Some records I knew the exact numbers so I included them; Others I didn't so you'll have to look them up if you want to see it exactly.

BTW theres 2 records on the list in which second place isn't even 1/2 of what first is. Can you name them?

Answer in white:

Big Ben's 14 straight wins to begin a career(2nd place is 6) and Hutson's 8 years of leading league in TDs(2nd place is 3).

Its funny because I'd bet that those 2 probably wouldn't get many, if any, votes had I not mentioned that, but they stand out to me as two of the top ones.

well hopefully no RB gets to 496touches, but with idiots like Herm Edwards running LJ into the ground, who knows

6ties in one season seems the rarest, I mean in the past 10ys have there even been 6ties total?

Six ties in a season

Either 6 ties in a season or 8 INTs in a single game.

The two above are untouchable, so is the 42 INT's in a season...wow.

There are some that will never be touched just b/c the game has changed so much.

8 Int in a game.
42 Int in a season. 10 was the max last year.
1539 Yards given up in a Season. Last season 4200 was the lowest. No team has held opponents to under 4k yards in the last 5 years.

Those records are for quarterbacks.

I'm surprised Favre's streak is getting votes. The odds Manning breaks Favre's streak has got to be higher than some of these other records being broken.

Re: the 8 ints in one game, a few years ago didn't some reserve QB have 7 in one game? I seem to recall Detmer for the Lions but I'm not sure. I don't think that one is anywhere close to being the most untouchable.

I agree that 6 ties seems most unlikely to be matched.

26 losses in a row is very unlikely given the salary cap.

Giving up 3 sacks in a season is also impossible.

The six ties obv, but should be disqualified due to rule changes.
(unless you count six OT as the same thing)

...Rex Grossman is our quarterback...

This list is pretty sick; a lottttt of these are pretty untouchable. Great thread.

I can't possibly imagine how people could rationally vote for Favre's streak over some of the others.

FWIW, 8 times a team has intercepted 8 passes or more in a game, and as recently as 2001 a team had 7. So I don't think the record of one QB being intercepted 8 times is as impossible as some of you think.

Surprised Earl Campbell's 4 200 yard games in one season isn't getting more attention considering that only one person has more 200 yard games in his ENTIRE CAREER(OJ Simpson with 6).

Also Don Hutson's 8 seasons of leading the league in TDs...the next closest is 3 and only 3 guys ever have that(J Brown, Emmitt, and Lance Alworth).


Tough to imagine any team winning 14 straight games, yet alone one led by a QB making his first 14 career starts.

Tom Landry's 20 straight winning seasons seems pretty insane to me.


I didn't realize that there was no OT in the past, so I kinda wish I didn't include the 6 tie one then, as its only untouchable due to rule changes.

This isn't getting much run...

Fewest Yards Allowed in a season: 1539 by 1934 Chicago Cardinals

but that is pretty sick

1539 for a season?! They played less games back then no? That is < 100yrds per game in a 16 game schedule. Can't be done in modern football, even if you put an all pro team out there.

This is one of the best internet polls I've ever seen. I suggest you make subsequent polls narrowing the most popular options and eliminating other options until 2 remain.

EDIT: Ha Hornecek beat me out!

6 ties in a season, the record would be untouchable if it was 3.

How is the 8 INT's getting votes. That seems trivially easy compared to some of these others.

Thanks.

If I did that I would definitely eliminate any records that only stand due to rules that have since changed, and I would change the question to "Most untouchable record assuming there are no major rule changes?".

The only thing I can think of is that people think Hardy was a DB and not a QB. Considering that the record of interceptions(picked, not thrown) is 14 I could understand why people would vote for that if they thought that way. My fault for not being clear.

I thought it was a defensive player.

ya when i voted for that i was assuming that it was a DB record

As did I.