11.   Perhaps more remarkably, the Braves have faced seven different franchises in their eight visits to the NLCS.

12.   Shula was the first coach to lead two different franchises into a Super Bowl.

13.   The Houston Astros are a different franchise than where we began.

14.   The Rieses won and went on to establish other such food courts, some containing as many as eight different franchises.

15.   There would be a postseason bidding session in which cities could make a run at different franchises.

16.   They all look back on that team now as if it were a completely different franchise.

17.   Knox is the only coach in the history of the NFL to win division championships for three different franchises.

18.   That may not be enough to make Parcells the first coach to win the Super Bowl with two different franchises.

19.   Then Bill Parcells, only the second man ever to coach two different franchises in a Super Bowl, moved on to the New York Jets.

20.   Rumours of a mass defection of Giordano franchisees was unfounded as the directors knew of only one who had changed to a different franchise, it said.