# Greatest sports record that has been broken. broken **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [May 6, 2014, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-sports-record-that-has-been-broken-broken/687834 "2014-05-06T20:07:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2014, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-sports-record-that-has-been-broken-broken/687834/21 "2014-05-07T23:06:59Z")
> [@racepug](#): > > So you’re saying that Don Bradman is to cricket batting averages what Jerry Rice is to NFL receiving yards, eh? Cool! Oh, and welcome to the “I didn’t read the OP closely enough” club! Hah! Beat you by three minutes! ---
**Author:** ![racepug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@racepug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racepug)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2014, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-sports-record-that-has-been-broken-broken/687834/22 "2014-05-07T23:12:31Z")
> [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](#): > > Walter Payton’s career rushing record has been broken by Emmitt Smith, but it’s still the bee’s nuts to me because . . . well, because he was Walter Payton. And he played for the Bears. And he died young. So in other words, just because. Emmitt “Smiff” broke that record but to me “Sweetness” will ALWAYS be the better RB. And I’m not even a Chicago Bears’ fan. ---
**Author:** ![racepug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@racepug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racepug)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2014, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-sports-record-that-has-been-broken-broken/687834/23 "2014-05-07T23:13:35Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Hah! Beat you by three minutes! Actually, mine was the first response within this thread. If you look higher up you’ll see that I “won” that particular “competition.” ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2014, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-sports-record-that-has-been-broken-broken/687834/24 "2014-05-07T23:24:11Z")
> [@racepug](#): > > Actually, mine was the first response within this thread. If you look higher up you’ll see that I “won” that particular “competition.” I mean that I beat your correction or tsktsking of me for not reading the OP by three minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2014, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-sports-record-that-has-been-broken-broken/687834/25 "2014-05-07T23:57:11Z")
I don’t know about it being a “great” record, but it was a record nontheless: George Blanda held the NFL record for most interceptions thrown for 32 years. It’s only been beaten once. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2014, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-sports-record-that-has-been-broken-broken/687834/26 "2014-05-08T00:50:25Z")
Gotta go with Bob Beamon’s long jump. [Look what he does to the chart in 1968.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LongJumpProgression.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2014, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-sports-record-that-has-been-broken-broken/687834/27 "2014-05-08T02:42:46Z")
In hockey, there is the coveted [50 goals in 50 games](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_goals_in_50_games) record. It was initially set by the legendary ‘Rocket’ Richard in 1944-45. Richard was the first player ever to score 50 goals and it just happened to be that the season was only 50 games back then. The record itself has since been shattered, by Wayne Gretzky (50 in 39 games), but it remains the gold standard for goal scorers. That is evident by the short list of elite players who have matched or broken the record, but Rocket Richard stood alone for 36 years. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-sports-record-that-has-been-broken-broken/687834.md?page=1)