It was the kind of night those unhappy quarterbacks dreamed of when they decided to cast their fate with the new World Football League.

George Mira, Virgil Carter, Tom Sherman, John Huarte, Boh Davis — all were either unhappy with their backup roles in the National Football League and decided to make the jump. And Wednesday night they came up big winners.

The unbeaten Americans blasted the Hawaiians 39-0 before 43,297 in Birmingham, the Fire edged the Philadelphia Bell 32-29 before 27,607 in Chicago, the Memphis Southmen crushed the winless Detroit Wheels 37-7 before 14,424 at Ypsilanli, Mich., the Stars whipped the Portland Storm 38-16 before 16,222 in New York and the Florida Blazers downed the Jacksonville Sharks 33-26 before 23,890 in Orlando. The Southern California Sun is at Houston against the Texans tonight in a nationally televised game.

Carter, who played at Cincinnali and Chicago before falling out of favor, threw an 11-yard TD pass to Jack Dolbin with 1:34 left to play to lift the Fire over Philadelphia. Carter hit five straight passes as he moved Chicago 80 yards in the last two minutes for the winning score. Carter earlier passed six yards to Cyril Pinder for a score and Pinder and Mark Kellar each ran a yard for TDs.

The Bell's King Corcoran, the WFL passing leader, had TD passes of two yards to Alan Thompson and 45 yards to Claude Watts and ran a yard for another score.