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 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.

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 other two wins were against eventual runners-up Sydney ( in a match where Matthew Lloyd flaunted with the Sydney defence, kicking eight goals ( six of which came in the opening quarter ) and being awarded best-on-ground in a game Essendon rightfully deserved to win ) and against the team that denied them the 2001 Premiership, the Brisbane Lions ( who also were in a rebuilding phrase ).

After crushing the Detroit Lions on opening day 45 – 0, they recorded 11 consecutive wins before suffering their first loss to the Dallas Cowboys 24 – 21.

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.

" In Canada itself, the royal couple took part in public events such as the opening of the Lions Gate Bridge in May 1939.

In the first game of the 2009 season against the Detroit Lions, Brees set a career-high and franchise-tying record with six touchdown passes, ( NFL record for opening week ) going 26 / 34 for 358 yards.

The Golden Lions won the opening round game against Winthrop and were awarded the # 16 seed in the South Region.

The Lions got off to a flying start beating Australia 20 – 16 in the opening game at Wembley, then hammering Fiji and South Africa in the remaining group games to finish top of group A.

On 30 May 2009, O ' Gara scored 22 points, including a try, in the opening match of the 2009 Lions tour to South Africa against the Royal XV, in a 25-37 win.

But the opening of the second road crossing, the Lions ' Gate Bridge in 1938 was a significant factor in making the North Shore more accessible.

The BC Lions took the opening kickoff and fashioned an impressive drive that started and ended with a Jason Clermont reception.

Grossman was criticized when he threw a game-ending interception against the Detroit Lions on opening day.

The season started positively, winning their opening game at home to Milton Keynes Lions, 63-46, but a hard season ensued for Raiders, who relied heavily on the scoring abilities of DeAntoine Beasley and Durham and the incredible blocking power of Morris, who set a BBL record with 12 blocks in a game against London Towers.

The film opened in 2, 035 theaters in the United States on September 19, 2003 and grossed $ 8, 190, 574 in its opening weekend, ranking # 5 at the box office behind Underworld, Secondhand Lions, The Fighting Temptations, and Once Upon a Time in Mexico.

During the early part of Millen's tenure ( 2001 – 2003 ), the Lions failed to win a road game for three years ( 0 – 24 ) before opening the season with a win at the Chicago Bears in 2004.

During the Lions ' opening game of the 2003 season, Drummond returned another punt 57 yards for a touchdown, also against the Arizona Cardinals, but became injured later in the season and missed a total of 10 games.

The Eagles responded by opening up with a 51-7 lead over the Lions.

In their season opening game, Washington beat the Lions 45-0.

With the Lions winning the opening test, and Australia coming back to win the second, the third game at Stadium Australia in Sydney was the decider and was refereed by New Zealander Paddy O ' Brien.

Without the injured Mike Teague for the opening test, the Lions suffered a 30-12 defeat in Sydney, their heaviest defeat by Australia.

The 2007 Penn State Nittany Lions football team kicks the ball off after scoring a touchdown in their season opening game

Without the injured England and Gloucester loose-forward Mike Teague for the opening test, the Lions suffered a 30-12 defeat in Sydney, their heaviest defeat by Australia.

As it turned out, the Lions never got the ball ; on the Bears opening drive, Chicago scored a field goal to win the game.

Lane's injury occurred after 55 seconds of the opening game and gave him the shortest career of any Lions tourist.