Word: tampa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Louis Cardinals 52-10, while the world champion Oakland Raiders lost to the Houston Oilers, 17-16 as all three games behind the Cincinnati Bengals in the AFC West Division. The Bengals shocked San Diego, 40-17. Minnesota jumped into first place in the NFC Central in beating Tampa...
...Oakland Raiders, though ending their embarrassing, record-setting streak of three games without scoring, almost disgraced themselves further by wasting a 15-0 halftime lead over Tampa Bay. The Raiders needed a 44-yd. field goal from Chris Bahr to edge the Bucs...
Oakland 18, Tampa...
DIED. Edmondo ("Papa") Zacchini, 87, Italian-born circus clown credited with developing the perilous, modern "human cannonball" act in 1922; in Tampa. Zacchini broke his right leg the first time he used a spring-powered cannon to hurl him 20 ft When he came to the U.S. to join the Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey circus in 1930, he had already designed compressed-air cannons that could send him or one of his six brothers flying 100 ft through the air, although by the time he stopped performing the stunt in 1934 he had suffered four other leg fractures...
...balance of power between the three branches of U.S. Government would be put thoroughly askew. The Supreme Court would be supreme no more. The "supremacy clause" of the Constitution, declaring that document to be the prevalent law of the land, would become a "nullity," in the word used by Tampa Lawyer Edward Cutler, who is lobbying against the New Right proposals for the American Bar Association. According to Wisconsin's Democratic Congressman William Kastenmeier, the enactment of even one measure that would cripple the Supreme Court in even one area would be a dangerous precedent-an invitation to Congress...