

Merrett held coaching ambitions for much of his career, and on his retirement at the end of the 1996 season, he was immediately recruited by his coach John Northey to fill an assistant coaching role at the Brisbane Lions ( formed in 1996 from a merger between the Bears and the Fitzroy Football Club ).

The War of the Lions is fought between Larg and his principal political rival, Duke Goltanna, and it also forms much of the backdrop for the story of Final Fantasy Tactics.

The War of the Lions is fought between Goltanna and his principal political rival, Duke Larg, and it also forms much of the backdrop for the story of Final Fantasy Tactics.

* Prof. Jose David Lapuz is a much sought-after Speaker and Lecturer of such civic clubs and professional organizations as Rotary Clubs, Lions, Jaycees, Public School Teachers's Association, Faculty Clubs, Social Action Clubs, YMCA, YWCA, Management Association, International Clubs, Womens ' Groups, Student Organizations, etc, etc.

The reasoning for the film's relative success, according to Steve Rothenberg, Lions Gate president of domestic distribution, is due to its targeted market appeal, " I believe that we're in all the right theaters ... I'm not sure there's much room for expansion.

He noted that with the departure of great team leaders and club legends like Nathan Buckley for Collingwood, Michael Voss for the Brisbane Lions and James Hird for Essendon, the AFL had lost much of its leadership, and did not hesitate to name Brett Kirk as one of the few who has taken the mantle of the league's most influential and consistent leaders, alongside players such as that of Brisbane's Jonathan Brown.