Bart Starr's football career is reminiscent of something out of a classic sports movie. Starr led his team to the highest plateaus and succeeded at the highest level during an era of football that began every football player's lust for the Lombardi Trophy. Unfortunately, Starr passed away earlier this year due to health complications from a stroke he suffered back in 2014. While his physical form is no longer with us, he will forever be remembered for his impact on the field from fans and for his love as a father and husband by his loved ones. Starr played his collegiate football at the University of Alabama where he played the quarterback, safety, and punter positions and led the Crimson Tide to the 1953 Cotton Bowl. Unfortunately, Starr suffered a severe back injury from a hazing incident and the rest of his college football career remained uneventful.
In the 1956 NFL Draft, Bart Starr was selected 200th overall in the seventeenth round by the Green Bay Packers where he would play his entire sixteen-season NFL career. It wasn't until 1959 that Starr won the starting quarterback position thanks to then-new head coach, Vince Lombardi. As a starter, Starr would go on to lead the Packers to five NFL Championships including winning three consecutive championships from 1965 to 1967. The Packers were the only team to ever win three consecutive championships since the induction of the playoff system in 1933. Starr also led the Packers to championship wins in both Super Bowl I and II. In 1971, Starr retired with the second-best career passer rating at the time of 80.5.
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.