Court Hands Tampa Bay Buccaneers a Loss in Team’s Attempt to Grab Cash from an Oil Spill Disaster

By Jeff Birren, Senior Writer   There is an old expression: pigs get fat and hogs get slaughtered, but often in court the hogs just lose, and so it was recently for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. On April 20, 2010, there was an explosion at a BP oilrig in the Gulf of Mexico. It took place at the Macondo Prospect, and became the largest oil spill in U.S. history. The disaster became known as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the U.S. government later estimated that over 210 million U.S. gallon