The team's struggles led to the firing of manager Don Baylor, the only manager in franchise history, following the season.

Unlike in basketball, where players are allowed to commit only 5 fouls in a game ( 6 in the NBA ), handball players are allowed an unlimited number of faults, which are considered good defense and disruptive to the attacking team's rhythm.

Bruce made the team's Grand Prix debut at the 1966 Monaco race ( of the current Formula One teams only Ferrari are older ).

Becoming the team's majority stockholder in 1973, Hess bought Philip H. Iselin's share upon his death in 1976 after which only two of Hess ' partners remained, Townsend Martin and Helen Dillon, who had inherited the stake from her father Donald Lillis, upon his death.

Both uniforms will feature the " Mets " script, player numerals and names in blue outlined in orange, and both be worn only with the team's traditional blue cap with orange crest ( although the orange button on top of the cap has been retained ), blue undersleeves, belts and socks.

The innovative uniforms only increased after the team's move to Oakland, which also came at the time of the introduction of polyester pullover uniforms.

He is the only manager in the team's history without a losing season.

Both teams entered the game with the best defenses in the league ( the Cowboys only allowed 107. 6 rushing yards per game while the Steelers only allowed 107. 8 ), and each side took advantage of the other team's mistakes throughout the game.

A big reason for the team's offensive success was the blocking of linemen Bart Oates and William Roberts, the only Pro Bowlers on the offense.

Williams ' best season as a manager was 1969 when he led the expansion Senators to an 86 – 76 record in the team's only winning season in Washington.

By 1969, at the end of the 1960s the New York Mets won the World Series in only the 8th year of the team's existence.

* March 31 – Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, the team's only musical written especially for television, is telecast live and in color by CBS, starring Julie Andrews in the title role.

Martini also recorded the team's only front row start: 2nd at the 1990 United States Grand Prix and led a lap during a heroic performance in the 1989 Portuguese Grand Prix.

Caliri designed the M184, the team's prototype Formula One car ( intended as a dual purpose design for the new Formula 3000 ) around Alfa Romeo's V8 turbocharged engine but when engineer Carlo Chiti left Alfa Romeo to found Motori Moderni, Minardi became the only customer for his new V6 engine design.

The Connecticut Sun, Seattle Storm, and Tulsa Shock are the only current teams to play without sharing the market with an NBA team ( although the Storm shared a market with the Seattle SuperSonics before that team's relocation ).

Seattle made their first finals appearance since winning it all in 2004 and Atlanta, coming into the playoffs as a four seed, impressively swept its opponents in the first two rounds to advance to the Finals in only the third year of the team's existence.

The Islanders finished with the worst record in the NHL and the second-worst season in franchise history ; the team's 0. 317 winning percentage that year was only ahead of only 1972 – 73's. 192.

In 1912, Cup trustees declared that it was only to be defended at the end of the champion team's regular season.

Even that was only Hearn's second missed assignment for the Lakers since he had become the team's broadcaster in March 1961.

The club's worsening financial state saw many of the team's top players leave in the summer of 2003, the following season failing to deliver any trophies, only the second such occasion since 1985 – 86.

Lindros did not wear the team's jersey for the press photographs, only holding it when it was presented to him and, on advice from his mother, he refused to sign a contract and began a holdout that lasted over a year.

Joe Sakic was the only player left from the team's days in Quebec ( though Hejduk was drafted by the Nordiques ); Paul Stastny, son of Nordiques legend Peter Stastny, also provides a link to the past.

It would be the first time in Avalanche history the team's top scorer would score less than 70 points on the season, as Milan Hejduk and Ryan Smyth would register only 59 points each.

Both Johnson and Schilling had suffered injuries during the season and Schilling was traded in the off season to the Boston Red Sox where he contributed to that team's 2004 World Series victory.

The team's other two wins came in a season sweep of the Cleveland Browns including a Week 17 24 – 21 victory sealed by a Mike Hollis 34-yard field goal in the Browns ' final game before the team relocated to Baltimore and was renamed the Ravens.

It is said that after one particularly satisfying victory over the Philadelphia Phillies, Mutrie ( who was also the team's manager ) stormed into the dressing room and exclaimed, " My big fellows!

Some Bills fans appeared to be defensive about their team's presence in the game ; during Buffalo's victory in the AFC championship game a week earlier, one fan displayed a banner defiantly proclaiming, " We're back ; deal with it, America!

In this year, Nuvolari scored his most impressive victory, thought by many to be the greatest victory in car racing of all times, when at the German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring, driving an old Alfa Romeo P3 ( 3167 cc, compressor, 265 hp ) versus the dominant, all conquering home team's cars of five Mercedes-Benz W25 ( 3990 cm³, 8C, compressor,, driven by Caracciola, Fagioli, Hermann Lang, Manfred von Brauchitsch and Geyer ) and four Auto Union Tipo B ( 4950 cc, 16C, compressor,, driven by Bernd Rosemeyer, Varzi, Hans Stuck and Paul Pietsch ).

It is never explained why a Seeker would catch the Snitch in a situation where doing so would give the victory to the other team, i. e., the leading team's score exceeds the losing team's by 160 points, instead of simply waiting for the score to change.

Sönke Wortmann's 2003 German box-office hit The Miracle of Bern ( in German: Das Wunder von Bern ) re-tells the story of the German team's route to victory through the eyes of a young boy who admires the key player of the final, Helmut Rahn.

The Detroit Pistons | Pistons are honored at the White House for the team's victory in the 2004 NBA Finals.

The 1971 – 72 team holds franchise records in wins ( 69 ), most points scored, and largest margin of victory ; both of the latter came in the team's 63 point win versus Golden State ( 162 – 99 ).

Commenting on Australia's victory, the team's vice-captain Vic Richardson said, "... we could have played any team without Bradman, but we could not have played the blind school without Clarrie Grimmett ".

During the team's post-game victory celebration, Mr. Jordan removes Joe's memory of his past life and departs.

They showed the countdown every day starting May 31, 2004, until the # 1 moment, the United States men's national ice hockey team's victory over the USSR during the 1980 Winter Olympics, was aired on September 7, 2004.

Gold medals go to Jeff Steinman N5TJ and Dan Street K1TO of the United States, the team's third victory in a row.

The team's last game at the Met was a 1-0 shoot out play off victory against the Tulsa Roughnecks on August 26, 1981.

( The Maple Leafs themselves say they were known as the Arenas during their first season, but the name " Arenas " was not recorded to commemorate the team's 1918 Cup victory until 1947.

Meanwhile, the Tornadoes went through three coaches during the 1930 season, and the team's only victory during the 1930 season was against the Frankford Yellow Jackets.

The team's only two touchdowns, and victory, came during a 14-0 shutout of the Muncie Flyers.

That phantom game, claimed as a victory by Rock Island, appears incorrectly in NFL records as the Kenosha team's fifth loss of its only season.

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.

* September 23, 2007: Wearing 1933 throwback uniforms celebrating the team's 75th anniversary, the Eagles set multiple team records in a 56 – 21 victory over the Detroit Lions ; the second most points in team history.

" The Riders also use a pair of " borrowed " songs -- the team's victory march / touchdown song, " Green is the Colour " ( edited copy of the original " Blue Is the Colour ( song )" written by D Boone and R McQueen for the Chelsea Football Club ) and " On Roughriders " ( edited from On Wisconsin, the fight song for the Wisconsin Badgers ).

He scored twice in Olympiacos ' come-from-behind victory against Panathinaikos, as well as two in his team's 3 – 0 triumph against second placed AEK Athens, effectively securing another title for Olympiacos.

In this adaptation ( based on the 1997 film, not the 1992 book ), the action is moved from London to Boston, the focus of the protagonist's obsession is shifted from football to baseball, and the story centres on the 2004 Boston Red Sox season, which culminated with the team's first Major League Baseball World Series victory in 86 years.