In the six-plus decades since winning the championship in 1947, the team suffered many losing seasons, and currently hold the league's longest active championship drought.

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.

The team suffered a tragedy during spring training of, when a boat carrying pitchers Steve Olin, Tim Crews, and Bob Ojeda crashed into a pier.

A highlight of the season was a 22 – 0 victory over the New York Yankees on August 31, one of the worst defeats suffered by the Yankees in team history.

" Bum " Bright purchased the Dallas Cowboys from Clint Murchison, Jr. As the Cowboys suffered through progressively poorer seasons ( from 10 – 6 in 1985 to 7 – 9 in 1986, 7 – 8 in 1987, and 3 – 13 in 1988 ), Bright became disenchanted with the 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.

During this period, the Bombers suffered a humiliation at the hands of Sydney who became the only team ever to kick two hundred points in three quarters.

As it turned out, 2006 would prove to be the worst season for Essendon under Sheedy, and its worst in over 70 years, with a multitude of injuries and poor form affecting the team, none more so than the serious hamstring injury suffered by newly appointed captain Lloyd.

But the team lost its next two games, and suffered embarrassing losses to the Houston Texans over the course of the season ( Jacksonville has struggled against the Texans since Houston entered the league in 2002 ).

From 2008 the team further suffered from the late-2000s recession, which hit Florida particularly hard, and structural changes within the NFL that disadvantage teams in smaller markets.

His team suffered poor reliability during this period and motorsport authors Mike Lawrence and David Hodges have said that Brabham's reluctance to spend money may have cost the team results, a view echoed by Tauranac.

Despite the promising off-season moves, the team suffered critical bullpen injuries while the newly signed Davis hurlers both experienced lackluster performances throughout the 1990 campaign.

On July 7, the team suffered a major blow when Justin Morneau sustained a concussion, which knocked him out for the rest of the season.

The team discovers the small Tyrathca settlement, a race of ( socially ) insect-like Aliens who have suffered great losses to attacks by possessed humans, passing by a small temple being constructed even though the Tyrathca race do not have religion.

Their 73-year old owner Art Rooney founded the Steelers as a 1933 NFL expansion team, but suffered through losing seasons for most of its 42-year history and had never made it to an NFL championship game or a Super Bowl.

But in the late 1980s, the team suffered several losing seasons, including a 3-13 regular season record in 1988.

San Diego suffered losing seasons in the 1980s until former Washington Redskins General Manager Bobby Beathard joined the team in 1990.

After a brief winning era in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the team suffered through 14 consecutive losing seasons.

The team suffered relegation to Division Two in 1900 – 01, their first season at The Hawthorns.

Germany suffered an early defeat to Serbia and Montenegro, and qualified for the main round as the third and final team from their group, having drawn with France as well.

Despite their on-field success, the Pride suffered as a result of having one of the lowest average attendances and being the farthest team from the core of the league.

The 2007 Rascals finished last in the league in both fielding and pitching and offense suffered after the team lost first baseman Bobby Mosby in a trade to the Northern League and outfielder Phil Laurent, who was signed by the San Diego Padres.

As the 1974 – 1975 season began, Abdul-Jabbar suffered a hand injury and the team got off to a 3 – 13 start.

The squad had a notable Irish orientation, with the Irish national team contributing six players to the 21-man squad.

One notable exception to this rule is if the kicking team on a 3rd down punt play is penalized before the kick occurs: the receiving team may not decline the penalty and take over on downs.

The leader of the creative team was director Shinichiro Watanabe, most notable at the time for directing the futuristic adventure anime OVA series Macross Plus and Mobile Suit Gundam.

Corbino helped Fermi in selecting his team, which soon was joined by notable minds like Edoardo Amaldi, Bruno Pontecorvo, Franco Rasetti and Emilio Segrè.

The most notable other sports team is the ice hockey team Malmö Redhawks.

In the offseason, the Brewers would lose many of their spot players that had helped them during the season, such as Mark Kotsay, Jerry Hairston Jr., and Craig Counsell but their most notable loss was that of Prince Fielder, who would leave the team via free agency after having been a part of the Brewers organization for almost a decade.

In one notable incident, when an away team was trapped on a radioactive planet, the Doctor was able to infiltrate the people and almost single-handedly rescue the team because, as he pointed out, being a hologram renders him immune to the radiation, stating that " being a hologram does have its advantages.

A notable local basketball team is twice European Champions Cup finalist Lukoil Akademik.

Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane began applying sabermetric principles to running his low-budget team in the late 1990s, to notable effect, as chronicled in Michael Lewis ' book Moneyball.

The team produced one notable professional baseball player in Chad Zerbe who pitched for the San Francisco Giants from 2000-2003 including Three appearances in the 2002 World Series against the Anaheim Angels.

The Eskimos are also notable for being the first crossover team to ever win the divisional semifinal game.

The team included many notable physicists including Ralph H. Fowler, Douglas Hartree and Arthur Milne.

His first notable result in a major tournament was his gold medal win as first reserve for the Russian team in the 1992 Chess Olympiad in Manila.

A notable example is Arkady Gaydar, himself a Red Army soldier in Russian Civil War: his stories and plays about Timur describe a team of young pioneer volunteers who help the eldery and resist hooligans.

Tri-Central's other notable information / achievements are: High Ability / honors instruction at all grade levels, 2012 Tri-Central High School seniors received in excess of $ 750, 000 in awards and scholar-ships, senior trip to Washington D. C. and New York City, musical productions by the school's elite choir, and instrumental performances by the schools state recognized gold rating marching band, and concert band, 8 AP classes with many students scoring 3 and above on AP exams — 10 % more than last year — ranked 13th in the state, state recognition for percentage of students enrolled in AP classes — only 35 schools recognized, state recognized academic team, Dual Credit courses as well as access to many on-line courses, 11 school-wide computer labs and 4 student computers in each elementary classroom, elementary athletic opportunities in youth soccer, cheerleading, football, basketball, and wrestling, Elementary music, art, computer technology and physical education classes each week, Accelerated reading K-12 and operation Drop Everything And Read in the secondary, and this reading program is year-round for the middle and high school.

The most notable highlight of the Games involved the United States men's ice hockey team.

Its notable former pupils include: ex-England Rugby players Rob Andrew, now Director of Elite Rugby for the Rugby Football Union ( RFU ), the Underwood brothers, Tony and Rory along with present England player Mathew Tait and his younger brother Alex, member of the Newcastle Falcons and England U20s team.

One notable member of the 2003 championship football team was Darcel McBath, who was recruited by and played for the Texas Tech University Red Raiders and drafted in the third round of the 2010 NFL Draft by the Denver Broncos.

The team included later notable NFL stars such as David Overstreet, a former running back for the Oklahoma Sooners and Miami Dolphins, and Lovie Smith, head coach of the Chicago Bears.

Among other notable achievements by Taylor ISD this in 2011-2012, students from Taylor ISD won their fifth invitation to the World Odyssey of the Mind competitions, and the high school academic decathlon team won 2nd place at the state's highest academic competition, the Academic Decathlon.

These meetings produced a considerable number of notable events and characters to JSA history, including Black Canary leaving to join the Justice League, the return of the Golden Age team the Seven Soldiers of Victory, the creation of the Freedom Fighters, ( which incorporated several Quality Comics characters into DC continuity after the characters were purchased by DC Comics ), and the introduction of a number of other alternative Earths to house these other teams.

The game was also notable for being the first time that the Brazil team had been shut out in 3 consecutive matches against France, now has a 2 – 1 – 1 all-time record in 1986, 1998 and 2006 in World Cup matches.