Dhani Jones

A familiar face to both sports fans and general TV viewers, Dhani Jones was a bit of a Renaissance man. Born in San Diego, California, Jones was a tremendous high school athlete, with success in basketball, football, and track. His record on the football field eventually led him to the University of Michigan, where he was a three time All-Big Ten honoree during his collegiate football career. Jones would go on to begin his professional football career in 2000 playing for the New York Giants. Over the next several years, he would play for the Philadelphia Eagles and the Cincinnati Bengals before retiring in 2010. Before his final season was even over however, Jones was already staring on his first TV series, "Dhani Tackles the Globe" (Travel, 2009-2010), which found the avid traveler diving headfirst into a new and dramatically different culture in each episode, learning that culture's local sport, and competing in it at a professional level by the episode's end. Jones' likable presence made the show a hit, but he had other projects in mind before pursuing his next TV series, launching the company BowTie Cause, selling high-end bow ties to benefit charities. He did eventually return to the screen however, acting as both host and potential investor on "Adventure Capitalists" (CNBC, 2016-), a reality series on which inventors and entrepreneurs pitched Jones and his co-hosts to invest in their adventure/outdoor companies.