On December 6, 2001, Arthur M. Blank, the co-founder and retired co-chairman of Atlanta-based Home Depot, reached a preliminary agreement with the Falcons ’ Taylor Smith to purchase the team.

The runner who reached on the error comes around to score, and his run is unearned to both the prior pitcher and the team.

Later in the same year, he captained the West Indies team in Australia for the Bicentennial Youth World Cup where the West Indies reached the semi-finals.

The 1985 team is also remembered for recording the song " The Super Bowl Shuffle ", which reached number forty-one on the Billboard Hot 100 and was nominated for a Grammy Award.

Through the rest of the decade, the team made the playoffs every year, and reached the Finals three more times.

The team under Bobby Robson fared better as England reached the quarter-finals of the 1986 World Cup, losing 2 – 1 to Argentina in a game made famous by two goals by Maradona for very contrasting reasons, before losing every match at the Euro 88 tournament.

As many regular players reached excellent gaming skills, diplomacy became essential, so team games slowly started to replace free-for-all games from around 2002.

A new, larger, trophy was bought by the FA in 1911 designed and manufactured by Fattorini's of Bradford and won by Bradford City in its first outing, the only time a team from Bradford has reached the final.

He and the team reached the European Cup semifinal in 1988 and the final in the following year.

Hagi led the Romanian team to its best ever international performance at the 1994 World Cup, where the team reached the quarterfinals before Sweden ended their run after winning the penalty shoot-out.

He reached the two-legged final of the FA Youth Cup with Chesterfield in 1956, losing 4 – 3 on aggregate to the Manchester United team of the famous Busby Babes.

Further disappointment followed in the 1983 – 1984 season when the team again reached the Coppa Italia final, only to lose the Cup in the final minutes of the return match against defending Serie A champions Roma.

In 1988 the team had its best international result when it reached the UEFA Cup quarter-finals with four victories and three draws.

The move triggered a flurry of legal activity that ended when representatives of Baltimore and the Colts organization reached a settlement on March 1986 in which all lawsuits regarding the relocation were dismissed, and the Colts would endorse a new NFL team for Baltimore.

Reserve team manager Jimmy Murphy took over as manager while Busby recovered from his injuries and the club's makeshift side reached the FA Cup final, which they lost to Bolton Wanderers.

The team won promotion at the first attempt and reached the FA Cup final in 1976, but were beaten by Southampton.

The American League opposed the move at first, but in 1960 a deal was reached: The Senators would move and would be replaced with an expansion Senators team for 1961.

In September 2004, the Brewers announced they had reached a verbal agreement with Los Angeles investment banker Mark Attanasio to purchase the team for a reported US $ 223 million.

After having ignored shouts and kept the spectators in suspense for a while, he turned into the right direction, realized his situation and reached the finish to take 12th place and secure team gold.

A group of investors from St. Petersburg led by Vince Naimoli reached an agreement to purchase the team and move them to the Tampa Bay Area, but National League owners voted against the acquisition.

The lacrosse team plays in the MCLA, and has reached the final four of the national tournament five times.

In 2009, an agreement was reached for a joint University of Pennsylvania and Iraqi team to resume archaeological work at the site of Ur.

However in 2003, a team of American accountants – hired by Arafat's own finance ministry – began examining Arafat's finances ; this team reached a different conclusion.

Although they failed to make the playoffs in 2009, the streak ended when the team rallied to win their final three regular season games to record back-to-back winning seasons for the first time in franchise history.

in 2012, the playoffs were expanded again so that two wild card teams face off in a one game wild card round to determine which team advances to the division series, with the playoffs then continuing as it had before 2012 ( though with the possibilty of a fifth seed being in the playoffs and a fourth seed being out ) after the end of the wild card round.

The Milwaukee Brewers benefited from these events by qualifying in the playoffs as a Wild Card team, to lose to the Philadelphia Phillies, the eventual World Series winner.

This late-season loss kept Carolina from winning the division and forced them to enter the playoffs as a wild card team.

The team took a risk by recording and releasing the song before the playoffs had even begun, but were able to avoid embarrassment by going on to win Super Bowl XX by a then-record margin of 46 – 10.

Then, after the team appeared in the playoffs in 1990, Paul Brown died.

Under Palmer, the team advanced to the playoffs for the first time since 1990 in the 2005 season, which also was the first time the team had a winning percentage above. 500 since 1990.

As a result of the Rockies ' remarkable September run, the team finished the regular season tied with the Padres for the National League wild card spot in the playoffs.

Selection for the playoffs is determined by a selection committee, although usually a team must have a 7-4 record to even be considered.

The Cowboys are the only NFL team to record 20 straight winning seasons ( 1966 – 85 ), in which they only missed the playoffs twice ( 1974 and 1984 ), an NFL record that remains unchallenged.

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.

Following the 1926 Stanley Cup playoffs, during which the Western Hockey League was widely reported to be on the verge of folding, the NHL held a meeting on April 17 to consider applications for expansion franchises, at which it was reported that five different groups sought a team for Detroit.

The Cougars made the Stanley Cup playoffs for the first time in 1929 with Carson Cooper leading the team in scoring.

Detroit would become the first team in 17 years to go undefeated in the playoffs.

The following season Yzerman scored 62 goals, but the team missed the playoffs ( which as of 2012 is the most recent time they did so ).

In 2001, Detroit, the league's second-best team in the regular season, were upset in the playoffs by the Los Angeles Kings.

The Wings again faced the Phoenix Coyotes in the first round of the playoffs, this time sweeping them 4 – 0 — making them the only team in the 2010-2011 Stanley Cup Playoffs to sweep the first round — and again moved on to play the Sharks in Round 2.

It was under quarterback Peyton Manning that the Colts saw their greatest success with the team appearing in the playoffs nine consecutive seasons, which is tied for a league record.

Dungy and the team quickly changed the atmosphere of the organization and returned to the playoffs in 2002 with a 10 – 6 record.