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 ..

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.

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

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.

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 Kountze Lions ' Varsity Basketball Team has brought home State titles, including the years of: 1970, 2004, 2005, and 2007 in both 2A & 3A of UIL standings.

Vernon High School's football team, the Vernon Lions, were one of the strongest programs in the 3A division until recently.

Blanchard High School is home to " The Lions " football team ( class 3A.

The annual Lions Club Championship Rodeo is a three-day event every June, recognized as the longest continuous running rodeo in the state where over 15, 000 famous rodeo hot dogs are consumed each year.

The 2008 Running Lions finished third in the state in cross country.

The 2009 Running Lions boys team also finished third in the state in cross country.

Port Lions ( Masiqsiraq in Alutiiq ) is a city located on Kodiak Island in the Kodiak Island Borough of the U. S. state of Alaska.

The Cracklin ' Festival started in 1986 by the Port Barre Lions Club and is a huge event recognized by the state of Louisiana.

The Lions have been state champions in boys ' basketball, boys ' soccer, girls ' volleyball, and boys ' and girls ' tennis.

Doug Boxell, who coached the Lions to the 2001, 2008, and 2009 state titles, is currently the Men's Head Coach at the University of the Ozarks.

Recently the Lions have finished as semi-finalists in 2003 and 2006, and were ranked in top 10 for the 2007 season when they lost in a close game in the state quarter-finals to Snyder.

He played for the Detroit Lions and later served from 1967-1971 as the seventh Lieutenant Governor of his home state during the administration of Governor Winthrop Rockefeller.

The Silverdome hosted the Detroit Lions of the NFL ( 1975 – 2001 ), the Detroit Pistons of the NBA ( 1978 – 1988 ), the Michigan Panthers of the USFL ( 1983 – 1984 ), the Cherry Bowl, from 1984 – 1985, the Motor City Bowl, from 1997 – 2001, the MHSAA football state finals, from 1976 – 2004 and four first-round games during the 1994 FIFA World Cup.

As part of an ongoing, comprehensive study by his architecture class on urban renewal for the city of Pontiac, Davidson met with various city and state authorities including William Clay Ford, owner of the Detroit Lions, to discuss the possibility of a new stadium, made it a college class project to find a suitable site for a new stadium and even started his own weekly newspaper known as The Pontiac Times, to help promote his vision.

Supposedly presented as slaves by the Portuguese to the local Prince, Nawab of Junagadh, the Siddis also live around Gir Forest National Park and Wildlife Sanctuary, the last refuge in the world of the almost extinct Asiatic Lions, in Junagadh a district of the state of Gujarat, India.

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.

Due to Millen's history with the Detroit Lions, he is a very disliked figure in the state of Michigan.

Since then she has led the Lady Mountain Lions to seven more state titles.

In high school, Jones won the PIAA championship as a member of the Greensburg-Salem Golden Lions wrestling team and was a two-time state champion.

Pearl River won four MACJC state championships during the 2003-2004 school year in football, men's basketball under head coach Richard Mathis, women's soccer under former head coach Adam Breerwood, who is now Dean of Student Services at PRCC ; and baseball under former head coach Jay Artigues, who is now head coach of the Southeastern Louisiana Lions.

In November 1981, undefeated Borah regained the state title with a 30 – 13 win over Boise in the Lions ' closest game of the year ( 17 points ).

Hamilton has a track and field team of one member, a golf team ( Grades 7-12 ), football team ( Lions ), basketball team, and softball team ( Lady Lions ), which recently won the state championship.

Since then, the Golden Lions have reached the playoffs nearly every year, reaching the state quarterfinals in 2003, 2009, and 2011 and the state semifinals in 2006.