The Bengals returned to the playoffs again in 2009 in a season that included the franchise's first ever division sweep.

In what was a dramatic five game series, their NLDS victory over the Atlanta Braves was the franchise's first postseason series win since they went to the World Series in 1908, when they beat the Detroit Tigers in five games.

In his first season as head coach, Phillips and his coaching staff led the franchise to its best seasonal start ever, a conference-best 13 – 3 record, and the franchise's 16th NFC East championship title, the most of any team in that division.

The Colts, however, did receive eventual Hall of Fame running back Eric Dickerson as a result of a trade during the 1987 season and would go onto compile a 9 – 6 record, good enough to win the AFC East and advance to the postseason for the first time in the franchise's history in Indianapolis, where they would eventually lose to the Cleveland Browns.

In a classic game, the Colt overcame a 21 – 3 deficit at halftime and would go onto win the game 38 – 34 and earned a trip to Super Bowl XLI, the franchise's first Super Bowl appearance since 1970 and for the first time in Indianapolis.

A second wave of success came in the late 1980s and early 1990s, led by Kent Hrbek, Bert Blyleven, Frank Viola, and Kirby Puckett, winning the franchise's second and third World Series ( and first in Minnesota ).

On August 10, Nathan recorded his 255th save, passing Rick Aguilera for first place on the franchise's all-time saves list.

The team's uniforms were redesigned in 2006, the first significant change in the franchise's 46-year history.

The 2009 season was the team's most successful season, which culminated in the franchise's first league championship win against the Indianapolis Colts in Super Bowl XLIV.

In 2008, the Phillies clinched their second straight division title and defeated the Milwaukee Brewers in the Division Series to record the franchise's first post-season victory since winning the 1993 NLCS.

The Astros went on to lose all four games of the franchise's first World Series to the Chicago White Sox.

Released on December 1, 2010, Space Battleship Yamato is the franchise's first live-action film.

It was the franchise's first playoff appearance in 10 years.

In one of the biggest upsets in Super Bowl history, the 14-point underdog Patriots defeated the Rams by the score of 20 – 17, to win the franchise's first ever Super Bowl.

In the 2010 World Series, the franchise's first, the Rangers fell to the San Francisco Giants in five games.

Leading the A's to a four-game sweep over the San Francisco Giants and the franchise's first World Series title since 1974, Henderson hit. 474 with an. 895 slugging average ( including two triples and a homer ), while stealing three more bases.

The Rascals defeated the Traverse City Beach Bums in four games and won the franchise's second championship and first as the Rascals.

The 1987 – 88 Devils garnered the first winning record in the franchise's 14-year history.

The Penguins ' first general manager, Jack Riley opened the first preseason camp for the franchise in Brantford, Ontario on September 13, 1967, playing the franchise's first exhibition match in Brantford against the Philadelphia Flyers on September 23, 1967.

Despite the off-ice difficulties, Pittsburgh finished with a 56 – 21 – 7 record-the franchise's best regular season ever-winning the franchise's first ( and, as of 2012, only ) Presidents ' Trophy.

For the majority of the franchise's history the Cowboys played their home games at Texas Stadium.

The Doctor's TARDIS was for most of the franchise's history said to have been stolen from the Time Lords ' home planet, Gallifrey, where it was old, decommissioned and derelict ( and, in fact, in a museum ).

In the NBA Finals, they faced the Cinderella New York Knicks, who had made history by becoming the first ( and to this date, the only ) 8th seed to ever make the NBA Finals, and, on June 25, 1999, the Spurs won the series and the franchise's first NBA Championship in Game 5 ( final score: 78 – 77 ) on the Knicks ' home court, Madison Square Garden.

The franchise's first game was played at home on October 8, 1993, versus the Detroit Red Wings.

The Ducks finished with a 36 – 33 – 13 record, the franchise's first winning record, good enough for home ice in the first round as the number four seed against the Phoenix Coyotes.

From 2007 – 2009, the arena was home to a minor league hockey team, the Flames, prior to the franchise's relocation to Abbotsford, British Columbia.

The team wound up playing one of its final two " home " games at the Rubber Bowl in Akron, Ohio, where the franchise's only win occurred — over the Chicago Bears of George Halas, in front of an estimated 3, 000 fans on Thanksgiving Day.

Bobby Abreu of the Phillies hit the first home run, which also served as the franchise's first hit in the club's new home.

The US $ 1 million ($ million today ) project was initiated by Pittsburgh Pirates ' owner Barney Dreyfuss, with the goal of replacing his franchise's then-current home, Exposition Park.

She returned home for a year to turn around British Vogue, and later assumed control of the franchise's magazine in New York, reviving what many saw as a stagnating publication.

Some social sciences research into the Alien franchise's symbology has considered it significant that Sulaco in Conrad's Nostromo is the home of the white owners of the silver mine figuring in the book, while the Sulaco in Aliens transports soldiers to investigate unknown troubles at a corporate outpost of Weyland Yutani and to protect the investment — drawing parallels between the ' corporate ' owners in Conrad's work and the shadowy business entity forming a central part of the Aliens franchise.

On September 3, 2005, the last home game of the season, owner Nick Lopardo responded to rumors of the franchise's demise with an emphatic assurance that the Spirit would be back for their fourth season at Fraser Field.

Blue Star didn't win another game until July, and during their mid-season drought suffered seven defeats in nine games, including a 6-1 hammering by Los Angeles Legends, a 3-0 home defeat by Fresno Fuego, and a humiliating 4-2 loss away to Lancaster Rattlers in what was that franchise's second ever victory.

In the team's inaugural game, Pearson scored the franchise's first run, in a 7-0 win over the Orioles, and hit. 288 with 7 home runs, 41 RBI, and 92 runs for the season.

The Blizzard drew the 2005 Arena Cup Champion Memphis Xplorers for the franchise's first ever home playoff game.

On July 30, he became the first player in the franchise's history to hit three home runs in a single game, against the Kansas City Royals.

While playing in a home game for the Canadiens, Berezin scored the storied franchise's 10, 000th home ice goal.

Following the tension of Game Six, the Cardinals pitching and defense came undone in Game 7 and their offense was shut down by Saberhagen leading to the lowest batting average to date (. 188 by the Cardinals, later broken by 2001 Yankees ) and fewest runs ( 13 for the Cardinals, still stands ) of any team in a 7 game series, and the Royals won 11 – 0 to clinch the franchise's only World Series title.

One of the franchise's early bright moments came on November 8, 1970, when Tom Dempsey kicked an NFL record-breaking 63-yard field goal to defeat the Detroit Lions by a score of 19 – 17 in the final seconds of the game.

Kariya scored in overtime to force the franchise's first game 7 which they won.

On January 16, 2007, the Ducks played in their franchise's 1000th regular season game, and on March 11, the Ducks recorded their franchise's 1000th point with a 4 – 2 win over the Canucks, which improved their franchise all-time record to 423 – 444 – 155, 1001 points.

Nintendo of America disliked the Japanese Super Mario Bros. 2, which they found to be frustratingly difficult and otherwise little more than a modification of Super Mario Bros. As they did not want to risk the franchise's popularity, they canceled its stateside release and eventually decided on helping the original Japanese developers to revise a Japanese Family Computer Disk System game titled into Super Mario Bros. 2.

The franchise's non-video game media, particularly the anime, has expanded upon the character, giving Mewtwo a male voice and, while aware of why it was created, actively questioning its own existence.

Attendance dipped toward the end of the franchise's history, however, with an average of 16, 605 per game in 1981, their final season.

The Lynx defeated Detroit 68 – 51 in the franchise's first game.

The magazine noted Pikachu as the " public face of a phenomenon that has spread from Nintendo's fastest selling video game to a trading-card empire ", citing the franchise's profits for the year as the reason for the ranking ; behind singer Ricky Martin but ahead of author J. K. Rowling.

Bob Oliver had collected six hits in a ( the franchise's inaugural season ) game and Kevin Seitzer in.

Nintendo Power said that the game was " an entertaining and natural step in the franchise's evolution ," and awarded it the Nintendo Power Game of the Year Award for 1988.

With a narrow lead in the AL West after the season's last game, the Texas Rangers were poised to possibly make the postseason for the first time in the franchise's 34-year history ( 23 of those years in Texas ).

The Wing Commander: Collectible card game was an effort to combine the franchise's rising fortunes with the rising interest in card games, as Magic: The Gathering was revolutionizing gaming centers the world over.

" In June 2008, Guitar Hero: Aerosmith was released, the franchise's first video game based solely around one band and the most successful game based around a band.

In the final game of the regular season, Hossa recorded two assists against the Tampa Bay Lightning to achieve the 100-point mark, which still stands as the franchise's single-season points record.

The game is part of the Unreal franchise's series of games, and is a sequel to Unreal Tournament ( UT99 ).

A centre notable for his defensive skill and as one of the toughest fighters in the game, he played for several National Hockey League ( NHL ) teams during his twenty professional seasons, principally the Vancouver Canucks, with whom he became the NHL franchise's inaugural captain.

The Braves put up two runs in the bottom of the eighth inning but it was not enough as the Indians won the game, 4 – 3, and the franchise's first World Series since 1920.