"There's no doubt, the last 18 months have been quite a ride,'' Arians said Monday, taking time out on his team's rookie reporting day to chat, as part of his role in Gatorade's annual "Beat the Heat'' program. "Going from, let's just say retirement whether it was forced or not to what went on in Indy last year and the Coach of the Year award, to watching (Colts head coach) Chuck Pagano get healthy and win his battle with leukemia, and then to have this opportunity arise. Yeah, it's kind of a crazy twist.In less than two weeks, the United States Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in American Needle v. NFL, a case that has been called "Super Bowl of sports litigation," "Armageddon," "the biggest sports law case since Curt Flood," and "a revolution in 3D cinema" (actually, I think that last one was probably about Avatar). The case itself involves an unremarkable set of facts.

But the legend came to an end in 2012.