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.

To avoid the ambiguity of the term British, and to more emphatically associate the team's identity with both the United Kingdom and Ireland, from the 2001 tour of Australia the name British and Irish Lions has been used.

For the 2005 tour to New Zealand the Lions management commissioned a song, " The Power of Four ", although it met with little support amongst Lions fans at the matches and was not used on the 2009 Tour.

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.

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

In 1927 a short nine-game series took place in Argentina, with the Lions winning all nine encounters ; the tour did however become a financial success for Argentine rugby.

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.

The Lions performed well in the remaining All Black tests though they lost all three, the team did not lose another non-test in the New Zealand leg of the tour.

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.

For the 1966 tour to Australia and New Zealand John Robins became the first Lions Coach, and the trip started off very well for the Lions, who stormed through Australia, winning five non-tests and drawing one ; and most notably defeating Australia in two tests as well.

The Lions however experienced mixed results during the New Zealand leg of the tour, as well as losing all of the tests against the All Blacks.

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 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 1977 tour to New Zealand saw the Lions drop only one non-test out of 21 games, a loss to a Universities side.

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

A tour to South Africa by the Lions was anticipated in 1986.

However, the invitation for the Lions to tour South Africa was never accepted because of controversy surrounding Apartheid.

The Lions tour to Australia in 1989 was a short affair, being only 12 matches in total.

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

In 1949 the Four Home Unions combined formally to create a Tours Committee and for the first time, every player of the 1950 Lions squad was an international before the New Zealand series.

The 1950s proved a golden age for Lions rugby, although only in the 1970s did style begin to match the substance of victory in New Zealand and South Africa.

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

After a seemingly long absence from New Zealand, the Lions returned in 1930 to some success.

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

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.

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.

The Lions tour three southern-hemisphere nations ; Australia, South Africa and New Zealand.

The most recent tour visited South Africa in May – July 2009, and before that the Lions toured New Zealand in 2005.

In a break with tradition, a " home " fixture against Argentina took place at Millennium Stadium in Cardiff on 23 May 2005, before the Lions went to New Zealand.

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.

* 1939 – The Columbia Lions and the Princeton Tigers play in the United States ' first televised sporting event, a collegiate baseball game in New York City.

Five years later two important overseas tours took place ; a British Isles team visited Australia and New Zealand — although a private venture, it laid the foundations for future British and Irish Lions tours ; and the 1888 New Zealand Native team brought the first overseas team to British spectators.

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

* Rodney Holman, former tight end for Cincinnati Bengals ( 1982 – 1992 ) and Detroit Lions ( 1993 – 1995 )

Other roles during this period that displayed the actor's wide range included that of a crew chief in Days of Thunder ( 1990 ), a retiring cop in Falling Down ( 1992 ), an Hispanic barber in Wrestling Ernest Hemingway ( 1993 ), a New York tabloid editor in The Paper ( 1994 ), a rural doctor in Phenomenon ( 1996 ), an abusive father in 1996's Slingblade, an astronaut in Deep Impact ( 1998 ), a trail boss in Open Range ( 2003 ), a soccer coach in the comedy Kicking & Screaming, an old free spirit in Secondhand Lions ( 2003 ), a Las Vegas poker champion in Lucky You and a New York police chief in We Own the Night ( both 2007 ).

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.

The nine games lost is a record in the CFL after the 1993 Ottawa Rough Riders had seven such losses during their season and when the BC Lions also had seven of these losses in 1996.

He was also called up to the 1993 Lions tour as a replacement, playing in two tests.

* 1993: posthumously named a Melvin Jones Fellow of Lions Clubs International.

* Damon Allen – player ( QB ), 2012 ( Edmonton Eskimos 1985 – 88, 1993 – 94 ; Ottawa Rough Riders 1989 – 91 ; Hamilton Tiger-Cats 1992 ; Memphis Mad Dogs 1995 ; BC Lions 1996 – 2002 ; Toronto Argonauts 2003 – 2007 ).

* Less Browne – player ( DB ), 2002 ( Hamilton Tiger-Cats 1984 – 88 ; Winnipeg Blue Bombers 1989 – 91 ; Ottawa Rough Riders 1992 ; BC Lions 1993 – 94 ).

* Tyrone Jones – player ( LB ), 2012 ( Winnipeg Blue Bombers 1983 – 87, 1989 – 1991 ; Saskatchewan Roughriders 1992 ; BC Lions 1993 ).

* Danny McManus – player ( QB ), 2011 ( Winnipeg Blue Bombers 1990 – 92 ; BC Lions 1993 – 95 ; Edmonton Eskimos 1996 – 97 ; Hamilton Tiger-Cats 1998 – 2005 ; Calgary Stampeders 2006 ).

* Governor's Victory Bell – The newest of the four trophies, the bell was created to commemorate the 1993 entrance of Penn State's Nittany Lions into the Big Ten.

In 1993 he was made Manager of the British Lions rugby union tour to New Zealand.

He travelled to New Zealand in 1993 with the Lions, playing in all three Tests ; though in this particular tour the Lions lost 2 matches to 1.

This tour followed the Lions ' 1993 tour to New Zealand and preceded their 2001 tour to Australia.

In 2005 the British and Irish Lions ( the Lions ) rugby union team toured New Zealand for the first time since 1993, playing 7 tour matches against first and second division clubs from the National Provincial Championship series, 1 tour match against the national New Zealand Māori representative team, and 3 official test matches against the New Zealand All Blacks ( the All Blacks ).

Dooley also went on the 1993 British Lions tour to New Zealand, but left the tour to return home for the funeral of his father.

Other films and TV shows featuring greasers include: Crime in the Streets ( 1956 ), The Delinquents ( 1957 ), 77 Sunset Strip ( 1958 ), The Young Savages ( 1961 ), Two-Lane Blacktop ( 1971 ), American Graffiti ( 1973 ), Badlands ( 1973 ), Happy Days ( 1974 – 1984 ), The Lords of Flatbush ( 1974 ), Grease ( 1978 ), The Wanderers ( 1979 ), Grease 2 ( 1982 ), The Loveless ( 1982 ), The Outsiders ( 1983 ) Eddie and the Cruisers ( 1983 ), Rumble Fish ( 1983 ), Streets of Fire ( 1984 ), Tuff Turf ( 1985 ), Stand By Me ( 1986 ), La Bamba ( 1987 ), Full House ( 1987 – 1995 ), Last Exit to Brooklyn ( 1989 ), Cry-Baby ( 1990 ), This Boy's Life ( 1993 ), Roadracers ( 1994 ), Deuces Wild ( 2002 ), Secondhand Lions ( 2003 ), the children's cartoon Johnny Bravo, the video game Bully ( 2006 ), Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ( 2008 ), Fallout 3 ( 2008 ), Mafia II ( 2010 ) and Fallout: New Vegas ( 2010 ), The Violent Kind ( 2010 ),

The Mets reached the finals again in 1990 and 1993, losing both times to the Ponce Lions.

The Lions have made the playoffs every year except three, won their district title 17 times, won the New Mexico AA State Championships in 1993, 1996, 1998, 2007, and 2010 and made a total of 11 State Finals appearances.

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.

* Long, Asphodel P., In A Chariot Drawn By Lions, Crossing Press, 1993.

Swilling was traded to the Detroit Lions in 1993 for draft picks.