Word: supertoss
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...idea for a presidential Supertoss, as Reagan's football coin flip was called, originated with Michael Deaver, the soon-to-depart White House deputy chief of staff. It was obviously designed to tie the President to the event around which millions of Americans planned their weekend, Super Bowl XIX in Palo Alto, Calif. For a very few, those plans called for the near impossible: live attendance at both the game and the Flipper's swearing-in ceremony in Washington Monday morning. Congressman and former Buffalo Bills Quarterback Jack Kemp, for one, swore he could make it back to Washington aboard...