random sports stats/facts that surprise you when you first hear them

[anatta]

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This thread is cool. Nice going OP.

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Sporting Events forum has been a lot of fun for me lately.

[TheNoodleMan]

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Billy Volek had more passing yards in the first 10 games of his career than any other QB in the past 25 years.

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In 2000 Marhsall Faulk set the record for most TDs in a season. In 2003 Priest Holmes broke it. In 2005 Shaun Alexander broke it. In 2006 Ladanian Tomlinson broke it.

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Anyone who has been a serious NFL fan for the past 10 years should remember the Volek stretch and definitely should remember the TD record progression.

[Assani Fisher]

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Billy Volek had more passing yards in the first 10 games of his career than any other QB in the past 25 years.

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In 2000 Marhsall Faulk set the record for most TDs in a season. In 2003 Priest Holmes broke it. In 2005 Shaun Alexander broke it. In 2006 Ladanian Tomlinson broke it.

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Anyone who has been a serious NFL fan for the past 10 years should remember the Volek stretch and definitely should remember the TD record progression.

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FWIW I did a trivia thread a while back and one of the questions was who had the most yards in their first 10 starts in the past 25 years. There were some other hard questions, but none of them took as long as it took people to get Volek right.

Yeah I'll give you that most people should know about the TDs...still kinda amazing though.

[MikeyPatriot]

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In 2000 Marhsall Faulk set the record for most TDs in a season. In 2003 Priest Holmes broke it. In 2005 Shaun Alexander broke it. In 2006 Ladanian Tomlinson broke it.

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Start the witch hunt.

[THAY3R]

Please,

We all know that only baseball play...err Barry Bonds does steroids!

[RedBean]

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Please,

We all know that only baseball play...err Barry Bonds does steroids!

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ESPN did a special series today on cheating in different sports, undoubtedly inspired by the recent events.

For the NFL, they had about a 3,000 word piece on cheating in the NFL that mentioned steroids exactly once...and it was in this context:

"Most people think steroids, but...."

Shawn Merriman's name or suspension was not mentioned at all.

The Steelers doctor indicted for purchasing $150k worth of HGH was not mentioned at all.

Some anecdote about a 1960's college football rival where they stole hand signals was mentioned.

And it went on to describe several other cute anecdotes of gamesmanship, and a paragraph or two on ephedra as a banned substance.

See....the NFL doesn't have a steroid problem, it was solved by testing they instituted back in the '80s!!!. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[TheRover]

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In 2000 Marhsall Faulk set the record for most TDs in a season. In 2003 Priest Holmes broke it. In 2005 Shaun Alexander broke it. In 2006 Ladanian Tomlinson broke it.

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Start awarding MVPs to undeserving players.

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qft

[bottomset]

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In 2000 Marhsall Faulk set the record for most TDs in a season. In 2003 Priest Holmes broke it. In 2005 Shaun Alexander broke it. In 2006 Ladanian Tomlinson broke it.

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Start awarding MVPs to undeserving players.

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qft

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Peyton Manning lost 2MVPs as a result of those records

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No active NBA player is in the top 15 of career rebounds per game

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players used to be really really really bad shooters, and teams used to shoot non-stop

[SL__72]

I posted this once before, but in 2004, Lew Ford lead the Twins (offense anyway) in VORP with 33.7. Second was Hunter with 23.

That team went 92-70 and pretty much should have beat the Yankees in the divisional series. Won game 1, Nathan blew a save in the 12th in game 2 and they blew a 4 run lead in the 8th of game 4.

[RickAstleyFan]

Jim Rice is NOT in the Hall of Fame.