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 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.

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.

Despite having lost the test series to South Africa by game three, the Lions won the final test.

The Lions won the opening four fixtures before losing to Otago and Southland, but succeeded in holding the All Blacks to a nine-all draw.

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

The Lions easily won both tests against Australia and lost the first three tests against the All Blacks, but did find victory ( 9 – 6 ) in the final test.

The Lions would only lose a single match on the rest of the tour, and won the test series against New Zealand, winning and drawing the last two games, to take the series two wins to one.

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.

The tour was very successful for the Lions, who won all eight non-tests and won the test series against Australia, two to one.

The Lions won the test series 2 – 1.

The Lions ' 2005 tour to New Zealand, coached by 2003 England world cup winning coach Clive Woodward, won all seven games against provincial teams however suffered heavy defeats in all three tests and were narrowly defeated by the New Zealand Maori team.

The Lions won the third Test 28 – 9 at Ellis Park, and the series finished 2 – 1 to South Africa.

Lions utility player Shaun Hart won the Norm Smith Medal as best on ground in the Grand Final.

In 2002, the Lions won back-to-back Premierships when they defeated Collingwood 9. 12. 66 to 10. 1

In 2012 the Lions won the Northern Conference and overall NEAFL premierships.

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.

Both the Lions and Browns won NFL championships before the Super Bowl era.

In advertising the team has also won all the major awards including Cannes Lions, British Television Advertising Awards, Clios, D & AD and many more.

House of Leaves, Danielewski's innovative first novel, has continued to gain a global cult following and won numerous awards, including the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award.

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

The Ponder Lions also won the 2A state title in 2001 behind championship game MVP Lance Boxell.

The Lions won the 3A state championship in 1990 and were ranked number 1 all year.

Vernon High School's first team state championship came in the 1984-1985 season as the Lady Lions won the 3A girls basketball state title.

During the game, in which he played in the centre of midfield, he also set up a scoring chance for Darren Bent as the Young Lions won 2 – 0.

The Lions generally select international players ; they can pick uncapped players available to one of the four unions, but in years this has rarely occurred.

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.

It is the 1924 tour that is credited as being the first in which the team were referred to as " the Lions ", the irony being that it was on this tour that the single lion-rampant crest was replaced with the forerunner of the four-quartered badge with the symbols of the four represented unions, that is still worn today.

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.

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.

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 ).

The trophy has been broken on four other occasions: in 1978, when it was dropped by celebrating Edmonton Eskimos players ; in 1987, when an Eskimos ' player sat on it ; in 1993, when Edmonton's Blake Dermott head-butted it ; and finally in 2006, when the trophy broke away from its base as the BC Lions celebrated their victory.

Detroit, Michigan had four early teams in the National Football League before the Detroit Lions.

As of 2011 the BC Lions Football Club Executive Committee consisted of four people: David Braley, Owner, BC Lions Football Club-Governor, CFL ; Dennis Skulsky, President & CEO-Alternate Governor, CFL ; Wally Buono, General Manager & Vice President, Football Operations, Alternate Governor, CFL ; and George Chayka, Vice President, Business.

In the trade, the Lions got quarterback Joe Kapp in the deal in exchange while four Lions ' players were sent to the Stampeders.

In 1888, the Home Nations combined to form what is today called the British and Irish Lions, who now tour every four years to face a Southern Hemisphere team.

The Muslim Quarter (, Hārat al-Muslimīn ) is the largest and most populous of the four quarters and is situated in the northeastern corner of the Old City, extending from the Lions ' Gate in the east, along the northern wall of the Temple Mount in the south, to the Damascus Gate route in the west.

Matthews guided the Lions to four consecutive grand finals, including triumphs over Collingwood in 2002 and 2003, and losing to Port Adelaide in 2004.

Opened in 2005, Lions of the Serengeti is home to a pride of African Lions, a male named Spike, two females named Mashaka-Lia and Kachanga, and four younger lions named Kea, Kato, Toto and Neo, which are all the offspring of Spike and Mashaka.

The only DVD release to date has been the show's second season ( titled as Missing: Season 2 ) as a four disc set from Lions Gate Home Entertainment on January 24, 2006.