Early in 1945, McBride named 36-year-old Ohio State Buckeyes coach Paul Brown as the team's head coach and general manager and gave him a share in its profits.

After Seifert was fired following the disastrous 2001 season, the Panthers hired New York Giants defensive coordinator John Fox as the team's third head coach.

Then-Bengals defensive coordinator Dick LeBeau ( who would later be the team's head coach from 2000 – 2002 ) created the zone blitz in the 1980s in response to the West Coast Offense.

He immediately began the team's search for head coaching candidates.

Wasting no time after being appointed head coach, Frazier began to restructure the team's coaching staff, including letting go of offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell and hiring Mike Singletary as linebackers coach and Bill Musgrave as the new offensive coordinator.

When Rex Ryan was hired as the team's head coach, the rivalry further escalated due to an increased war of words between both teams.

Following the 1990 season, Parcells resigned as head coach and was replaced by the team's offensive coordinator, Ray Handley.

The team's logo combination ( the eagle and club name lettering ) also changed in 1996, with the eagle itself limited to a white ( bald eagle ) head, drawn in a less realistic, more cartoon-based style, and the lettering changing from calligraphic to block letters.

When the Seahawks debuted in, the team's logo was a stylized royal blue and forest green hawk's head based on Northwestern tribal art.

Chiefs head coach Hank Stram, who was also the team's offensive coordinator, devised an effective game plan against the Vikings.

After finishing the 1970 season with a 6 – 8 regular season record, the Redskins hired George Allen as their head coach, hoping he could turn the team's fortunes around.

But in 1969, Rooney hired Chuck Noll to be the team's head coach and its fortunes started to turn following a disastrous 1-13 first year under the future Hall of Fame coach.

Part of the team's spotty performance might have been that the new coach and the new owner did not really get along well, and Belichick came to serve during the 1996 season as the head coach's interface with the Kraft family and the non-football operations side of the business.

In 2000, he became part owner of the Phoenix Coyotes, and following the 2004 – 05 NHL lockout he became the team's head coach.

In 1980, Dr. Taylor founded the Lady Techster Softball team with Barry Canterbury serving as the team's first head coach.

The team's uninspired play led Milbury to fire Isles legend Butch Goring as head coach before the end of the year.

One night, John and his friend Max ( David ), a local high school football team's head coach, go to a bar.

After the end of the season, head coach Marc Crawford rejected the team's offer of a two-year deal.

Near the end of the season, with a playoff-push faltering, Weisbrod fired Davis after leading Davis to believe he was going to be the team's head coach for the entire 2004 – 05 NBA season.

Former college coach and veteran NBA assistant Dick Harter was also hired, becoming the team's first head coach.

There were believed to be five reasons for the firing: first, that Carlisle had appeared reluctant to play some of the team's younger players, such as Prince and Mehmet Okur, during the regular season, which had upset Dumars ; second, that some of the players ( notably Wallace ) had not gotten along with Carlisle ; third, that Carlisle employed an offensive system that was too conservative ; fourth, that Hall of Famer Larry Brown had become available ; and finally fifth, that Carlisle was rumored to be interested in the Pacers head coaching job during the Pistons ' 2003 playoff run.

Early in the Pacers ' second season, former Indiana Hoosiers standout Bob " Slick " Leonard became the team's head coach, replacing Larry Staverman.

Dick Motta, who had guided the Washington Bullets to the NBA Championship in 1977 – 78, was hired as the team's first head coach.

The departure of these players for various reasons symbolized the franchise's futility during this period, as head coach Al Attles would move up into the front office to become the team's General Manager in 1980, and the team would go through several coaching changes.

In the team's first season in San Diego, it posted a record of 43 – 39 under new head coach Gene Shue, leaving them two games shy of the final playoff spot.

The team was founded in the 1940s as a charter franchise in the All-America Football Conference ( AAFC ), with Paul Brown, the team's namesake and a pioneering figure in professional football, as its first coach.

Many fans and media were beginning to blame Jerry Jones for the team's ills, noting that he refused to hire a strong coach or general manager, preferring to hire coaches who did not want to be involved with personnel duties so that Jones himself, as GM, could manage them.

The most serious injuries were special teams coach Joe DeCamillis, who suffered fractured cervical vertebrae and had surgery to stabilize fractured vertebrae in his neck, and Rich Behm, the team's 33-year-old scouting assistant, who was permanently paralyzed from the waist down after his spine was severed.

However, it was to take another three years, and a change of coach, before the team's obvious potential was translated into tangible success.

The team's coach, or perhaps the quarterback, will choose one of the pre-planned forward passing strategies, and tell the team, during the huddle which one has been chosen.

In 1995, following a mediocre 6 – 10 season under Pete Carroll, despite generally shying away from football operations, Hess announced " I'm 80 years old, I want results now " during a conference in which Rich Kotite was introduced as the team's new coach.

Goalie Billy Smith, the last remaining original Islander, retired after the season to become the team's goaltending coach.

During the season, team management fired Maloney, whom fans blamed for the team's downfall, and gave Milbury total control of hockey operations as both coach and general manager.

The team captain or " skip " always plays last and is instrumental in directing his team's shots and tactics.

The Mid-Atlantic Sports Network ( MASN ), co-owned by the Orioles and the Washington Nationals, is the team's exclusive television broadcaster.

Bandy is a team winter sport played on ice, in which skaters use sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal.

The layout of the players on the pitch is called the team's formation, and defining the team's formation and tactics is usually the prerogative of the team's manager ( s ).

The team's headquarters and training facility, the Cleveland Browns Training and Administrative Complex, opened in 1991 and is located in Berea, Ohio.

The team's official mascot is a bengal tiger named Who Dey.

Aside from Who Dey, the team also has the Cincinnati Ben – Gals, the team's cheerleading squad, which is known for having Laura Vikmanis, the oldest cheerleader in league history.

By quickly setting up for the next play ( often within 5 – 10 seconds after the last play despite being afforded 45 seconds ) this hindered the other team's defense from substituting situational players, regrouping for tactics, and, some suggest, increased the defense's rate of fatigue ( This is attributed to the belief that the offense dictates when a play starts so they tend to be more mentally relaxed and prepared for the start of a play where the defense must remain on a higher level of alert before the play starts ).

The team's spring training facility is at Goodyear Ballpark in Goodyear, Arizona.

" Again, the Cubs ' unusually high number of day games is often pointed to as one reason for the team's inconsistent late season play.

Cheerleader Nation is a 60 minute television series based on the Paul Laurence Dunbar High School cheerleading team's ups and downs on the way to nationals, of which they are the three time champions.

The most common safety is on a third down punt from the end zone, in which the kicker decides not to punt and keeps the ball in his team's own goal area.

This uniform now serves as the team's alternate or " third jersey " and is usually worn at least once a year.

Brad Sham is the team's longtime play-by-play voice.

He is a mosquito, created in honour of the team's back-to-back Premierships side in the 1920s known as the Mosquito Fleet.

In several forms of football a forward pass is a throwing of the ball in the direction that the offensive team is trying to move, towards the defensive team's goal line.

The primary pass thrower is the quarterback, and statistical analysis is used to determine a quarterback's success rate at passing in various situations, as well as a team's overall success at the " passing game.

If any member of the offensive team is downed while in possession of the ball behind his own team's goal line, this is called a safety and scores two points for the defensive team.