It doesn't matter what team you're on, if you invented the term and action of 'sacking' a quarterback, you're the greatest player of your franchise, period. That just so happens to be the case for David D. 'Deacon' Jones and the Los Angeles Rams. Deacon Jones played in an era of football where quarterback sacks where not an official stat and being correctly accounted for. Fortunately, because of Jones' ruthless tenacity to get to the quarterback every play and punish the quarterback, it forced the league to ackowledge what he was doand nw he's considered the prototype for what a defensive end should be.
Jones didn't only excel on the football field, he also was a quality baseball and basketball player during his youth. Following his college football career at Mississippi Valley University, Deacon Jones was selected 186th overall in the fourteenth round of the 1961 NFL Draft by the Los Angeles Rams. Jones played eleven seasons out of the fourteen years of his career with Rams where he would rack up an unofficial number of 173.5 sacks throughout his career. To this day, that is the third-highest amount of sacks achieved by a player ever. The 8x Pro Bowler passed away from natural causes after suffering from both lung cancer and heart disease at the age of 74 in 2013. Jones' legacy will live forever for eventing the sack and being the gracious human being he was.
To insure one’s house, one’s car or to underwrite a life insurance policy, that is common practice. But who would pay an insurance premium for his/her thumb, legs or smile? Stars, of course.
At the top of the ranking are the legs of Mariah Carey, worth 810 million USD: The diva became, in 2006, the Gillette brand muse for the advertising campaign «Legs of a Goddess». She then took out an insurance policy with London Lloyds to protect her legs, a decision that is far from being insignificant. Among its customers, the London insurer then included several icons of music, such as Bob Dylan or Rod Stewart.
David Beckham’s body insured for 195 million USD: European champion with Manchester United in 1999, David Beckham was in 2006 the most renowned footballer of the planet. In relation to his sporting activities, he took out an insurance cover for his legs. The huge amount paid for his insurance would reportedly exceed the 103 million USD disbursed by Real Madrid for the cover of Christiano Ronaldo in 2009. The fashion model would later extend his insurance cover to his entire body.
15 million USD in insurance for Kim Kardashian’s curves: The curves of Kim Kardashian are her number one beauty asset. The reality TV star, who is crazy about plastic surgery, has underwritten an insurance policy worth 15 million USD to protect her famous butt.
The culinary critic Egon Ronay assured his taste buds: The famous Hungarian culinary critic has insured his taste buds since 1957, for the amount of 400 000 USD. An original insurance policy which allows him to cover his sense of taste without which he will no longer be able to practice his job.