me too

The way the game has changed in the last ten years or so with regards to backup QBs (i.e. most teams basically run 2 QBs and have hair-triggers at benching guys for one week, two weeks, etc) there are probably only like 8 or 9 QBs that could even POSSIBLY throw that many INTs without being yanked. And those are the guys least likely to do it. Still, 6 ties come on.

what

good poll - i think the landry ones are pretty untouchable these days.

Many teams won't have the same owners for close to 29 years, much less same head coach.

Assani,
A lot of these are really interesting tidbits but like they are just random and borderline irrelevant. I don't mean to criticize you because this thread is intersting but halfway through the poll I was guessing the next one would be consecutive road games in a dome with an odd number of passing yards by a skill position player.

cowher had a shot. jeff fisher has an outside shot. not at the 20 straight winning seasons obv.

Not really.

Good poll.

But Steve Smith led the league in receiving yards and receptions (and receiving TDs) in 2005, so I'm not sure where you got the Chad Johnson record from.

Jerry Rice's Career TD record
Jerry Rice's Career Total Yards Record
Derrick Thomas' 7 sacks in one game
Miami Dolphin's undefeated season
Marvin Harrison's catches in a season
Miami Dolphin's 3 sacks given up all year
SF 49ers' 18 straight road wins
Ernie Nevers' 40 points in 1 game(6 TDs, 4 PATs)
Chad Johnson's straight years leading league in receiving(4, going on 5)
Hutson's 8 seasons of leading league in TDs

Those are the records that are actually meaningful

Buc's 26 straight losses
Len Dawson's 7 fumbles in one game
George Blanda's 42 INTs in a season
Jim Hardy's 8 INTs in one game

These records are useless, sure they might not get broken but they are records for sucking. They aren't difficult to break if someone wanted to they could fumble seven times in a game.


Ben Roethlisberger's 14 straight wins by a QB to start a career
Atlanta Falcon's 42 straight years(and counting) without back to back winning seasons
1932 Bears' 6 ties in one season
Buffallo Bills' 4 straight SB losses

These records are arbitrary and don't really prove anything at all.

Than there's a whole group of records that are sort of impressive but realistically they have a ton to do with positive variance/longevity

Unitas' 47 straight games with a TD
(Obv Unitas is awesome but I mean this stat has a lot more to do with positive variance than Unitas being a great qb)
Favre's consecutive QB starts
John Runyan's 160+ straight games at o-line
Bruce Matthews' 296 games played at o-line
Tom Landry's 29 striaght years coaching same team
James Wiler's 496 touches(catches+rushes) in one season
(These five are sort of impressive but they are mainly set because they were lucky enough to not got injured and it also doesn't involved them needing to play at a high level they just need to play)

Don Shula's 347 wins
Tom Landry's 20 straight winning seasons

These records are also mainly because of longevity.

Earl Campbell's 4 200 yard games in a season
Barry Sander's 14 straight 100 yard games

These two are impressive but sort of arbitrary I mean what if Barry Sanders instead of doing 14 straight 100 he did 180 yards 7 in a row than 99 than 180 7 in a row again. He wouldn't have either of those records broke despite having much better production


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

Not adjusting for era is ******ed sure its a record that will like never get broken but who cares? Football was played completely differently and they only played 13 games so an NFL team would have to do it in 3 fewer games.


Lastly this whole thread has a clear answer. Its not even debatable its the 6 ties in one season. There probably have been like 6 ties in the last twenty years. This will never ever happen again even though nobody cares because the record is completely useless and tells us nothing.

You watched that thing on the NFL Network, too, right?

I imagine all but a few of these will last for a very very long time.

As far as DB's go you are missing Dick "Night train" Lane's 14 INTs in a 12 game season.

Still the record for any season. In a 16 game season that's almost 19 INTs. For one DB that's close to untouchable the way QBs are taught to throw the ball away now.

6 ties and 1539 yards allowed are both as close to impossible as you can get because of fundamental changes like overtime and longer scheduling. Even pro-rated to 16 games, the latter is ludicrous.

I agree with eagles

3 Sacks allowed is untouchable along with 6 ties obviously.

I remember watching this game as a kid. On the last play of the game Thomas had Dave Krieg in his arms for what would have been sack number 8 but Krieg somehow broke the tackle and threw a ~50 yard TD to win the game. I'd love to see it again on ESPN classic.

Dude, awesome post assani. A lot of cool information.

Willie Parker had two 200-yard games last season.

If not for garbage time, he could have had more.

This record is very touchable.

Jamal Lewis has three career 200-yard games.

Parker has three career.

Tiki Barber had five career, three in 2003.

LDT has four career.

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

That's untouchable in a 16 game season.

reminds me of Dimaggio's 56, Ted Williams was a better hitter during the streak

Rex was clearly trying to throw 8 INT's tonight after seeing this thread.

hah you beat me to it

Wrecks, what's your 2p2 username??

A lot of those records are never going to be touched. No team is ever going to make and lose 5 straight Super Bowls.