Hardest record to break

[ImaPK]

In ALL of sports what do you believe will be the hardest record to break? Team or individual, it doesn't matter.

[TW]

Red Boiling Springs Football
Record (2001-2006) 5-55-0
They haven't won a game in over four years, the two previous years produced only 5 wins (2 one year and 3 the other). Prior to that they went over five years without a win.

You gotta pull for a team like that. Them's my boys!


TW

[doilooklost]

7 no hitters

[dalebert]

Rocky Marciano's 49-0
Boxing

Marciano began his professional career in 1947 by beating Lee Epperson, and over the next eight years, he proceeded to defeat all 49 of his opponents -- 43 by knockout. In doing so, Marciano became the first heavyweight to go undefeated throughout his entire career.

Marciano's record was challenged in 1985 by Larry Holmes, who got to 48-0 before losing to Michael Spinks. However, with today's crop of heavyweights being underwhelming, his mark seems likely to stand the test of time.


Cy Young's 511 wins
Baseball

Young had the benefit of pitching from 1890 to 1911, an era in which hurlers could finish what they started. He picked up wins by throwing 749 complete games out of 815 starts on his way to setting a record that will undoubtedly never be topped. In 1903, Young got his 365th win, passing Pud Galvin for the record, and proceeded to add nearly 150 more victories for good measure.

A pitcher today would need to average 25 wins a season for 21 years to surpass Young; with an average of just 35 starts each year, that's an all-but-impossible task.

Jerry Rice's 22,895 receiving yards
Football

This record, and the one that follows it for top spot, earn their positions by virtue of the fact that they were set quite recently, and yet are still of mythic proportions. In other words, Rice is playing the same style of game as current players, and yet he's so far above and beyond them that his accomplishments can't be touched.

This is the most iron-clad of Rice's records set during his career that began in 1985, although he also holds the records for most catches with 1,549 and touchdowns with 197. The next-closest player is Tim Brown, who is nearly 8,000 yards behind. Even for a young star like Randy Moss to catch Rice, he'd have to average nearly 1,400 yards per year for the next 10 seasons, at which point he'll be 38. Don't count on it.


[b]Cal Ripken's 2,632 consecutive games
Baseball

Likewise, Ripken set his record in the modern era, and that lends it extra credence in the pantheon of sports accomplishments. Lou Gehrig's "Iron Man" record of 2,130 games was widely regarded as "unbreakable," but Ripken not only passed it on September 6, 1995, he also added an extra 500 straight games before he finally decided to take the pressure off and end the streak. That move, on September 20, 1998, brought to a close a remarkable run that had begun over 16 years earlier on May 30, 1982, and that included a string between June 5, 1982, and September 14, 1987, in which Ripken played 8,243 straight innings.

Considering that only four players were present in all 162 of their team's games in 2004, Ripken's record looks even more impressive, and beyond challenge.[/b]

[Paully_44]

Cy Young's 511 wins and
BaseballCal Ripken's 2,632 consecutive games
Baseball

I completely agree. In this day and age, a pitcher reaching 300 wins is a milestone.

Also, the players are more inclined to think of their contract$ if they get a tweak or a sore and will sit a game or two rather than chance a major injury.