The 1970s saw the rise of one of the most unlikely hit-makers in the history of rock, as Walter Becker and Donald Fagen met in college and formed a musical group that preformed a weird mixture of jazz, blues, and elements taken from a dozen genres of music, all held together by intricate and exacting studio arrangements. Steely Dan rarely toured, but they produced some of the most memorable and influential music of the 70s and beyond by charting their own course and producing something distinctive and original.
The San Antonio Spurs are the closest thing in professional sports to the the oddly-named duo, and they blazed a new path in from 1993-1995, adding Dennis Rodman to do their dirty work.