My Great-Aunt was...

4 posts in and this thread is off the rails.

My first cousins in Ireland have been the subject of a documentary. They run a hooker between Galway to the Aran Islands. My dad and his brothers were involved in this hooker business before they emigrated here. It's been in my family for generations.

My cousin in Ireland was one of the all-time famous Irish football players until his gambling addiction forced him out of the game. There was a documentary about him.

I have a cousin on my Mom's side who beat up your deadbeat has-been cousin. He ended up going to jail for it, whereupon he discovered he had a particular gift for mosaic glasswork. They made a documentary about it.

This thread needs ground rules. Are we only talking about 1st-cousins? Or do we mean "cousins"?

Suddenly, not only is Furious playing tag with Robert Goulet growing up, but now Dr. Ken is hunting Easter eggs with Marcos Ambrose.

1.) First cousins = ok
2.) Work-with-a-lady first cousins = also ok
3.)

[1.) First cousins = ok
2.) Work-with-a-lady first cousins = also ok
3.)

no question.

3.) Vikings QB

Can we clarify what we are talking about now?

I think #2 is in regards to my attempt to add something very mildly interesting to the thread instead of just saying "No famous cousins." And the amended #3 as well.

4.) If you are the most famous of all your first cousins or all the first cousins of all the ladies you work with, it is ok to nominate yourself.

I feel better about Sam knowing that.

Growing up in Barrington, Ill., northwest of Chicago, Cousins developed an affinity for the Bears that continued after his family moved to west Michigan when he was 13. Mike Singletary was Cousins’ youth football coach; the quarterback went to school with Walter Payton’s kids and attended the youth camps Singletary did with former Bears defensive back and Vikings coach Leslie Frazier.

“There was close proximity to those guys; my dad did some chapels for the Bears,” Cousins said. “There were a lot of connections to the Bears and to the community, and obviously, the ’85 Bears, to this day, are still talked about quite a bit. That kind of lingered through the ’90s as I was growing up.

4 posts in and this thread is off the rails.

Who is your most famous relative, and why?