1986 Sugar Bowl, Game summary
Tennessee quarterback Dickey, a fifth-year senior back-up, was named the game's most valuable player.


1986 Sugar Bowl, Statistics
The 245 yards of penalties set a new Sugar Bowl record.


1986 Sugar Bowl, Aftermath
Tennessee climbed to fourth in the final AP poll, while Miami fell to ninth.


1986 Sul America Open
The 1986 Sul America Open was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts in Itaparica, Brazil that was part of the 1986 Nabisco Grand Prix. It was the inaugural edition of the tournament and took place from 24 November through 30 November 1986. First-seeded Andrés Gómez, who entered on a wildcard, won the singles title.


1986 Sul America Open, Finals, Doubles
Chip Hooper /  Mike Leach defeated  Loïc Courteau /  Guy Forget 7–5, 6–3


1986 Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1986 Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was held February 27–March 1 at the Birmingham–Jefferson Civic Center in Birmingham, Alabama.


1986 Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
Jacksonville upset hosts UAB in the championship game, 70–69, to win their second Sun Belt men's basketball tournament.


1986 Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The Dolphins, in turn, received an automatic bid for the 1986 NCAA Tournament. They were joined in the tournament by fellow Sun Belt members Old Dominion, UAB, and Western Kentucky, all of whom received at-large bids.


1986 Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Format
There were no changes to the existing tournament format. All eight conference members were placed into the initial quarterfinal round and each team was seeded based on its regular season conference record.


1986 Sun Bowl
The 1986 Sun Bowl featured the Alabama Crimson Tide of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and the Washington Huskies of the Pacific-10 Conference. In Ray Perkins's final game as Alabama head coach, the Crimson Tide defeated the Huskies 28–6.


1986 Sun Bowl
This was the first edition of the Sun Bowl that carried corporate sponsorship, as John Hancock Financial entered a three-year, $1.5 million partnership. The Fiesta Bowl had done so approximately a year earlier, entering a sponsorship agreement in September 1985 and playing its January 1986 edition as the Sunkist Fiesta Bowl.


1986 Sun Bowl, Teams, Alabama
Alabama opened the season with seven wins, then lost three of its final five regular season games to finish with a 9–3 record. Following their loss to Auburn in the Iron Bowl, university officials announced they accepted an invitation to play in the Sun Bowl. The appearance marked the second for Alabama in the Sun Bowl, and their 39th bowl game. The Tide was favored by two points.


1986 Sun Bowl, Teams, Washington
Washington finished the regular season with an 8–2–1 record. Tied for second place in the Pac-10, the Huskies lost to USC and Arizona State, and tied UCLA. Following their victory over Washington State in the Apple Cup, university officials announced they accepted an invitation to play in the Sun Bowl. It was Washington's second appearance in the Sun Bowl, and their 17th bowl game.


1986 Sun Bowl, Game summary
After a scoreless first quarter, Alabama scored first on a 64-yard Bobby Humphrey touchdown run. Washington responded with a pair of Jeff Jaeger field goals to cut the lead to 7–6 at the half.


1986 Sun Bowl, Game summary
With a pair of touchdowns in the third quarter, Alabama extended their lead to 21–6. Mike Shula was responsible for both touchdowns with the first coming on a 32-yard pass to Greg Richardson and the second on a 17-yard pass to Bobby Humphrey. Humphrey then scored the final points of the game midway through the fourth on a three-yard run to cap a 16-play, 92-yard drive.


1986 Sun Bowl, Aftermath
According to then Washington defensive coordinator Jim Lambright, this game highlighted the need for Washington to begin to recruit speed more seriously. Lambright would later be quoted as saying, "[i]t was after our bowl game against Alabama in the Sun Bowl [that we started recruiting speed specifically] .... [ W]hen we broke down the film, there was no way that our personnel matched their personnel as far as speed. So we went out after that to specifically recruit faster people .... We weren't selective enough up to that point with speed."


1986 Sun Bowl, Aftermath
Five years later in the 1991 season, Washington went undefeated and won the national championship.


1986 Sunkist WITA Championships
The 1986 Sunkist Women's International Tennis Association (WITA) Championships was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Amelia Island Plantation on Amelia Island, Florida in the United States that was part of the 1986 WTA Tour. It was the seventh edition of the tournament and was held from April 14 through April 20, 1986. First-seeded Steffi Graf won the singles title and earned $40,000 first-prize money. The WTA had to pay the tournament organizers a $15,000 fine because both Chris Evert-Lloyd and Martina Navratilova chose not to participate in the event.


1986 Sunkist WITA Championships, Finals, Doubles
Claudia Kohde-Kilsch /  Helena Suková defeated  Gabriela Sabatini /  Catherine Tanvier 6–2, 5–7, 7–6(9–7)


1986 Super Bowl of Poker
The Super Bowl of Poker (also known as Amarillo Slim's Super Bowl of Poker or SBOP) was the second most prestigious poker tournament in the world during the 1980s. While the World Series of Poker was already drawing larger crowds as more and more amateurs sought it out, the SBOP "was an affair limited almost exclusively to pros and hard-core amateurs."


1986 Super Bowl of Poker
Prior to 1979, the only high dollar tournament a person could enter was the WSOP. 1972 WSOP Main Event Champion and outspoken ambassador for poker Amarillo Slim saw this as an opportunity. "The World Series of Poker was so successful that everybody wanted more than one tournament," he said. Slim called upon his connections and friendships with poker's elite to start a new tournament in the February 1979.


1986 Super Bowl of Poker
Before the SBOP had developed a reputation of its own, many of the most respected names in poker attended the tournament "more to support Slim and take advantage of the very fat cash games the event would obviously inspire." Slim modelled his SBOP after the WSOP with several events and a $10,000 Texas Hold'em Main Event.


1986 Super Bowl of Poker
One of the principal differences between the WSOP and the SBOP was the prize structure. The WSOP's prize structure was flat ensuring more people received smaller pieces of the prize pool. The SBOP typically used a 60-30-10 payout structure. In other words, only the first three places received money and generally in the ratio of 60% to first place, 30% to second place, and 10% to third. This payment schedule predominated the SBOP for the first 5 years of the event, but as the event grew the number of payouts increased while keeping the payout schedule top heavy.


1986 Super Bowl of Poker, 1986 Tournament
Jack Keller, a member of the Poker Hall of Fame, won the Pot Limit Omaha in the 1986 SBOP. But it was the Deuce-to-Seven Lowball event that may have had the toughest final three competitors ever. Doyle Brunson, a Poker Hall of Famer, has won ten WSOP bracelets and won this event. In order to win, he had to defeat two other Poker Hall Famers. Billy Baxter, who own 7 bracelets, came in second place while Johnny Chan, the third-place finisher, is tied with Doyle for the second most bracelets at 10. T. J. Cloutier, another member of the Hall, and Jack Keller both won separate $500 Limit Hold'em events.


1986 Super League of Malawi
The 1986 Super League of Malawi was the first season of Super League of Malawi, the top professional league for association football clubs in Malawi.


1986 Super League of Malawi, Overview
Top five clubs from Blantyre and Districts Football League (BDFL) and top three from Lilongwe and Districts Football League (LDFL) were invited to participate in the inaugural national league championship. Two clubs from Blantyre, Limbe Leaf Wanderers and Hardware Stars indicated they would not participate, but LLW changed its decision, while Admarc Tigers replaced Hardware Stars. The other three teams in Blantyre were the Red Lions, Bata Bullets and Berec Power Pack who, through a new sponsorship agreement, changed to MDC United. The Lilongwe clubs were Mitco FC, Civo United and Silver Strikers.


1986 Super League of Malawi, Overview
The home and away format was played on three rounds with Gillette Nacet as the first sponsor.


1986 Super League of Malawi, Overview
The first game was played on 15 March 1986 involving Mitco FC and Admarc Tigers. Mitco FC won the game 1–0 a goal scored by Lameck Botha in the 21st minute there by becoming the first player to score a goal in the history of Super League of Malawi.


1986 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira
The 1986 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira was the 8th edition of the Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira, the annual Portuguese football season-opening match contested by the winners of the previous season's top league and cup competitions (or cup runner-up in case the league- and cup-winning club is the same). The 1986 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira was contested over two legs, and opposed Benfica and Porto of the Primeira Liga. Porto qualified for the SuperCup by winning the 1985–86 Primeira Divisão, whilst Benfica qualified for the Supertaça by winning the 1985–86 Taça de Portugal.


1986 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira
The first leg which took place at the Estádio das Antas, saw a 1–1 scoreline. The second leg which took place at the Estádio da Luz saw Porto defeat Benfica 4–2 (5–3 on aggregate), which granted the Dragões a fourth Supertaça.


1986 Sutton London Borough Council election
The 1986 Sutton Council election took place on 8 May 1986 to elect members of Sutton London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the council went into no overall control.


1986 Svenska Cupen Final
The 1986 Svenska Cupen final took place on 2 July 1986 at Råsunda in Solna. The match was contested by Allsvenskan sides Malmö FF and IFK Göteborg. IFK Göteborg  played its first final since 1983 and its fourth final in total; Malmö FF played its first final since 1984 and its 15th final in total. Malmö FF won its 13th title with a 2–1 victory.


1986 Swan Premium Open
The 1986 Swan Premium Open was a tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts at the Sydney Entertainment Centre in Sydney in Australia and was part of the 1986 Nabisco Grand Prix. It was the 14th edition of the tournament and ran from 13 through 19 October 1986. Second-seeded Boris Becker won the singles title.


1986 Swan Premium Open, Finals, Doubles
Boris Becker /  John Fitzgerald defeated  Peter McNamara /  Paul McNamee 6–4, 7–6


1986 Swan Premium Open – Doubles
John Fitzgerald and Anders Järryd were the defending champions but only Fitzgerald competed that year with Boris Becker.


1986 Swan Premium Open – Doubles
Becker and Fitzgerald won in the final 6–4, 7–6 against Peter McNamara and Paul McNamee.


1986 Swan Premium Open – Singles
Ivan Lendl was the defending champion but lost in the final 3–6, 7–6, 6–2, 6–0 to Boris Becker.


1986 Swedish Golf Tour
The 1986 Swedish Golf Tour was the third season of the Swedish Golf Tour, a series of professional golf tournaments held in Sweden.


1986 Swedish Golf Tour, Schedule
The season consisted of twelve events played between May and September.


1986 Swedish Golf Tour (women)
The 1986 Swedish Golf Tour was the inaugural season of the Swedish Golf Tour, a series of professional golf tournaments for women held in Sweden.


1986 Swedish Golf Tour (women)
Pia Nilsson won two tournaments and Liselotte Neumann won the Order of Merit


1986 Swedish Golf Tour (women), Schedule
The season consisted of 7 tournaments played between May and October, where two events were part of the 1986 Ladies European Tour.


1986 Swedish Open
The 1986 Swedish Open was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts held in Båstad, Sweden and was part of the Grand Prix circuit of the 1986 Tour. It was the 39th edition of the tournament and was held from 21 July through 27 July 1986. Sixth-seeded Emilio Sánchez won the singles title.


1986 Swedish Open, Finals, Doubles
Sergio Casal /  Emilio Sánchez defeated  Craig Campbell /  Joey Rive 6–4, 6–2


1986 Swedish motorcycle Grand Prix
The 1986 Swedish motorcycle Grand Prix was the tenth round of the 1986 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 9–10 August at the Scandinavian Raceway.


1986 Swiss referendums
Six referendums were held in Switzerland in 1986. The first was held on 16 March on joining the United Nations, but was rejected by 76% of voters. The next three were held on 29 September on popular initiatives on culture and vocational education and a federal resolution on the domestic sugar economy. All three were rejected, including the counter-proposal to the culture initiative.


1986 Swiss referendums
The final two referendums were held on 7 December on popular initiatives "for the protection of tenants" and "for a just taxation of truck traffic." The tenant proposal was approved, whilst the vehicle taxation initiative was rejected.


1986 Syracuse Orangemen football team
The 1986 Syracuse Orangemen football team represented Syracuse University during the 1986 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team was led by sixth-year head coach Dick MacPherson and played their home games in the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, New York. Syracuse finished with a 5–6 record and did not qualify for a bowl game.


1986 Syrian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Syria on 10 and 11 February 1986. Members were elected using the multiple non-transferable vote in fifteen constituencies, with an average district magnitude of thirteen. The result was a victory for the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, which won 130 of the 195 seats.


1986 São Paulo FC season
The 1986 season was São Paulo's 57th season since club's existence.


1986 TAAC Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1986 Trans America Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Tournament (now known as the Atlantic Sun Men's Basketball Tournament) was held March 1–3 at Barton Coliseum in Little Rock, Arkansas.


1986 TAAC Men's Basketball Tournament
Arkansas–Little Rock defeated Centenary (LA) in the championship game, 85–63, to win their first TAAC/Atlantic Sun men's basketball tournament. The Trojans, therefore, received an automatic bid to the 1986 NCAA Tournament, their first Division I tournament appearance.


1986 TAAC Men's Basketball Tournament
Stetson joined the TAAC for the 1985–86 season but did not participate in the conference tournament.


1986 TCU Horned Frogs football team
The 1986 TCU Horned Frogs football team represented Texas Christian University (TCU) in the 1986 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Horned Frogs finished the season 3–8 overall and 1–7 in Southwest Conference. The team was coached by Jim Wacker, in his fourth year as head coach. The Frogs played their home games in Amon G. Carter Stadium, which is located on campus in Fort Worth, Texas.


1986 TFL Statewide League season
The 1986 TFL Statewide League premiership season was an Australian rules football competition, staged across Tasmania over 18 roster rounds and six finals series matches between 5 April and 20 September 1986. This was the inaugural season of statewide football and the League was known as the Cascade-Boags Statewide League under a dual commercial naming-rights sponsorship agreement worth $205,000 with both Cascade Brewery in Hobart and Boag's Brewery in Launceston.


1986 TFL Statewide League season, Season Summary
In a season of great change in the landscape of Tasmania football, the TANFL took its first steps in becoming a statewide competition. The six original TANFL clubs were joined by the North Launceston Robins and the East Launceston Demons from the NTFA.


1986 TFL Statewide League season, Season Summary
The season got underway on 5 April with the previous season's grand finalists (Clarence and Glenorchy) doing battle at North Hobart while at KGV Football Park, Richard Spencer's East Launceston confounded the critics after disastrous pre-season form with a sensational 4-point victory over Peter Hudson's Hobart, who were touted by the critics as the big improvers for the season. East, along with North Launceston and financially crippled New Norfolk (who had debts of $372,000 and who almost went into receivership over the summer) were not expected to challenge for a finals appearance.


1986 TFL Statewide League season, Season Summary
Indeed, East Launceston and North Launceston were continuing to field senior teams in both the TFL Statewide League and NTFA competitions until East Launceston merged with fellow NTFA club City-South on 26 May 1986 and the merged club adopted the Bulldogs emblem and colours, playing on for the future as South Launceston. Round 15 would see the entire round of football postponed due to heavy snowfalls across the state, Hobart receiving its heaviest snowfalls in the city since 1921, this was the first time a TANFL/TFL roster round had been cancelled since 1976.


1986 TFL Statewide League season, Season Summary
Throughout the season the Andy Bennett-led Sandy Bay would sweep all before them to take top position on 60 points (15 wins), one game clear of Clarence.


1986 TFL Statewide League season, Season Summary
Glenorchy would suffer from injury problems for much of the season but were able to grind out eleven wins to keep them in third spot, while Hobart would suffer from much inconsistency throughout the season, despite strong mid-season form seeing them sitting in the top-four, the Tigers were battered with injuries late in the season themselves and their promising showing amounted to very little as they were comprehensively smashed in their final three matches.


1986 TFL Statewide League season, Season Summary
North Hobart, who had been on the cusp of a grand final appearance for the past two seasons had a strong start to the season, but with the hospitalisation and subsequent retirement of captain-coach Darryl Sutton, stand-in coach Colin Tully had much work to do in revitalising a depleted Demon outfit.


1986 TFL Statewide League season, Season Summary
Glenorchy, despite losing to lowly New Norfolk in their final roster match would hit form in the second half of the Qualifying final to post a 39-point win over Clarence, the following day North Hobart ran rampant after quarter time to thrash Hobart by 70-points in the Elimination Final and book a date with Clarence at KGV in the First Semi Final, but the Roos held sway in the end after a tight first three-quarters to win by 30-points.


1986 TFL Statewide League season, Season Summary
Sandy Bay would win their final twelve roster matches to go into the finals full of confidence in winning their first flag since 1978, the Seagulls ran away from Glenorchy to take the Second Semi Final by 27-points and advance to the Grand Final. Fierce rivals Glenorchy and Clarence would battle it out in the Preliminary Final, the Magpies doing the damage in the second quarter with six goals to one and continuing on with the job in the second half to win by 42-points.


1986 TFL Statewide League season, Season Summary
The Grand Final would be a fiery one, with nine reports (eight of them Sandy Bay players) as Glenorchy unsettled the Seagulls and completely ruffled them, the Magpies would end Sandy Bay's 13-match winning streak in emphatic style, leading at every change to win by 32-points. The Glenorchy Football Club completed the most dominant season in TFL history by winning the premiership in all grades.


1986 TFL Statewide League season, Expansion Plans
In early May, TFL President David Smith met with both Cooee and Burnie Tigers Football Clubs at an open meeting at the Burnie Athletic Club to discuss the possibility of the two clubs amalgamating to form a single entity representing the then township of Burnie (it gained City status in 1988), joining their coastal cousin Devonport, who had already been accepted into the competition for 1987. The general consensus of the meeting was that neither club were keen to merge with each other and accordingly, both sets of members voted against it.


1986 TFL Statewide League season, Expansion Plans
Burnie were not keen to take on Cooee's $100,000 debt in joining the competition, despite countless meetings it was agreed to let both clubs apply to join and eventually, Cooee would change their name, colours and playing jumper to the Burnie Hawks and would be granted a licence to join the competition from 1987, starting an enormous war between the two clubs that would ultimately hold football back in the city for many years after. Launceston Football Club would also apply to join the competition but were knocked back by the TFL.


1986 TFL Statewide League season, Building for the future
The bidding wars were starting between Councils for the right to become the home of TFL football in the future. Bids were made by Hobart City, Glenorchy, Clarence and Kingborough Councils to build suitable venues to host big TFL matches and other events in the future. Kingborough Council announced plans to build a $2.8 million facility near Huntingfield if Sandy Bay would relocate to the region, the date for completion was set to be by 1988/89 with a capacity of 13,000.


1986 TFL Statewide League season, Building for the future
Glenorchy City Council announced plans to work with the TFL and the TCA in a partnership to fund a $4.3 million redevelopment of KGV Football Park to become the home of Tasmanian football and cricket. The development would include TV-standard lighting, corporate facilities for both organisations with 60 VIP boxes and a final capacity of 27,500 on completion.


1986 TFL Statewide League season, Building for the future
During the season Clarence would play a majority of their home matches at North Hobart Oval owing to the Bellerive Oval being renovated as the main cricket stadium in Hobart and Sandy Bay would return home permanently to Queenborough after playing home games at North Hobart Oval since 1983. The TFL also tried to force New Norfolk to play its home matches at KGV Football Park due to poor crowds at the dilapidated Boyer Oval, but Eagles fans boycotted the two matches in protest, with crowds of 470 and 610 forcing the TFL to rethink their decision. Meanwhile, North Hobart Football Club would receive a $30,000 sponsorship from Schweppes as the strong corporate support continued for the League.


1986 TFL Statewide League season, 1986 TFL Statewide League Ladder, Round 7
Note: East Launceston (founded in 1948) plays its final game, merging with City-South the following day.


1986 TFL Statewide League season, 1986 TFL Statewide League Ladder, Round 8
Note: First game of South Launceston Football Club after merger of East Launceston & City-South Football Clubs.


1986 TFL Statewide League season, 1986 TFL Statewide League Ladder, Round 9
(Saturday, 7 June, Sunday, 8 June & Monday, 9 June 1986)


1986 TFL Statewide League season, 1986 TFL Statewide League Ladder, Round 15
Note: This round was postponed by one week on 26 July due to heavy snowfalls across Tasmania.


1986 Taipei Women's Championships
The 1986 Taipei Women's Championships was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts in Taipei, Taiwan and was part of the 1986 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. It was the inaugural edition of the tournament and was held from 6 October through 12 October 1986. Unseeded Patricia Hy won the singles title.


1986 Taipei Women's Championships, Finals, Doubles
Lea Antonoplis /  Barbara Gerken defeated  Gigi Fernández /  Susan Leo 6–1, 6–2


1986 Taiwanese legislative election
The sixth supplementary elections for the National Assembly and Legislative Yuan were held in the Republic of China (Taiwan) on 6 December 1986.


1986 Taiwanese legislative election, Background
Compared with the last supplementary election (1980 for the National Assembly and 1983 for the Legislative Yuan respectively) the number of eligible seats for the National Assembly had been increased from 76 to 84 and for the Legislative Yuan from 98 to 100 due to an increase in population. Of these, 73 seats for the  Legislative Yuan represented Taiwan Province and the special municipalities of Taipei and Kaohsiung and were to be elected directly. The remaining 27 seats for the Legislative Yuan represented  overseas nationals and were appointed by the President.


1986 Taiwanese legislative election, Results
Turnout for the supplementary election of the National Assembly was 65.1% and for the Legislative Yuan 65.4%. Of the newly elected members to the National Assembly 68 belonged to the Kuomintang, 11 to the Democratic Progressive Party (running as independents), one to the Chinese Youth Party and four were independents. Of the 73 directly elected delegates to the Legislative Yuan 59 belonged to the Kuomintang, 12 to Democratic Progressive Party (running as independents) and two were independent. All chosen were born Taiwanese except for 8 in the National Assembly and 3 in the Legislative Yuan, who were born on the Mainland or from parents from the Mainland.


1986 Taiwanese legislative election, Results
This was the first time the Democratic Progressive Party organized much of the Tangwai forces into a political party and contested in elections as such, defying the Kuomintang government's ban on the formation of new political parties under the Temporary Provisions Effective During the Period of Communist Rebellion.


1986 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season
The 1986 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season was the franchise's 11th season in the National Football League playing their home games at Tampa Stadium and their second under head coach Leeman Bennett. The team matched their 2–14 season from 1985, for one of the worst seasons in franchise history, and according to statistics site Football Outsiders, the sixth-worst team in the NFL since 1950. There is some sentiment that the 1986 team was even worse than the winless team of 1976, and the 473 points conceded was not beaten by any NFL team until the 2001 Indianapolis Colts gave up 486.


1986 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season
The Buccaneers selected Bo Jackson with the top pick in the draft, but were unable to convince him to join the team. Three weeks after the draft, Jackson signed a three-year baseball contract with the Kansas City Royals. Despite holding four of the first forty selections in the draft, and the presence of a great influx of fresh talent from defunct USFL teams, the Buccaneers were unable to find any impact players in either the draft or free agency. They entered the season with a roster nearly identical to the previous season's 2–14 team.


1986 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season
Coach Leeman Bennett treated the season as a building season, but was disappointed with the team's mental errors and lack of progress. Later in the season, he would begin to privately admit that the Buccaneers' talent was much worse than he had realized. Steve DeBerg won the starting quarterback job after outplaying Steve Young in the preseason, but was benched in favor of Young after struggling in the first two games. Kevin House and Jimmie Giles were released after an October loss to the New Orleans Saints, along with ex-Dallas Cowboys fullback Ron Springs.


1986 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season
Bennett showed up at a press conference held after the season by owner Hugh Culverhouse, unaware that the purpose of the press conference was to announce Bennett's firing. Giles, then with the Detroit Lions, criticized the move, saying that no coach could compensate for the Buccaneers' lack of talent. He also claimed that administrator Phil Krueger destroyed team chemistry by demeaning players during contract negotiations, pointing to guard Sean Farrell's disgruntlement as an example.


1986 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Offseason
Defensive end Lee Roy Selmon retired a week before the draft. He missed the entire 1985 season due to a herniated disk, and chose to retire rather than undergo surgery. Although his retirement was expected, the Buccaneers did not seek a replacement in the draft. With  Mark Cotney and Steve Wilson having retired earlier in the year, Selmon was the last of the original Buccaneers on the roster.


1986 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Offseason, NFL Draft
The Buccaneers received additional picks in the 1st and 2nd rounds from the Miami Dolphins in exchange for linebacker Hugh Green. Their extra 6th-round pick came from the New England Patriots in exchange for a 5th-round pick in the 1987 draft. The second pick in the 12th round came from the San Francisco 49ers in return for the rights to center Jim Leonard. The Buccaneers' 3rd-round pick was traded to the New Orleans Saints for defensive back David Greenwood. Their 6th-round pick was traded to the Denver Broncos in exchange for defensive end Brison Manor. Their 7th-round pick went to the Buffalo Bills in exchange for wide receiver Perry Tuttle. Their 8th-round pick went to the Rams for defensive back Ivory Sully.


1986 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Offseason, NFL Draft, The Bo Jackson draft fiasco
Auburn University running back Bo Jackson was selected with the Buccaneers' first overall pick in the draft, but refused to sign with them. Jackson was angry with the Buccaneers after accepting a private jet ride to attend a team workout caused him to lose his eligibility to play baseball at Auburn. Although NCAA rules allow a professional athlete to compete collegiately in a different sport, stricter Southeastern Conference rules disqualify a professional athlete from competing in any college sports.


1986 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Offseason, NFL Draft, The Bo Jackson draft fiasco
Jackson accused the Buccaneers of sabotaging his college baseball career, although Phil Krueger insisted that the SEC had advised them that the flight was allowable, and that it was Jackson himself who had insisted on using a private flight. Jackson had been rated as the best running back prospect to come out of college since O. J. Simpson 17 years earlier. Jackson was said to have ridiculed Tampa Bay's offensive line, and shortly before the baseball draft to have told two teams that he had no intention of playing football.


1986 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Offseason, NFL Draft, The Bo Jackson draft fiasco
Most teams did not believe him, but the Kansas City Royals, although they were unsure enough that they waited until the fourth round of the Major League Baseball Draft to select him. Jackson vowed never to play football again and accepted an offer from the Royals worth much less than what the Buccaneers offered. The Buccaneers turned down several impressive trade offers for Jackson, including the San Francisco 49ers' offer of Ronnie Lott, Wendell Tyler, and first- and second-round draft picks.


1986 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Offseason, NFL Draft, The Bo Jackson draft fiasco
Jackson's statements about not playing football were contradictory, as he alternated between stating he didn't want to play at all and between saying he didn't want to play for a terrible team and organization like Tampa Bay. In his book, Jackson recalls a meeting with Al Davis where he said he liked Davis and told the Raider boss he would love to play for them, and that the Raiders made offers for the #1 pick to Tampa Bay that were spurned.


1986 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Offseason, NFL Draft, The Bo Jackson draft fiasco
There was speculation that owner Hugh Culverhouse was torn between his promise to make Jackson the highest-paid rookie ever, and his status as a member of the NFL Finance Committee, which obligated him to set a reasonable fiscal precedent for the rest of the league. This resulted in an underwhelming contract offer and produced the perception that the Buccaneers were not serious about signing Jackson. Although the Buccaneers offered Jackson $7 million over the five years, half of it was in the form of incentives, annuities, and real estate.


1986 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Offseason, NFL Draft, The Bo Jackson draft fiasco
The actual salary averaged to over $700,000 per year, still more than twice his yearly salary from the Royals, who gave him a three-year, $1 million contract. Negotiator Phil Krueger said that officials from other NFL teams agreed that the Buccaneers had offered Jackson fair money; however, Jackson also recounted in his book that Culverhouse got angry when he turned out an initial offer and said the Bucs would cut their next offer by 50% if Jackson didn't accept the first contract by the following day.


1986 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Offseason, NFL Draft, The Bo Jackson draft fiasco
Jackson's Royals contract gave him the option of buying out his contract if he wanted to return to football. Jackson was eligible to be drafted again the next year if not signed by April 28, 1987, which turned out to be the case. Culverhouse announced the embarrassment at a news conference in which he quoted the "keep smiling, keep shining" lyrics of Dionne Warwick's then-current hit song "That's What Friends are For".


1986 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Offseason, NFL Draft, The Bo Jackson draft fiasco
Jackson became the fourth consecutive Heisman Trophy winner (after USFL players Herschel Walker, Mike Rozier, and Doug Flutie) to spurn the NFL, although he was the first since Pete Dawkins in 1958 to leave football entirely. It was the first time since 1979, when Tom Cousineau signed with the Canadian Football League instead of the Buffalo Bills, that the first overall pick chose not to play in the NFL.


1986 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Offseason, NFL Draft, Other draft selections
Rod Jones was known as a hard hitter and a world-class track star, but was a controversial selection because, coming from the run-heavy Southwest Conference, his pass-coverage skills were unknown. At 5'11", 165 lbs., he was considered undersized for the NFL. Jones was the first defensive back selected, but was rated no better than fifth-best by most scouting services. The Buccaneers were criticized for taking linebacker Jackie Walker with their third pick, when Kevin Murphy of the national champion Oklahoma Sooners was still available.


1986 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Offseason, NFL Draft, Other draft selections
The Buccaneers did eventually draft Murphy, who they were surprised to find still available with their 40th overall selection. Murphy was believed to have fallen due to rumors of a knee injury. The Buccaneers had rated both Walker and Murphy among the top 15 players in the draft. Craig Swoope was rated as the best safety in the draft, but fell to the fourth round because of a previous charge (and acquittal) of conspiracy to distribute cocaine. Swoope was eventually the only Buccaneer to achieve any kind of postseason honors in 1986, being selected to the Football Digest All-Rookie team.


1986 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Offseason, NFL Draft, Other draft selections
The team went for big offensive linemen in the later rounds. One of them was J.D. Maarleveld, the first cancer patient drafted by the NFL. Maarleveld was considered to have been a second-round talent, but fell all the way to the fifth round. Belief that Maarleveld was worth much more money than the average fifth-rounder caused his agent, Greg Marotta, to advise him to reject the Buccaneers' offer and sign with the USFL Baltimore Stars. Maarleveld was eventually able to reach agreement with the Buccaneers.


1986 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Preseason, Personnel moves
Bennett made efforts in the offseason to address the passing game, and to improve team speed. He held an extra "passing camp" before training camp for all offensive and defensive players involved in the passing game. Establishing the offense was complicated by the situation of not having enough reliable running backs to run a two-back offense. Finding enough speedy receivers to run a three-receiver set was also difficult, as was finding faster defensive backs who could play the man-to-man coverage that Bennett wanted to move to.


1986 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Preseason, Personnel moves
Cutting safety David Greenwood and trading cornerback John Holt improved the speed of the secondary by opening up starting spots for rookies Jones and Swoope. Former Florida Gators cornerback Vito McKeever, a product of local Dunnellon High School who had played for the USFL Michigan Panthers under Buccaneer defensive coordinator Jim Stanley, was signed toward the end of preseason. The addition of McKeever, who took over Jeremiah Castille's starting spot, meant that three of the four secondary positions turned over from the previous year.


1986 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Preseason, Personnel moves
The quest for speed in the secondary meant cutting safety and punt returner Mike Prior, who went on to become a mainstay on the Green Bay Packer playoff teams of the 1990s. In an attempt to upgrade the offensive line, five-time Pro Bowl tackle Marvin Powell was brought in. While there was speculation that the New York Jets let him go because he was President of the National Football League Players Association, the Jets were concerned over quarterback Ken O'Brien having been sacked an NFL-record 62 times the previous season, and selected two tackles in the draft.


1986 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Preseason, Personnel moves
There was sentiment among some teams that, despite his Pro Bowl appearances, Powell was an overrated player who had never lived up to his reputation. Powell performed well for Tampa Bay, but was placed on injured reserve midseason after undergoing arthroscopic knee surgery. Undrafted free-agent running back Nathan Wonsley emerged in the preseason as a legitimate complement to James Wilder Sr.. Tyrone Keys, a defensive end from a team loaded with pass-rushers, and David Williams, a receiver who had led the nation in catches during his junior year, were claimed off waivers from the defending world champion Chicago Bears.


1986 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season
Steve DeBerg won the starting quarterback job over Steve Young in the preseason, but lost it after throwing seven interceptions in the season opener against the San Francisco 49ers, and another two the next week against the Minnesota Vikings. Nose tackle Dave Logan summed up the team's condition after the 49ers game by saying, "the teams we play do not respect us". Players coming from winning teams to the Buccaneers, such as Marvin Powell and Tyrone Keys, found themselves shocked by the constant losing and discouraged by the team's easy acceptance of losses.


1986 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season
Keys in particular thought that the Buccaneers were too used to losing, and not bothered by it. Young later criticized the team's will to win, saying that "if they could hide for four-quarters and just go home, they would be happy". Powell, one of the highest-paid offensive linemen in the league, was placed on injured reserve with a knee injury after only a few games. An embarrassing loss to the New Orleans Saints was followed by the release of Jimmie Giles and Kevin House, the top two receivers in Buccaneer history at the time, and former starting fullback Ron Springs.


1986 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season
This upset several club veterans, and weakened an offense that already had to compensate for a defense that had allowed over 1,000 rushing yards in the previous four games. League perception was that the Buccaneers were replacing older veterans with younger players who were incapable of taking their places. Said an executive from another team of Giles' replacement, "Calvin Magee runs a 5.2 40... We wouldn't even bring him into camp". Rumors, denied by Culverhouse, began to circulate that secret meetings were being held to arrange replacing Bennett with Steve Spurrier.


1986 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season
Nathan Wonsley, the rookie free-agent running back whose play was one of the few bright spots in the season, was lost to the team after suffering dislocated neck vertebrae during a week 10 loss to the Chicago Bears. After the abnormally large number of injuries suffered during the Bears game, the Buccaneers ended their pattern of suffering fourth-quarter collapses in close games, instead losing their last seven games by an average of over 21 points.


1986 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season
With Jerry Bell, a tight end who played a "U-back" position that was crucial to Tampa Bay's running game, suffering a broken ankle in the same game, the Buccaneers were forced to re-sign Ron Springs just to have enough runners in their backfield. Culverhouse, saying that he had made the decision only minutes prior, fired Bennett at a press conference on Dec. 29. Bennett, who had spoken to Culverhouse earlier the same morning, was unaware that he was to be let go. Culverhouse met with Ray Perkins and offered him the Tampa Bay coaching job only hours after firing Bennett.


1986 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season
The firing was criticized by some, who felt that no steps were being taken to address the front-office problems that were the real root of the Buccaneers' woes. This criticism was echoed by safety David Greenwood, by then with the Packers, who pointed out the team's cheapness by recounting a 1985 incident in which he wanted to keep a football as a game ball after catching it for an interception. Executive Phil Krueger demanded that Greenwood pay $35 for the football.


1986 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: vs San Francisco 49ers
at Tampa Stadium, Tampa, FloridaSan Francisco 49ers quarterback Joe Montana completed 32 of 46 passes for 356 yards before leaving the game with an injury in the fourth quarter. The injury, similar to the one that ended Lee Roy Selmon's career, would require season-ending surgery and threaten Montana's football future. Steve DeBerg's 31-yard touchdown pass to Gerald Carter in the third quarter brought the Buccaneers to within a touchdown, but they would not score again. The 49ers' seven interceptions of DeBerg were a team record, and one short of the NFL record.


1986 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: vs San Francisco 49ers
DeBerg placed blame for the loss on himself, but teammates defended him, pointing out that he was under constant pressure from the 49ers' pass rush. Opposing safety Ronnie Lott said that DeBerg was predictable as to where he would throw the ball when pressured. James Wilder rushed for 81 yards and caught five passes. Selmon's number 63 was retired in a halftime ceremony.


1986 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: vs Minnesota Vikings
at Tampa Stadium, Tampa, FloridaEarly in the first quarter, James Wilder tipped a pass from Steve DeBerg into the hands of Vikings linebacker Chris Doleman, who returned it for a touchdown. Wilder took a helmet to the sternum on this play, leaving a deep bruise that caused him to miss the next two games, and reduced his effectiveness for the remainder of the season. Seventeen seconds later, Scott Studwell recovered a Wilder fumble at the Tampa Bay 18-yard line, leading to a Viking field goal.


1986 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: vs Minnesota Vikings
The Buccaneers added a Donald Igwebuike field goal before the end of the quarter, but the Vikings answered it with a touchdown pass from Tommy Kramer to Mike Mularkey. DeBerg's 1-yard touchdown pass to Jimmie Giles brought the Buccaneers to within a touchdown before halftime, but they were unable to score in the second half. The Buccaneers outperformed the Vikings in a number of statistical categories, but could not overcome the turnovers.


1986 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: at Detroit Lions
at Pontiac Silverdome, Pontiac, MichiganWith running back James Wilder nursing a bruised sternum, Nathan Wonsley rushed for 138 yards and two touchdowns. Wonsley became the first Buccaneer running back, other than Wilder, to rush for 100 yards since Nov. 29, 1981. He was the first Tampa Bay rookie to rush for 100 yards since Jerry Eckwood in 1979. Wonsley followed in the footsteps of his two older brothers, George and Otis, both backup NFL running backs who came off the bench to have breakout games while leading their respective teams to victory against the Lions.


1986 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: at Detroit Lions
Constant Buccaneer blitzes resulted in four sacks, two interceptions, and six forced fumbles. Although Lions quarterback Eric Hipple had a good statistical day, completing 31 passes for 318 yards, the Tampa Bay defense's pressure prevented him from converting his opportunities into points. The win broke Tampa Bay's 19-game road losing streak.


1986 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4: vs Atlanta Falcons
The Atlanta Falcons overcame a 20–7 halftime deficit to defeat the Buccaneers in overtime on a Mick Luckhurst field goal. The strategy of running out the clock with a conservative offense that had worked so well against the Lions the previous week backfired against the Falcons. The Buccaneers' offensive line failed to dominate, and the Falcons wound up running 57 offensive plays in the second half, while the Buccaneers ran only 26. Twenty of those plays were runs by Gerald Riggs, who finished the day with 127 yards rushing. The Buccaneers outgained the Falcons 255 yards to 190 in the first half, but were outgained 300 yards to 68 in the second half, in which the Buccaneers never advanced beyond midfield. The win left Atlanta undefeated at 4–0.


1986 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 5: at Los Angeles Rams
at Anaheim Coliseum, Anaheim, CaliforniaEric Dickerson earned his fourth career 200-yard rushing game with a 42-yard touchdown run to win the game in overtime for the Los Angeles Rams. Steve Young led an 80-yard drive in the fourth quarter that ended in a Donald Igwebuike field goal and sent the game into overtime, but the Buccaneers were unable to stop Dickerson all day. It was the second consecutive overtime loss for the Buccaneers. Nathan Wonsley rushed 18 times for 108 yards and a 59-yard touchdown run. Young also ran for a touchdown.


1986 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 5: at Los Angeles Rams
Bennett was again criticized after the game for conservative play-calling, although the Buccaneers' total of 174 rushing yards was more than double the average the Rams had allowed in their previous four games. The game left Wonsley as the NFL leader in rushing average, with 5.7 yards per carry. Dickerson continued to lead the NFL in rushing with 657 yards, 159 ahead of his record-setting pace from 1984.


1986 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6: vs St. Louis Cardinals
The Buccaneers were once again criticized for poor tackling and conservative play-calling following a loss to a previously winless St. Louis Cardinals team. This time, complaints came from the players as the Cardinals seemed to know in advance which plays the Buccaneers would be running, and the Buccaneers waited until too late in the game to make adjustments. The Buccaneers led early, after Steve DeBerg's touchdown pass to Calvin Magee on a fake field goal. Steve Young's rushing and passing combined for 304 of the Buccaneers' 347 yards.


1986 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6: vs St. Louis Cardinals
The Cardinals unexpectedly used a soft zone defense instead of their usual blitzing, which contributed to Tampa Bay's decision to avoid the passing game until the fourth quarter. The Cardinals put the game away with Stump Mitchell's 31-yard fourth-quarter touchdown run, in which three Buccaneers missed tackles. Ron Holmes, Jeremiah Castille, Marvin Powell, and Gerald Carter all missed the game with injuries.


1986 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 7: at New Orleans Saints
at Louisiana Superdome, New OrleansReuben Mayes rushed for 147 yards, the second-most in New Orleans Saints history, as the Saints equalled their highest-ever margin of victory. The Saints scored on their first three possessions. The Buccaneers did not score until the fourth quarter, when Steve DeBerg ran for a 1-yard touchdown. Steve Young left the stadium on crutches, and starting defensive end Ron Holmes left the game after trying to play the first quarter with a broken fibula. Mayes was selected with a third-round draft pick that had been obtained from the Buccaneers in exchange for safety David Greenwood, who the Buccaneers had already waived.


1986 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 8: at Kansas City Chiefs
at Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas City, MissouriVeteran quarterback Bill Kenney, making the start for the Kansas City Chiefs in place of the struggling Todd Blackledge, completed 15 of 29 passes for 230 yards and a touchdown. The Chiefs' offensive line protected Kenney well, allowing only one sack and few hurries. Although the Buccaneers led at halftime on a 10-yard pass from Steve Young to Calvin Magee and two Donald Igwebuike field goals, they were unable to hold the lead in the second half.


1986 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 8: at Kansas City Chiefs
They tied the game at 20 on a fourth-quarter touchdown run, James Wilder's first of the year, but immediately allowed the Chiefs to drive the length of the field for the winning touchdown. The sloppily played game included four fumbles, six sacks, two interceptions, and 17 penalties for 146 yards. Art Still contributed three of the Chiefs' five sacks.


1986 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 9: vs Buffalo Bills
The Buccaneers took a 20–0 halftime lead over the Buffalo Bills after recovering fumbles on two kickoffs. They barely held on for victory, as a Jim Kelly pass went incomplete in the end zone with no time remaining. Afterward, Leeman Bennett declared it the "start of a new season". Steve Young completed 14 of 24 passes for 193 yards, and ran for two touchdowns. James Wilder also contributed a 45-yard touchdown run. The Bills attempted a comeback, with Kelly throwing three touchdowns. Kelly, who only threw twice in the first half, completed 21 of 32 for 257 yards in the second half. It was the Bills' 31st consecutive road loss. Bills coach Hank Bullough was fired following the loss, and was replaced by Marv Levy.


1986 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 10: vs Chicago Bears
Doug Flutie made his NFL debut in the fourth quarter for the Chicago Bears. The Bears took an early 14–0 lead after Mike Tomczak's 37-yard touchdown pass to Willie Gault. The play occurred after Ervin Randle's recovery of a Calvin Thomas fumble was nullified due to an offsides penalty on Craig Swoope. While the Buccaneers' defense improved later in the game, it was not enough to overcome the problems of the injury-battered offense. Nathan Wonsley suffered a broken neck while making a tackle on the opening kickoff.


1986 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 10: vs Chicago Bears
This was followed by injuries to Jerry Bell, Phil Freeman, Craig Swoope, and Willie Gillespie. Calvin Magee played with a prior injury, as did James Wilder and Leonard Harris, though both were forced to leave the game. With Gerald Carter left as the only experienced receiver, the Bears keyed on him, and with Bell, Wonsley and Wilder out, the Buccaneers could not run.


1986 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 11: at Green Bay Packers
at Lambeau Field, Green Bay, WisconsinWith James Wilder leaving the game after aggravating his rib injury, the Buccaneers were unable to take advantage of Green Bay Packers quarterback Randy Wright's three interceptions. Wright completed 18 of 29 passes for 238 yards, with a career-best three first-half touchdowns. The win was only the Packers' second of the season. The loss left the Buccaneers' defense in last place in the league, despite their having spent four of their first five draft picks on defensive players.


1986 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 12: vs Detroit Lions
Three first-half possessions deep in Detroit Lions territory led to zero Buccaneer points en route to another blowout loss. Lions receiver Jeff Chadwick took a 73-yard reception to the Buccaneers' 1-yard line when Rod Jones fell down while covering him. Jones also got beaten by Leonard Thompson on a jump ball in the end zone. Vito McKeever was outrun by Chadwick on the Lions' third score. James Wilder had 130 yards rushing and 71 yards receiving for the Buccaneers.


1986 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 13: at Minnesota Vikings
at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, MinneapolisWith Tommy Kramer injured, Vikings quarterback Wade Wilson threw for a career-best 339 yards and three touchdowns. With Tampa Bay down by 45–6, Steve DeBerg's 45-yard pass to Calvin Magee set up a 1-yard touchdown pass to Ron Heller on a tackle-eligible play. The Buccaneers' only other offense came on two Donald Igwebuike field goals.


1986 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14: at Chicago Bears
at Soldier Field, ChicagoThe Buccaneers almost exceeded their worst-ever loss, a 42–0 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers, on its 10th anniversary. They were shut out until the fourth quarter, and only scored when Chicago Bears safety Todd Bell intercepted a Steve Young pass and lateraled it to Mike Richardson, who attempted to lateral it to Shaun Gayle, only to have Tampa Bay receiver Vince Heflin intercept the lateral and run it in for a score. Mike Tomczak ran for the Bears' first score. Later, a Walter Payton touchdown was called back on a holding penalty.


1986 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14: at Chicago Bears
The Buccaneers stopped the Bears on fourth-and-1, but an offside penalty on Craig Swoope gave the Bears another chance. Tomczak fumbled, however, causing him to be benched in favor of Doug Flutie. Flutie scored two touchdowns, one passing and one running, before Tomczak returned in the second half. Tampa Bay scored a second time on Young's 14-yard pass to Calvin Magee, but Lew Barnes returned the ensuing kickoff for a touchdown. Magee's 143 receiving yards remain (as of 2009) the Buccaneers' single-game record for a tight end.


1986 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 15: vs Green Bay Packers
at Tampa Stadium, Tampa, FloridaThe Green Bay Packers had seven different players each contribute a sack, and Randy Wright's 190 yards passing made him the second player in Packers history to throw for 3,000 yards in a season. The crowd cheered the news that an Indianapolis Colts win moved the Buccaneers into first place for the rights to the first overall draft pick, and pelted Buccaneer players with lemons. Ron Holmes's sack of Wright was the Buccaneers' first since October 12, and Ivory Sully recorded the first blocked punt in Buccaneers regular-season history. Both teams went to their second-string quarterbacks in the second half, but Steve Young returned to the game after Steve DeBerg suffered a concussion, and Wright was reinserted after the Buccaneers threatened to start a comeback.


1986 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 16: at St. Louis Cardinals
at Busch Stadium, St. Louis, MissouriSt. Louis Cardinals Pro Bowl rookie Vai Sikahema tied an NFL record by returning two punts for touchdowns as the Buccaneers clinched the NFL's worst record for the second consecutive year. Frank Garcia, playing with a back injury, had a third punt blocked for a net gain of 1 yard. The Buccaneers scored first, on a 1-yard Bobby Howard run, but the Cardinals' 21 unanswered points gave them the lead for good before halftime. A 33-yard touchdown pass from Steve Young to Phil Freeman brought the Buccaneers to within 4 points in the third quarter. The game not only ended a futile season for the Buccaneers, but also concluded the Cardinals' worst season since moving to St. Louis 27 years earlier.


1986 Tanduay Rhum Makers season
The 1986 Tanduay Rhum Makers season was the 12th season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).


1986 Tanduay Rhum Makers season, First PBA title
The Tanduay Rhum Makers were a team on a mission right at the start of the 1986 PBA season, playing their first full conference with Ramon Fernandez. The Rhum Makers were reinforced by the pair of Rob Williams, a first-round pick by the Denver Nuggets in the 1982 NBA draft, and Andre McKoy.


1986 Tanduay Rhum Makers season, First PBA title
Tanduay started out with four straight victories before a skid of four straight losses, the Rhum Makers would win seven games in a row, the last two in the eliminations and their first five matches in the semifinals. After being thwarted by Great Taste in their first attempt to reach the finals for the first time since 1978, the Rhum Makers would formalized its entry to the championship round against Great Taste following a 141-123 win over Shell on May 29.


1986 Tanduay Rhum Makers season, First PBA title
The ballclub of the late Don Manolo Elizalde won their first-ever PBA title after 11 long years with a 4-2 series victory over Great Taste Coffee Makers.


1986 Tanduay Rhum Makers season, 2nd championship (Rivalry with Ginebra)
Tanduay has carried on the momentum of their Reinforced Conference triumph by winning their first five assignments in the All-Filipino before losing their last game in the eliminations to Manila Beer. On August 21, the Rhum Makers advances into the finals for the second straight conference and arranged a title showdown with Ginebra San Miguel as they frustrated Great Taste anew, 115-107, dethroning the defending, two-time All-Filipino champions.


1986 Tanduay Rhum Makers season, 2nd championship (Rivalry with Ginebra)
Tanduay went on to win their second straight championship by defeating crowd-favorite Ginebra San Miguel, three games to one, in the best-of-five title series as they became only the fourth team to win the prestigious All-Filipino crown.


1986 Tanduay Rhum Makers season, The foiled grandslam bid
The Rhum Makers' bid for a grandslam started on a wrong foot, losing their first four games in the Open Conference. Rob Williams' Houston Cougar teammate and Phi Slama Jama member Benny "The Outlaw" Anders and Williams' old partner Andre McKoy played two games each. Andy Thompson, a brother of the Los Angeles Lakers' Mychal Thompson in the NBA, led Tanduay to their first victory as the Rhum Makers escaped with a 124-123 win over Magnolia Cheese.


1986 Tanduay Rhum Makers season, The foiled grandslam bid
Three nights later on October 12 in a highly anticipated first meeting between the two protagonists of the All-Filipino Finals and the much awaited import match-up between Rob Williams and Ginebra's Billy Ray Bates, Tanduay beat Ginebra San Miguel, 114-109, for their second win and gave the Gins their first defeat in the conference after four straight victories.


1986 Tanduay Rhum Makers season, The foiled grandslam bid
The Rhum Makers makes it to the four-team semifinal round when from 0-4, the team had a five-game winning streak and won 8 of their next 10 games. Tanduay was simply outplayed by the two teams that will play for the Open championship - Ginebra and Manila Beer, during the second round of the semis. The Rhum Makers lost to Manila Beer on Beermen import Michael Young's three-point shot with one second left and two days after, Tanduay fell behind by a large margin of 44 points at halftime against arch rival Ginebra as their grandslam hopes ended.


1986 Tasmanian state election
The Tasmanian state election, 1986 was held on 8 February 1986 in the Australian state of Tasmania to elect 35 members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly. The election used the Hare-Clark proportional representation system — seven members were elected from each of five electorates. The quota required for election was 12.5% in each division.


1986 Tasmanian state election
The incumbent Liberal government headed by Robin Gray hoped to secure a second term in office. The Labor Party was headed by Ken Wriedt. The Green independents were headed by Bob Brown. The Australian Democrats contested the electorates of Braddon and Bass. Green candidates contested the electorates of Denison and Franklin.


1986 Tasmanian state election
Prior to the election the Liberals held 18 of the 35 seats in parliament. The Labor Party held 14, and there were three independents—former Labor Premier Doug Lowe, Green independent Bob Brown, and ex-Liberal MHA Gabriel Haros.


1986 Tasmanian state election, Results
The representation of the Liberal and Labor parties remained unchanged after the election, at 19 and 14 respectively, leaving Robin Gray's Liberal government in power. It was the first time in 58 years that a non-Labor government had won a second term in Tasmania.


1986 Tasmanian state election, Results
The Greens increased their representation from one to two, with Gerry Bates replacing independent Doug Lowe as the seventh member for the Division of Franklin (Lowe did not contest the election).


1986 Tasmanian state election, Results
Tasmanian state election, 8 February 1986House of Assembly << 1982–1989 >>


1986 Tasmanian state election, Aftermath
Shortly after the election, Ken Wreidt was replaced as Labor leader by Neil Batt.


1986 Tayside Regional Council election
The fourth election to Tayside Regional Council was held on 8 May 1986 as part of the wider 1986 Scottish regional elections. The election saw the Conservatives losing control of the region, with Labour emerging as the single largest force on the 46 seat council. Following the election the Labour Party formed a minority administration. Ian Mackie CBE, the chair of the Conservative Group, was defeated in Clepington-Maryfield ward.


1986 Taça de Portugal Final
The 1986 Taça de Portugal Final was the final match of the 1985–86 Taça de Portugal, which was the 46th season of the Taça de Portugal, the premier Portuguese football cup competition organized by the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF). The match was played on 27 April 1986 at the Estádio Nacional in Oeiras, and opposed two Primeira Liga sides: Belenenses and Benfica. Benfica defeated Belenenses 2–0 to claim the Taça de Portugal for a twentieth time.


1986 Taça de Portugal Final
In Portugal, the final was televised live on RTP. As a result of Benfica winning the Taça de Portugal, the Águias qualified for the 1986 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira where they took on 1985–86 Primeira Divisão winners Porto.


1986 Team Ice Racing World Championship
The 1986 Team Ice Racing World Championship was the eighth edition of the Team World Championship. The final was held on ?, 1986, in Leningrad in the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union won their sixth title.


1986 Tel Aviv Open
The 1986 Tel Aviv Open was a men's tennis tournament played on hard courts that was part of the 1986 Nabisco Grand Prix. It was played at the Israel Tennis Centers in the Tel Aviv District city of Ramat HaSharon, Israel from October 6 through October 13, 1986. Brad Gilbert won the singles title.


1986 Tel Aviv Open, Finals, Doubles
John Letts /  Peter Lundgren defeated  Christo Steyn /  Danie Visser 6–3, 3–6, 6–3


1986 Tel Aviv Open – Doubles
Brad Gilbert and Ilie Năstase were the defending champions, but Năstase did not participate this year. Gilbert partnered Shlomo Glickstein, losing in the first round.


1986 Tel Aviv Open – Doubles
John Letts and Peter Lundgren won the title, defeating Christo Steyn and Danie Visser 6–3, 3–6, 6–3 in the final.


1986 Tel Aviv Open – Singles
Gilbert successfully defended his title, beating Aaron Krickstein in the final, 7–5, 6–2.


1986 Temple Owls football team
The 1986 Temple Owls football team was an American football team that represented Temple University as an independent during the 1986 NCAA Division I-A football season. In its fourth season under head coach Bruce Arians, the team compiled a 6–5 record and outscored opponents by a total of 308 to 271. The team played its home games at Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia.


1986 Temple Owls football team
The team's statistical leaders included Lee Saltz with 1,729 passing yards, Paul Palmer with 1,866 rushing yards and 90 points scored, and Keith Gloster with 568 receiving yards.


1986 Tennent's Sixes
The 1986 Tennents' Sixes was the third staging of the indoor 6-a-side football tournament. This time it was held at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre (SECC) in Glasgow on 19 and 20 January and shown on BBC Scotland.


1986 Tennent's Sixes
There were 2 groups of 5,  with teams from the 1985–86 Scottish Premier Division season, except Celtic and Rangers. First Division club Dumbarton and English club Manchester City replaced them.


1986 Tennent's Sixes
The two group winners and runners-up qualified to the semi-finals and Aberdeen beat St Mirren 3–0 in the final.


1986 Tennessee Volunteers football team
The 1986 Tennessee Volunteers football team (variously "Tennessee" or the "Vols") represented the University of Tennessee in the 1986 NCAA Division I-A football season. Playing as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), the team was led by head coach Johnny Majors, in his tenth year, and played their home games at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee. They finished the season with a record of seven wins and five losses (7–5 overall, 3–3 in the SEC) and with a victory over Minnesota in the Liberty Bowl. The Volunteers offense scored 293 points while the defense allowed 249 points.


1986 Tennessee gubernatorial election
The 1986 Tennessee gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1986. Democratic nominee Ned McWherter defeated Republican nominee Winfield Dunn with 54.26% of the vote.


1986 Texas A&M Aggies football team
The 1986 Texas A&M Aggies football team represented Texas A&M University in the 1986 NCAA Division I-A football season as a member of the Southwest Conference (SWC).


1986 Texas Longhorns football team
The 1986 Texas Longhorns football team represented the University of Texas at Austin in the 1986 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Longhorns finished the regular season with a 5–6 record. After their 16–3 loss to rival Texas A&M, head coach Fred Akers was fired.


1986 Texas Rangers season
Michael Stone was President of the Rangers and promoted Tom Grieve to General Manager


1986 Texas Rangers season
The Texas Rangers 1986 season involved the Rangers finishing 2nd in the American League west with a record of 87 wins and 75 losses.


1986 Texas Rangers season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1986 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team
The 1986 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team represented Texas Tech University in the Southwest Conference (SWC) during the 1986 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their first and only season under head coach David McWilliams, the Red Raiders compiled a 7–4 record in the regular season (5–3 against SWC opponents) and finished in a tie for fourth place in the conference. The team was invited to play in the 1986 Independence Bowl and lost to Ole Miss, 20 to 17. The team was coached in the bowl game by Spike Dykes. Over the course of the full 1986 season, the team outscored opponents by a combined total of 271 to 268. The team played its home games at Clifford B. and Audrey Jones Stadium in Lubbock, Texas.


1986 Texas gubernatorial election
The 1986 Texas gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1986, to elect the Governor of Texas. The election was a rematch of the 1982 election, as incumbent Democratic Governor Mark White ran for reelection against former Republican Governor Bill Clements. Clements was elected to a second, non-consecutive term as governor, winning 53% of the vote to White's 46%.


1986 Texas gubernatorial election, Campaign, White
Incumbent Mark White was inaugurated as Texas' 43rd Governor on January 18, 1983, having been elected to the governorship in the 1982 elections. He lost his re-election bid in 1986. He had been elected to statewide office as the 46th Texas Attorney General in 1978 and served in Governor Dolph Briscoe's administration as Texas Secretary of State, an appointed position, from 1973 until his resignation in 1977.


1986 Texas gubernatorial election, Campaign, White
Under White's administration, he focused his energies on education reform (including no pass/no play) and utility rate regulation. He also concentrated on economic development and the appointment of more minorities to positions on his staff and in the government. Texas' Sesquicentennial occurred in 1986, and the Governor attended and hosted a number of events. The Goddess of Liberty was restored and planning for Capitol restoration began during White's term in office.


1986 Texas gubernatorial election, Campaign, White
However, White's approval ratings began to slide downhill as a result of the enactment of "No Pass No Play" in 1984, which made students ineligible for all extracurricular activities for six weeks if they fail to score at least 70 in any course during the previous six weeks. . Critics of the law including DeKalb Mayor Billy Eubanks said, "I have real mixed emotions about it", stating that the law had robbed his small town team of its shot at a district championship. "I hate to see those kids lose.


1986 Texas gubernatorial election, Campaign, White
It's kind of a losing situation when you're trying to teach team concepts, school spirit and all that. "Those kids  that failed lost. Those kids that didn't fail, they lost, too, because they had to make up for some kids being out. The coaches lost. The community lost. Eubanks continued, "I don't object to the no-pass, no-play rule. I object to the extent and the punishment aspect of it. When you only have about 28 kids, total, playing football, that hurts."


1986 Texas gubernatorial election, Campaign, White
In his 1985 State of the State address, White justified the controversial law by stating "well-educated minds are the oil and gas of this state's future." Backed by big business, the first-term Democrat staked his hopes on reelection in 1986 on the belief that Texans, by and large, will support a new emphasis on academics over sports. He also pushed through the education reform package which took effect in 1985, and he launched a $500,000 statewide television ad campaign to promote the no-pass, no-play law. But as the football season reached its climax, growing numbers of angry high school coaches indicated in Dallas that they would support an unprecedented campaign to unseat White in the 1986 gubernatorial elections.


1986 Texas gubernatorial election, Campaign, Clements
Bill Clements was elected to a second non-consecutive term as governor in 1986; having been elected in 1978 before losing reelection to White in 1982. Since losing in 1982, Clements made it pretty clear that he wanted to take back the governorship in 1986. University of Houston political science professor Richard Murray mentioned that the White-Clements rematch of 1986 like this: "Here you've got two guys who have been governor going at it. It should make for an interesting election."


1986 Texas gubernatorial election, Campaign, Clements
In July 1985, Clements announced his candidacy to seek the governorship a third time. When asked why he wanted to avenge his 1982 loss, Clements said on the backlash against White's administration: "There's a strong negative feeling out there against the present administration that is even stronger than I had thought." During the 1986 campaign, Clements and White staged the most expensive political race in state history, spending more than $25 million between them. The campaign was even more bitter and vicious than in 1982.


1986 Texas gubernatorial election, Campaign, Clements
He was endorsed by President Ronald Reagan, then-Vice President George H. W. Bush, U.S. Senator Phil Gramm (R-TX), former U.S. Senator John Tower including former Democratic Governors Preston Smith and Price Daniel.


1986 Texas gubernatorial election, Campaign, Clements
The Clements campaign also found evidence to use against White such as the purchase of a state-owned Japanese jet, which heavily polled in Clements' favor. He, along with many Texans, blamed White for raising both the sales and incomes taxes, which the Legislature actually raised months before the election. Unemployment often exceeded 10%. Dallas and Houston led the nation in office vacancies, and corporate bankruptcies increasingly infected the business community.


1986 Texas gubernatorial election, Campaign, Clements
Among those involved in Clements' campaign included Karl Rove as his campaign manager and Reggie Bashur as his press secretary; he also began phoning his previous supporters, many of whom had already committed to other candidates, including Jim Francis; appointments secretary Tobin Armstrong; Bum Bright, an A&M regent appointed by Clements; and pollster Lance Tarrance.


1986 Texas gubernatorial election, Campaign, Debate
Although White started out trailing by double digits (30 points according to one polling firm), he turned the race into a very tight one. The two rival camps agreed to a televised debate, which occurred on October 6, 1986, in Houston. Reggie Bashur recalls that at the debate, the two candidates did not want to shake hands, but did so for the press: "And so they finally extended hands. Clements says, 'Well, Mark, your cartridge is dry', and White looked at Clements and said, 'Bill, you ready for business?.'


1986 Texas gubernatorial election, Campaign, Debate
Bashur also recalled that he said to Clements during the debate prep: "Why don't we get under White's skin? Let's get him off stride. When you get any kind of question about the budget, segue into that we've got to live within our means and cut waste." I suggested that Clements say, "To cut waste, I'll sell the jet." I suggested [we] itemize what is in the jet. You could say, "And I'll sell that $500 gold-plated ashtray, and I'll sell that $35,000 carpet, and I'll sell"-fifteen items. I wrote them all out. Clements takes that piece of paper and sticks it in his pocket, and that's the last I hear about it."


1986 Texas gubernatorial election, Campaign, Debate
Bashur was pleased when this debate preparation paid a big dividend for Clements. The first question to Clements was about balancing the budget by cutting waste: "You could just see it click with Clements. He had a big smile on his face as he pulled the list out of the jacket, and he's got my piece of paper with the items. He doesn't just pick one or two; he reads all fifteen! White got beet red. Clements won the debate. White never got back on track."


1986 Texas gubernatorial election, Videos
(1) Gubernatorial Debate on KPRC-TV NBC 2 Studios on October 6, 1986


1986 Texas gubernatorial election, Videos
(7) Governor White's speech at the Texas Democratic Party Convention from June 28, 1986


1986 Texas gubernatorial election, Videos
(11) Clements for Governor Campaign Commercials Compilations from October 11, 1986


1986 Thai general election
General elections were held in Thailand on 27 July 1986. The result was a victory for the Democrat Party, which won 100 of the 347 seats. Voter turnout was 61.4%.


1986 Thailand Masters
The 1986 Camus Thailand Masters was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament held in August 1986 in Bangkok, Thailand.


1986 Thailand Masters
16 year-old local favourite James Wattana an amateur invite won the tournament, defeating Terry Griffiths 2–1 in the final.


1986 The Citadel Bulldogs football team
The 1986 The Citadel Bulldogs football team represented The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina in the 1986 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Tom Moore served as head coach for the fourth season. The Bulldogs played as members of the Southern Conference and played home games at Johnson Hagood Stadium.


1986 The Winston
The 1986 The Winston, the second running of the NASCAR All-Star Race, was a stock car racing competition that took place on May 11, 1986. The only time The Winston was held at Atlanta International Raceway in Hampton, Georgia, the 83-lap race was the second exhibition race in the 1986 NASCAR Winston Cup Series. Bill Elliott of Melling Racing led the most laps (82) and won the caution-free race and US$200,000, along with US$40,000 for leading laps 20, 30, 50, and 60.


1986 The Winston
The event featured the Atlanta Invitational, a 100-lap race for drivers who did not meet the eligibility of The Winston. Benny Parsons of Jackson Brothers Motorsports won the race and US$75,000 and became eligible to run the 1987 The Winston. The Atlanta Invitational was held before The Winston, but due to a tape delay, ESPN aired the race after The Winston.


1986 The Winston
NASCAR's original plan for The Winston was to hold the race at a different track every year, but due to the dismal attendance of this race, The Winston was moved back to Charlotte Motor Speedway for the next 32 years before Bristol Motor Speedway hosted the 2020 NASCAR All-Star Race.


1986 The Winston, Background
The Winston was open to race winners from the 1985 season. Because the field was one short of the minimum requirement of 10 cars, the final spot was awarded to the highest finishing driver in the 1985 points standings without a win. The pole position was awarded to the defending Winston Cup champion while the rest of the field was determined by the total number of wins from last season, with driver's points used as the tiebreaker.


1986 The Winston, Race summary, Atlanta Invitational
The Atlanta Invitational was a 100-lap exhibition race featuring 14 participants that did not meet the eligibility of The Winston. Benny Parsons won the caution-free race and US$75,000. The win also gave him the eligibility to run the 1987 Winston.


1986 The Winston, Race summary, The Winston
The Winston was an 83-lap exhibition race with a combined purse of US$500,000. The earnings were as follows:


1986 The Winston, Race summary, The Winston
In addition, a purse bonus of US$10,000 was given to the drivers who led laps 20, 30, 50, and 60.


1986 The Winston, Race summary, The Winston
Chevrolet Monte Carlo driver Darrell Waltrip and Ford Thunderbird driver Bill Elliott led the field on the green flag. Despite being the pole sitter, Waltrip lost momentum as Elliott and Dale Earnhardt passed him before the first lap. Prior to the first pit stop, Waltrip struggled with an ill-handling car as he dropped below the top five while Cale Yarborough and Harry Gant battled for third and Neil Bonnett and Geoff Bodine fought for fifth place. With no one close enough to challenge him, Elliott earned US$20,000 by leading laps 20 and 30.


1986 The Winston, Race summary, The Winston
The two-tire pit stop began on lap 40. After changing left-side tires, Elliott passed Earnhardt at full speed to regain the lead. He once again collected US$20,000 for leading laps 50 and 60. Elliott dominated the race and took the checkered flag to win US$200,000 with Earnhardt, Gant, Waltrip, and Yarborough wrapping up the top five.


1986 Thomas & Uber Cup
The 1986 Thomas Cup & Uber Cup was the 14th tournament of Thomas Cup and the 11th tournament of Uber Cup, the most important badminton team competitions in the world.


1986 Thomas & Uber Cup
China won its second title in the Thomas Cup and in the Uber Cup, both after beating Indonesia in the final round.


1986 Thomas & Uber Cup, Uber Cup, Teams
34 teams took part in the competition, and eight teams qualified for the Final Stage.


1986 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship
The 1986 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship was the 96th staging of the Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Tipperary County Board in 1887.


1986 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship
Borris-Ileigh won the championship after a 0-14 to 0-07 defeat of Kilruane MacDonaghs in the final at Semple Stadium. It was their sixth championship title overall and their first title since 1983. It remains their last championship triumph.


1986 Tirreno–Adriatico
The 1986 Tirreno–Adriatico was the 21st edition of the Tirreno–Adriatico cycle race and was held from 6 March to 12 March 1986. The race started in Ladispoli and finished in San Benedetto del Tronto. The race was won by Luciano Rabottini of the Vini Ricordi–Pinarello–Sidermec team.


1986 Togolese coup d'état attempt
The 1986 Togolese coup d'état attempt was a coup attempt that occurred in the West African country of Togo on 23 September 1986. The coup attempt consisted of a group of some 70 armed dissidents crossed into capital Lomé from Ghana in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the government of President General Gnassingbé Eyadéma.


1986 Togolese coup d'état attempt, The coup attempt
According to radio reports, at about 20:00 UTC, the rebels entered Lomé (located on the border with Ghana) in about 30–40 trucks. They headed straight for a military camp in where Eyadéma resided, and opened fire with automatic weapons and rocket launchers.


1986 Togolese coup d'état attempt, The coup attempt
The rebels also attacked the radio station and the governing RPT party headquarters.


1986 Togolese coup d'état attempt, The coup attempt
A radio report said the rebel attack was repulsed by a counterattack led by Eyadema himself. The crushing of the coup attempt involved Togolese Armed Forces troops and warplanes. At least 14 or 13 people were killed in an all-night street battle, and 19 of the rebels were captured. 6 civilians also were killed, state-run radio reported.


1986 Togolese coup d'état attempt, The coup attempt
The West German Foreign Ministry officials said in Bonn that their citizen, a businessman, was killed in the fighting. They described the battle as an apparent bid to topple the government.


1986 Togolese coup d'état attempt, Aftermath
The Ghana–Togo border was closed. People were ordered off the streets, and an indefinite curfew was imposed on Lomé.


1986 Togolese coup d'état attempt, Aftermath
Following the requested of Eyadéma for military help of France, the French Defence Ministry said on 26 September that it was sending warplanes and troops to Togo. The ministry said the troops were being sent in line with a 1963 agreement with Togo.


1986 Togolese coup d'état attempt, Aftermath
Eyadéma was re-elected unopposed at the 21 December 1986 presidential election, and continued to rule the country until his death on 5 February 2005.


1986 Togolese presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Togo on 21 December 1986. The country was a one-party state at the time, with the Rally of the Togolese People as the sole legal party. Its leader, incumbent President Gnassingbé Eyadéma, was the only candidate and was re-elected unopposed. Voter turnout was reported to be 99%.


1986 Tokyo Indoor
The 1986 Tokyo Indoor also known as "Seiko Super Tennis" was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan that was part of the 1986 Nabisco Grand Prix. It was the ninth edition of the tournament and was held from 20 October through 24 October 1986. Matches were the best of three sets. Second-seeded Boris Becker won the singles title.


1986 Tokyo Indoor, Finals, Doubles
Gary Donnelly /  Mike De Palmer defeated  Andrés Gómez /  Ivan Lendl 6–3, 7–5


1986 Tokyo Indoor – Doubles
Ken Flach and Robert Seguso were the defending champions, but Seguso did not participate this year. Flach partnered Paul Annacone, losing in the first round.


1986 Tokyo Indoor – Doubles
Mike De Palmer and Gary Donnelly won the title, defeating Andrés Gómez and Ivan Lendl 6–3, 7–5 in the final.


1986 Tokyo Indoor – Singles
Ivan Lendl was the defending champion, but lost in the semifinals this year.


1986 Tokyo Indoor – Singles
Boris Becker won the tournament, beating Stefan Edberg in the final, 7–6, 6–1.


1986 Toledo Rockets football team
The 1986 Toledo Rockets football team was an American football team that represented the University of Toledo in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) during the 1986 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their fifth season under head coach Dan Simrell, the Rockets compiled a 7–4 record (5–3 against MAC opponents), finished in a tie for second place in the MAC, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 216 to 197.


1986 Toledo Rockets football team
The team's statistical leaders included A. J. Sager with 1,107 passing yards, Kelvin Farmer with 1,532 rushing yards, and Eric Hutchinson with 504 receiving yards.


1986 Tongatapu Inter Club Championship
The 1986 season of the Tongatapu Inter Club Championship was the 13th season of top flight association football competition in Tonga. Ngeleʻia FC won the championship for the fifth time, their fifth title in a then-record of 7 consecutive championships.


1986 Tongatapu Inter Club Championship
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1986 Torneo Descentralizado
The 1986 Torneo Descentralizado, the top category of Peruvian football (soccer), was played by 30 teams. The season started in 1986 but ended in early 1987. The national champion was first-time winner San Agustín.


1986 Torneo Descentralizado, Format
The national championship was divided into two tournaments; the Torneo Regional and Torneo Descentralizado. The winners of each tournament faced off in the season final and received the berths for the 1987 Copa Libertadores. The Torneo Regional divided the teams into four groups; Metropolitan, North, Central, and South. Each group had its teams advance to the Liguilla Regional, the Torneo Descentralizado and the División Intermedia. The Liguilla Regional determined the Regional champion. The Descentralizado divided the teams in three groups and the top two in each group advanced to the Descentralizado Liguilla which decided the Descentralizado champion. The División Intermedia was a promotion/relegation tournament between first and second division teams. Teams received two points for a win and one point for a draw. No points were awarded for a loss.


1986 Torneo Descentralizado, Torneo Regional, Liguilla Regional
The four group winners and the second placed team in the Metropolitan group qualified directly to the quarter-finals. The remaining qualified teams started in the preliminary round to determine the 3 remaining quarter-finalists. Numbers in parentheses indicate a penalty shootout result. The Regional winner qualified to the 1987 Copa Libertadores and advanced to the Final of the season.


1986 Torneo Descentralizado, Torneo Descentralizado
The top two of each group advanced to the Liguilla.


1986 Torneo Descentralizado, Torneo Descentralizado, Liguilla
The winner of the Liguilla qualified to the 1987 Copa Libertadores and advanced to the Final of the season.


1986 Torneo Godó
The 1986 Torneo Godó or Trofeo Conde de Godó was a men's tennis tournament that took place on outdoor clay courts in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It was the 34th edition of the tournament and was part of the 1986 Grand Prix circuit. It was held from 22 September until 28 September 1986. Ninth-seeded Kent Carlsson won the singles title.


1986 Torneo Godó, Finals, Doubles
Jan Gunnarsson /  Joakim Nyström defeated  Carlos di Laura /  Claudio Panatta 6–3, 6–4


1986 Torneo di Viareggio
The 1986 winners of the Torneo di Viareggio (in English, the Viareggio Tournament, officially the Viareggio Cup World Football Tournament Coppa Carnevale), the annual youth football tournament held in Viareggio, Tuscany, are listed below.


1986 Torneo di Viareggio, Format
The 16 teams are seeded in 4 groups. Each team from a group meets the others in a single tie. The winner of each group progress to the final knockout stage.


1986 Toronto Argonauts season
The 1986 Toronto Argonauts finished in first place in the East Division with a 10–8 record. They appeared in the Eastern playoffs.


1986 Toronto Blue Jays season
The 1986 Toronto Blue Jays season was the franchise's tenth season of Major League Baseball. It resulted in the Blue Jays finishing fourth in the American League East with a record of 86 wins and 76 losses.


1986 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season
Tony Fernández and Jesse Barfield had career years with the Blue Jays. Fernandez led the American League with 683 at bats, and he was the first Blue Jay to get over 200 hits in a season with 213. Barfield led the American League with 40 home runs.


1986 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season
Mark Eichhorn also had a breakout year with the Blue Jays. He was second on the team with 10 saves, and he led the team in ERA with 1.72 and strikeouts with 166. He tied with Jim Clancy and Jimmy Key for the team lead in wins with 14.


1986 Toronto Blue Jays season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1986 Toronto Indoor
The 1986 Toronto Indoor (also known as the Corel North American Indoor for sponsorship reasons) was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts in Toronto, Ontario, Canada that was part of the 1986 Nabisco Grand Prix. It was the second edition of the tournament and was held from February 3 through February 9, 1986. First-seeded Joakim Nyström won the singles title.


1986 Toronto Indoor, Finals, Doubles
Wojtek Fibak /  Joakim Nyström defeated  Christo Steyn /  Danie Visser, 6–3, 7–6.


1986 Toronto Indoor – Doubles
Peter Fleming and Anders Järryd were the defending champions, but Järryd did not participate this year. Fleming partnered Anand Amritraj, losing in the first round.


1986 Toronto Indoor – Doubles
Wojtek Fibak and Joakim Nyström won in the final 6–3, 7–6, against Christo Steyn and Danie Visser.


1986 Toronto Indoor – Singles
Kevin Curren was the defending champion, but did not participate this year.


1986 Toronto Indoor – Singles
Joakim Nyström won the tournament, beating Milan Šrejber in the final, 6–1, 6–4.


1986 Toronto International Film Festival
The 11th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 4 and September 13, 1986. The Decline of the American Empire by Denys Arcand was selected as the opening film. It won People's Choice Award at the festival and later got nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at Oscars.


1986 Totonero
Totonero 1986 or totonero bis was a scandal of football match fixing in Italy between 1984 and 1986 in Serie A, Serie B, Serie C1 and Serie C2.


1986 Totonero
It was uncovered in May 1986 by Italian Police and Armando Carbone, a friend of Italo Allodi (manager of Napoli) and in this scandal, there were managers and football-players that sold the football-matches for money.


1986 Tour de France
The 1986 Tour de France was a cycling race held in France, from 4 July to 27 July. It was the 73rd running of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Tour consisted of 23 stages, beginning with a prologue in Boulogne-Billancourt and concluded on the Champs-Élysées in Paris. The race was organised by the Amaury Sport Organisation and was shown on television in 72 countries, with the total viewers estimated at one billion. Greg LeMond of La Vie Claire won the race, ahead of his teammate Bernard Hinault.


1986 Tour de France
It was the first victory for a rider from an English-speaking country. Urs Zimmermann (Carrera Jeans–Vagabond) finished third. Five-time Tour winner Hinault, who had won the year before, had publicly pledged to support LeMond for victory in 1986. Several attacks during the race cast doubt on the sincerity of his promise, leading to a rift between the two riders.


1986 Tour de France
Thierry Marie (Système U) took the first race leader's yellow jersey after winning the prologue time trial. The lead then moved to Alex Stieda (7-Eleven) after stage 1, only for Marie to recapture the lead after his team won the team time trial on stage 2. After short stints in the lead for Dominique Gaigne and Johan van der Velde, Jørgen V. Pedersen took the yellow jersey following a breakaway on stage 7 and retained the lead even after the first long time trial, won by Hinault. Stage 12 saw Hinault attack with Pedro Delgado (PDM–Concorde), who won the stage, while Hinault moved into the lead. Hinault attacked again the following day, but was caught and dropped. LeMond gained back significant time, but still trailed his teammate by 40 seconds.


1986 Tour de France
LeMond would move into the yellow jersey after stage 17, when Hinault fell behind on the climb of the Col d'Izoard. Stage 18 to L'Alpe d'Huez saw LeMond and Hinault finish hand-in-hand, with the latter winning the stage. LeMond's overall victory was sealed when Hinault was unable to overcome his deficit in the final time trial on stage 20.


1986 Tour de France
In the race's other classifications, Hinault won the mountains classification, Panasonic–Merckx–Agu rider Eric Vanderaerden the points classification, and La Vie Claire's Andrew Hampsten won the young rider classification. La Vie Claire finished at the head of the team classification by one hour 51 minutes, after placing four riders inside the final overall top-ten placings.


1986 Tour de France, Teams
In June, 23 teams had requested to start in the 1986 Tour. The Tour organisers, Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO), accepted 21 applications, so a total of 21 teams participated in the 1986 Tour de France. The two teams whose application was denied were Skala-Skil and Miko. Each team sent a squad of ten riders, which meant that the race would start with a peloton of 210 cyclists, a record setting total. The ASO felt that 210 starters were too many and moved to reduce the size of the squads to eight riders each, but the teams protested, and the original number remained.


1986 Tour de France, Teams
7-Eleven became the Tour's first team from the United States, with a squad consisting of eight Americans, one Canadian and one Mexican. Jim Ochowicz, 7-Eleven's founder and manager, met with the ASO and persuaded them to invite his team. In the Spring, the team withdrew from competition in Europe (missing the opportunity to become the first American team in the history of the Vuelta a España) due to the United States conflict with Libya, losing out on much needed competitive racing unavailable in the United States. Joop Zoetemelk, the reigning road world champion, started his 16th Tour de France, a record that stood until it was tied by Sylvain Chavanel in 2016.


1986 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites
Five-time Tour winner and defending champion Bernard Hinault (La Vie Claire) had promised to support his teammate Greg LeMond, who had finished second in 1985, following controversy during that race when LeMond felt that a chance of potential victory had been taken from him due to team tactics. La Vie Claire was therefore considered the squad to beat, with the team also featuring strong riders such as Andrew Hampsten, who had won the Tour de Suisse several weeks before the Tour de France.


1986 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites
Before the start of the event, Hinault announced it would be the last Tour de France of his career. Prior to the start of the Tour, LeMond was confident of his chances, and pointed out that having Hinault, who he expected to take an early lead, would play to his advantage. Even with Hinault's assurances of support for LeMond, excitement over a possible record-breaking sixth Tour win was high in France. In a survey of 15 Dutch journalists, eight named Hinault as their main favourite for overall victory, just three chose LeMond. LeMond's season up to this point had been good, but had not yielded any victories; he finished second at Milan–San Remo, third at Paris–Nice, fourth at the Giro d'Italia and third at the Tour de Suisse.


1986 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites
Laurent Fignon (Système U), winner in 1983 and 1984, was working on his comeback, having won the La Flèche Wallonne classic in the spring. He had missed the chance to defend his title the year earlier due to surgery on an inflamed Achilles tendon. Juan Mora of El País believed that the race would be highlighted by a duel between Fignon and Hinault. He named LeMond and Frenchman Charly Mottet as potential contenders if their team captains – Hinault and Fignon, respectively – failed to perform to the level expected.


1986 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites
Mora believed Pedro Delgado to be the best Spanish contender for the overall title citing that his PDM–Concorde should perform well in the team time trial. Gian Paolo Ormezzano of La Stampa believed that there was no Italian rider competing that could be a legitimate threat to win the race, despite the fact that three Italian based teams were invited – the most since the 1979 edition. Ormezzano also thought the favourites going into the race were Hinault and Fignon.


1986 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites
Fignon later recalled in his autobiography that he did not share the view of himself as a favourite, writing: "I felt terrible physically. [ ...] My body — and perhaps my mind as well — was registering deep fatigue rather than an urge to get on with it." Stephen Roche (Carrera Jeans–Vagabond), third overall the year before, had injured his knee in a crash at the Paris Six-Day event in the winter, necessitating surgery in April, which meant that he arrived at the Tour out of form. Five-time Tour winner Jacques Anquetil named Luis Herrera (Café de Colombia–Varta) as his main favourite. Herrera himself declared: "If I do not lose more than ten minutes before the mountains, I can win."


1986 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites
Sean Kelly (Kas) was considered the main favourite for victory in the points classification, having won the trophy a record-equalling third time the year before. However, a crash on the last stage of the Tour de Suisse prevented Kelly from starting. In his absence, Adrie van der Poel (Kwantum–Decosol–Yoko) was given the best chances to win the classification.


1986 Tour de France, Route and stages
The race route for the 1986 edition of the Tour de France was unveiled on 8 October 1985 by both Jacques Goddet and Félix Lévitan. The race was pushed back a week from its normal date in order to prevent overlap with the 1986 FIFA World Cup, and therefore started on 4 July. Covering a total of 4,094 km (2,544 mi), it included four time trials (three individual and one for teams) and ten stages deemed as flat.