  Compact Ricci solitons on surfaces have at most two cone points, and are
known as Hamilton's footballs. In this note we completely describe the
degenerations of these footballs as one or both of the cone angles approaches
zero. In particular, we show that Hamilton's famous non-compact cigar soliton
is the Gromov--Hausdorff limit of Hamilton's compact conical teardrop solitons.
