The Los Angeles/San Diego Chargers is another squad that has had some prominent athletes shine while members of ther organization. However, there's no denying that Junior Seau is the California-based football team's greatest athlete of all-time. Throughout the '90s you couldn't mention the San Diego Chargers without bringing up Junior Seau. He's one of the most passionate and knowledgable linebackers of his generation and had the ability to read an offense that would allow him to audible his defensive coordinator's play without causing a problem.
The Oceanside, California-bred, multifacted linebacker played his college ball at the University of Southern California where he earned All-American honors during his senior year in 1989. Seau would go on to be picked 5th overall in 1990 NFL Draft by the San Diego Chargers where he played thirteen seasons out of the twenty years of his NFL career. Seau led the Chargers to their last Super Bowl appearance in 1995 in Super Bowl XXIX. All twelve of Seau's Pro Bowl invites were when he was a member of a Chargers and the linebacker took home the trophy for Defensive Player of the Year in 1992. Unfortunately, Seau took his own life in 2012 after suffering from complications from CTE. Seau's death has sparked the conversation of player safety in the NFL.
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.