* 2012 – The Republican National Convention takes place in Tampa Bay, Florida.

The Falcons defeated the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 20 – 10 in the final game of the season to improve their record to 9 – 7.

The Falcons finished the season at 10-6, securing the fifth seed after a Week 17 beatdown of Tampa Bay in which the Falcons pulled their starters after leading 42-0 just twenty-three minutes into the game.

They wore the combination again in 2006, against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Week 2.

The Falcons also wore their all-black uniform in 2007 against the New York Giants, and in 2008 against the Carolina Panthers and against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers ( for the second time ).

The Atlanta Falcons wore 1966 throwback jerseys for 2 home games in 2009 – against the Carolina Panthers on September 20 and against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on November 29.

The Tampa Bay Area was also granted a franchise, the Devil Rays ( to be based in St. Petersburg ), at the same time.

Arizona had originally been intended to join Tampa Bay in the American League.

Thus, on January 16, 1997, the Diamondbacks were officially voted into the National League while their expansion counterparts in Tampa Bay were voted into the American League.

Finally, they traded Casey Fossum to the Tampa Bay Devil Rays for José Cruz, Jr.

The award has never been presented to a member of the following five teams: Arizona Diamondbacks, Miami Marlins, New York Mets, Tampa Bay Rays, and Washington Nationals.

Craig Kimbrel of the Atlanta Braves and Jeremy Hellickson of the Tampa Bay Rays are the most recent winners.

The Ravens triumphed over the New York Giants in Super Bowl XXXV at the conclusion of the 2000 season, making them one of four NFL teams to win in their lone Super Bowl appearance, along with the New Orleans Saints, New York Jets, and Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Although the Orioles hovered around. 500 for much of the season, they had fallen back by September and were over 20 games behind the first place Tampa Bay Rays.

Adam Jones and Nick Markakis, Orioles v. Tampa Bay Rays, Camden Yards, April 12, 2009.

On April 12, 2010 the team set a club record for the lowest paid attendance in Camden Yards history, only 9, 129 attended the game versus the Tampa Bay Rays

Meanwhile, the Tampa Bay Rays were putting the finishing touches on their eight run comeback against the New York Yankees.

* Two additional franchises: the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, now the Tampa Bay Rays ( 1998 )

Carolina debuted the alternate light blue jersey for one game at home against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2002.

In the same suit, the Raiders challenged the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 1997 uniform design, including the pirate logo.

Although Carolina first played Tampa Bay in 1995, their rivalry did not start until 2003, when DT Brentson Buckner claimed fellow DT Kris Jenkins was the best defensive tackle in football, angering Tampa Bay DT Warren Sapp.

The " Tampa Bay " in the names of local professional sports franchises ( Buccaneers, Rowdies, Rays, Lightning, Tampa Bay Storm, etc.

Tampa has a number of sports teams, such as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League, the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League, the Tampa Bay Storm of the Arena Football League, and the Tampa Bay Rowdies of the North American Soccer League.

The film also used Arena Football League players such Pat O ' Hara, who played for the Tampa Bay Storm and now coaches the Orlando Predators and Connell Maynor, who also played for the Orlando Predators and spent time as both a player and coach for the Philadelphia Soul.

* Tampa Bay Storm, a professional arena football team in the Tampa Bay Area

The Tampa Bay Storm are an Arena Football League ( AFL ) team based in the Tampa Bay Area of Florida.

The team moved from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Tampa, Florida in 1991, with the team taking on the " Storm " nickname.

The Storm won the ArenaBowl in their first season in Tampa Bay ( V ) and have won four subsequent championships ( VII, IX, X, and XVII ).

Up to the 2006 season, the Storm had qualified for the playoffs in every season but one during their time in Tampa Bay.

The Storm resumed full operations for the new league's 2010 season, with some players from the former roster, and once again coached by Tim Marcum and this time owned by Tampa Bay Storm Partners LLC, a group led by Todd Boren a previous partner with the Orlando Predators and the Arizona Rattlers.

* ArenaBowl V found the Detroit Drive hosting the Tampa Bay Storm.

* Stevie Thomas saves the Storm: During a 1995 semifinal game between Albany and Tampa Bay took a late one point lead with seconds left on the clock.

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The Rattlers remain one of the AFL ’ s leading franchises with the third longest tenure in one city followed only by the Tampa Bay Storm and the Orlando Predators.

The 16-team league expects to expand to " 24 to 30 " teams prior to the start of their inaugural 2010 season, and is in negotiations with at least seven other teams from the AFL to join, including the Tampa Bay Storm and the San Jose Sabercats.

Chicago began the year with a 70-48 home victory against the Tampa Bay Storm on March 10 at Allstate Arena.

Today, the cane toad is well established in the state, from the Keys to north of Tampa, and they are gradually extending further northward.

Earthquakes are extremely rare to the area, but a surprising 6. 0 earthquake in the Gulf of Mexico on September 10, 2006, could be felt from the cities of New Orleans to Tampa.

The Phillies are one of four teams in Major League Baseball that do not display the name of their city, state, or region on their road jerseys, joining the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, St. Louis Cardinals, and the Tampa Bay Rays.

They are currently members of the Western Division of the National Football Conference ( NFC ), and joined the NFL in 1976 as an expansion team along with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers ( often shortened as the Bucs ) are a professional American football franchise based in Tampa, Florida, U. S. They are currently members of the Southern Division of the National Football Conference ( NFC ) in the National Football League ( NFL ) – they are the only team in the division not to come from the old NFC West.

CBS, Fox and NBC games are shown respectively in Tampa Bay on WTSP, WTVT channel 13 and WFLA Channel 8, while they are shown respectively in Orlando on WKMG, WOFL and WESH.

Lighter systems with shorter tracks are widely deployed at airports ; the world's first airport people mover was installed in 1971 at Tampa International Airport in the United States.

They are affiliated with the Tampa Bay Rays, and play at Montgomery Riverwalk Stadium.

These two teams are the Lake County Captains ( an affiliate of the Cleveland Indians playing in Eastlake, Ohio ) and the Bowling Green Hot Rods ( an affiliate of the Tampa Bay Rays playing in Bowling Green, Kentucky ).

The Tampa Bay Lightning are a professional ice hockey team based in Tampa, Florida.

Most of the television stations are located in Saint Petersburg or Tampa except:

The Tampa Bay Rays in Major League Baseball, are actually based in neighboring St. Petersburg, Florida.

Except for two cannons displayed on the nearby University of Tampa campus, all traces of the fort are gone.

International Charters Terminal 2 handles mainly schedule charter flights to and from Miami, Tampa, Ft. Lauderdale and New York for US residents with special permission from the United States government and Cuban citizens with US visas, the scheduled charters are operated by Gulfstream Air Charters, ABC Charters, Marazul Charters, CTS Charters, and C & T Charters.

The owner sensed their predicament and asked, “ Ladies, where are you from ?” When they said “ Masaryktown ,” he said, “ Lady, take the lamp and pay me on your next trip to Tampa.

Elementary Schools ( grades k-5 ) serving Citrus Park are Citrus Park, Northwest, Bellamy, Tampa Day School ( private-Nonsectarian ), Citrus Park Christian School ( Private-Baptist ) and Hope Christian School ( Private-Boarding-Baptist ).

( Tampa and Plant City are the others.