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KCRA-TV

KCRA-TV (channel 3) is a television station in Sacramento, California, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is owned by Hearst Television alongside Stockton-licensed dual CW/MyNetworkTV affiliate KQCA (channel 58). The two stations share studios on Television Circle off D Street in downtown Sacramento; KCRA-TV's transmitter is located in Walnut Grove, California.

History
The station first signed on the air on September 3, 1955. It was founded by the Central Valley Broadcasting Company, a partnership of the Kelly and Hansen families of Sacramento. Central Valley Broadcasting also owned KCRA radio (1320 AM, now KIFM, and 96.1 FM, now KYMX); the AM station's call letters were intended to be "KRCA", but the middle two letters were erroneously transposed by a typist at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) when that station's original license was drafted in 1945 and was never corrected. By the time KCRA-TV went on the air, the KRCA call letters had already been taken the previous year by NBC's owned-and-operated station in Los Angeles (originally KNBH, now KNBC). The station's longtime original studios were located at 310 10th Street in Sacramento. KCRA-TV inherited the NBC affiliation from KCCC-TV (channel 40, channel now occupied by Fox affiliate KTXL), which became the Sacramento market's first television station when it signed on in September 1953, which had also carried affiliations with ABC, CBS and DuMont until other stations debuted in the market. However, it in turn also received the affiliation as a result of KCRA radio's decade-long affiliation with the NBC Radio Network. KCRA was the third of the Sacramento area's VHF stations to sign on exactly within a year behind KXTV (channel 10) and Stockton-licensed KOVR (channel 13)—all signing on in six-month increments.

In 1959, under the direction of then chief engineer, William Herbert Hartman, construction began on a new 1,549 ft transmission tower near Walnut Grove to transmit the signals of KCRA-TV, KXTV and KOVR; the tower was completed in 1961. Upon the death of KCRA co-founder Ewing C. Kelly in 1960, son Bob Kelly (who was KCRA's station manager, commercial manager and film buyer) became president of KCRA, Inc., while son Jon Kelly (who served as its local sales manager) was named general manager.

In January 1962, KCRA-TV began transmitting its signal from the Walnut Grove tower, which became the tallest structure in the state. In April of that year, the FCC approved the sale of the Hansen brothers' 50% share of the KCRA stations to Bob, Jon and their mother Nina Kelly; the company then changed its name to Kelly Broadcasting Company. In September 1968, KCRA-FM's call letters were changed to KCTC. The radio stations were sold to the Tribune Company in September 1977, with the sale being finalized in July 1978; KCRA (AM) changed its calls to KGNR in August of that year.

In 1965, the station began using color film for use in its newscasts. A station press release at that time claimed that KCRA was the first station in Sacramento with videotape, the first NBC affiliate with "network color" programming, and the first station to utilize color film, slide and videotape footage. Starting in 1975, it began using remote cameras for live news reports. In 1979, the station began using helicopters and eventually, satellite remotes for newsgathering. On September 10, 1966, Bob Wilkins began hosting a Saturday night horror movie showcase called Seven Arts Theatre; Wilkins later moved his show to KTXL, and then to KTVU in Oakland in the 1970s.

In the mid-1990s, KCRA was carried nationally on the PrimeStar digital satellite television service as an out-of-market distant local network for customers who lived in a market where a local NBC affiliate was absent or otherwise unavailable with an antenna. KCRA's national carriage on PrimeStar ended when the satellite service was acquired by DirecTV in September 1999; DirecTV customers were offered Los Angeles NBC station KNBC instead.

Like other local stations, KCRA developed an in-house production facility, with local children's programming, newsmagazines and talk shows. By the beginning of the 21st century, KCRA became the first station in the Sacramento market to broadcast programming in high definition. Kelly Broadcasting continued to own and operate KCRA-TV until January 1999, when it was purchased by Hearst-Argyle Television (which was renamed Hearst Television in 2009).

In early 2004, KCRA opened an exhibit, "The KCRA 3 Experience", at the Arden Fair Mall, allowing visitors to see a KCRA newscast be produced live. KCRA's noon newscast was broadcast from the complex until late 2008 when production of the program was moved back to the 3 Television Circle studios.

KCRA, along with Fox affiliate KTXL, are the only Sacramento television stations to have never changed their network affiliations, as they were unaffected by affiliation swaps in 1995 (when KXTV acquired the ABC affiliation from KOVR, which in turn, switched to CBS) and 1998 (when KMAX-TV—channel 31—took UPN from now-sister station KQCA, which switched from UPN to The WB).

KCRA 3.2
In early 2005, KCRA debuted a localized version of NBC Weather Plus on digital subchannel 3.2. After NBC Weather Plus shut down in December 2008 (following NBCUniversal's purchase of The Weather Channel), the subchannel continued to use the Weather Plus branding as part of the successor NBC Plus automated weather service until late 2008.

On August 2, 2010, digital subchannel 3.2 was reformatted as "MoreTV Sacramento", a locally programmed channel that featured second-runs of syndicated programs seen locally on KCRA and sister station KQCA; the "MoreTV" branding had previously been used by Tampa sister station WMOR-TV and KCWE in Kansas City during the early and mid-2000s. The channel ran a mix of sitcoms (such as Roseanne, The Cosby Show and That '70s Show), dramas (Law & Order: SVU) and talk shows (Maury, Jerry Springer and The Dr. Oz Show). It also aired select KCRA newscasts, including rebroadcasts KCRA's 6 p.m. newscast at 7 p.m. and KCRA's 10 p.m. and KQCA's 11 p.m. newscasts at midnight; as well as a simulcast of KCRA's noon newscast. Until October 15, 2010, KCRA continued to run Weather Plus programming during the early morning hours (Salinas sister station KSBW also carried a prime time syndicated programming lineup, branded as "KSBW PrimePLUS+", on its second digital subchannel from around the same time as the "MoreTV" launch until February 1, 2011).

On July 24, 2012, Hearst Television renewed its affiliation agreement with MeTV to maintain existing affiliations with eight Hearst-owned stations currently carrying the digital multicast network through 2015. As part of the renewal, Hearst also signed agreements to add the network as digital subchannels of KCRA and sister stations WCVB-TV in Boston, WBAL-TV in Baltimore, KOCO-TV in Oklahoma City and WXII-TV in Greensboro. Digital subchannel 3.2 assumed the MeTV affiliation on September 3, 2012, replacing the "MoreTV" format.

Programming
Over the years, KCRA has preempted some NBC programming, notably the soap opera Another World. That show would air on the station for a brief time, but was preempted again due to low ratings—this was the case with CBS station KOVR (channel 13), which did not run Guiding Light due to poor ratings; the latter program had not aired at all in the market since KXTV (channel 10) dropped it in the early 1990s when it was a CBS affiliate. Eventually, Another World would air instead on future sister station KQCA (at the time, under a local marketing agreement) until the show's cancellation in 1999. Given its format as a news-intensive station, KCRA also preempted the weekend edition of Today and the Saturday morning T-NBC lineup during the 1990s, to run a weekend morning newscast. It also aired a 4:30 p.m. newscast, pushing Days of Our Lives' start time back a half-hour earlier than the typical practice; that newscast ended after the station began airing The Oprah Winfrey Show; in September 2002; since then, Days aired at the network-recommended 1 p.m. timeslot on weekdays until the show's move to streaming service Peacock in September 2022. However, despite NBC's historically low tolerance towards program preemptions, the network has been more than satisfied with KCRA, given its near-total ratings dominance in the Sacramento market.

Currently, KCRA airs Today 3rd Hour on a one-hour delay due to Live with Kelly and Mark airing in the 9 a.m. timeslot (until 1999, the show aired on KOVR, even back in its days as an ABC station); the fourth hour used to air after a repeat of the 11 p.m. newscast at 2:12 a.m. (when NBC rebroadcast the fourth hour nationally as part of its overnight schedule); sister stations KSBW-TV in Salinas, California, WXII-TV in Greensboro, WBAL-TV in Baltimore and WYFF in Greenville, South Carolina also opted to delay the fourth hour of Today until the overnight hours, but on March 28, 2022, the rebroadcast of the fourth hour was replaced by a rebroadcast of NBC News Now's Top Story with Tom Llamas, effectively preempting the program altogether and becoming the only current NBC program to not air on KCRA. Other syndicated programming seen on KCRA includes Access Hollywood and its live counterpart, The Kelly Clarkson Show, and Extra. The first three are distributed by NBC's corporate cousin.

Occasionally as time permits, sister station KQCA may air NBC network programs whenever KCRA is unable to in the event of extended breaking news coverage or scheduled special programming or run KCRA newscasts in their scheduled airtimes due to overruns or scheduled preemptions resulting from network sports coverage airing on channel 3.

KCRA carried select Sacramento Kings games through the network's broadcast contract with the NBA from 1990 to 2002.

News operation
KCRA presently broadcasts 45 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with $7 1/2$ hours each weekday, four hours on Saturdays and $3 1/2$ hours on Sundays). KCRA also produces 22 hours a week of local newscasts for sister station KQCA with a three-hour extension of KCRA's weekday morning newscast from 7 to 10 a.m. and a nightly full-hour prime time broadcast at 10 p.m., with a total of 67 hours of locally produced newscasts combined. The station's longtime slogan, "Where The News Comes First", has become a symbol for its news coverage. The slogan was first used by KCRA in December 1958 (Kelly filed to trademark the slogan in 1980) and has been licensed to other television stations. KCRA has long been the dominant news station in the Sacramento market, with some newscasts having more viewers than the competing stations combined. The station credited the high ratings to a stable news team and being the only station with a news helicopter.

From 1991 to 1993, KCRA (later to be joined by KRON-TV and KPIX in San Francisco) participated in an experiment in which prime time programming would air one hour earlier (from 7 to 10 p.m., mirroring typical network scheduling in the Central, Mountain and Hawaii Time Zones, instead of the standard 8 to 11 p.m. slot for Pacific Time Zone stations). The early prime time idea led to only a slight decrease in KCRA's ratings, and its 10 p.m. newscast remained the highest-rated late local news program on the West Coast. A station survey showed that 63% of viewers thought a 10 p.m. newscast was a good idea. However, pressure from NBC, who threatened to yank the station's affiliation, forced KCRA to end the practice and revert to the time zone's standard prime time scheduling, announcing its demise a week after KRON-TV discontinued the experiment; however, it also resulted in KCRA beginning a 10 p.m. newscast on channel 58, which was then KSCH. KOVR would itself switch to an early prime time schedule two years later after switching to CBS.

Under Hearst ownership, KCRA has either hosted or co-hosted many gubernatorial debates within California, often with political reporter Kevin Riggs serving as moderator and one other personality hosting the debate. Many of these debates are simulcast on sister station KSBW in Salinas. A notable example of such is the debate between Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown.

From about 1960 until the late 1980s, its logo was an Arabic numeral 3 inside a green square with rounded corners and convex sides (to represent the shape of a TV tube). The current logo, a partially modified version of the original design, was adopted in the late 1980s. Also, it referred to its newscasts as Channel 3 Reports rather than Channel 3 News. The branding was slightly modified after the Hearst purchase to KCRA 3 Reports, even as its newscasts on KQCA began to be titled as KCRA 3 News. However, in August 2009, KCRA retitled its 11 p.m. newscast as the KCRA 3 Night Team. In July 2011, the Reports branding was phased out from the station's news branding, which changed to KCRA 3 News.

In late December 2005, KCRA began using a new "Triple Doppler" system for weather reports. In addition to KCRA's own Doppler weather radar system at Walnut Grove, range and accuracy were increased by adding data from NEXRAD sites operated by the National Weather Service located north of Reno on Virginia Peak, south of San Jose on Mount Umunhum, and at Beale Air Force Base.

On February 12, 2007, KCRA became the first television station in the Sacramento market and the first among Hearst-Argyle's station portfolio to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition (with the exception of its noon newscast until 2008 as it was still broadcasting in standard-definition at Arden Fair Mall); this came with the introduction of a new news set designed by FX Group and upgrades to its news helicopter, LiveCopter 3. Upon the conversion to HD, the KCRA logo was modified to include the NBC peacock logo and an "HD" lettering. Only in-studio cameras record in HD, while the helicopter's camera, field cameras and other station camera feeds are in standard definition and are upconverted to a 16:9 widescreen format in the control room. In September 2008, KCRA began using a new "Triple Doppler" system with high-definition graphics. As of August 25, 2010, with KSBW upgrading its newscasts to HD, both KCRA and KSBW now share resources in this format when covering news stories from their respective markets.

On December 21, 2015, KCRA announced the addition of a new 4 p.m. newscast, anchored by Lisa Gonzales and Brian Heap. The newscast premiered on January 25, 2016. A Spanish-subtitled simulcast of KCRA's 5 p.m. newscast was added to sister station KQCA's Estrella TV subchannel on September 5, 2017. This newscast was not in direct competition with any Spanish-language newscast in the market until March 18, 2020, when Telemundo owned-and-operated station KCSO-LD launched newscasts at 5 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. On April 23, 2018, KCRA began its expanded weekday morning newscast with an extra half-hour starting at 4 a.m.

In March 2020, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, the station added an additional hour of news and launched a new 7 p.m. newscast that airs on weekdays. The newscast remains on-air today as a half-hour program.

Notable former on-air staff

 * Miguel Almaguer – reporter (2003–2006; later with Los Angeles-based correspondent for NBC News)
 * Stan Atkinson – anchor (1959–1963, 1976–1994; later moved to KOVR in Sacramento, now retired)
 * Maurice DuBois – anchor/reporter (now at WCBS-TV in New York City)
 * Jim Finnerty – host of local talk show Finnerty and Company (later renamed Look Who's Talking)
 * Gary Gerould – sports anchor (now radio play-by-play for the Sacramento Kings)
 * John Gibson – Bay Area correspondent (now at Fox News Channel)
 * David Gregory (moderator of Meet the Press from 2008–2014)
 * Kristine Hanson – sports anchor/weather anchor/entertainment reporter (1980s; former Playboy Playmate)
 * Lois Hart – 5 and 6:30 p.m. anchor (1990–2008; retired)
 * Bob Hogue – sports director (early 1980s, former Hawaiian State Senator)
 * Joe Lizura – meteorologist (1987–1989, moved to WLWT in Cincinnati, then KNSD and KUSI-TV in San Diego, now CEO at Allowance Media Group)
 * Joan Lunden (1970s as first television job; she later changed her surname to Lunden, moved to ABC's Good Morning America)
 * Rob Mayeda – meteorologist/anchor/reporter (1999–2000; now at KNTV in San Jose–San Francisco)
 * Byron Miranda – meteorologist (now with WPIX in New York)
 * Leyna Nguyen – anchor/reporter (now at KCAL in Los Angeles)
 * Jeff Ranieri – meteorologist (2000–2005; later at MSNBC/NBC Weather Plus, now chief meteorologist at KNTV in San Jose/San Francisco)
 * Bianca Solorzano – weekend morning anchor/reporter (1999–2003; now a CBS News correspondent in New York City)
 * Kaity Tong – anchor/reporter (1979–1981; now at WPIX in New York City)
 * David Walker – 5 and 6:30 p.m. anchor (1990–2008; retired)
 * Pamela Wu – weekend anchor/reporter (2001–2009; now director of marketing and communications at the University of California, Davis School of Law (King Hall)

Notable incidents
On January 4, 2020, a fire broke out at KCRA's main building on Television Circle in Sacramento. The fire was contained to an older portion of the building that had been used as storage, but was otherwise mostly abandoned. Despite forcing the evacuation of some staff, the station remained on-air, broadcasting the West Coast feed of Saturday Night Live while firefighters worked to extinguish the blaze.

During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, KCRA, like many local stations, modified its news practices to allow reporters to file news packages from remote locations, including their homes. On April 17, 2020, San Joaquin County Bureau Chief Melinda Meza filed a news story on the difficulties hair stylists were facing during a state-mandated quarantine order. At the end of her report, a nude man was visible in the background as Meza filmed herself in her bathroom. The uncensored segment aired during the station's 6:30 p.m. newscast, generating a significant amount of social media attention. A few hours later, Meza deleted an Instagram post and a tweet promoting the story. No one from the station or its parent company Hearst had commented on the incident. On July 31, 2020, Meza was fired from the station.

In December 2020, KCRA and several other news organizations were sued in federal court for copyright infringement stemming from the re-use of a Canadian photographer's wildlife images without authorization or payment.

On June 5, 2023, a video surfaced showing KCRA reporters, photographers and producers cheering wildly after receiving a regional Emmy award for their coverage of the 2022 Sacramento shooting, one of the worst mass shootings in Sacramento history. The celebration came while the presenter of the award was reading the title of the entry, Six Killed in Downtown Sacramento Shooting. The cheering drew strong condemnation from people in attendance immediately after the ceremony, and from the public after a local journalist posted a clip of the incident online.

Subchannels
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Analog-to-digital conversion
KCRA-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 3, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 35, using virtual channel 3.

As part of the SAFER Act, KCRA ran a looping DTV program (also known as "nightlight service") for 30 days after the transition. The looping program aired public service announcements in English and Spanish about the digital transition.

Carriage disputes
For years, residents in South Lake Tahoe received KCRA via cable, even though the latter community fell outside the Sacramento media market as defined by Nielsen. In 2018, Charter Communications via its Spectrum cable service stopped distributing KCRA to residents in South Lake Tahoe, opting to distribute Reno NBC affiliate KRNV on an exclusive basis. Charter said its decision was based on an FCC rule that required it to only carry programming from a network affiliate in a designated media market. The move angered residents of South Lake Tahoe, with many saying Charter's decision to drop KCRA left cable customers without access to local news and election information. Officials in El Dorado County petitioned the FCC to annex South Lake Tahoe from the Reno market into the Sacramento market. Similarly, due to Hearst's demands for additional funds to carry out–of–market stations, KCRA was dropped by Comcast in Chico, Redding, Benicia, and Vallejo, which are served by KNVN and KNTV.

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Susan Sullivan

Susan Sullivan is an American actress known for her roles as Lenore Curtin Delaney on the NBC daytime soap opera Another World (1971–76), as Lois Adams on the ABC sitcom It's a Living (1980–81), as Maggie Gioberti Channing on the CBS primetime soap opera Falcon Crest (1981–90), as Kitty Montgomery on the ABC sitcom Dharma & Greg (1997–2002), and as Martha Rodgers on Castle (2009–2016). She earned an Emmy nomination for Lead Actress for the role of Julie Farr in the 1978 series Julie Farr, M.D. and a Golden Globe nomination for Supporting Actress for her role in Dharma & Greg.

Life and career
Sullivan was born in New York City, the daughter of Helen (née Rockett) and Brendan Sullivan, an advertising executive. She was raised on Long Island in Freeport, Nassau County, where she graduated from Freeport High School in 1960. She earned a BA in drama from Hofstra University in 1964.

She got her start in acting in the 1960s playing opposite Dustin Hoffman in the Broadway play Jimmy Shine. She landed a contract with Universal Studios in 1969, guest-starring on several series. It was during this time that she played roles in daytime dramas. Starting with a role on A World Apart in 1970, she moved to a five-year stint as Lenore Moore Curtin Delaney on the daytime soap opera Another World. Taking over from Judith Barcroft, Sullivan played the role from 1971 to 1976. She played Charlton Heston's girlfriend Ann, a new character written into the television version of the film Midway (1976). She then played Dr. Elaina Marks opposite Bill Bixby in the Incredible Hulk pilot in 1977 and portrayed Poker Alice opposite James Garner as Bret Maverick on The New Maverick the following year. Sullivan also appeared in Barnaby Jones; episode titled “Final Judgement”(01/26/1978).

She played the role of Maggie Porter in the television drama Rich Man, Poor Man Book II. She played Dr. Julie Farr in Having Babies from 1978 to 1979, and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, which was made into two television films and later a short-lived weekly series in 1978. During a week in February 1978, she was a panelist on Match Game, both on CBS and in syndication. In 1980, she appeared on the sitcom It's a Living, playing head waitress Lois Adams.

In 1981, Sullivan won the role of Maggie Gioberti in the CBS primetime soap drama Falcon Crest, replacing Samantha Eggar, who had appeared in the pilot. The series became a hit and Maggie became Sullivan's most prominent role to date. She appeared on the series from 1981 to 1989, during which time she was nominated for three Soap Opera Digest awards. At the time Sullivan decided to leave the series in 1989, she had appeared in every episode of the series up to that date (207 of the 227 episodes produced). Sullivan appeared in the first episode of season nine, when her character drowned.

Following Falcon Crest, Sullivan appeared on The George Carlin Show, co-starred on the short-lived political drama The Monroes in the mid-1990s, and played a supporting role in the film My Best Friend's Wedding (as the mother of Cameron Diaz's character) (1997). On Dharma & Greg, she played the snooty country-club matriarch Kitty Montgomery from 1997 to 2002. The series reunited Sullivan with actor Mitchell Ryan (who played her husband Edward), with whom she had worked on Having Babies. She appeared in four episodes in season three of Hope and Faith as Nancy Lombard, Faith's therapist. Sullivan voiced Queen Hippolyta on the animated series Justice League and Justice League Unlimited. She has also appeared on the television series Brothers & Sisters, Joan of Arcadia, Two and a Half Men, Dead Like Me, The Kominsky Method, and Last Man Standing.

From 2009 to 2016, Sullivan co-starred alongside Nathan Fillion, Stana Katic and Molly Quinn on Castle. Her character Martha Rodgers' acting career has somewhat paralleled her own, including references to appearances on soap operas.

Personal life
In 2023, Sullivan was diagnosed with lung cancer, and underwent surgery to have it removed.

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Psychopathic Rydas

Psychopathic Rydas was an American hip hop group based in Detroit, Michigan. Formed in 1999 as a side project of Insane Clown Posse and Twiztid, the group consisted of Psychopathic Records-associated rappers performing under alternate stage names in the style of gangsta rap. Violent J, Shaggy 2 Dope, Jamie Madrox, Monoxide Child, and Blaze Ya Dead Homie were the only consistent members of the group throughout their entire existence.

History
Psychopathic Rydas was created as a retaliation to the critics saying Psychopathic Records artists were "wannabe rappers". The supergroup was also utilized as a showcase for the label's roster which was expanding for the first time since its inception. The group first consisted of Violent J (Bullet) and Shaggy 2 Dope (Full Clip) of Insane Clown Posse, who had released five albums prior; Jamie Madrox (Lil' Shank) and Monoxide (Foe Foe) of Twiztid, who had released two versions of their debut album prior; Myzery (Twin Gatz) who had released a debut EP prior; and Blaze Ya Dead Homie (Cell Block) who was in the process of releasing his debut EP.

In the liner notes of Insane Clown Posse's album The Amazing Jeckel Brothers fans could find out how to send proof of purchase to Psychopathic Records to get a full-length album titled Dumpin', by a "gangsta rap spoof" group called Psychopathic Rydas. The album was released on the imprint Joe & Joey Records. From that point on, Rydas albums could not be officially released elsewhere due to the use of unlicensed samples and beats.

Over the next two years, there were plans for the original six members to release solo albums as their respective persona. The Pendulum #7 (which were mini releases related to Insane Clown Posse's comic book series) featured two solo songs by Bullet and one solo song by Full Clip. A solo song by Lil' Shank was leaked online, and later included on a limited edition boxset by Twiztid in 2019. A second song by Lil' Shank was eventually released in 2020 on Twiztid's mixtape For the Fam, Vol. 3. In 2023, a solo track by Cell Block was included on his compilation Graveyard Greats, Volume 2, which also featured verses by Lil' Shank. Solo songs by Foe Foe and Twin Gatz from the same era never surfaced.

After the release of Dumpin', Twin Gatz left the group and Psychopathic Records in general. The remaining five members released the album Ryden Dirtay at the 2001 Gathering of the Juggalos, just days before the other collaboration album Tales from the Lotus Pod by Dark Lotus came out. Ryden Dirtay is the only Rydas album to appear on the Billboard Independent Albums chart, at #46. Wanting to involve more artists, Rydas added two new members in 2004, being Anybody Killa (Sawed Off) and Esham (Converse). As a sampler, the Limited Edition EP was released. Three out of the four songs would be exclusive to this release. At the 2004 Gathering of the Juggalos, Check Your Shit in Bitch! was released.

Converse and Sawed Off left Psychopathic Records in 2005 and 2006 respectively. Cell Block, Bullet, Full Clip, Lil' Shank, and Foe Foe were the remaining members of the group yet again, similar to 2001; however, in 2007, they added Boondox (Yung Dirt) to the group. This lineup released the album Duk Da Fuk Down that same year.

It would be four years until another Rydas collaboration happened. In 2011, Sawed Off returned to the group. The seven members released the albums Backdoor Ryda EP and EatShitNDie. This would mark the final releases as a group. In late 2012, Lil' Shank, Foe Foe, and Cell Block would leave Psychopathic Records to eventually form their own label, Majik Ninja Entertainment. Yung Dirt would leave Psychopathic Records in the following years as well. Starting in 2012, the four rappers would still appear at the annual Gathering of the Juggalos, and perform as Psychopathic Rydas as well; however, 2015 would feature the final Rydas performance. 2016 marked the artists' final appearance at the annual event, although the Rydas did not perform at that year's Gathering of the Juggalos.

Bullet and Full Clip stated in various interviews that a revival of the Rydas was a possibility, but nothing concrete was ever officially announced; thus, the supergroup became inactive. In 2019, Lil' Shank, Foe Foe, Cell Block, and Yung Dirt created a spin-off group named The Rydas on their own label, adding in other artists as well. They released their self-titled album under Majik Ninja Entertainment on January 9, 2020. In addition, Twin Gatz and Sawed Off have also released solo albums under their Psychopathic Rydas pseudonyms; however, the releases were not affiliated with Psychopathic Records or Joe & Joey Records.

Music and Style
Psychopathic Rydas reuses the beats of popular rappers within the genre without paying to license the original songs or requesting permission from copyright owners to use the music, effectively making their albums bootlegs and resulting in the releases becoming difficult to find in some markets. Psychopathic Rydas' debut album, Dumpin', was originally given away for correctly answering a series of trivia questions printed in the liner notes of Insane Clown Posse's album, The Amazing Jeckel Brothers.

Discography

 * Dumpin' (1999)
 * The Pendulum #7 EP (2001)
 * Ryden Dirtay (2001)
 * Limited Edition EP (2004)
 * Check Your Shit in Bitch! (2004)
 * Duk Da Fuk Down (2007)
 * Backdoor Ryda EP (2011)
 * EatShitNDie (2011)

Members

 * Violent J as Bullet (1999–2015)
 * Shaggy 2 Dope as Full Clip (1999–2015)
 * Jamie Madrox as Lil' Shank (1999–2015)
 * Monoxide Child as Foe Foe (1999–2015)
 * Blaze Ya Dead Homie as Cell Block (1999–2015)
 * Myzery as Twin Gatz (1999–2000)
 * Anybody Killa as Sawed Off (2002–2006; 2008–2015)
 * Esham as Converse (2002–2005)
 * Boondox as Yung Dirt (2007–2012; 2013–2015)

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Hi, I don't suppose you know the source and copyright details for this photo: ? Thanks. — Matt Crypto 16:17, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)
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Привет. Вообще я сначала тоже думал, что лучше не ставить, тем более, что возникает проблема в пользовании поисковиками (чёрточку приходится убирать). Пока не увидел, что во многих статьях уже проставлено (сейчас не припомню, в каких именно, но впервые увидел в статье Aleksandr Pushkin). А, ладно, всё-таки действительно лучше не ставить. Чуть позже поправлю по Венере и больше не буду. Cmapm 17:16, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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It is "speech". Please correct your contributions. mikka (t) 20:35, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
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Hi, Ajvol. Thanks for the new map of Moscow administrative divisions; this new version looks much cleaner. Say, is there an easy way the okrugs on that map could be renumbered? It's not that big of a deal, but I try keeping them in alphabetical order (based on English names, of course); plus, the rest of the articles in this series are done that way. Also, you removed the numbering from the list, so it's now not immediately clear which okrug on the map corresponds to which section (unless you count them manually :)). Thanks!—Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) 23:30, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
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Enige og tro til Dovre faller
This was the motto the parliamentarians in Eidsvoll stated when they created the Norwegian constitution. This statement is very often used among people in various cases, in the Norwegian military, at sea etc. If Norway has a national motto, this is the one. I do not see the sense that a Wiki-page National motto is should be confirmed by the Storting in order to be listed here. Isn't it better to state "Enige og tro til Dovre faller" than to leave it blank? Jakro64 06:36, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * See the Norwegian talk pages for my response(s) --Heno 14:33, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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 * I quite agree. Lets aim to not do this in the future, shall we? --Heno 14:33, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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Brisbane Bears

The Brisbane Bears Football Club was the name for a professional Australian Rules football club based in Brisbane, Queensland.

The club initially played home matches at Carrara Stadium on the Gold Coast (this stadium was redeveloped many years after the relocation of the Bears to facilitate home matches for expansion club the Gold Coast Suns). After many years of negotiation, in 1991 the AFL and the Bears convinced the Queensland Government to redevelop the Brisbane Cricket Ground facilitating a permanent move to the venue for the 1993 season after which the club experienced a period of success. During its history the club enjoyed only a modest amount of success, being the first interstate side to win an AFL reserves premiership in 1991. Despite the success in its later years, the club struggled to shake the derisive tags which included "Carrara Koalas" (in reference to the Gold Coast home and the somewhat tame marsupial) and "Bad News Bears" which drew comparisons of its management similar to the hit 1970s movie.

The club came close to folding prior to its move to Brisbane and the AFL began preparing a contingency for its demise in the event that the move was to fail. While the Bears improved on the field, the club continued to struggle financially. At the end of the 1996 season, the AFL helped negotiate a deal with the Fitzroy Football Club administrator whereby the Bears took over Fitzroy's AFL assets and operations and as a condition of that deal, on November 1, 1996, Brisbane Bears members voted to change the club's name to the Brisbane Bears-Fitzroy Football Club (BBFFC or Brisbane Lions), who participate in the AFL today. The Bears played in 220 VFL/AFL matches over ten seasons, with 70 wins, 148 losses and 2 draws.

1980s: Race for a Brisbane licence
From the mid-1980s several competing parties had proposed a Brisbane licence for the VFL.

The idea of a Brisbane-based VFL club had begun in 1984, with former actor and businessman Paul Cronin planning on purchasing a licence from the VFL believing that the VFL could not survive successfully without a national competition, however there were some in the VFL management that did not agree, most notably Alan Schwab. Cronin believed that Queensland was uniquely positioned in that it had an existing base in the Queensland Australian Football League (QAFL). Migration from the southern states saw the QAFL go through a period of expansion into the Gold and Sunshine Coasts in the 1970s and despite being less popular than the Queensland Rugby League and Queensland Rugby Union had grown to include a number of well established, wealthy and well supported clubs. The early 1980s had also seen in Queensland and QAFL recruited players making an impact in the VFL, including Frank Dunell, Warren Jones, Gary Shaw, Zane Taylor and young stars like Scott McIvor and Jason Dunstall. Cronin approached premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen in November 1985 to garner government support for the idea.

In 1985 the QAFL had decided that pushing for a Melbourne-based club to relocate to Brisbane was the most viable option. The idea was helped in 1986 when incoming chair Ross Oakley's interest in mergers and relocations to help the VFL expand into a national competition.

In June 1985 Brisbane sports promoter John Brown announced he would bid for a Brisbane licence along with entertainment promoter Michael Edgely.

On May 22, 1986, at the Brisbane Parkroyal Hotel, the QAFL president John Collins and Ken Murphy announced plans to lobby for a Brisbane-based VFL team the QAFL still pursuing the relocation of an existing team.

The VFL's Jack Hamilton flew to Brisbane in July 1986 to explore the options including club relocations (but denied that it was for Fitzroy), stating to the media that a Brisbane team would be possible in 1987 if a vacancy was available. He later stated that Brisbane was the preferred city for VFL expansion and that the VFL had hoped that it could retain all of its existing clubs during the expansion phase.

A third bidder a consortium headed by Perth millionaire Alastair Norwood (head of Jeans West) was announced shortly after Brown's bid.

The QAFL joined as a fourth bidder for the new licence, but stated that it was open to forming a consortium with any of the other three bids. Ken Murphy decided that Cronin's motives for the licence were genuine and aligned with the QAFL. Brown initiated discussions with North Melbourne Football Club in an attempt to lure it to Brisbane, however the Kangaroos rejected the proposal. In response to the moves by the other bids, on August 19, 1986, the QAFL and Cronin joined forces.

Struggling Fitzroy Football Club with the VFL began investigating a relocation to Brisbane in 1987. However the club under Leon Wiegard voted to remain in Melbourne. Struggling Richmond Football Club under Alan Bond proposed to play half its games in Brisbane in 1987 The move was seen as a threat of relocation and met strong opposition, led by Kevin Bartlett who rallied to stop the proposal, though the club came very close to folding the following year. Despite the setback, the VFL decided to push forward with the plans for expansion into Brisbane.

At the end of 1986, the VFL Commission announced plans to set up privately owned clubs based in Perth and Brisbane, ignoring a strong bid from ACTAFL for a team in Canberra, motivated by the need to sell multimillion-dollar licences to save a number of Victorian clubs which were struggling financially. The VFL at the time set a price of $4 million AUD for a licence to enter the league with the proceeds to be split among the existing clubs.

On 1 October 1986 the VFL board was announced that teams from Brisbane (Brisbane Bears) and Perth (West Coast Eagles) would compete in the Victorian Football League (VFL) from 1987 and that no $2.8 million AUD rescue package would be offered for struggling Fitzroy. The VFL Commission initially chose to grant John Brown's consortium Browns International Sport Limited the licence.

Cronin, Skase and private ownership
Cronin refused to accept the VFL's decision and increased its bid to $4.8 million, or up to $6 million if Fitzroy relocated to Brisbane and became the Brisbane Lions. Unable to secure access to a stadium, Cronin's QAFL consortium drew up plans for a $7 million new stadium on vacant land at Boondall (on the site of what became the Brisbane Entertainment Centre). With the higher price offered VFL withdrew its support for Browns and extended the selection process. The consortia found a financial backer in millionaire entrepreneur and Qintex owner Christopher Skase. In response Norwood's syndicate withdrew from the bidding. Cronin lobbied every VFL club president individually to gain their support for the bid. The VFL Commission voted unanimously to award the Cronin-Skase-QAFL bid the license.

Recently retired Hawthorn footballer Peter Knights on October 27 was announced coach just weeks later getting the nod over candidates John Todd, Ron Barassi and Alex Jesaulenko.

Millionaire and Qintex owner Christopher Skase was appointed deputy chairman. Qintex General Manager Ian Curtis was also appointed to the club's board.

In December 1986, the branding and Brisbane Bears name was leaked to the public. The new marketing department intended for the bear mascot to resemble Dreamworld's mascot Kenny to appeal to children and tourists. They created two variations of the bear, a smiling bear for the VFL logo and an "angry bear" for games that would appear roaring for matches and many of the marketing and promotional materials for the club. however were still without a home ground, and a week later hastily nominated Carrara on the Gold Coast as a temporary venue with a capacity of 20,000 mooted through the use of temporary stands through the use of metal bleachers.

The club unveiled a playing strip consisting of a gold with a maroon yoke and a triangular "BB" logo intended to represent a stylised map of the club's home state, Queensland, with the outline of a koala head appearing inside of the larger B. Maroon was chosen as the state colour of Queensland and gold as symbolic of the Queensland sunshine.

Collingwood's Mark Williams was the new club's first player signing. Other marquee signings were Geoff Raines and Jim Edmond, however most of the other players were from the SANFL and the WAFL. Most notably there were few local Queenslanders in the side. Queenslanders were approached, however there were very few playing in the VFL level at the time. In search of a marquee Queenslander, the Bears approached up and coming Hawthorn Football Club full-forward Jason Dunstall with a $2 million 10-year deal to spearhead the club, however he declined. The Bears were exposed for their lack of local talent but among the local names in the inaugural squad were Gary Shaw, Frank Dunell, Tony Beckett, Darren Carlson, Allan Giffard and Stuart Glascott. However few of the Queenslanders in the side made an impact.

The new club was given very little time in which to set itself up, with few players and no suitable home ground. On December 23, Gold Coast's Carrara Oval was announced as the home ground with a playing surface the same dimensions as the Melbourne Cricket Ground. This was because Brisbane's main outdoor venues, the Brisbane Cricket Ground (Gabba) and Brisbane Showgrounds' Main Oval, were unavailable due to long-term contracts and the Brisbane Cricket Ground (Gabba) was home to the greyhound racing club and was encircled by a dog racing track. The QAFL believed that the club should be based in Brisbane and supported the redevelopment of the Brisbane Cricket Ground (Gabba) (owned by the Gabba trust), or secondary options of a new stadium at Boondall or Chandler (on land owned by the government).

The club's board, however, were of the opinion the club would not be viable without if it did not own its own stadium. Temporary stands, club rooms and facilities were erected around Carrara. The decision would begin a bitter and long protracted battle between the QAFL and the Bears which was not resolved until 1991.

Upon its admission, the Bears did not have a large reserve of local players from which to compile a VFL-standard playing list. To assist with its inaugural playing list, the VFL arranged for every other club to provide at least two players; understandably, other clubs were averse to providing top-line players and few of the players provided were of a high quality. The Bears pursued a number of stars aggressively and did manage a few key signings, including Collingwood's captain Mark Williams, and 1985 Brownlow Medallist Brad Hardie. A significant proportion of the player list was recruited from the South Australian National Football League and West Australian Football League. Mark Mickan, a 6'5" (196 cm) ruckman recruited from West Adelaide, was appointed captain of the Bears in its inaugural season.

Knights Era
The Bears won their first game in the VFL against North Melbourne at the Melbourne Cricket Ground 19.23 (137) to 15.14 (104) in front of 14,096 fans, and also won its second game, but ultimately fell towards the bottom of the ladder. The club avoided the wooden spoon by beating in the final round, and finished with six wins. The club attracted 98,616 fans to the eleven matches at Carrara Oval, an average of 8,965 per game, which was the lowest in the competition behind Fitzroy's 11,498. By contrast, the other new 1987 team the West Coast Eagles, with Australian rules football long established as the major football code in Perth, attracted 291,317 to their home games at Subiaco Oval and the WACA at an average of 26,483 per game.

In 1988 a rift developed between the QAFL and the Bears, who had refused a move to Brisbane. The QAFL responded by threatening to secure a second Queensland licence for a Brisbane-based team by 1991.

The club again recruited aggressively, landing Sydney Swans glamour spearhead Warwick Capper. In 1988 and 1989 the club suffered some severe defeats, finishing 13th and 10th respectively. Knights was sacked with eight rounds to play in the 1989 season. The club psychologist, Paul Feltham, took charge of the team for the remainder of the year.

in 1993, staving off media rumours that the Bears would merge with the Sydney Swans to form a combined Queensland/New South Wales team, the Northern Swans, or be relocated to Tasmania or Port Adelaide.

By this stage, the club was also under severe financial pressure. Attendances had been very poor due to poor performances and the long distance between Gold Coast and Brisbane and also due to the admission of the Brisbane Broncos which achieved the goal set by Queensland Rugby League general manager Ross Livermore of marketing and promotions interference against the threat of the VFL's expansion, with the team making their debut in the 1988 NSWRL season.

End of the Skase-Cronin partnership, AFL takes over
The collapse of Skase's business empire and his sudden departure for Spain in late 1989 almost resulted in the end of the club. Over the ensuing preseason the players threatened strike action, but Cronin resigned, the club was taken over by the AFL, re-sold to Gold Coast hospitality businessman Reuben Pelerman, and the crisis was averted.

The AFL spent significant amounts of money to help the Bears survive over the coming years, and the club was provided with priority draft picks and special recruiting zones to give it access to some of the nation's best talent, which over the next few years allowed the club to recruit future stars such as Michael Voss, Jason Akermanis, Clark Keating, Steven Lawrence and Darryl White.

Four-time QAFL premiership coach Norm Dare was appointed as coach in 1990, but the club won the wooden spoon.

Pelerman Walls era
Dare was replaced in 1991 by former Carlton premiership coach Robert Walls, who immediately set about rebuilding the playing list; having inherited the oldest list in the league, by the end of the season he had the youngest. The Brisbane Bears won the wooden spoon again in 1991, but the same year also saw the Brisbane Bears win the reserves premiership against Melbourne. Walls insisted that the Bears not bend to the will of powerful Victorian clubs in recruitment matters, which was seen most notably in the case of the young Nathan Buckley – Buckley, who in 1992 won the SANFL's Magarey Medal and was a premiership winner with Port Adelaide, winning the Jack Oatey Medal for being Best on Ground in the SANFL Grand Final, was a zone recruit signed to the club on a one-year contract in 1993, which stipulated that he would be released to the club of his choice if he so desired at the completion of the contract; he was cleared to Collingwood as he had requested, in exchange for premiership centre-half forward Craig Starcevich, goalsneak Troy Lehmann and an early draft pick which the Bears used to recruit future star Chris Scott.

Off-field, Pelerman was losing millions of dollars annually on the club. At one point in 1991 Pelerman told Bears coach Robert Walls that he was closing the club down.

As part of the club's proposed move to the Gabba, Pelerman agreed to release the Bears from private ownership and revert to a traditional club structure in which the club's members were able to elect the board.

Move to the Gabba, Rebranding and New Membership Structure
In 1992, the club changed its guernsey to a predominantly maroon strip with a gold V and white trim. More significantly, the Bears experimented with playing matches at the Gabba in Brisbane in 1991, before permanently moving all home matches to the venue ahead of the 1993 season. With the club now playing in its home city, membership and attendances instantly tripled. The dog racing track around the ground was removed, the surface was upgraded and the stands gradually replaced over the next few years with a view to converting the tired old ground to a state-of-the-art sporting facility.

In 1994, the Bears changed the club logo and the club song, and also began to show signs of a competitive side and were contenders for a finals berth before falling away in the last five games of the season. Then, in 1995, the club reached the finals after an extraordinary late-season recovery. After Round 15, the Bears were third-last on the ladder with four wins, and Robert Walls had announced his resignation as coach halfway through the season, but committed himself to seeing out the year. In Round 16, the Bears trailed Hawthorn by 45 points at three-quarter time, but mounted an astounding final-quarter comeback to win the match by 7 points; it was the largest final quarter comeback in league history. Brisbane then won five of its six remaining matches in the home-and-away season, including against Richmond and Essendon who were both in the top four, to just reach the finals for the first time, albeit with a win–loss record of only 10–12. The team was eliminated, but not disgraced, after losing its first ever final to eventual premiers Carlton by 13 points.

Northey era
Under the coaching of former Richmond premiership player John Northey, Brisbane had an excellent 1996 season, finishing third behind Sydney and North Melbourne. They made a good account of themselves in the finals, with two wins at Brisbane Cricket Ground and a loss in the Preliminary Final to eventual premiers North Melbourne. Michael Voss also became the only Brisbane Bears player to win the Brownlow Medal, sharing the honour with Essendon's James Hird.

Brisbane Bears absorb Fitzroy Football Club's AFL operations, become Brisbane Lions
However, the club was still struggling off-field. Brisbane came close to folding prior to its move to Brisbane and the AFL began preparing a contingency for the club's demise in the event that the move failed. The Bears made a bid in 1990 to take over a financially struggling Fitzroy but was voted down by Fitzroy's board. The AFL had offered the Bears $6 million to merge with Fitzroy. It offered Fitzroy a similar amount which could have enabled the club to pay off its debts and come out of administration. One of the Bears' biggest problems was its lack of support (both on and off the field) in Melbourne, the location of most of its away matches. Another problem was the imminent entry of into the AFL in 1997. As a result, two teams were either required to merge, or one was to fold or exit the league to make way for Port Adelaide's entry in the 1997 season. In mid-1996, the struggling Fitzroy Football Club entered administration due to financial pressures and was seeking to merge its AFL operations with another club. When a merger with to form the North Fitzroy Kangaroos failed to win the support of the other AFL clubs, a deal was reached between the Fitzroy administrator and the Bears, whereby Brisbane Bears took over Fitzroy's AFL operations. Subsequently, in line with the Deed of Arrangement between Fitzroy and Brisbane, Brisbane Bears members voted to change the club's name to Brisbane Bears-Fitzroy Football Club, trading as Brisbane Lions, based at Brisbane Cricket Ground, with a new song, emblem and jumper all based on Fitzroy's.

The Bears' last match was a preliminary final on Saturday 21 September 1996 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground against North Melbourne, coincidentally the same location and opponent as their first match in 1987. Brisbane lost by 38 points to North Melbourne, who went on to win the 1996 premiership. With that loss, the Bears era and its history ended after a short and mostly troubled existence, with ten seasons of competition and the third-place finish in 1996 as its best performance.

Legacy
Since the absorption of Fitzroy's AFL operations, examples of the Bears legacy at the Lions include: the wearing the acronym BBFFC on the back of the jumper (with the BB acknowledging the existence of the Brisbane Bears), the occasional wearing of retro Bears design guernsey during AFL heritage round (Round 18, 2004, and Round 16, 2006, for example), and an Indigenous version of their 1992 guernsey worn on three occasions in 2022, some of the club's medals, including the best and fairest: the Merrett–Murray Medal (jointly named after former Bears captain and games record holder Roger Merrett), the Michael Voss Oval at The Reserve, Springfield (named for homegrown Bears and Lions player Michael Voss), and the Marcus Ashcroft Medal (named for homegrown Bears and Lions player Marcus Ashcroft) for the QClash football match against the Gold Coast.

Mascot
Although koalas are marsupials and not bears, the Bears' mascot was a koala. Their logo and uniform also originally featured a koala.

Colours

 * Maroon Gold  (1987–1988)
 * Cerise Gold  (1989–1991)
 * Maroon, Gold White  (1992–1996)

Club songs
The Brisbane Football Club had two club songs in its existence.

Dare to beat the Bear
The original theme song was an original tune.

The team would sing the first verse in the change room after each win.

(1st Verse)

What do we sing when we run out to play?

Dare to beat the Bear

What do we sing when we're on our way?

Dare to beat the Bear

We're hot! (We're hot!)

We're mean! (We're mean!)

We're strong! (We're strong!)

We're a team! (We're a team!)

We're the very best team you've ever seen

We're the Brisbane Bears

The song was played in full over the stadium's speakers after each win.

(1st verse)

What do we sing when we run out to play?

Dare to beat the Bear

What do we sing when we're on our way?

Dare to beat the Bear

We're hot! (We're hot!)

We're mean! (We're mean!)

We're strong! (We're strong!)

We're a team! (We're a team!)

We're the very best team you've ever seen

We're the Brisbane Bears

(2nd verse)

What do we know before every game?

We're going out to win

How do we know that we'll read the play?

We won't let 'em in

We're hot! (We're hot!)

We're mean! (We're mean!)

We're strong! (We're strong!)

We're a team! (We're a team!)

We're the very best team you've ever seen

We're the Brisbane Bears

(1st bridge)

Our home is mighty Brisbane and we're playing for our state

The Bear will growl across the land

Our victories will be great (great)

(3rd verse)

What do we shout when we sense their fear?

Beware the mighty Bear!

What are the words that we love to hear?

Beware the mighty Bear!

We're tough! (We're tough!)

We're keen! (We're keen!)

We're good! (We're good!)

We're a team! (We're a team!)

We're the very best team you've ever seen

We're the Brisbane Bears

(2nd bridge)

Our home is here in Queensland and there is not a shade of doubt

Right around Australia, we're gonna knock 'em out!

(3rd verse – repeated)

What do we shout when we sense their fear?

Dare to beat the Bear!

What are the words that we love to hear?

Dare to beat the Bear!

We're tough! (We're tough!)

We're keen! (We're keen!)

We're good! (We're good!)

We're a team! (We're a team!)

We're the very best team you've ever seen

We're the Brisbane Bears

(Home run)

We're tough! (We're tough!)

We're keen! (We're keen!)

We're good! (We're good!)

We're a team! (We're a team!)

We're the very best team you've ever seen

We're the Brisbane Bears

We're the very best team you've ever seen

We're the Brisbane Bears

Beware the mighty Bears!

Brisbane Bears Will Live Forever
The new theme song was played to the music of The Battle Hymn of the Republic.

The team would sing the first verse and the chorus in the change room after each win.

(1st verse)

If you are a Queenslander, then sing along with me

We are the Bears on the road to victory

All for one and one for all

We'll answer to the call

We're the greatest team of all

(Chorus)

Brisbane Bears will live forever

We will always stick together

The 'Gabba is the place where people always come to see

The greatest team of all

The song was played in full over the stadium's speakers after each win.

(1st Verse)

If you are a Queenslander, then sing along with me

We are the Bears on the road to victory

All for one and one for all

We'll answer to the call

We're the greatest team of all

(2nd verse)

We're the fearless Brisbane Bears

From the mighty Northern state

Our pride and guts and character are gonna make us great

Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth will know their fate

When the Bears run out and roar

(Chorus)

Brisbane Bears will live forever

We will always stick together

The 'Gabba is the place where people always come to see

The greatest team of all

(3rd verse)

The whistle blows, the ball is bounced

The crowd all give a yell

And we will do our very best until the final bell

And when the game is over, we'll be closer to the flag

We're the greatest team of all

(Chorus)

Brisbane Bears will live forever

We will always stick together

The 'Gabba is the place where people always come to see

The greatest team of all

(Home run)

The' Gabba is the place where people always come to see

The greatest team of all

Premierships

 * Under 19s – N/A
 * Reserves – 1991
 * Seniors – None

Wooden spoons

 * 1990
 * 1991

Individual awards

 * Darryl White – Goal of the Year (1992)
 * Nathan Buckley – AFL Rising Star (1993)
 * Chris Scott – AFL Rising Star (1994)
 * Michael Voss – Brownlow Medal (1996), All-Australian (1996)
 * Craig Lambert – All-Australian (1996)

Honour roll
¹The Brisbane Bears' best and fairest award was known as the Club Championship.

Club Records

 * Total Matches Played: 222 (72 wins, 2 draws, 148 losses)
 * Highest Score: 33.21 (219) vs Sydney, Round 8, 1993
 * Lowest Score: 2.5 (17) vs Hawthorn, Round 12, 1988
 * Greatest Winning Margin: 162 points vs Sydney, Round 8, 1993
 * Greatest losing margin: 164 points vs Geelong, Round 7, 1992
 * Longest Winning Streak: 7 (Round 15 to Round 21, 1996)
 * Longest Losing Streak: 12 (Round 20 1990 to Round 10, 1991)
 * Most Goals in a Season: 60 by Roger Merrett in 1993 (18 games)
 * Most Goals for the Club: 285 by Roger Merrett (1988–96 – 164 games)
 * Most Games for the Club: 164 by Roger Merrett (1988–96)
 * Most Years as Coach: 5 by Robert Walls (1991–95)
 * Most Years as Captain: 7 by Roger Merrett (1990–96)
 * Highest Ladder Position at end of season: Third in 1996
 * Record Attendance: 66,719 vs North Melbourne, Preliminary Final 1996
 * Record Attendance at Brisbane Cricket Ground: 21,964 vs Essendon, Qualifying Final 1996
 * Record Attendance at Carrara Oval: 18,198 vs Geelong, Round 15, 1989
 * Brownlow Medalists: Michael Voss in 1996
 * All-Australians Michael Voss and Craig Lambert in 1996

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Hi Brain of Morbius I am following up on a change you made to the Brisbane page. You reverted my change of the official name of Suncorp Stadium. Below I have provided a link to the official reds website that states that Suncorp Stadium is the official name of the stadium. I was unable to find any references citing the official name as Lang Park as stated in your updates. http://www.qru.com.au/qld/qld.rugby/page/754

The following text was taken from the web page: Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane Venue Details Official Name: Suncorp Stadium Sports: Rugby League, Rugby Union, Soccer Location: Brisbane, Queensland, AUS Opened: 2003 (June) Capacity: 52,500

Other Information The old Lang Park ground was predominantly the home of rugby league in Queensland from 1957 into the 1990s, when the first stage of the current Suncorp Stadium was built, enabling it to accommodate major events including rugby Test matches. A more extensive re-development was undertaken in 2001 and completed in 2003 - at a cost of AUD$280million - to allow the venue to accommodate Rugby World Cup 2003 fixtures. Rimmeraj 00:25, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

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Want to join the Australians at Australian wikipedians' notice board? They might be able to help you with Brisbane Bears - Ta bu shi da yu 02:00, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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A disambiguation page for the various Mark Williamses of the world sound like a good idea - go ahead! --Auximines 11:43, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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AFL articles
It's great to see someone finally dedicating some attention to fixing these up - they certainly need it. I tried to fix up some of the worst ones around the time of the Brownlow last year, but I really didn't have the interest to do much more of it. Ambi 22:23, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
 * No worries. It'd be great to see more AFL content on here.  My personal bias is towards Brisbane (and Bears/Fitzroy) so I'll be concentrating on those.  I can't see too many others interested at the moment, otherwise I'd suggest an AFL wikiproject might be in order.--The Brain of Morbius 00:07, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

Where was that AFL player infobox? I'd like to have a look and see if it could be adapted, or if it's necessary (not that many biographies seem to have infoboxes, as far as I recall).

Have you thought about creating an infobox for teams? It'd be really nice to have one we could use for all Australian sports, and AFL wouldn't be a bad place to start - I'm happy to help with filling it out for all teams if you're interested.

It'd be nice to see some of the Australian articles getting up to the standard of say, Manchester United - I'd really love to get an Australian version of those templates at the bottom, too, as that'd be quite useful. Ambi 12:30, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

Mark Williams
I created a disambiguation page. If you're up for correcting the links that should go to the snooker player's article, go ahead. I don't really have the time to do it at the moment. Thanks. Harro5 04:02, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)

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Hi, I just created a stub article on Jack Worrall, the cricketer, for the WP:Cricket project I'm working on. I noticed there was a Fitzroy player of the same name and around the same era and am wondering if it's the same person. Would you happen to know? -- Ian ≡ talk 09:23, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

Sherrin
Thaks for the above. Here's a present for you: Image:Sherrin.png -- Ian ≡ talk 01:24, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

Darryl White
Nice work. You get a cupcake! -- Ian ≡ talk 06:42, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

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Aussie rules project
Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't really have time at the moment, just as I haven't joined the cricket one. Maybe in a year or two. Grant65 (Talk) 11:51, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

Sydnew Swans

 * I completely agree with The Brain about the the correct placing being 1, not 3, but it is the whole table that is incorrect in this regard, not just the 2005 result (see the 1996 result, for example). Where did you get those figures from, JLC? JPD 08:52, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

AFL Queensland
G;day. I am currently working on the AFL Qld pages. What I have noticed is that

(a) There don't appear to be any sources. I would like to work on this so we can add Verifiability in line with policy.

(b) Although the article title is AFL Queensland (which is the organising body), most of this article is about the history of AFL in Queensland. Accordingly I have made an Australian Rules in Queensland page onto which we can put this history (and expand it). Also, I would like to expand the AFL Queensland page to have more info pertaining to the body (which as you can see is much more scant without the history).

As I said above there don't appear to be sources on these pages, so I am actively searching some out so I can expand these pages. I see that you have written a number of AFL related articles. Would you be able to point me in the right direction source-wise, so we can make these top notch pages?

Cheers, Dan --dan, dan and dan 00:07, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

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AFL INFOBOX template
Check out the Andrew Mackie page and you will notice a flaw in the image. How can this be fixed in the template? Rogerthat 10:21, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Not at all, it's the fact that the image on Andrew Mackie is around 100px, whereas the Afl Infobox seems to restrict the image to 200px, therefore making the Mackie image look pixelated (same with the Kevin Sheedy image).
 * Keep up the good work, also I noticed you're not a member of WikiProject AFL. Care to join? Rogerthat 11:49, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Any word on that last comment by me Morbo (if I can call you that ;))? Also with the infoboxes is there anyway to make the player automatically fall under a category (eg Craig Burrows would automatically fall under Category:Fremantle Dockers players if you filled that in as one of his teams?). Cheers, Rogerthat 00:24, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
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Rfa
G'day Morbo, was wondering if you'd taken a look at my RFA. Would be interested in your thoughts and considerations.  R o  gerthat  Talk  05:52, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
 * No worries. Mate, no word from you on WP:AFL, are you considering joining at all? Cheers,  R o  gerthat  Talk  03:44, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

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Hi! I just noticed you categorised Jason Akermanis as a Greek Australian. I was just wondering if you have any sources for this information? --The Brain of Morbius 03:54, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Hi!! I corrected the page. I couldn't figure out what his last name was, Greek, Latvian, or whatever and just came across the correct info.  Its Latvian but his not. Although his biological dad's last name "Dezdjek" is either Croatian or Slovakian if I'm not mistaken.  :) Mallaccaos, 24 March 2006

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Catholic Answers was founded in 1979 by Karl Keating in response to a fundamentalist Protestant church in San Diego that was distributing anti-Catholic propaganda in the form of tracts placed on the cars of Catholics attending Mass. He first started by writing a modest tract titled "Catholic Answers" to counter the arguments he saw in the anti-Catholic tract. He distributed it on the windshields of the cars in the fundamentalist Protestant church's parking lot. Due to the feedback he received from that tract, he published 24 more tracts. In 1988 he quit his law practice and turned Catholic Answers into a full-time apostolate, with an office and full-time staff.

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