But it's not that Dungy didn't dream of leading a team to the Super Bowl. In his fourth season coaching the Buccaneers, Dungy lifted a ragtag outfit from laughingstock to the conference championship game. In a rare moment of full disclosure this week, Dungy admitted: "I've thought a lot about the significance of making it to the Super Bowl as an African American coach.The numbers start to rise when you factor in game balls, which are those footballs actually used in regulation. This can be slightly confusing, as the NFL will release sanctioned balls that are dubbed "official," even though they were never used in competition. By this, the league means only that said balls are the same kind that make it onto the gridiron.

It started when the owner of the Los Angeles Rams, Carroll Rosenbloom, an excellent swimmer, drowned mysteriously in the Atlantic Ocean and his wife, Georgia, inherited the team. She was not an alien. But I suspect her next husband, Dominic F