Utah native, Merlin Olsen might have gone to the Pro Bowl a total of fourteen times, but he didn't leave an impact on the league the same way Steve Young did. The 6'0 quarterback from Salt Lake City was never afraid to slang that thing, his willingness to make daring passes that were perfectly executed is the reason why he has become a Hall of Fame quarterback. Young attended Bingham Young University in Provo, Utah where he completed a total of 592 passes for 7,733 and 56 touchdowns.
His performance at BYU led him to the Supplemental Draft where he signed a record-setting ten-year, $40 million contract with the Los Angeles Express of the USFL in March 1984. After the league tanked in 1986, Young signed with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, but his career didn't take off until he arrived in San Francisco in 1987 where he would lead the team to three Super Bowl victories and be dubbed the Super Bowl MVP ifor his performance in Super Bowl XXIX. Young led the league in passing touchdowns four times (1992, 1993, 1994, 1998), became a 7x Pro Bowler, and 6x NFL passer rating leader. There wasn't a pass that Steve Young ever regretted in his entire career and it paid off in rings.
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.