Football Voodoo

The New Orleans Saints may be the only NFL team to have hired a voodoo priestess. The Superdome stadium had been built on the site of the old Girod Street Cemetery, and the team's consecutive miserable seasons called for desperate measures. Ava Kay Jones performed a pregame ritual, making offerings to the spirits with a boa constrictor wrapped around her neck. The Saints won the game, the team's first playoff win in 33 years.