Alabama - Terrell Owens

Alabama - Terrell Owens

Hailing from Alexander City, Alabama, Terrell Owens is far more deserving than his NFL alumni brethren in Bart Starr and Ozzie Newsome. Owens attended college at the University of Tennesse at Chattanooga where he was a two-sport athlete excelling in both football and basketball. In 1996, the 6'3 speedster declared himself for the NFL Draft where he was drafted 89th overall by the San Francisco 49ers in the third round of the '96 NFL Draft.

Throughout his sixteen season NFL career, Owens bounced around the league playing for teams like the Dallas Cowboys, Philadelphia Eagles, Buffalo Bills, and Cincinnati Bengals before calling it quits in 2012 with the Seattle Seahawks. While he was never able to collect any NFL Championship hardware, Owens is one of the most accomplished wide receivers to hit the football field. He's currently ranked third in all-time receiving yards with 15,924 and third in all-time touchdown receptions with 153. Was he dramatic? Maybe. Flamboyant? Of course. But he was effective and a true Hall of Famer.

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Did You Know...

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Chefs made their way into celebrity land a while ago. But how many celebrities that weren’t trained as professional cooks are actually whizzes in the kitchen? Here are several that come to mind.

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Actress Julia Roberts is confident about her cooking skills. “I’m quite a good cook,” she told E! News. “I’m like a closet home ec teacher…I can really cook anything.” Roberts has said she often cooks fish for herself and her kids. And speaking of her three children, “They think that I’m a good cook,” Roberts told People. “They actually told me that I should open a restaurant.” She also relishes cooking for the holidays, particularly shredded Brussel sprouts. Roberts hasn’t published a cookbook, but we did find recipes attributed to her for peach crisp and banana hemp muffins. Or you can make the same summer salad the actress supposedly eats.

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Chrissy Teigen started off as a supermodel. Then her love of cooking filtered into her professional life too. At this point, she’s created recipes for a limited Blue Apron release and also just launched her own home and cooking line at Target named “Cravings,” after the two cookbooks she’s released. Teigen describes cooking as “a time of peace” for herself. So maybe peace out to her tuna melt sandwich or the fried chicken wings that are a favorite of her husband, John Legend.

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Lady Gaga, whose real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, comes from a cooking Italian family. Her father started his own restaurant in New York and also published a cookbook. And apparently, Lady Gaga has inherited the family’s cooking genes. Her Instagram account occasionally features photos of her culinary activities. Sure, sometimes it’s topless cooking. But other times it’s more poignant like in the post she shared about her bringing food to the family of her dear friend who passed away. Want to try a Gaga/Germanotta family favorite? Check out her recipe for whole wheat pasta with a sweet fennel sauce.

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