The Australian team of 1989 was comparable to the great Australian teams of the past, and resoundingly defeated England 4 – 0.

The Lions ' 2005 tour to New Zealand, coached by 2003 England world cup winning coach Clive Woodward, won all seven games against provincial teams however suffered heavy defeats in all three tests and were narrowly defeated by the New Zealand Maori team.

Gailey led the team to two playoff appearances with a 10 – 6 record in 1998 and an NFC East championship, but the Cowboys were defeated in the playoffs by the Arizona Cardinals 20-7 ; after an 8 – 8 season in 1999 ( during which Irvin suffered a career-ending spinal injury in a loss to the Philadelphia Eagles ) ending in another playoff loss ( this time to the Minnesota Vikings 27-10 ), he was fired and became the first Cowboys coach who did not take the team to a Super Bowl.

Pittsburgh defeated the Red Wings in seven games, Detroit becoming only the second NHL team to lose the Cup at home in Game 7.

In 1952, Geelong easily defeated Lou Richards ' Collingwood team.

The team picked up its first win in Week 4 as the Jaguars defeated the Oilers 17 – 16 on October 1 in Houston.

The team initially played games against other departments and rail companies, but on 20 November 1880, they competed in their first recorded match ; wearing the colours of the railway company – green and gold – they were defeated 6 – 0 by Bolton Wanderers ' reserve team.

Although its opponents would include winners of 9 of the last 15 NFL MVP awards, the team advanced to the 2010 NFC Championship game where they defeated the Minnesota Vikings, led by Brett Favre, 31 – 28 in overtime ( at 9: 19 CST ), and then went on to win their first Super Bowl appearance in franchise history.

The Jets advanced to the playoffs for the first time in 1968 and went on to compete in Super Bowl III where they defeated the Baltimore Colts, becoming the first AFL team to defeat an NFL club in an AFL-NFL World Championship Game.

Though the Jets were viewed as the inferior team, Joe Namath publicly guaranteed New York's victory ; his prediction became immortalized as the Jets defeated the Colts 16 – 7.

On January 11, 2009 the team defeated the defending Super Bowl Champions and the 2008 NFC East champion New York Giants 23 – 11 en route to their 5th NFC Championship Game in 8 years and 5th in the 10 years the Eagles have been coached by Andy Reid.

He addressed the team before the game and watched from the sidelines as the Wolverines defeated the Irish 38 – 0.

The organization did not field a winning team until 1991, and any real success eluded them until when they won their first division championship and defeated the New York Yankees in the American League Division Series.

In the final game of the season, the Padres defeated the Diamondbacks 7 – 6 to win back to back division titles for the first time in team history ( they were tied with the Dodgers for the division title, but because of winning the season series against them, the division title went to them and the wild card went to the Dodgers ).

The Dolphins defeated the Redskins by the score of 14 – 7, and became the first and still the only team in NFL history to complete a perfect undefeated season.

The Steelers defeated the Rams by the score of 31 – 19, winning their fourth Super Bowl in team history.

The Raiders defeated the Eagles by the score of 27 – 10, becoming the first wild card playoff team to win a Super Bowl.

The Redskins defeated the Bills by the score of 37 – 24, becoming the fourth team after the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Oakland Raiders, and the San Francisco 49ers to win three Super Bowls.

The Cowboys defeated the Bills by the score of 52 – 17, winning their third Super Bowl in team history, and their first one in fifteen years.

The Cowboys defeated the Bills by the score of 30 – 13, winning their fourth Super Bowl in team history, tying the Pittsburgh Steelers and the San Francisco 49ers for most Super Bowl wins.

The 49ers defeated the Chargers by the score of 49 – 26, becoming the first team to win five Super Bowls.

In 1958, future NBA Hall of Famer Elgin Baylor paced a men's basketball team that advanced to the Final Four and defeated top-ranked Kansas State University before losing to the University of Kentucky.

Football at Wabash dates back to 1884, when student-coach Edwin R. Taber assembled a team and defeated Butler University by a score of 4 – 0 in the first intercollegiate football game in the history of the state of Indiana.

The team was established in Chicago in 1898 and was a charter member of the NFL in.

Today known as the Chicago Cubs, they are the oldest team in American organized sports.

* Chicago Blitz, a United States Football League team in the 1980s

He entered into an agreement to buy the club, but the American League vetoed the sale, preferring to keep an American League team in Chicago to compete with the crosstown Cubs.

The Chicago White Sox are a Major League Baseball team located in Chicago, Illinois. The White Sox play in the American League's Central Division.

One of the American League's eight charter franchises, the Chicago team was established as a major league baseball club in.

The NL actually gave permission to the AL to put a team in Chicago, provided he not use the city name in the team's branding.

Brown, who had built an impressive record as coach of a Massillon, Ohio high school team and brought the Buckeyes their first national championship, at the time was serving in the U. S. Navy and coached the football team at Great Lakes Naval Station near Chicago.

Rivera was previously the defensive coordinator for the Chicago Bears and the San Diego Chargers and was a linebacker on the 1985 Bears team that won Super Bowl XX.

The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago, Illinois.

The team headquarters, Halas Hall, is in the Chicago suburb of Lake Forest, Illinois.

The 1940 Chicago Bears team holds the record for the biggest margin of victory in an NFL game ( playoff or regular season ) with a 73 – 0 victory over the Washington Redskins in the 1940 NFL Championship Game.

In the newspapers before and after 1870, the team was often called the Forest Citys, in the same generic way that the team from Chicago was sometimes called The Chicagos.

Ultimately, two of the league's western clubs went out of business during the first season and the Chicago Fire left that city's White Stockings impoverished, unable to field a team again until 1874.

By, Somers was at the end of his tether, and sold the team to a syndicate headed by Chicago railroad contractor James C. " Jack " Dunn.

The Chicago Cubs are a professional baseball team located in Chicago, Illinois.

Because the Cubs lost two seasons to the Great Chicago Fire, the Braves have played more seasons, although the Cubs hold the record for oldest team still in its original city.

The Wrigley family sold the team to the Chicago Tribune in 1981, ending a 65-year family relationship with the Cubs.

Sammy Sosa was the captain of the Chicago Cubs during his tenure with the team.

After losing the first three games of the series against the Sharks, the Red Wings won three consecutive games to force a Game 7, becoming just the eighth team in NHL history to accomplish the feat ( the Chicago Blackhawks became the seventh team to do so earlier in the 2011 Stanley Cup Playoffs, against the Vancouver Canucks ).