Coach of the Leg Lamps

Indianapolis, Indiana

John Wooden was a famous basketball coach from Indiana, and the city of Indianapolis wanted to honor him with a bronze statue. What it got was "Wooden's Legacy," sculpted by Jeffrey Rouse, which shows Wooden in an in-game crouch, surrounded by a huddle of five pairs of disembodied human legs. The obvious intent was to make Wooden the star and the players anonymous, but the legs are all that people talk about.

Unveiled in 2012, the statue was quickly branded Coach of the Christmas Story Lamps -- a reference to the lady's leg lamp in the film A Christmas Story, which also supposedly took place in Indiana. Others say that Wooden appears to be crouching in a department store window, surrounded by dummy parts from the Nordstrom across the street.