That could well be right. I’ve never kicked an American football, so I can’t really judge.
The American football will also tumble when kicked, so it’s not really aerodynamic.
A double hat trick in hockey (6 goals) in one game would be amazing.
It’s been done before by a handful of players, but none since the 70s.
Rugby balls probably tumble, too, but the closer a ball is to spherical, the less the tumbling will matter (though even for a sphere it still matters some).
The rounder ball can also be kicked at any attitude. The football has to be held at the proper angle by the holder for the kicker to have a chance at the proper trajectory. Kicking it off center to get the trajectory will just decrease the range and result in more tumbling.
I’m still a bit surprised nobody has ripped off a 99-yard touchdown run in the NFL since good old Tony Dorsett back in '83. I know Ahman Green came close with a 98-yarder for Green Bay about 10 years ago.
Mike Cameron flied out to the warning track in his try for number five. I don’t think any pitcher in baseball wold pitch around a batter with that opportunity, unless the game depended on it and a good hitter would have been pitched around anyway. A pitcher would challenge the batter and try to get him out, but would not deny him the chance. When Joe Adcock hit four, he also hit a double off the wall.
DiMaggio’s hit streak really is just a weird, weird outlier. I have nothing against DiMaggio, but I’ve also always felt it got a bit of unfair attention.
In '41, the year Joe set the streak record he his stats were thus:
193 H, 30 HR, 125 RBI, .357/.440/.643/1.083 OPS, 184 OPS+, 348 TB
Ted Williams on the other hand:
185 H, 37 HR, 120 RBI, .406/.553/.735/1.287 OPS, 235 OPS+, 335 TB
I mean seriously a .553 on base percentage, meaning Ted got on base more than half the time he appeared at the plate. That’s crazy, and also crazy versus Joe who actually won the MVP, losing to Ted in this important statistic by over .1.
Now, in 1941 OPS/OPS+ weren’t nearly as important, nor was OBP. But even in the traditional stats that mattered back then–Ted had more Home Runs (lead the league) and had a .406 batting average. Using modern metrics or the metrics commonly touted in the 40s, no argument makes sense for giving DiMaggio the MVP over Ted.
To put a little bit of it in perspective, that .553 OBP is the #3 single season all time. It was the 10th highest OPS+ ever (OPS essentially adjusted to show where you were relative to the league, 100 being sort of a baseline and how far above 100 showing how far better you were.) DiMaggio’s numbers for 1941 aren’t even in the top 100 all time in these statistics.
I am not being entirely snarky when I say “it depends on how effective the drug testing is”. I do not believe it can be done without a significant amount of chemical help. Even if we went back to the 1980s laissez-faire free-for-all (and we might be there right now) I have my doubts that it’s possible.
DiMaggio’s team won and Williams’s team finished seventeen games back, which has always mattered a lot to the vote. DiMaggio was also an excellent center fielder while Williams was a bad fielder. Williams should have won the award but it wasn’t as much of a runaway as you might think.
An NBA shut-out, although I don’t foresee it ever happening.
A NBA team scoring 200 points in one game
The 25 inning MLB record for longest game being broken
Jose Canseco’s 540’ home run being beat
An American becoming boxing World Heavyweight Champion and re-energizing that division once again
MLB pitcher going an entire season sans a loss
60 TD passes in a single season by a NFL QB, and 25 touchdown catches by a NFL receiver
That’s why so many fans miss Tiger Woods. I’ve spent the last 20 years arguing with people who said I wasn’t a True Golf Fan. Turns out they were right, although if Spieth keeps it up, I may start arguing with them again.
But I’m surprised nobody’s shot lower than 59 in a PGA tournament yet.
Does it not count if it came from a turnover? James Harrison of the Steelers made a 100-yard touchdown run off an interception in Superbowl XLIII.
Re: the 70 yard field goal. I predict it will be like the Doug Flutie dropkick. Won’t decide the game but will be the final field goal for someone like Prater or Janikowski in their last game and a coach who feels “Why the hell not?”
A “run” is specifically an offensive play from scrimmage. An interception run-back is a return.
The longest return is 109 yards, which I think has happened a couple of times (from ling field goal attempts that came up short). It is also the longest possible under the rules (since a 110 yard return would require being on the back line, and would be out of bounds).
ETA: The longest “run” allowable under the rules is 99 yards for a similar reason (i.e. the goal line can’t be the line of scrimmage).
Surely, that would depend on how the rounding is done, wouldn’t it? While the line of scrimmage can’t be on or behind the goal line, there’s no reason it couldn’t be six inches ahead of it. That could lead to a run of 99 yards, 2 1/2 feet, which is a lot closer to 100 than it is to 99.
I suspect that in practice, the rounding is to the nearest yard, except that it can never round to either goal line. That is to say, a run from 17 inches either side of the 50-yard-line would still be called a 50-yard run, but a run from one’s own one-inch-line would be rounded down to 99 yards, and one from from the enemy’s one-inch-line would be rounded up to 1 yard.
Exactly.
Could a baseball player hit three grand slams in a game? Seems plausible, 13 have hit two in a game.
Surprisingly Nomar Garciaparra is the only one to do it at home.
What about a team achievement, would that count as a feat? Because I think it would be so cool if an NVL team managed to take home the Offfensive Rookie of the Year, Defensive Rookie of the Year and MVP award all in the same year.
The best I could find were 2 of the 3, with only the Detroit Lions winning both Rookie of the Year awards in the same season.