This one might before a lot of our times when it comes to relevancy however, Jerry Kramer has a very interesting history with the fame of football that isn't as fairytale happy and exposes the brutal reality of what the game of football can do to a person's body. During his college football days at the University of Idaho, Gerald Louis Kramer was a two-way player that also excelled at track-and-field. The hardened offensive lineman declared himself for the NFL Draft in 1958 and was picked 39th overall in the fourth round of the draft by the Green Bay Packers.
Kramer would go on to spend his entire career in a Packers uniform and became famous as the lead blocker and innovating member of the sweep block that still used in today's game. Throughout his eleven-season career, Kramer was a 5x NFL Champion (1961, 1962, 1965, 1966, 1967) and 2x Super Bowl Champion with the Packers (Super Bowl I & II). Kramer also suffered through 22 surgeries throughout his eleven seasons in the NFL. It also took until 2018 for Kramer to inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame. Fortunately, he's where he belongs with the rest of the NFL legends today.
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.