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Ryn

Monday, May 05, 2003 - 09:19 am EditMoveDeleteIP
monicasheree

"NFL Wives / Moms"

BIO

Monica, 29, and a mother of two, was once an Indianapolis Colts cheerleader and holds a BA in Journalism from Indiana University, Indianapolis. She enjoys "tennis, acting and watching movies" and considers herself "outgoing, fun-loving and very competitive." She fears snakes, bugs and rats, and in conversation, "anything gross is off-limits." Monica admits to letting her emotions affect her better judgment. She doesn't like cold climates, understands a little Spanish, and had traveled to Antigua, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and the Bahamas.

Sheree, 31, has three kids and describes herself as "outgoing, friendly and patient" and "loves experiencing new cultures and adventures." Whereas her teammate Monica is completely organized, Sheree says she's the complete opposite. She holds a BA in Journalism from the University of Louisville and has had some college experience in television production. Sheree fears "dangerous animals, reptiles and weird-looking men," and anything is game in conversation for her, "unless bodily fluids are being discussed." She speaks "very little French" and has traveled to Paris, Amsterdam, Spain, the Caribbean and Mexico. Sheree blows off steam with a long bubble bath and a "glass of wine…okay, a bottle," and admits that she trusts people way too much and sometimes gets burned. She adds, "I have short-term will power."

Crazydog

Monday, May 05, 2003 - 10:01 am EditMoveDeleteIP
These two might be my favorite. I'd love to see them do well.

Tabbyking

Tuesday, May 06, 2003 - 09:12 am EditMoveDeleteIP
"NFL wives"--so are they married to players? i didn't see modeling under their bios...cheerleading tops modeling by a few points in my book. hope they go farther than the soccer moms of the last race.

Squaredsc

Wednesday, May 07, 2003 - 08:05 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
they are nfl wives? hmm.

Yuknomenot

Wednesday, May 07, 2003 - 11:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
A quick google on the 2 women turns up: Ray Buchanan of the Atlanta Falcons married to a Sheree. Ashley Ambrose of the New Orleans Saints (formerly of the Falcons) married to a Monica. While not an absolute certainty, it seems more than coincidental that the 2 CBs are married to women with the same names as these contestants.

Yuhuru

Wednesday, May 14, 2003 - 07:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
You're on it Yuk. They live across the street from each other in the Sugarloaf community of Duluth,Gwinnett County, Georgia (for those of us who are from the Atlanta area).

Gotta root for them home team !!!

Lycanthrope

Wednesday, May 14, 2003 - 08:37 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I've always been a fan of Ray Buchanan, so I won't have a hard time rooting for these ladies.

Squaredsc

Sunday, May 18, 2003 - 06:08 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
im rooting for them, which is of course the kiss of death.

Awareinva

Saturday, May 24, 2003 - 05:32 am EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL Squaredsc!

I really would love to see these two kick some butt!!!

Alaginger

Monday, May 26, 2003 - 05:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
News

Wives compete in 'Amazing Race' reality show

By KEN SUGIURA
Atlanta Journal-Constitution Staff Writer

Monica Ambrose and Sheree Buchanan can let you in on some of their secret, but not all of it.

This much we know:

- Ambrose, the wife of former Falcon Ashley Ambrose, and Buchanan, the wife of Falcon Ray Buchanan, are one of 12 two-person teams in the CBS reality show, "Amazing Race," that begins May 29.

- If it turns out they've won the race around the world, they will have won $1 million.

- They're contractually bound to keep quiet.

"It's extremely hard, especially when you're a talker like me," said Sheree Buchanan. "I was a journalism major, so I like to talk."

The two are best friends, as are their husbands. Though Ashley Ambrose signed with the New Orleans Saints after the Falcons released him in February, the two families still live across the street from each other in the Sugarloaf community in Gwinnett County.

Here's what they can say: The two entered after Ambrose was looking at the CBS Web site and saw the call for audition tapes for the show. They put together a three-minute video in which they start out at the Buchanan home, play tennis, work out and then go shopping. The main purpose was to show their competitive spirit and their silly side.

Said Ambrose, "I hit Sheree in the head with a tennis ball."

Besides the $1 million prize, they saw it as a chance to flex some girl power muscle.

"We both have been in that supporting role for Ashley and Ray for so many years, and it's wonderful, but it's hard at the same time," Ambrose said.

Or, as Buchanan says in the first episode, "We've been cheering for them for so many years, so this is a chance for them to put on their little skirts and pompoms and cheer for us!"

Said Ambrose, "A lot of people think it's so easy to be married to a professional athlete, but you almost lose your identity. Everyone refers to us as Ashley's wife or Ray's wife."

Ambrose said that in Web sites dedicated to reality shows, she and Buchanan are already being dismissed as pampered wives of professional athletes. That was the sort of image the two wanted to change.

"We went in with the idea that there wasn't anything we woudln't do unless it was life-threatening," said Ambrose, who entered the U.S. Army Reserves after high school to pay for college.

The filming for the show began in January, shortly after the Falcons lost in the NFL playoffs to the Philadelphia Eagles. Ambrose said she and Buchanan would have gone even if the Falcons had advanced further.

Hermione69

Monday, May 26, 2003 - 08:02 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I have to admit this "pampered wives of professional athletes" was my first reaction until I read their bios. They seem really determined to change any preconceived notions people have about them.

I can also understand why they would say, "A lot of people think it's so easy to be married to a professional athlete, but you almost lose your identity. Everyone refers to us as Ashley's wife or Ray's wife." This adventure must be very empowering for them! I hope they end up as cool as they seem in their bios because right now I'm going to be rooting for them and I'd like to see them do well.

Hermione69

Monday, May 26, 2003 - 08:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
(And it doesn't hurt that they are wives of Falcons! Gotta root for anyone affiliated with my hometown boy Michael Vick!) :)

Crazydog

Tuesday, May 27, 2003 - 08:55 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I really like them. I like the fact that they want to change the stereotype. Typically athlete's wives are thought of as stay-at-home baby manufacturers, with not much on the brains and no education. I especially like the fact that at least Monica has gone to college and that she joined the Army reserves to pay for it.

Tabbyking

Tuesday, May 27, 2003 - 09:28 am EditMoveDeleteIP
they each have a BA in journalism.

Bracken

Tuesday, May 27, 2003 - 10:37 am EditMoveDeleteIP
So far, after reading the bios, I'm rooting for these two. They sound tenacious. I was rooting for the Playboy bunny team also in Eco-Challenge. Didn't figure they would win, but at least wanted them to be able to finish this grueling course.

It's always good to challenge preconceived notions and stereotypes. Helps expand some narrow minded views. Good luck to this team.

Seamonkey

Thursday, May 29, 2003 - 11:59 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Ack, Squared, I'm rooting for them too.. this could be the double, bi-coastal, kiss of death!!!

I hope they kick butt.

Last year I was rooting for Guns n Hoses, thinking THEY would have to kick butt, and boy was I wrong, but these two women may just turn things around for me.

Llkoolaid

Friday, May 30, 2003 - 05:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I really like these two and think that they have had a few tough breaks. I think they made a mistake using the fast forward so early, they were in the second group and really didn't need it. I am not sure if they were aware of that or not but they just made their job so much harder now that they don't have that to fall back on.

Not1worry

Friday, May 30, 2003 - 06:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I guess I am in the minority here, I loathe these 2. I'd actually rather see Tian/Jaree beat these them, if that's any indication of my dislike.

Seamonkey

Friday, May 30, 2003 - 09:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I wasn't thrilled with their attitudes a couple of times but they did get some bad breaks and taking the FF so early, hmmm.

Marysafan

Saturday, May 31, 2003 - 08:26 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I don't think this team has what it takes to get very far. I think they lack independent thinking and problem solving skills. Wasting that Fast Forward so early and so unnecessarily will come back to bite them.

Essence

Thursday, June 05, 2003 - 07:22 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I didn't like the fact that they took the FF so early, but I don't necessarily think that it will be their downfall. The FF only buys you a little time. Bunching almost always destroys a good lead.

Anyway, I remember Rob & Brennan (winners from the first AR) taking the FF in the first round, and they went on to win the whole thing. It didn't hurt them. Let's not count these two out just yet. There's still a whole lot of game left.

Essence

Thursday, June 05, 2003 - 07:24 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Louisville native still in the race on CBS
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By TOM DORSEY
tdorsey@courier-journal.com
The Courier-Journal

While Steve and Debra Carmody, two Southern Indiana residents, are out of tonight's "Amazing Race," Sheree Buchanan, a Louisville native, is still in the hunt for the million-dollar prize.

Buchanan is half of an NFL wives team on "The Amazing Race 4," which airs at 8 p.m. on CBS. The other half is Monica Ambrose, 29, who is a journalism graduate of Indiana University at Indianapolis. Her husband is Ashley Ambrose, who plays football for the Atlanta Falcons, as does Buchanan's husband, Ray.

The two wives met when their husbands played for the Indianapolis Colts and continued their friendship when their husbands went on to play for the Falcons.

Ray Buchanan was on the University of Louisville football team that beat the University of Alabama in the 1991 Fiesta Bowl. Both couples now live in Atlanta.

While Sheree Buchanan is sworn to secrecy by the producers of "The Amazing Race," her sister, Rhonda Stivers of Louisville, is eager to wave the family banner high. She says Sheree has a more important mission than winning the million bucks, although that would be nice too.

"She wanted to experience the challenge of being able to do something on her own and not just be known as Ray Buchanan's wife," Stivers said, "even though she loves being Ray Buchanan's wife. But she wanted to show she was capable of doing some great feat on her own."

Of course, Sheree, 31, has done a lot as the mom of four kids. The children are 1, 4, 9 and 10, "and she's still in incredible shape," said her sister. "She's always got her shape back, I'm jealous."

So who baby-sat while Mom was racing around the world for the TV show last January?

"Well, Ray, his mom and her mom all took turns," Stivers said of the challenge on the home front that may have been as difficult as climbing mountains in knee-deep snow, something Sheree had to do on last week's episode.

The former Southern High School cheerleader and U of L graduate used to watch other people do what she did on last week's chapter. "She's always loved the TV reality shows like `Survivor,'" Stivers said.

Stivers said she also was rooting for the Carmodys to stay in the race, but now that they've been eliminated she's thrown her whole support behind her sister's team. So has her family, including her mom and two brothers in Louisville.

"We're all so excited about having her on that show," Stivers said. "We all went over to my brother Bryan's house to watch it last week on his big-screen TV."

The family was thrilled to see Sheree's team do well.

"I was just amazed to see them do all that on TV," said Stivers, "but I was upset by some of the things that occurred." She didn't like it, for instance, when a father-son team bought tickets for another team behind her sister's in line at the airport.

Does she think her big sister will go all the way and win the million?

"I wish I knew," said Stivers, who said her sister hasn't dropped a single hint because the show's rules prohibit contestants from giving away the outcome.

"It would be worth a million to keep your mouth shut," Stivers added.

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Aunt_Bob

Thursday, June 05, 2003 - 12:37 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
thanks essence

Lycanthrope

Friday, June 06, 2003 - 08:24 am EditMoveDeleteIP
These two are pretty likable. Haven't gotten a real definite impression yet, but so far, they're okay. The last roadblock almost did 'em in, though.

Tabbyking

Thursday, June 12, 2003 - 09:48 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
they are doing much better (and i like them much better) than i thought! other than saying "we are married to pro-athletes" way too often!, they seem to be more than trophy wives.