Woe, Be Gone

So did 72-year-old Richard Hayden, who was in the upper deck at Comiskey, huddled under army blankets with his father, when the Cardinals won their last NFL championship. It was the first football game Hayden saw in person, and he had no choice but to adopt the Cardinals as his team. Who could resist a winner? Hayden moved to Phoenix in 1962, and when the Cardinals eventually followed him, he bought season tickets. "Every year I said, 'To hell with them,'" Hayden says. "And every year I bought the tickets anyway. We had a lot of laughs. You know, they weren't the greatest team ever."

No, but they could have been worse. They could have gone with Capone.