http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...akable-records-in-professional-sports-history
This is a pretty good list and the baseball ones really blow me away.
I would like to add I don't think anybody will hit 200 or more hits for 10 years in a row like Ichiro did in his prime. Seattle fans were really privileged to see this type of remarkable consistency. For what time he has left in baseball, from the latter Seattle years to the NYY years now and beyond wherever he ends up, I don't think he will get 200 again in any one given season. Many hitters in their prime today are glad to have just one season in the 200+ range.
In football, when the dust settles and Peyton Manning hangs it up in a year, or maybe two, his regular season records he holds, and improves on, will set QB marks in football never to be beaten. And he will, or has, put up those records in fewer seasons than it took Brett Favre to do it in. Even if he never wins a second Super Bowl, and if he never even gets to another postseason, many say he's the greatest QB of all time. Though not a fan of either of his teams, I have to agree he's the best ever, even if he decides to play way past his prime and makes a fool out of himself to the point of becoming a shadow of his best years (post-GB Favre, post-Niners Montana, etc)
The most unbreakable records, hands down that I can think of in American Sports, is Cal Ripken's consecutive games played. The sun will burn out before this streak ever gets matched or beaten. If taken into context of sports all over the world, I don't think the world will see another Novak Djokovic run like he had in 2011 against a similar field of great players. He went 10-1 against then former #1s Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer. He won three majors and a 41 match winning streak. Just one of those two alone could make the claim as greatest tennis season ever. He went 70-6 in matches that year. I can't think of a time when a #1 like Novak had to also face the all time grand slams winner and perhaps best ever (Roger) and the man who replaced him as #1 who can also be considered the best ever, (Rafael). This all happened too in context with Andy Murray as also having arrived having finished #3 that year ahead of #4 Roger. Don't forget that #5 was a solid with David Ferrer of Spain. All in all, out of the five players, they were either at their absolute peak or very close to it and Novak triumphed in that never before seen type of field. Novak just generally beat them to the point that it was boring and some thought the other former #1s would never win another grand slam event again. Both Roger and Rafael went on to win big again showing Novak that the 2011 year he had may never be repeated in such a talented field ever again. Even if a top player tears through another year with no real competition, it would still be hard to win three grand slams or 41 consecutive matches. When 2011 tennis season was over I couldn't think of any year in which any athlete did so well in American sports. I guess an American example would have to be something akin to 100 basketball points in a game today or 100 consecutive games with a hit in major league baseball.
This is a pretty good list and the baseball ones really blow me away.
I would like to add I don't think anybody will hit 200 or more hits for 10 years in a row like Ichiro did in his prime. Seattle fans were really privileged to see this type of remarkable consistency. For what time he has left in baseball, from the latter Seattle years to the NYY years now and beyond wherever he ends up, I don't think he will get 200 again in any one given season. Many hitters in their prime today are glad to have just one season in the 200+ range.
In football, when the dust settles and Peyton Manning hangs it up in a year, or maybe two, his regular season records he holds, and improves on, will set QB marks in football never to be beaten. And he will, or has, put up those records in fewer seasons than it took Brett Favre to do it in. Even if he never wins a second Super Bowl, and if he never even gets to another postseason, many say he's the greatest QB of all time. Though not a fan of either of his teams, I have to agree he's the best ever, even if he decides to play way past his prime and makes a fool out of himself to the point of becoming a shadow of his best years (post-GB Favre, post-Niners Montana, etc)
The most unbreakable records, hands down that I can think of in American Sports, is Cal Ripken's consecutive games played. The sun will burn out before this streak ever gets matched or beaten. If taken into context of sports all over the world, I don't think the world will see another Novak Djokovic run like he had in 2011 against a similar field of great players. He went 10-1 against then former #1s Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer. He won three majors and a 41 match winning streak. Just one of those two alone could make the claim as greatest tennis season ever. He went 70-6 in matches that year. I can't think of a time when a #1 like Novak had to also face the all time grand slams winner and perhaps best ever (Roger) and the man who replaced him as #1 who can also be considered the best ever, (Rafael). This all happened too in context with Andy Murray as also having arrived having finished #3 that year ahead of #4 Roger. Don't forget that #5 was a solid with David Ferrer of Spain. All in all, out of the five players, they were either at their absolute peak or very close to it and Novak triumphed in that never before seen type of field. Novak just generally beat them to the point that it was boring and some thought the other former #1s would never win another grand slam event again. Both Roger and Rafael went on to win big again showing Novak that the 2011 year he had may never be repeated in such a talented field ever again. Even if a top player tears through another year with no real competition, it would still be hard to win three grand slams or 41 consecutive matches. When 2011 tennis season was over I couldn't think of any year in which any athlete did so well in American sports. I guess an American example would have to be something akin to 100 basketball points in a game today or 100 consecutive games with a hit in major league baseball.