There couldn't be a more obvious choice for the Giants' greatest franchise player of all-time that linebacker, Lawrence Taylor himself. While Deacon Jones coined the term 'sack' Lawrence Taylor forced the league's hand to make the act an official stat. L.T. might be one of the game's most violent and feared linebackers of all-time and rightfully so. During his NFL tenure, Taylor single-handedly changed the way the linebacker position was played throughout the entire NFL. Unfortunately, not every linebacker has been as gifted or vicious as Lawrence Taylor.
After his All-American stint at the University of North Carolina, Taylor was selected 2nd overall in the 1981 NFL Draft by the New York Giants where he would gon on to play his entire thirteen-season career. Taylor would go to start 180 out the 184 games he's was listed active for while recording a total of 132.5 sacks throughout his career. The 3x Defensive Player of the Year played a critical part in the Giants Super Bowl XXI and XXV victories. L.T. will forever be the frontman leader of 'The Big Blue Wrecking Crew.'
In the US, the average spent on an engagement ring is $6,351 but how do these figures compare with our favorite celebrities? The answer: they don't. As the diamonds increase in size, obviously the price tag appreciates handsomely. Well, we've compiled a list of some of the most expensive celebrity engagement rings.
This list would be nothing without Kim Kardashian's rock from Kanye, which clocked in at around a cool $4 million when he presented it to her at his stadium proposal in October 2013. Unfortunately, though, the 15-carat sparkler was among the jewelry stolen during Kim's infamous Paris robbery in 2016.
Jennifer Lopez's husband Alex Rodriguez popped the question to the singer, and he really had to step it up to outshine her previous engagement rings—and wow, did he deliver. The baseball star proposed with a reported 15-20 carat emerald cut stunner set on a platinum band that was estimated at $5 million. It's getting harder and harder not to be fooled by the rocks she's got...
It should come as no surprise that Beyonce herself totes one of the world's highest-valued diamonds. Weighing in at 24 carats, Jay reportedly paid around $5 million (now worth $6,047,013) for Bey's flashy emerald-cut ring back in 2008.
Anna Kournikova's relationship Latin music artist Enrique Iglesias since the early '00s has been one of the most lowkey celebrity relationships to date. That is with the exception of her $5,400,000 engagement ring that made headlines in 2004. Now, worth a whopping $7,443,596, the giant yellow stunner was spotted on Kournikova even during her tennis matches. (Pssst! It's rumored she got two rings from Iglesias. Prior to this, she sported an equally giant pink pear-shaped ring.)
Clocking in as the most expensive celebrity engagement ring, Mariah Carey's 35-carat bling from ex-fiancé James Packer reportedly cost a cool $10 million. And the "Obsessed" singer seemed to be a bit, well, obsessed with the jewel. She continued to wear the ring over a year post-breakup, and didn't part ways with the bauble until May 2018, selling it to a Los Angeles jeweler for $2.1 million.