ChiefD
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He's the best NFL coach of all time in my opinion. For this stat alone.
And then he went and formed and managed one of the best NASCAR teams of all time.
He's the best. Period.
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And then he went and formed and managed one of the best NASCAR teams of all time.
He's the best. Period.
Steeler
Footballguy
So you are basically crossing Tomlin off the list
zamboni
Footballguy
This is a good one and fits the "weird" category well.
The term Gordie Howe Hat Trick is a bit of a misnomer. In fact, he got into only 22 fights in his very long career, primarily because most guys were reluctant to fight him. And it wasn't because of the code of honor not to go after the star players - Gordie was a badass through and through.
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Yankee23Fan
Fair Tax!
I hate that you put this in words.
Encyclopedia Brown
Footballguy
On the MLB Network biography of Mattingly it was heavily implied that the main reason Joe Torre did not want Mattingly on the 1996 roster was because he thought he had been too close to Buck Showalter.
Mattingly's 1995 stats weren't bad (albeit with zero power). It seems like there could have been a part-time slot for him on that World Series team.
dickey moe
Fingerpicker
That's nuts. Who's number 1, Aikman?
Anarchy99
Footballguy
Farve has 12 wins.
Tecumseh
Footballguy
That’s impressive, not weird. Get your **** together.
Yankee23Fan
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1994 was such a travesty as a fan of his. He was gonna get that ring.
I was at David Cone's perfect game. Before the game they were honoring Yogi Berra that day. Don Larsen was there, the whole of Yankee royalty on display. Several people presented Yogi with gifts.
The last gift was a huge framed collection of every ring he won in his career and there are alot. And Don Mattingly presented it. Only Yankee great without one presented Yogi with like 22 of them.
Ugh.
Zow
Footballguy
Expos were the clear favorite.
NewlyRetired
Footballguy
Chris Nichol scored all 4 goals in a 2-2 soccer game in England in 1976. Two own goals and two goals for his team. This is the only recorded time this has happened in soccer history world wide.
Yankee23Fan
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BobbyLayne
Footballguy
Think this fits the weird qualifier.
The current edition of the Detroit Lions (6-2, #2 seed as of this writing) are generally considered to have one of the best offensive lines in the league. Most publications have had them in the top 5 the last two years, PFF recently gave them a midseason rank of 2nd. Even in the 3-win debut season for Holmes/Campbell, they were thought to be Top 12.
That’s bc when they made RT Penei Sewell their first draft pick, they were adding him to a group that included two former 1st rounders on their second contract (LT Taylor Decker & C Frank Ragnow), a 3rd rounder who made the Pro Bowl in his 2nd year (LG Jonah Jackson), and FA with a hefty contract (RT Halapoulivaati Vaitai.)
The weird part:
In the 42 games Dan Campbell has coached Detroit, that starting group has started exactly one game together (2023 opener at KC.)
The current edition of the Detroit Lions (6-2, #2 seed as of this writing) are generally considered to have one of the best offensive lines in the league. Most publications have had them in the top 5 the last two years, PFF recently gave them a midseason rank of 2nd. Even in the 3-win debut season for Holmes/Campbell, they were thought to be Top 12.
That’s bc when they made RT Penei Sewell their first draft pick, they were adding him to a group that included two former 1st rounders on their second contract (LT Taylor Decker & C Frank Ragnow), a 3rd rounder who made the Pro Bowl in his 2nd year (LG Jonah Jackson), and FA with a hefty contract (RT Halapoulivaati Vaitai.)
The weird part:
In the 42 games Dan Campbell has coached Detroit, that starting group has started exactly one game together (2023 opener at KC.)
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Harry Manback
Footballguy
I would have told you if you ever asked.
Harry Manback
Footballguy
Had a winning season then losing then winning then losing etc.
NorvilleBarnes
Footballguy
Tom Brady had never taken a snap for a team that was mathematically eliminated from the playoffs.
BlackCrowes
Footballguy
Nice one
Galileo
Footballguy
Both. The 29 drops is impressive. The 41 tackles for a wide receiver is weird.
Anarchy99
Footballguy
I am curious where the 41 tackles comes from. His PFR page lists him with 0. He’s listed as having played one snap on defense and 20 snaps on special teams. I see the claims of more tackles than drops on social media. But I don’t see anywhere that he actually had any tackles.
NewlyRetired
Footballguy
ESPN shows 41. I assume some/most of these tackles came on turn overs.
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rockaction
Footballguy
I learned today that tackles after turnovers might night be counted in the box score that we look at after the game. In the Dallas game, Michael Gallup and others were in the tackle box score and listed as having no tackles. But they were credited in my MFL league with tackles they made after a turnover. Could be an idiosyncratic scoring thing.
rockaction
Footballguy
ESPN shows 41. I assume some/most of these tackles came on turn overs.
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You beat me to this by like two seconds. I was typing out the post regarding why that might be the case. After turnovers.
Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
I assumed it was true because of the awful QBs he was saddled with
Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
From Wiki about Tippy Martinez:
A notable Martinez achievement during the 1983 season was picking off Barry Bonnell, Dave Collins and Willie Upshaw at first base in a single frame of a ten-inning 7–4 win over the Toronto Blue Jays at Memorial Stadium on August 24.[2] The Orioles, having replaced both their starting catcher and his backup while rallying to tie the game in the ninth inning, entered the tenth with reserve infielder Lenn Sakata in the game at catcher. Three consecutive Blue Jays hitters reached first base and each one, thinking it would be easy to steal a base on Sakata, took a big lead. Martinez picked off all three baserunners, then became the winning pitcher when the Orioles won the game on Sakata's home run in the bottom of the tenth.[3]
A notable Martinez achievement during the 1983 season was picking off Barry Bonnell, Dave Collins and Willie Upshaw at first base in a single frame of a ten-inning 7–4 win over the Toronto Blue Jays at Memorial Stadium on August 24.[2] The Orioles, having replaced both their starting catcher and his backup while rallying to tie the game in the ninth inning, entered the tenth with reserve infielder Lenn Sakata in the game at catcher. Three consecutive Blue Jays hitters reached first base and each one, thinking it would be easy to steal a base on Sakata, took a big lead. Martinez picked off all three baserunners, then became the winning pitcher when the Orioles won the game on Sakata's home run in the bottom of the tenth.[3]
Lehigh98
Footballguy
From 2004-2020, the Cardinals QB's threw over 300 INTs.I assumed it was true because of the awful QBs he was saddled with
It makes sense that he got some tackles in.
wlwiles
Footballguy
Captain Cranks
Footballguy
After reading through this thread I nominate this as the weirdest.
It was so ridiculous that back in that time my league for fantasy hockey made it so you drafted Goal Gretzky or Assist Gretzky. You couldn't have both in one because it was too big of an advantage.
Capella
Footballguy
This one is unbeatable to me.
Keith R
The Don
I haven't seen any boxing stats yet. Here are a couple;
Mike Tyson, known as a fearsome puncher his whole career, is undefeated in fights that went the distance. All of his losses were by knockout (technical or otherwise) or disqualification.
And a little weirder...
75% of Sonny Liston's heavyweight title fights ended by first round knockout. Won the title from Floyd Patterson by 1st round KO, won the rematch by 1st round KO, lost the title to Muhammad Ali by 6th round stoppage, lost the rematch to Ali by (controversial) 1st round KO.
Mike Tyson, known as a fearsome puncher his whole career, is undefeated in fights that went the distance. All of his losses were by knockout (technical or otherwise) or disqualification.
And a little weirder...
75% of Sonny Liston's heavyweight title fights ended by first round knockout. Won the title from Floyd Patterson by 1st round KO, won the rematch by 1st round KO, lost the title to Muhammad Ali by 6th round stoppage, lost the rematch to Ali by (controversial) 1st round KO.
His name is Bake Turner. I got curious based on this and tried to look him up on Football Reference and couldn't find him as "Blake". Had to google and realized it was "Bake".
wlwiles
Footballguy
Somewhat related - I only realized within the last week or two that Terrace Marshall of the Panthers isn't Terrance with an "n". I don't know if my brain always recognizes his name as Terrance, or if I just assumed a typo when seeing it, but I heard an announcer say his name aloud during a Panthers game I had to rewind it to be sure.
zamboni
Footballguy
Wonder if he did the Ted Williams in reverse thing on the last day of season 4: was hitting .248 but refused to sit and went 1 for 5 to finish at .247.
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Fat Nick
Footballguy
I'm not sure it's "weird," but it was just an article I recently read and is interesting - Even with the stat, many guys would have killed for even a second of time playing a professional sport.
The shortest career in NHL history belongs to Greg Koehler who logged 4 seconds of ice time.
The shortest career in NHL history belongs to Greg Koehler who logged 4 seconds of ice time.
titusbramble
Footballguy
There was a similar thing in MLB I'm sure, where someone was called up to the minors as a relief pitcher, entered the game, tweaked something in his warm up pitches and was immediately relieved himself, then never played in the bigs "again"
Edit - that was moderately easy to Google
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Don't forget about Moonlight Graham..........
There was a similar thing in MLB I'm sure, where someone was called up to the minors as a relief pitcher, entered the game, tweaked something in his warm up pitches and was immediately relieved himself, then never played in the bigs "again"
Edit - that was moderately easy to Google
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NorvilleBarnes
Footballguy
During the 1905 college football season 159 players were seriously injured and 18 had been killed. President Teddy Roosevelt intervened and demanded rules reform to make the game safer.
NorvilleBarnes
Footballguy
Georgia Tech (coached by John Heisman) beat Cumberland College 222 - 0
Cumberland College beat Tech in baseball (also coached by Heisman) and ran up the score 22-0. Cumberland then disbanded their football team for financial reasons and were released from their scheduled obligations by all opponents except for Georgia Tech. Heisman threatened to sue Cumberland for $700, a considerable sum at the time (1916) when you're broke. Cumberland got a fraternity to volunteer to take a train down and play Tech simply to fulfill the contract.
Cumberland College beat Tech in baseball (also coached by Heisman) and ran up the score 22-0. Cumberland then disbanded their football team for financial reasons and were released from their scheduled obligations by all opponents except for Georgia Tech. Heisman threatened to sue Cumberland for $700, a considerable sum at the time (1916) when you're broke. Cumberland got a fraternity to volunteer to take a train down and play Tech simply to fulfill the contract.
Don Quixote
Footballguy
Snoopy
Footballguy
Most notably legalized the forward pass.
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the moops
Footballguy
And if he had gotten just two more hits in 2014 it would have been 5 seasons in a row
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
What a wimp. Did he give everyone a participation trophy?
wlwiles
Footballguy
In 1917 Ernie Shore pitched in a Major League baseball game, recording all 27 outs while facing the minimum number of hitters possible. He only gets credited with a combined no-hitter though, and not a perfect game, because he came on in relief after Babe Ruth began the game pitching. Babe walked the first batter of the game, then got ejected for fighting the umpire over it. Shore came on in relief and went the distance, retiring every batter he faced.
Shore actually only faced 26 batters, because the baserunner that Babe walked got caught stealing.
Shore actually only faced 26 batters, because the baserunner that Babe walked got caught stealing.
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