Back in the 1960s, the late Captain Lou Albano and Tony Altomare competed as a tag team known as The Sicilians, who held the WWWF United States tag team titles in 1967 (the world tag team title didn't exist until later.) When they came to the ring they would wear white fedoras and a black glove. Each match began the same way, with both men raising their black glove and saying "Mafia." It stopped when Albano was approached by a group of men in Chicago who represented crime boss Tony Accardo. They said, “You're degrading the Italians,". The men said that there was no such thing as a Mafia, and they were in fact legitimate businessmen. Albano was said to have reached an agreement with the men so they could continue their Sicilians gimmick, but had to get rid of the black gloves they wore