Tails never fails.
The Phoenix Suns and the majority of their newspaper-polled fan base must have been unfamiliar with that adage in 1969. Tasked on Mar. 19 of that year with calling heads or tails for the coin flip that would determine which franchise — the Suns or Milwaukee Bucks — would get the No. 1 overall draft pick and earn the right to select UCLA Bruins standout Lew Alcindor, the Suns infamously told then-commissioner J. Walter Kennedy they were going with heads, the choice of fans in a newspaper poll.
The Kennedy half dollar was flipped.