One year after Young's death, the Cy Young Award was created to honor the previous season's best pitcher.

In recent seasons, the third kit has usually been the previous season's away kit.

While their 7 – 10 mark down the stretch was slightly better than the previous season's 5 – 12, it still allowed the Phillies to pass them, once again.

( Some of the music had already been reused from the previous season's The Brady Kids and the Treasure Island feature, and were shared with that season's Lassie's Rescue Rangers ).

Despite the AFL's New York Jets winning the previous season's Super Bowl, many sports writers and fans thought it was a fluke and continued to believe that the NFL was still superior to the AFL, and thus fully expected the Vikings to defeat the Chiefs ; the Vikings entered the Super Bowl as 12. 5 to 13-point favorites.

And safety Jake Scott, the previous season's Super Bowl MVP, had four interceptions and 71 return yards.

Many accused the Raiders defense of being overly aggressive, especially Atkinson, who inflicted a severe concussion on Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Lynn Swann in the previous season's AFC Championship Game.

Oakland went on to defeat the previous season's Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers, which was missing starting running back tandem of Franco Harris and Rocky Bleier, 24 – 7.

The 49ers under rookie head coach George Seifert, who took over after Bill Walsh retired after the previous season's Super Bowl, finished the 1989 regular season with a league best 14-2 record.

The game was rematched on October 27, 1997, as a near-national telecast on ABC's Monday Night Football, the only time ABC aired a rematch of the previous season's Super Bowl.

In the AFC title game, the Patriots traveled to Heinz Field to face the Pittsburgh Steelers, who were coming off a 27 – 10 win over the previous season's Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens.

Hoping to improve on the previous season's dismal passing attack, Coach Gibbs added former Jacksonville Jaguars offensive coordinator Bill Musgrave as his quarterbacks coach.

As a result of Barthez's success in the World Cup and the Euros, he caught the attention of Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson, who was searching for a star goalkeeper to replace the recently departed Peter Schmeichel, as Ferguson did not think that the previous season's keeper, Mark Bosnich was a long-term replacement.

Trouble occurred at the previous season's European Cup final, with several Liverpool fans being attacked by fans of Roma both before and after the match.

Before the previous season's playoffs, in a move reminiscent of Patrick Roy's trade, the Avalanche traded goalie David Aebischer for Montreal Canadiens ' Vezina Trophy winner goalie Jose Theodore.

Following the previous season's disappointing first round playoff upset at the hands of the seventh seeded Colorado Avalanche, the Stars made a number of changes during summer 2006.

In 1998 / 99, the competition's final year, SC Heerenveen of the Netherlands entered the CWC despite only reaching the semi-final of the previous season's Dutch Cup.

Another Tigers premiership came in 1934, this time against South Melbourne's famed " Foreign Legion ", avenging the Tigers ' loss in the previous season's Grand Final.

Such advocacy builds on the previous season's episode where Fonzie hired wheelchair-bound Don King to work in his garage, promising to provide workplace accommodation for his employee.

It had seemed like a good pre-season matchup since the Falcons had played in the previous season's Super Bowl and the 49ers coming into the ' 99 season had posted 16 consecutive 10-win seasons ).

However, 2005 – 06 proved disappointing with the team failing to build on the previous season's progress, finishing an undistinguished 17th.

As Farnborough Town F. C., the team came to national prominence in 2003 when they reached the 4th round of the FA Cup, where they played the previous season's Cup winners Arsenal at Highbury.

Roadsport B is largely for drivers that have come through the previous season's Academy.

The Flyers stumbled in 1987 – 88, finishing third in the Patrick Division ( after a first-place finish the previous three years ).

As in 1996, though, the team's pitchers struggled and had a 5. 25 ERA, and the Rockies could not improve upon their finish from the previous season.

The previous year's dismal finish came with one highlight: the team won the draft lottery and the rights to power forward Elton Brand.

The D stock trains were refurbished between 2005 and 2008, receiving the standard Underground livery of red, white and blue to replace the previous unpainted aluminium finish, which was prone to damage by graffiti vandals.

During the following " Brotherhood March " On January 24, 1987, another racially-mixed group returned to Forsyth County to complete the march the previous group had be unable to finish.

The club began the 2001 – 02 season in the Football League Third Division, following a disappointing 12th place finish the previous year.

Improving from the previous year, the 1999 team put together an 80 – 60 record, but their second-place finish left them out of the post-season picture.

Despite Morgan's arrival, the 2007 – 08 season ultimately brought more disappointment as the club failed to match the previous campaign's playoff finish.

These beers, like some previous experimental products, are aged in a wood barrel for a special finish.

It proved to be considerably more reliable than the team's previous effort, but the team still only had a best finish of 4th and the victory they had promised in 1999 still eluded them.

In his first season as coach, he guided Edinburgh to the highest ever finish by a Scottish side in the Magners League ( joint 3rd ), despite numerous international players leaving the previous summer for more lucrative contracts in England and France.

The Tigers reached the 2010 / 11 final for a rematch with Saracens having again topped the table above them despite winning fewer games, however after a nailbiting finish which saw a record breaking 7 minutes overtime played during which the Tigers went through 32 phases camped on the Saracens try line before conceding a penalty which awarded Saracens their revenge for the previous years defeat.

Hoping to build on the previous season's disappointing finish, the Latics went one better than 2003 – 04 by remaining unbeaten for the first 17 games of the 2004 – 05 season.

Bruce eventually oversaw a comparatively comfortable end to the season for Wigan, who finished 14th in the final table with 40 points – three places and two points higher than their finish the previous season.

At the start of the final race of the season, the Los Angeles Times 500, at Ontario Motor Speedway,, Waltrip led Richard Petty by a scant 2 points in the year-long championship battle after finishing the race 5th ahead of Petty's 6th place finish in the previous race, the Dixie 500, Atlanta Motor Speedway, November 4, 1979.

Bringing in players such as Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink in the close season, 1997 – 98 saw Leeds score twice as many goals as the previous season finish fifth in the Premiership and secure UEFA Cup qualification.

Despite guiding the club to its first trophy in eight seasons, Graham could not achieve a finish higher than tenth in the Premiership and remained unpopular with a large section of the supporters, because of his previous role at Arsenal, Tottenham's most bitter rivals.

The club built on the success of the previous season in 1990 – 91 by achieving its highest league finish of 3rd and returning to Wembley to win the Zenith Data Systems Cup, beating Everton 4 – 1 in the final, its only cup win to date.

The 2007 – 08 season was one of the best in recent times ; after finishing 18th the previous year, a third place finish in the league meant a promotion opportunity to the Conference National was presented via the play-offs.

The T-Bones matched their previous season's record ( 46-50 ) and finish ( fourth in a six-team league ), but could not advance past the first round, losing that series 3-2 to Gary.

In 1983 Davis regained the world title with a session to spare in the final, defeating an overwhelmed Thorburn 18 – 6 ; Thorburn had seen his previous three matches go to a deciding frame and a late finish.

This was the first marathon in history with more than 40, 000 official finishers, as 43, 660 crossed the finish, 5, 053 more than the previous best at the 2008 edition of this race

Like many other teams who suffer a relegation in the previous season, Grimsby got off to a mediocre start and a lower mid-table finish was as good as it would get for Slade's men.

In the 2005 – 06 season Lincoln City again reached the play-offs after many fans and critics believed that they would finish in the mid-table after losing many of their first team regulars from the previous 3 campaigns.