NFL Records Set The Standard For Today's Teams
Every sport has its superstars. There are those players who rise above the rest. They perform feats that are seemingly unattainable by anyone else. The National Football League (NFL) is no exception. The football legends of both past and present have set NFL records that few expect anyone else to break. How long will these NFL records stand?
Football is a game of statistics. The players are so specialized that it is possible to predict what a given player will do in certain situations. One quarterback might pass 79% of the time on third down conversions. This player might average 5.3 yards per carry and expect to have 32 carries per game. These statistics tell the defense what the average action is likely to be most of the time, and how to counter it. The players who perform far above the average are those who truly set outstanding NFL records.
Here are some examples of NFL records as recorded through the 2005 playing season.
Kicker Gary Anderson leads the NFL records for career scoring. He scored 2,434 points in his career. His talented kicking foot that set these NFL records did it 1 or 3 points at a time. He kicked 820 extra points and 538 field goals. Another of the NFL records that he holds is the most points in a season without scoring a touchdown (164).
The NFL records for most career touchdowns scored brings up a trio of NFL superstars. Jerry Rice scored 208 touchdowns in his career, Emmitt Smith scored 175 career touchdowns, and Marcus Allen scored 145 career touchdowns. Rice's 208 touchdowns accounted for 1,248 career points. That's impressive in the world of NFL records, but it's still only half of the career points scored by Gary Anderson and his magic kicking foot.
NFL records are also set by teams as well as by individual players. The Green Bay Packers lead the NFL records for most seasons as league champion (12), and most consecutive seasons as league champion (3). Leading the NFL records for most consecutive games won are the New England Patriots with 18 games during the 2003-2004 season.
There are some NFL records with which no player or team wants to be associated. The NFL records state the team with the most fumbles in a season was the 1938 Chicago Bears (56). The 1978 San Francisco 49ers made it into the NFL records with 63 turnovers in a season. In 1998, the Kansas City Chiefs had 158 penalties in a single season. That's almost 10 per game!
The sheer volume of football statistics collected make it possible to show NFL records for almost any position or category. Somewhere a statistician has calculated NFL records for the fewest touchdowns scored on a Tuesday, or the most time a first-round draft pick spent sitting on the bench during his rookie season. It is through NFL records that we judge the caliber of today's NFL teams against the football stars of the past.
Copyright 2006 Jim Sterling - All Rights Reserved
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