BTN Lists A Top-5 Celebrity "Team" For Each B1G Team--Could've Done Better w/ RU, But Not Bad (link)

[RutgersRaRa]

No Gandolfini on the list. Also, it might've been too late to list Carli Lloyd, but she would've been a good choice.

Northwestern is top dog IMO, with Nebby not far behind.

http://btn.com/2015/07/17/putting-together-a-celebrity-starting-5-for-every-big-ten-school/

 

[RUChoppin]

Missed a bunch, imo.

Carli Lloyd, Alexi Lalas, Calista Flockhart, Marc Ecko, Avery Brooks, Kristin Davis, Greg Brown, Elizabeth Warren (RU Law), Jane Krakowski.... no offense to Becky Quick, but I'd probably put any one of those ahead of her.

I think they only went with living celebrities, which is why Gandolfini is left off - as well as others like Milton Friedman, Paul Robeson, Roy Scheider,

 

[ScarletKnightRider]

Ok wow, the list confused the hell out of me at first. I didnt read the opening paragraph and I assumed that it was top 5 alumni from each school. I'm like "theres no way, half the people on this list never even attended college" till I realized they included distinguished fans and celebrity natives.

Which makes the Rutgers list even worse. You mean to tell me they could think of 5 New Jersey natives/RU fans with more star power than that? Soooo many more possibilities

 

[hoquat63]

Also:
Garrett Hobart (VP under McKinley, if Hobart hadn't died during McK's first term and been replaced by TR< Hobart would have been president when McK was assassinated
Astonaut guy (I forget his name)
Eric Young
Jeff Torbourg
Guy who was the first Want to be a Millionaire #1 million winner and the guy who won The Apprentice

 

[JPhoboken]

Lebron James..........Ohio State?????????? Did he take one course there and they are calling him alumni????????

 

[RUinPAC10land]

Aaron Rodgers.... Wisconsin? I understand that he plays for the Packers, but my Cal friends would really be bothered with this. I am pretty sure if Wisconsin played Cal and he was in attendance, he would be rocking blue and gold.

 

[RUChoppin]

Lebron James..........Ohio State?????????? Did he take one course there and they are calling him alumni????????

The list says at the top that it's not just alumni, but people who are associated with the school. Lebron definitely is a Buckeye fan.

 

[Nosoj]

Some people need reading comprehension.

Keep in mind, the celebrities didn’t have to graduate from the Big Ten school they support; they just need to be someone who people associate with the school, for one reason or another.

 

[RUich]

How the hell did they miss RutgersAl???? [laughing]

 

[RutgersRaRa]

How the hell did they miss RutgersAl???? [laughing]

Miss RutgersAl, huh? She might make it onto the list, but we're gonna need pix for approval.

 

[DANTHEMAN]

Yogi Berra, perhaps?

 

[j10oreo]

Miss RutgersAl, huh? She might make it onto the list, but we're gonna need pix for approval.

I believe he's suggesting rutgersal should be on the list.... either that, or I'm just not good at comprehending jokes.

 

[198hamilton]

Why none of our porn stars? BTN is just too buttoned up!

 

[rutexan84]

How do you leave Johnny Carson off the Nebraska list?

 

[RUChoppin]

How do you leave Johnny Carson off the Nebraska list?

Looks like they only included living celebrities.

 

[R1776U]

Also:
Garrett Hobart (VP under McKinley, if Hobart hadn't died during McK's first term and been replaced by TR< Hobart would have been president when McK was assassinated
Astonaut guy (I forget his name)
Eric Young
Jeff Torbourg
Guy who was the first Want to be a Millionaire #1 million winner and the guy who won The Apprentice

Astronaut guy would be Buzz Aldrin

 

[DHajekRC84]

(That Ass) Michael Moore (cause he always wears the Rutgers Hat)
Don Imus :)
Ray Rice
Mike Rice
Condi Rice

 

[GoodOl'Rutgers]

How can a Big Ten list miss Mark Fields, Ford CEO?

 

[RutgersRaRa]

Mario Batali
(That Ass) Michael Moore (cause he always wears the Rutgers Hat)
Don Imus :)

Wait, Michael Moore wears a Rutgers hat? Damnit, why can't we have nice things around here?

 

[rutexan84]

Roger Daltrey...because he's in a picture with a guy in a Rutgers' hat.

 

[RutgersRaRa]

I believe he's suggesting rutgersal should be on the list.... either that, or I'm just not good at comprehending jokes.

I think you're better than you're wiling to admit, but possibly not in this instance. ;-)

 

[RutgersRaRa]

After having just watched "Survive and Advance" (for the fiftieth time) I have to nominate Jim Valvano and Dick Vitale to the list. Mostly Jim, but I wouldn't object to Vitale. But if it's a living-only list, then we are out our two most famous Jims--Valvano and Gandolfini.

 

[hoquat63]

If its not just grads, but people with other affiliations - Ruth Bader Ginsberg
"Astronaut guy" was Terry Hart

 

[Scarlet_Scourge]

Lady Liberty and Captain America since we were America's Team for that one week.

 

[BuckRU]

Not really as super-impressive a list as I would've imagined given the quality of Big 10 schools. BTW, Purdue has 23 grads who are/were astronauts. Including the first and last men to walk on the Moon.

 

[ecojew]

"Not really as super-impressive a list as I would've imagined given the quality of Big 10 schools."

I agree. It seemed pretty heavy with sports journalists and other journalists, most of whom I'm not familiar with and whose "fame" may well be rather fleeting.

I would have like to have seen at least one of our Super Bowl ring owners on our list, especially if Carli's fame was acknowledged too recently to be on the list.

 

[RutgersRaRa]

Could have put Bill Rasmussen on the list, since he founded ESPN.

Also, the founder of Home Depot, Bernie Marcus, is a definite candidate.