What Sports Records Will Likely Never Be Broken In Our Lifetimes

TNDawg71

@WCDawg said:

@TNDawg71 said:
Baseball - pitcher Wins, stolen bases,
Hockey - Most of Gretzky's records
Rick Pitino - sleaziness

You could throw a rock at a Baylor coaching reunion and have a good chance of hitting a coach who'd give Pigtino a run in the **** dept.

@VaBeachDawg said:

@christopherules said:
Nolan Ryan’s 5714 career strikeouts. No one else comes close.

Yep. Second place on the list is this guy you might have heard of, Randy Johnson, and he is barely within 1,000! That’s insane!!

Randy Johnson would have had a real chance at it, but he didn't figure things out until he was almost 30

BamaDawg

1. Career No Hitters: 7 Nolan Ryan

2. Most hot dogs ate in 10 mins: 74 Joey Chestnut

3. Greatest distance spitting a table tennis ball: 42.1 ft. Ashrita Furman

4. Fastest Shuttlecock hit: 259 mph Lee Chong Wei

5. Most coaches lost off one CFB team in one year: 5 University of Alabama.

orlando

@Columbo said:
Mark Martin's NASCAR Record of 188.354 Average Speed at Talladega in 1997 will never be broken. It is the fastest track on the circuit and there were no cautions that day. Now that there are two automatic cautions with the new format, there is no way the record can be broken. Even if they do away with the current three stages and went back to the old format, the chances of a caution free race at a Super Speedway are very slim.

Ripken and Cy Young records will also never be broken.

Awesome Bill qualifying at 212 mph at Talladega. Also came from 2 laps down to win and that’s before the lucky dog stuff.

UnderDog68

@Columbo said:
Mark Martin's NASCAR Record of 188.354 Average Speed at Talladega in 1997 will never be broken. It is the fastest track on the circuit and there were no cautions that day. Now that there are two automatic cautions with the new format, there is no way the record can be broken. Even if they do away with the current three stages and went back to the old format, the chances of a caution free race at a Super Speedway are very slim.

Ripken and Cy Young records will also never be broken.

Bill Elliot's record qualifying time at Talladega in 1987....212.809 MPH. That'll never happen again because of restrictor plates. That qualifying time and Bobby Allison's horrific wreck there during the same weekend are the reasons we have restrictor plates today. Allison took out 100 yards of the catch fence while going airborne at over 200 MPH in front of the main grandstands.

In college football, I don't think you'll ever see a RB have over 900 carries in a 3-year career like Herschel Walker did, or see him put up the nearly 5300 yards rushing again in 3 years, either. I don't think you'll see a 47-game winning streak in college football again or see a home winning streak like Miami's 58 games from 1985-1994. And although I hate to mention it....GT winning 222-0 over Cumberland.

Among the records I don't think you'll see broken in the NFL are Derrick Thomas' 7 sacks in one game, Otto Graham's 10 straight championship games, Favre's consecutive games played streak, and....although it's been close on occasion, the Dolphins' perfect season in 1972.

donm

@AnotherDawg said:

@DawgNut said:

@AnotherDawg said:

Cy Young's 511 career wins (and 749 complete games as noted above), along with Hoss Radbourn's 59 wins in a season. (I'm not sure anyone will win even 30 games again- Denny McLain was the last to do it and that was 50 years ago.)

How in the hell did he pitch 749 complete games and only win 511. That stat just seems odd.

Once upon a time, starting pitchers were expected to pitch the whole game. I'm sure Cy Young lost plenty of games 1-0, 2-1, etc. For a modern example see Game 7 of the 1991 World Series, Braves vs. Twins, Smoltz vs. Morris.

Going slightly further back, Braves HOF'er Warren Spahn faced Juan Marichal in a game many believe to be the greatest pitching duel in history. Spahn and Marichal both went the distance, 16 innings, and the Giants won the game 1-0 on a walk-off HR by Willie Mays.

Here's an article about that game. Well worth a read if you're a baseball fan.

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/the-greatest-pitching-duel-in-human-history/

In the foot notes you'll see that Spahn pitched four 14+ inning games in his career and had a 1-3 record to show for it, despite allowing only 6 runs in 60 innings. (That helps explain Cy Young's numbers.)

Those were the days. The game doesn't even look the same anymore. However, I still get a thrill walking into a MLB park a couple of hours before the game and seeing the beauty and symmetry of the field. Just love it.

orlando

58 carries in a single game, rb at Kansas

DawginCO

Johnny Vander Meer's back-to-back no-hitters in 1938. To beat the record, someone would have to throw three consecutive no-hitters.

UnderDog68

@orlando said:
58 carries in a single game, rb at Kansas

Tony Sands...58 carries, 396 yards vs. Missouri. Nov. 23rd, 1991. Kansas won, 52-29. He also had 4 TDs that game.

corai3

As much as we hate Tech, the 222-0 will never happen again

moos

@corai3 said:
As much as we hate Tech, the 222-0 will never happen again

And that needs an asterisk because it was borderline staged. Cumberland had disbanded their football team, but had to put together a volunteer team due to a contractual obligation.

MacDawg15

@dawgnms said:
Joe D's 56 game hitting streak and like others have said Ripken's streak

I was gonna say these 2 and Walker's SEC rushing yardage

tymoon31

Brett Farves consecutive starts. 297 consecutive games!!! The real beast mode.

volatilis

Might be broken, but got to give Chubb and Michel their dues. 8198 rushing yards by a duo.

Raiderbeater1

@Big_Prune said:
Ripken's consecutive games played record.

HunkerDown1MoreTime

@donm said:
Let's assume our average age is 30 and that we will live, on average to 90. What records might stand during that period?

Baseball: 56 consecutive game hitting streak? Total career wins for a pitcher? Most wins in a season?

College FB? Consecutive game win streak?

College Basketball? Consecutive game win streak? UCLA men? U Conn women?

Pro Basketball? Most wins in a season?

Other sports you may follow?

Ty Cobb....... .367 lifetime batting average. Not a chance thats ever broken