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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

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

Well people love to talk about Dimaggio streak being unbreakable but that will be broken one day. There is a ton of luck involved but it will happen.

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09-24-2007 , 04:42 AM

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42 Interceptions in a season is insane. WTF

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09-24-2007 , 05:57 AM

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42 Interceptions in a season is insane. WTF

It's not that insane, but it's a lot.

42 George Blanda, Houston, 1962
35 Vinny Testaverde, Tampa Bay, 1988
34 Frank Tripucka, Denver, 1960

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09-24-2007 , 08:37 AM

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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

(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)

While I completely understand your point, the one thing I would argue with is that these players/coaches still have to perform at a high enough level so that they keep their jobs (I took Wiler and Unitas out). They won't sniff those records if they aren't perennial all-pro caliber players (I was actually surprised to find out that Runyan has only made one Pro Bowl). Obviously, players have down years and not every Landry team was a world-beater, but average players and scrubs would never get the opportunity to break longevity marks.

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09-24-2007 , 01:21 PM

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No doubt six ties in one season. Most team don't get one tie per season, let alone six.

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09-24-2007 , 01:38 PM

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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.

Not really.

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.

So what?

The poll is about whether the "record" will be broken; not whether it means anything.

By the way, the reason the "records for sucking" are also hard to break is because teams try NOT to suck, thus there is no incentive for breaking these records. For example, many pitchers could have 20-loss seasons, but usually, the manager pulls them from the rotation to save them the embarrassment.

I don't think we will ever see a team "go" for 7 ties; if it happens, it will sort of ... just happen.

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09-24-2007 , 03:28 PM

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dolphins perfect season?

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09-24-2007 , 04:10 PM

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42 Interceptions in a season is insane. WTF

It's not that insane, but it's a lot.

42 George Blanda, Houston, 1962
35 Vinny Testaverde, Tampa Bay, 1988
34 Frank Tripucka, Denver, 1960

Well OP sure did a bad job of phrasing these stats.
I thought he was saying some db got 42 picks in one year. Obv I didn't look too closely at the name or I may have figured it out, but ya...sort of misleading.

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09-24-2007 , 04:30 PM

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Was looking at NFL records, and was suprised to see by what a wide margin Brian Mitchell leads for career punt returns and kickoff returns: 463 punt returns - 2nd place has 351 punt returns,607 kickoff returns 2nd place has 421 KO returns, and by virtue of that he has wide career margins on other career stats like return yardage, fair catches, etc..

Also, there are several NFL records that cannot be broken because of rules changes (i.e. shortest field goal).

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09-30-2007 , 11:21 PM

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Ugh, Umenyiora if only the game had gone to OT.

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09-30-2007 , 11:38 PM

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Ugh, Umenyiora if only the game had gone to OT.

The one tackle wasn't a sack because McNabb didn't lose any yardage. If McNabb was 2 feet back, Osi would have had 7. So close, dammit!

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10-08-2007 , 10:15 PM

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Romo is half way to tying that interception record tonight boys. It won't happen but I thought it was a good reason to give this thread a bump.

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10-09-2007 , 02:47 PM

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Heh- I was thinking about this thread when the Bills dropped what would have been his 6th pick.

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10-09-2007 , 05:02 PM

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I think we need about 15 more choices in this poll. My brain isn't quite scrambled yet from trying to discern between 25 possibilities.

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11-01-2007 , 02:01 PM

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Well, some of these would be just absurd nowadays. There is no way six ties could be beaten. Also, there is no way that a team could ever give up less than 100 yards a game. This should be a poll of just post-merger records, as that would be a whole lot easier to compare.

If you are looking at pre-merger, even though technically not a record the most impressive single season accomplishment is Sammy Baugh leading the NFL in Passing, Punting, and Interceptions in a single season (1943). In that season he threw for 6 TD's in a single game, and nabbed 4 picks in another. Just plain nasty!

Oh yea, how come no one mentioned Pacman's single season arrest record?!?

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11-01-2007 , 02:39 PM

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Also, there is no way that a team could ever give up less than 100 yards a game.

Pretty sure that Pittsburgh held Cleveland to less than 50 yards total offense in the Browns first game back in the NFL in 1999. Certainly that was a unique circumstance, but not that much different than an expansion team playing its first game.

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11-01-2007 , 03:26 PM

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Wow! I just pulled up the stats for that Pit-Cle game. Pit won 43-0...total yards 460-40...FD's 32-2!...TOP 48-12. Amazing.

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11-01-2007 , 04:16 PM

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Wow! I just pulled up the stats for that Pit-Cle game. Pit won 43-0...total yards 460-40...FD's 32-2!...TOP 48-12. Amazing.

scoring more points than yards allowed is sick

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11-01-2007 , 04:29 PM

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the 99-yard pass to win a game in overtime. I forget the QB and receiver. But there will be no 100-yard passes. Same for Tony Dorsett's 99-yard run.

It can be tied, but never broken.

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11-01-2007 , 04:43 PM

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the 99-yard pass to win a game in overtime. I forget the QB and receiver. But there will be no 100-yard passes. Same for Tony Dorsett's 99-yard run.

It can be tied, but never broken.

it could be a couple inches/foot longer

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11-01-2007 , 04:45 PM

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the 99-yard pass to win a game in overtime. I forget the QB and receiver. But there will be no 100-yard passes. Same for Tony Dorsett's 99-yard run.

It can be tied, but never broken.

it could be a couple inches/foot longer

Yes, but it won't go down in the books as such, because the records aren't measured like that.

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Originally Posted by TheNoodleMan

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.

http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-game-h...acks-in-a-Game