The Giants went on to play the Baltimore Colts in the championship, a game often cited as the seed of professional football's popularity surge in the U. S.

This growing surge in popularity revealed the limits of the initial protocol's scalability.

Asian martial arts experienced a surge of popularity in the west during the 1970s, and the rising demand resulted in numerous low quality or fraudulent schools.

Following the surge in popularity, new poker tours soon emerged, notably the World Poker Tour and European Poker Tour, both televised and the latter sponsored by online poker company PokerStars.

The rise and surge in popularity in mesmerism, phrenomesmerism, also had a hand in the loss of interest in phrenology among intellectuals and the general public.

While commercially made slingshots date back to at least 1918, with the introduction of the Zip-Zip, a cast iron model, it was not until the post World War II years saw a surge in the popularity, and legitimacy, of slingshots.

Domestic air transport, which until recently had been dominated by a select few air carriers, has recently seen a surge in popularity due in large part to the expanding services of low cost carriers.

* American basketball player Michael Jordan bursts onto the scene in the NBA during the 1980s, bringing a surge in popularity for the sport and becoming one of the most beloved sports icons in the United States.

His Hong Kong and Hollywood-produced films elevated the traditional Hong Kong martial arts film to a new level of popularity and acclaim, sparking a surge of interest in Chinese martial arts in the West in the 1970s.

In modern times, following a brief surge of popularity in Western culture, a swastika was adopted as a symbol of the Nazi Party of Germany in 1920.

In the mid-1960s, Karloff gained a late-career surge of American popularity when he narrated the made-for-television animated film of Dr. Seuss ' How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and also provided the voice of the Grinch, although the song, " You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch " was sung by American voice actor Thurl Ravenscroft.

The 20th century saw an awakening in his popularity and a surge in critical attention.

New Zealand is seeing a surge in the popularity of Pear Cider with Old Mout Cidery, Macs and Monteiths Brewery each producing a pear cider.

During this time, modern comic books were first published and enjoyed a surge of popularity ; the archetype of the superhero was created and defined ; and many of the most famous superheroes debuted, among them Superman, Batman, Captain America, Wonder Woman, and Captain Marvel.

The Beastie Boys breakout album Licensed to Ill consists mostly of hip hop rhymes backed by the characteristic TR-808 beats and samples from popular rock songs ; its success led to a new surge in popularity.

* " I Heard It Through the Grapevine " experiences a surge in popularity in the USA sparked by television commercials featuring claymation raisin figures dancing to the song.

In the 1940s, propelled in part by their film's surge in audiences during the war, the studio also benefited from the popularity of its biggest star, Rita Hayworth.

At the time of its release, The Ultimate Sin was Osbourne's highest charting studio album, as heavy metal was enjoying a surge in popularity during the mid-1980s.

Though they might seem boring and rudimentary by today's standards, Bosko's films were quite popular in their day and he rivaled Mickey Mouse in popularity in the early 1930s, although the Disney cartoons would eventually surge ahead in popularity on the basis of stronger plot and character development.

Thanks to the party's heightened profile and popularity resulting from Sheridan's election in 1999, as well as his charismatic and often maverick performances in the parliament, an electoral surge occurred.

Handed over to the incoming Labour administration and classified as secret because of Labour fears over the surge in Scottish National Party popularity, the document came to light only in 2005, when the SNP obtained the report under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

The franchise exploded in size in the 1980s, when King Features began aggressively promoting the Bears to marketers amidst a surge in popularity following a series of animated television specials.

Both organizations came into existence during a surge in popularity for women's basketball in the United States that followed the undefeated, gold medal-winning performance of the United States Women's basketball team at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

The next year, however, the September 11, 2001 attacks against the United States, the following invasion of Afghanistan, and 2003 invasion of Iraq and subsequent occupation prompted a surge in oil prices to levels far higher than those targeted by OPEC during the preceding period.

In addition to the rich literature they had already produced in Arabic, the relocation of the Ismaili center to Iran now prompted a surge in Persian Ismaili literature.

Many political commentators claimed that Hong Kong would experience a surge in people claiming the right of abode from mainland China, possibly disrupting the economy of Hong Kong, which prompted the Hong Kong Government to ask the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress to reinterpret Articles 22 ( 4 ) and 24 ( 2 )( 3 ) of Hong Kong's Basic Law, which effectively overturned the court decision.

Wyoming's enactment of women's suffrage in 1869 prompted a surge forward for human rights, historical errors regarding its passage notwithstanding.

The surge in German naval construction prompted the Admiralty to change their position however and the Royal Australian Navy was subsequently formed in 1911, absorbing the Commonwealth Naval Force.

With the introduction of an easily pannable and searchable mapping and satellite imagery tool, Google's mapping engine prompted a surge of interest in satellite imagery.

The surge in vessel traffic and cargo prompted the port's increased environmental efforts.

While a proof of Schanuel's conjecture with number theoretic tools seems a long way off, connections with model theory have prompted a surge of research on the conjecture.

The storm surge caused by this hurricane prompted the city of Corpus Christi to construct a breakwater in 1925, and a seawall was subsequently built in 1940.

It prompted a large influx of refugees from the mainland, causing a huge population surge.

It has prompted a Congressional review of the Corps of Engineers and the failure of portions of the federally built flood protection system which experts agree should have protected the city's inhabitants from Katrina's surge.

Popularity took another major surge in 2009 with UFC 100 and the 10 events preceding it including UFC 90, 91, 92, 94 and 98.

Deeply disturbed by the surge of militaristic nationalism in 1930s world politics, Chaplin found that he could not keep these issues out of his work: " How could I throw myself into feminine whimsy or think of romance or the problems of love when madness was being stirred up by a hideous grotesque, Adolf Hitler?

Tides do not typically cause erosion by themselves ; however, tidal bores can erode as the waves surge up river estuaries from the ocean.

Nevertheless, this surge bore no fruit ; Cubans remained deprived of the right to send representatives to the Spanish parliament, and Madrid stepped up repression.

This may include rocks plucked off the wall of the magma conduit, or physically picked up by the ensuing pyroclastic surge.

Therefore, a storm surge barrier would be built ( the Maeslantkering ) and dikes were only partly built up.

Storm surge breached the levee at the City of Orange, and traveled up the Neches River to flood Rose City.

These are the three angular rotations pitch, roll and yaw, and the three linear movements heave ( up and down ), sway ( side to side ) and surge ( fore and aft ).

Boann challenged the power of the well by walking around it counter-clockwise ; this caused the waters to surge up violently and rush down to the sea, creating the River Boyne.

The surge had a second peak in eastern St. Tammany as the westerly winds from the southern eye wall pushed the surge to the east, backing up at the bottleneck of the Rigolets Pass.

All structures were damaged to some degree, and storm surge left sand piled up across the camp.

A similar surge in ideological thought would not occur again until the late 1980s, leading up to the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.

A 1685 account describes it as being made of boulders simply heaped up on each other: " an immense mass of stone, of a shape of a demi-lune, with a bar in the middle of the concave: no one stone that lies there was ever touched with a tool or bedded in any sort of cement, but all the pebbles of the see are piled up, and held by their bearings only, and the surge plays in and out through the interstices of the stone in a wonderful manner.

After the radio trade publication R & R listed " Cars " as the most added track on both active rock and mainstream rock in May 1999, the song earned " Breaker " status and continued to surge up the chart.

But a late surge in the final months of the season, thanks mainly to the signing of striker Dave Taylor who netted freely, saw manager, Meilyr Owen, pick up a manager of the month award, and the team finished in a respectable ninth place.

In the days and weeks leading up to Bear's collapse, the bank's CDS spread widened dramatically, indicating a surge of buyers taking out protection on the bank.

Opal devastated the Pensacola / Panhandle area with a 15-ft ( 5-m ) storm surge and travelled up the entire state of Alabama, becoming a tropical storm in Tennessee.

With syndication of Doraemon on TV Asahi in 1979, a surge of popularity saw up to a dozen collaborative and solo works by Fujimoto and Abiko picked up for publication and syndication throughout the 1980s.

Blackheath's location on a high ridge makes it vulnerable to strong and sometimes destructive winds, especially in the winter months when cold fronts surge up from the Southern Ocean, producing land gales.

At the global level, the approach is meant to build up capacity in eleven key ‘ gap ’ areas by developing better surge capacity, ensuring consistent access to appropriately trained technical expertise and enhanced material stockpiles, and securing the increased engagement of all relevant humanitarian

Perry had had a late surge in the season and ended up with 50 goals, while Sedin was a huge part in the Vancouver Canucks Stanley Cup run, and led the league in points.

With any storm the piled up water has an exit path to the sides and this escape mechanism is reduced in proportion to the surge force ( for the same peak wind speed ) as the storm covers more area.