When the merger took place, all ten AFL franchises became part of the merged league's new American Football Conference ( AFC ), with three teams from the original 16-team NFL ( the Pittsburgh Steelers, Cleveland Browns, and Baltimore Colts ) joining them.

When Hunt, Adams, and Howsam were unable to secure a controlling interest in the Chicago Cardinals, they approached NFL commissioner Bert Bell and proposed the addition of expansion teams.

When playing teams, teammates usually sit at opposite corners of the star, with each team member controlling his / her own set of pieces.

When the Taliban refused to hand over bin Laden to US authorities and to disband al-Qaeda bases in Afghanistan, Operation Enduring Freedom was launched in which teams of American and British special forces worked with commanders of the United Front ( Northern Alliance ) against the Taliban.

When South Africa reached 248 / 8, Cronje declared ; both teams then forfeited an innings leaving England a target of 249 to win the Test, which they did with two wickets left and only five balls remaining.

When Rex Ryan was hired as the team's head coach, the rivalry further escalated due to an increased war of words between both teams.

When the Athletics first joined the American League, the two teams played each other in a spring and fall series.

When the party is represented by members in the lower house of parliament, the party leader simultaneously serves as the leader of the parliamentary group of that full party representation ; depending on a minimum number of seats held, Westminster-based parties typically allow for leaders to form frontbench teams of senior fellow members of the parliamentary group to serve as critics of aspects of government policy.

When the national teams, assembled in formation on the infield, saw the flowing figure of Nurmi, they broke ranks like excited schoolchildren, dashing toward the edge of the track.

When it came to the confrontation with both Avengers teams, the Savage Land natives, and the heroes from the ship, Mister Fantastic and Abigail Brand used a laser to identify the heroes from the ship as Skrulls.

When both teams ' bands are present, it is common protocol for the visiting band to perform first.

When integrating C, C ++, Object Pascal, Java, Fortran, Python, and any other language or OS into a single cohesive system design model, CORBA provides the means to level the field and allow disparate teams to develop systems and unit tests that can later be joined together into a whole system.

When af2 legally folded, some teams joined the af2 Board of Directors in forming the new Arena Football One that became the new Arena Football League.

When the Northern League consisted of between eight and twelve teams, it played a split season 96-game schedule with two divisions from late May until early September.

When the league dropped to six teams in 2008, it still played a 96-game schedule, but did not split the season and did not have divisions.

When the Spurs won the NBA title, the teams ' victory parade has always included the team traveling on the San Antonio River on boats adjacent to the San Antonio River Walk.

When two teams tied at the top of the standings in 1932, an impromptu playoff game was scheduled to settle the tie.

When the league expanded to 10 teams beginning in 2009 – 10, the finals expanded to six teams.

When the two teams met in that year's Cup final ( 1 – 0 for Athletic ), the match ended with several players fighting in the field.

The Saints ' anthem is the popular sport tune When the Saints Go Marching In, and since the club's official nickname is " the Saints ", they are one of only a few teams who do not change the original lyric.

When these two schools combine teams they are known as Britton / Deerfield or BD and adopted the mascot " Patriots " in 2008 thanks to the push for a mascot by parents of students in the program.

When bypassed by the Northern Pacific Railroad in December 1884, over 100 buildings were moved with rollers and horse teams to the nearby site of the depot.

When Howe turned 40 in 1967 – 68, the league expanded from six to twelve teams and the number of scoring opportunities grew as the game schedule increased.

When MANPADS is operated by specialists, batteries may have several dozen teams deploying separately in small sections ; self-propelled air defence guns may deploy in pairs.

When you start the outdoor performance, you can stay outdoors without a dozen running trips into the kitchen.

When they were forced to, Central Worlds shrugged its shoulders, arranged a tour of the Laboratory Schools and set the tour off to a big start by showing the members case histories, complete with photographs.

When all of a player's checkers are in that player's home board, that player may start removing them ; this is called bearing off.

When the trumpet signal for the start rang out, Antony's fleet began issuing from the straits, and the ships moved into line and remained quiet.

When it gets to the second half of the season the Panthers will start to wear their colored jerseys for home games as temperatures will be cooler.

* When the first half ends, the team which kicked to start the first half may receive a kickoff to start the second half.

When using this definition, or may be the start symbol.

When the bridge was in use, boaters would signal the operator, who would start a diesel engine and rotate the bridge to the open position on a large gear.

When populations within a species become isolated by geography, feeding strategy, mate selection, or other means, they may start to differ from other populations through genetic drift and natural selection, and over time may evolve into new species.

When used in science, for example geology, eras denote clearly defined periods of time of arbitrary but well defined length, such as for example the Mesozoic Era from 252 Ma – 66 Ma, delimited by a start event and an end event.

When faced by an exceptionally loud stadium, players may be unable to hear the snap count, and are forced to concentrate more on visual cues ( silent snap count or a hard count ), or risk false start penalties.

* When the user first opens their web browser, it automatically brings you to this page, which is also sometimes called the start page.

When ready, the grain is immersed or " steeped " in water two or three times over two or three days to allow the grain to absorb moisture and to start to sprout.

La Russa said, " I think it's fair to say he misunderstood how he compared to Royce in spring training ... When I and the coaches evaluated the play in spring training — the whole game — Royce started very slowly offensively and you could see him start to get better.

When the Spanish Ambassador asked for pardon for having killed a man, the Pope replied that he did not want to start his reign with such auspices as absolution from homicide, and ordered the appropriate tribunals to observe the law.

When two prairie dogs encounter each other at the edges of their territories, they will start staring, make bluff charges, flare their tails, chatter their teeth, and sniff each other's perianal scent glands.

When this drop becomes sufficiently large, the vocal folds start to oscillate.

When a sequence of start bit, 5 data bits and stop bit arrives at the input of the teleprinter, it is converted to a 5-bit word and passed to the printer or VDU.

When Ian Craig fell ill at the start of the 1958-59 season, Benaud was promoted to the captaincy ahead of vice-captain Neil Harvey.

When food is abundant a slime mold exists as a single-celled organism, but when food is in short supply, slime molds congregate and start moving as a single body.

When Richard Pryor came back from Africa, and decided to stop using the word onstage, he would sometimes start to slip up, because he was so used to speaking that way.

When he visited Russia, Powell went to the graves of 600, 000 people who died during the siege of Leningrad and saying that he could not believe a people who had suffered so much would willingly start another war.

When the racing car passes the start / finish line the lap time and the racing position is shown on the score board.

When a bacterium detects environmental conditions are becoming unfavourable it may start the process of endosporulation, which takes about eight hours.