The stadium " Tivoli ", opened in 1928, served as the venue for the team's home games and was well known for its incomparable atmosphere throughout the whole of the second division.

The White Stockings were close contenders all season, despite the fact that the Great Chicago Fire had destroyed the team's home field and most of their equipment.

However, the team's history during that period was hardly one of futility, but was rather punctuated with some of the most memorable moments in World Series history, including Enos Slaughter's " mad dash " in, the " Impossible Dream " of, Carlton Fisk's home run in, and Bill Buckner's error in.

" The Blue Angels ' first public demonstration also netted the team its first trophy, which sits on display at the team's current home at NAS Pensacola.

The ' 38 club saw Dizzy Dean lead the team's pitching staff and provided a historic moment when they won a crucial late-season game at Wrigley Field over the Pittsburgh Pirates with a walk-off home run by Gabby Hartnett, which became known in baseball lore as " The Homer in the Gloamin '".

The team's national following might best be represented by its NFL record of consecutive home sell-outs.

) The Dallas Cowboys called the Cotton Bowl home for 11 years, from the team's formation in 1960 until 1971, when the Cowboys moved to Texas Stadium.

Despite midseason trade rumors, Beltrán would prove instrumental to the team's hopes, hitting eight home runs in the postseason.

On July 30, the Astros traded OF Hunter Pence, the team's 2010 leader in home runs, to the Philadelphia Phillies.

2009 marked a low point, with the team's attendance averaging around 50, 000, causing seven of the eight home games to be blacked out, and leading NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to address the issue with owner Wayne Weaver.

He also said that the team will continue to wear teal jerseys at home even on hot days, saying that the practice of choosing to wear white on hot days which ended in 2008 had also diluted the team's image.

The group was established in 1995, the team's inaugural year, and regularly performs choreographed routines during the team's home contests.

EverBank Field ( formerly known as Jacksonville Municipal Stadium and Alltel Stadium ) is located on the north bank of the St. Johns River, and has been the home of the Jaguars since the team's first season in 1995.

Teams take turns sending a " raider " to the opposite team's half, where the goal is to tag or wrestle (" confine ") members of the opposite team before returning to the home half.

A third kit is designed for European away matches, though it is also worn in domestic away matches on occasions when the current away kit clashes with a team's home kit.

From the team's first season in 1961 to 1982, the team had called Metropolitan Stadium in suburban Bloomington home.

Since taking over the franchise, Attanasio has worked hard to build bridges with Milwaukee baseball fans, including giving away every seat to the final home game of 2005 free of charge and bringing back the classic " ball and glove " logo of the club's glory days on " Retro Friday " home games, during which they also wear versions of the team's old pinstriped uniforms.

In 1980, the Saints lost their first 14 games, prompting local sportscaster Bernard " Buddy D " Diliberto to advise Saints supporters to wear paper bags over their heads at the team's home games ; many bags rendered the club's name as the "' Aints " rather than the " Saints.

On March 23, the Saints announced that the team's two 2006 preseason games were to be played at Shreveport, Louisiana and Jackson, Mississippi. After a $ 185 million renovation of the historic stadium, on April 6 the Saints released their 2006 schedule, with all home games scheduled to be played at the Superdome.

The Saints switched to white pants in 1975, coinciding with the team's move from Tulane Stadium to the Superdome, and have worn white at home numerous times since then.

Despite the team's 2-14 record, they sold out six of their eight home games in 2006.

Until 1954, when the uniforms had " Athletics " spelled out in script across the front, the team's name never appeared on either home or road uniforms.

Since 2004, the team's home has been Citizens Bank Park in the South Philadelphia section of the city.

When the team's new headquarters across town in Kirkland were completed in, the Seahawks held training camp at home for the next eleven seasons ( 1986 – 96 ), staying in the dormitories of the adjacent Northwest College.

The team's name and logo are based on the Italian wall lizard, a small reptile that was imported to Long Island ( which has no native lizards ) in the 1960s and which populate areas of the team's home town of Hempstead.

The team's traditional rival is the nearby town of Chesterfield in Derbyshire.

The town is home to Meath Gaelic Athletic Association footballers such as Jack Quinn and Darren Fay and in recent times Brendan Murphy has emerged as the county team's star goalkeeper.

The team's home town is Iwata, Shizuoka prefecture and they play at Yamaha Stadium.

The nearby town has renamed itself Challengerville, managing to thrive on the team's name.

The team's home town is Incheon, the third biggest city in the country, and the club's home stadium is the Incheon Football Stadium.

Since the team's beginning, baseball in general has grown in popularity in the town.

" The team's home town used to be Escazú, known around the country as " La ciudad de las Brujas " or " The Witches ' Town ", but the franchise has now transferred to Desamparados.

The team's home town is Osaka, Japan and plays at Nagai Ball Gall Field, with some bigger games played at Nagai Stadium.

A name-the-team contest in the fall of 1995 drew thousands of entries, and team officials settled on the boll weevil as the team's new mascot, indicative of Kannapolis ' history as a textile mill town ( Kannapolis natives are even called " lintheads ").

* Franchises are required to have at least 9 players that originate from within a 120-mile radius of the team's home town.

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.