The Athlete Relationship BCS (Biggest Coup Score)
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This originally appeared on my blog, The Legend of Cecilio Guante, here.
I’m not sure the motivation for this post. OK, I am. It's a cumulative result of countless recent posts outlining athlete after athlete who has encountered some unfortunate occurrence that has caused many a blogger to say something like: “Don’t feel too bad for him, though, he gets to come home to this.” Not that there is a thing wrong with expressing such a sentiment. Every one of them is right. It’s hard to feel genuinely bad for Brodie Croyle not getting the Chiefs starting job or Tim Couch falling just short in his recent comeback…when…not to go to the well again…but they do get to come home to this and this.
Sure, there’s much more to life than some decent arm candy. Roll it up with the chance to play a sport you love, make oodles of cash doing it and have this be your “cherry on top...” not bad, though, right? Might cause one to experience mild pangs of jealousy from time to time. Got me to thinking. A lot of these guys are apparently quite the dapper gentlemen. Reggie Bush is on this month’s Men’s Fitness cover. Brady (Tom) was named one of People's 50 "most beautiful." Brady (Quinn) is breaking into mainstream fashion pubs (insert your choice for joke, here).
So, you’re an exceptional athlete. Good-looking. Rich as hell. I get having the hot wife-girlfriend, and I ain’t mad. In fact, thanks to a plethora of Internet voices, we’ve been lucky enough to become more-than-familiar with a great many of your beauties (click on this and get ready to dedicate half of your day...one of the most comprehensive athlete wife-girlfriend projects of its kind on the Web that helped inspire this post).
But what about the cases of those punching six classes above their weight? The ones for whom the athlete + cash equation is the only feasible explanation for the dame on their arm? And even with that, it’s fairly inconceivable. Who are the Lyle Lovett-Julia Roberts combos of the sports world? The ones really “outkicking their coverage” (credit to Clay Travis …what a great expression).
This is really a question being posed to our readership and the broader blogosphere. I'd considered roping my girlfriend into the process and making it a bigger thing. She hates this blog thing and involving her seemed an innovative, if unorthodox, way of lessening the venom directed toward me whenever she sees me typing away (Did it work? Did it work? Anyone, Anyone? No, it did not work…and I sank deeper into the blogger doghouse…).
I would have also tapped her for assistance with the judging. Because, well, judging men’s respective “hotness” doesn’t so much do it for me. Original ambition was to somehow arrive upon biggest differential between perceived attractiveness of the male athlete and perceived attractiveness of female and crown a BCS champ. But, alas, time has not allowed me to take this project where it can go. Can you help? Below are some names/combos for consideration.
Mike and Beth Ricci - Sure, Beth may not be supermodel-quality, but Ricci has made countless fugly lists so you need to consider just how significant the "punching above weight" factor is here.
Jeff Garcia and wife Carmella DeCesare.
Steve and Alejandra Nash (not sure if current or former wife/girlfriend/whatever).
Mehmet Okur and Yeliz Caliskan (Miss Turkey).
Others who would clearly jump to the top of the list, given point differential, should they be dating/married to anyone at all approaching attractive. Shockingly, I can't find much on these guys and their ladies...
Sam Cassell (married multiple times, I think)
Adam Morrison (now, if someone like this was his full-time woman, he would no doubt vault to the top of the BCS) [1]
Talk amongst yourselves...
