Siblings will always be tied to each other no matter what. Some brothers or sisters are tied together because of what they’ve accomplished, others are forever linked because of the quirkiest stuff.
Take for example the Mannings: Peyton and Eli are household names for being accomplished football athletes and effective product endorsers. However, no matter the success they might have, many people remember them for looking goofy and unassuming.
Here’s a list of other celebrity siblings who whose fame goes beyond success and into the… weird sometimes.
Ozzie and Jose Canseco
When it comes to manufacturing bizarre, crazy, oddball news, there’s no pair of brothers in this planet’s history who can top the Cansecos. Welcome to the Canseco News Network. Here are some of their quirky highlights:
- Ozzie allegedly slept with Jose’s wife while impersonating his brother.
- This legendary blooper:
- Three days after Jose’s infamous blooper, he begged manager Kevin Kennedy to let him pitch an inning in a lopsided loss to the Red Sox. He finished the eighth inning with a horrendous pitching performance and an injury to boot. In a true Canseco way, that injury required Tommy John surgery.
- Canseco pitching:
- Jose’s endless flow of tweets that trots the borders of sanity:
SPEND A DAY WITH JOSE Email [email protected] for details and pricing SERIOUS INQUIRIES ONLY PLEASE
— Jose Canseco (@JoseCanseco) April 9, 2010
Titanic 100 years wOw. Global warming couldve saved titanic. Sad to say
— Jose Canseco (@JoseCanseco) April 15, 2012
The brothers both became tabloid material again when they collaborated for another “switch-job”
Hey TV execs, enough of the Kardashians. Time to make “Coping up with the Cansecos”.
Peyton and Eli Manning
Ah, the Manning brothers — brothers who outside of their football jerseys blend right in, but in them have dominated one of the most punishing sports ever imagined. While they don’t have the superstar look of a Jordan, LeBron, or Tom Brady, everyone knows who they are.
Both have won the Super Bowl. For those that don’t follow football, then you’ll know them from their Saturday Night Live hosting gigs and numerous commercials. Tells a lot that no matter how weird they look, their faces can still sell products.
Henrik and Daniel Sedin
Hockey isn’t as popular as the other pro sports so it’s acceptable if most people think that the Sedins may be a pair of foreign language professors.
Brotherly love, bordering on creepy.
Henrik and Daniel Sedin are used to getting weird looks and being called names. They might look like they were created in a lab, both because they look like lego figurines, and because of their unbelievable hockey performance and uncanny understanding of each other when they share ice-time. It’s just funny to think that these brothers have been playing hockey in Vancouver for the last 10 years and yet, even the most die-hard Canucks’ fan still wouldn’t be able to tell them apart from each other and no coach yet has dared mess with their near-telepathic chemistry.
Steve Jobs and Mona Simpson
I wouldn’t really say they’re quirky because of their looks but in a way, their story falls under that category.
Sure, everyone knows who Steve Jobs is. He is a major proponent in the personal computer revolution and the one who made us believe that a black turtleneck was the uniform of success.
The course of history would have been different had Steve picked up another fruit.
But what’s not known by many is that the co-founder of Apple Inc. has a younger sister who is also successful in her chosen field – writing.
An accomplished author, Mona Simpson didn’t even know Steve was her brother until she was 25 years old! To this day, this story continues to spur hopes that some of us are Warren Buffet’s relatives.
Mona has earned quite a collection of writing awards too. In fact, one of her books, Anywhere But Here, was transformed into a film.
Jason and Jarron Collins
After toiling in the NBA for more than 20 years of combined experience, the Collins brothers should be thankful that people now remember their last name because of how Jason Collins became the first active sports star in the US to say he was gay. They both have similar games and have played on more teams in the NBA than most people can dream of seeing in a lifetime.
Here’s where it gets funny. As it turned out, now celebrity sibling Jarron, who is straight, was on the receiving end of numerous mistaken identity moments right after Sports Illustrated published Jason’ confession. Thankfully, Jarron was bright enough to address this problem through fashion.
Brook and Robin Lopez
Just like the Sedins, the Lopez twins picked one sport. Both played collegiate basketball at Stanford but are under contract for separate NBA teams today.
It’s been basketball all their life but when they’re together they don’t talk about basketball. They talk about comics, movies, and comics and did I say comics? It’s understandable that Robin doesn’t want to talk hoops because this would have dominated the conversation:
Big ups on Robin for sporting that shaggy, homeless man-look so we could tell them apart.
James and Mike Cameron
James had directed The Terminator, Titanic, Aliens, and Avatar. Haven’t heard of those movies? Well, we might need his brother, Mike, to use his engineering genius to make a custom-built exploration machine to search what is wrong with your soul.
I am not joking. Mike and his private company developed a very sophisticated underwater remote-controlled platform that is far more advanced than anything before it. How advanced? The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is eyeing their apparatus to explore the waters of Jupiter’s moon Europa.
Quirky fact: The young Camerons once submerged a mouse-manned submarine in the Niagara River.
These duos of brothers and sisters maybe weird by our standards. However, each of them have an accomplishment or two to show. Even the Cansecos. Although honestly I can’t name in a snap anything good Ozzie Canseco had done in his life but hey at least he made it into the big leagues. Do you have any pair of siblings in mind that you think will be great additions to this list? Follow Top Bet on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ and share your two cents (just no pictures please).
