It's hard to believe that 10 years ago last Sunday we lost Walter Payton.
For all of his accomplishments on the football field and in life, few people remember that he was also a gigantic racing fan. Shortly after his retirement from the NFL in 1988, he started hanging around the track at celebrity events and in 1992 made his professional racing debut in Trans-Am. By '95 he'd bought into Dale Coyne Racing as a co-owner in the CART Indy Car World Series, which eventually became Champ Car.