" When the crowd urged him to try again in four years, he told his supporters, " I may be an Aggie, but I am not crazy.

When representatives of Fulham first came across the land, in 1894, it was so overgrown that it took two years to be made suitable for football to be played on it.

When these or H-shaped goal posts are used in football, the lower portions of the posts are covered with several inches of heavy foam padding to protect the safety of the players.

When Shilton told Leicester he would not sign a professional contract unless he was guaranteed first team football, Banks found himself available for transfer, just a year after winning the World Cup.

When new professional leagues started up to challenge the NFL's post-merger monopoly on professional football, Jacksonville was ready to join.

When it was all over, Coach Rockne told his team, " That was the greatest football machine I ever saw.

When the projectile leaves the barrel, this spin lends gyroscopic stability to the projectile and prevents tumbling, in the same way that a properly thrown American football or rugby ball behaves.

When Shiver announced he was quitting to become a football coach at the University of Georgia, the job, by default, was open for Williams.

When learning positions for drill, an American football field may be divided into a 5-yard grid, with the yard lines serving as one set of guides.

) When in 1952 the Soviet Union football team lost to Yugoslavia at the Summer Olympics, Stalin ordered that all footage of the event be destroyed.

When the network launched, Fox management, having seen the critical role that sports programming ( soccer programming in particular ) had played in the growth of the British satellite service British Sky Broadcasting, believed that sports, and specifically professional football, would be the engine that would make Fox a major network the quickest.

When he was not promoted to the varsity football team in his sophomore year, Rose was dejected and lost interest in his studies.

When that moment came, after pitcher Mike Torrez caught a pop-up for the game's final out, Jackson started running at top speed off the field, actually body checking past some of these fans filling the playing field in the manner of a football linebacker.

When the KNVB continued to refuse payments in football, Excelsior chairman Henk Zon and board member Aad Libregts managed to persuade association president Hans Hopster, in cooperation with the directors of Feyenoord, Sparta and ADO Den Haag.

When football in the country resumed in 1939, Oviedo were relegated to the second division, as their pitch was deemed unplayable – Francisco Franco's troops had used the stadium as an ammunition dump.

When he was young, Zarraonandía used to play football with his neighbours.

When his playing career finished Adams went into football management, spending periods in charge of Wycombe Wanderers, Portsmouth and Azerbaijan side Gabala.

When he attempted to join the varsity football team, he was told he was too small at 5 ' 4 " tall.

When completed, it will serve as the home of the Omaha Lancers hockey team, the Omaha Beef indoor football team, and the UNO Mavericks men's basketball team.

When watching a football game featuring the character Kevin Cartwright, real life University of Michigan football play-by-play announcer Frank Beckmann can be heard saying the name of former kicker Pete Elezovick.

" When the second part of his Gloria caused a scandal, Poulenc said, " I was thinking when I composed it of these frescoes by Gozzoli with angels sticking out their tongues, and of those grave benedictines I saw once playing football.

When they were first introduced in 1957 they were very popular — perhaps because the only other similar games of chance available to the general public were the football pools ; the National Lottery did not exist until 1994.

When attending a football match once in Croke Park, he was on the field to throw in the ball.

When League football resumed after the war, Reading quickly came to prominence once again.

When a congregation of members of MTV 1879 decided on 27 February 1900 that the footballers of the club would not be allowed to join the German Football Association ( DFB ), eleven members of the football division left the congregation and on the same evening founded Fußball-Club Bayern München.

When he came to Baltimore, he was leaving a team which was supposed to win the National League pennant, and he was joining what seemed to be a second division American League club.

When the plague takes a grip on the town, Grand joins the team of volunteers, acting as general secretary, recording all the statistics.

When the team debuted in 1966, the Falcons wore red helmets with a black falcon crest logo.

When the Falcons started playing in a dome, the team switched to their dark uniforms for home games but have worn their white uniforms at home a few times since switching to the dome.

When he and the other characters are trapped in a trench under heavy attack, Bertinck, who has been injured in the firefight, spots a flamethrower team advancing on them.

When pitchers are changed in the middle of an inning, and one or more errors have already occurred, it is possible to have a run charged as earned against a specific pitcher, but unearned to the team.

When MLB adopted the addition of a second wild card team, the 2012 Division Series are scheduled to use the 2-3 format due to scheduling conflicts, which will revert back to the 2-2-1 format from 2013 onwards.

When the team first emerged in the nineteenth century it represented one nation-state, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

When the club folded after the 1870 season, Wright was hired by Boston businessman, Ivers Whitney Adams to organize a new team in Boston, and he did, bringing three teammates and the " Red Stockings " nickname along ( Most nicknames were then only nicknames, neither club names nor registered trademarks, so the migration was informal ).

When a new Cincinnati club was formed as a charter member of the National League in 1876, the " Red Stockings " nickname was commonly reserved for them once again, and the Boston team was referred to as the " Red Caps ".

When his quest to keep the team in Milwaukee finally failed after the 1965 season, he changed the group's name to Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, Inc., after the minor league baseball team he grew up watching, and devoted himself to returning Major League Baseball to Milwaukee.

When the team debuted in 1968, the Bengals ' uniforms were modeled after the Cleveland Browns.

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 team fell out of contention in mid -, Shapiro fired manager Charlie Manuel and traded pitching ace Bartolo Colón for prospects Brandon Phillips, Cliff Lee, and Grady Sizemore ; acquired Travis Hafner from the Rangers for Ryan Drese and Einar Diaz ; and picked up Coco Crisp from the St. Louis Cardinals for aging starter Chuck Finley.

When a game goes to overtime, each team is given one possession from its opponent's twenty-five yard line with no game clock, despite the one timeout per period and use of play clock.

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

When Paul refers to Priscilla and Aquila, of the seven times Priscilla and Aquila are mentioned in the New Testament, the Apostle Paul always lists them together, suggesting that he viewed them as a ministry team and also a family unit.

When Jerry Jones bought the team he inherited Schramm's Ring of Honor " power " and immediately inducted Jordan.

When the plane lands at Marseille, a French Gendarmerie assault team boards the aircraft and kills the hijackers.

When he rejected an offer from businessman Gus Mears to move Fulham to land where the present-day Chelsea stadium Stamford Bridge is situated, Mears decided to create his own team to occupy the ground.

When a defender successfully stops an attacking player ( who loses the ball over a line ), the play is stopped and restarted by the attacking team from the spot of the infraction or on the nine-meter line.

When things did not progress quickly toward that end, he put the team up for sale.

When Aaron traveled around Jacksonville, Florida and the surrounding areas, he was often separated from his team because of Jim Crow laws.