A week or so earlier the thought of the Rangers having to call heads or tails would have been preposterous.

"I had called tails before the game started and we lost that," Calloway said.

"They called tails and it came up heads."

Standing at midfield for the coin toss, Bettis said he called tails.

Taking the deal, Cal called tails and lost.

The other side, which carries the denomination, is called the reverse, or colloquially, tails.

If we flipped for the check in some diner, jimmy V. always called tails.

It seemed as if he could stand on a coin and call it, heads or tails.

Foley said he was on the sideline "telling people I called tails, but nobody believed me."

If you figure him to go for heads, you call tails.