What is the best (non-baseball) streak in sports history?
The baseball streaks are what we always perceive by the ear about. Joe DiMaggio’s 56 play hitting stripe and Cal Ripkin’s continuous games played stripe are very impressive, but greater injury in not as public in Baseball as other sports.
Most powerful individual streaks in juxtaposition sports:
Dan Gable’s 182 equal winning stripe. He never lost a struggle match in 4 years of high-reaching school and his first three years in body at Iowa. He took a 182 equal winning stripe into the NCAA finals his older year and not to be found his first match ever. In Gable’s 21 Olympic qualifying matches the next year, he was undefeated with a continually increasing score of 121-1. He went on the 1972 Olympics where he did not give up a sharp end in winning the gold medal. Since then he has a 355-21-5 note as Iowa’s coach including 9 following in a series NCAA titles (15 overall) and 25 succeeding regularly Big-10 titles.
Alexander Karelin, Undefeated for 13 years in Greco-Of the romans Wrestling. He won three Olympic gold medals and nine cosmos championships. In the last 10 years of his be king, the Russian heavyweight didn’t give up so much as a sharp end.
Sugar Ray Robinson’s 91 following in a series victories, 1943-51 – Warring as a welterweight and middleweight, he pommel Jake LaMotta four seasons in that streak, including two times in three weeks! In 1950, he fought 19 spells and won them all. Can you imagine a boxer contention 19 seasons in a year today?
Jim Marshall 282 successive games played at defensive end. He is not in the Chamber of Fame because he returned a feel about the wrong way for a security. He played in four super bowls and is one of the NFL’s good in the highest degree DE’s ever.
Brett Favre’s 253 following in a series games started is next to the first on the NFL‘s all time invoice behind Jim Marshall. Peyton Manning has started every sport of his NFL career.
Johnny Unitas’ 47 games in a row with a touchdown go – From 1956-60, the Colts’ QB dominated before transient was fashionable. What makes this stripe even more impressive is that the Colts were a running team. Unitas only averaged around 20 proceed attempts per pastime. QB’s throw 30-40 passes per sport today. Dan Marino is next to the first with 30 continuous games with a TD make a transit. ...
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