A look at amazing sport streaks
The Bucs kickoff return team finally found the sweet spot in last Sunday's game.
This past Sunday marked the first time in franchise history that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers returned a kick-off for a touchdown, taking a mere 32 years to join the rest of the league, including the disgraceful 8-year old Texans. With this inspiring moment we went ahead and took a look at some of the other strange streaks in sports, both those that remain intact and those that were also broken Sunday.
Streaks still alive
- Herm Edwards' 78 games (nearly 5 seasons) without a playbook
- Vinny Testaverde's 27 consecutive games with at least 1 interception (quite safely intact we think)
- Norv Turner's impressive 19 straight coaching gigs without registering 10 wins
- Philadelphia Eagles: 108 consecutive home games with at least 14 arrests
- Eli Manning's unprecedented streak of 1,352 weekend afternoons filled with indifferent shoulder shrugs
- Manu Ginobili's streak of falling on the floor at least 3 times per game
- Arizona Cardinals: 407 straight games blacked out locally
- Mel Kiper's 19-year streak of saying the word "ability" like no one else on the planet
- Steve Nash's 179 games of 'licking fingers, tucking hair behind ears' routine
- David Ortiz's 810 games of hocking a giant loogie into his hands and clapping
- Patrick Ewing's 23 consecutive years of sweating profusely
- Ric Flair's 103 years of wrestling professionally
- Darko Milicic's 2 days of not drinking blood
- The Undertaker's vaunted 15-0 record at WrestleMania
- Mike Tyson's 14 straight years of being criminally charged with something
- John Clayton's 12 Sundays in a row without receiving a 'Benny Hill slap to the dome' from a member of the Countdown crew
- 16 straight weeks of Keyshawn Johnson and Bill Parcells flirting on NFL Countdown (they should just bone already)
- LeBron James new 5-day streak of biting nails, after his previous 4,235-day streak was snapped due to injured hand
- MLB's 16,848 consecutive games where at least five players grabbed their balls
Other streaks broken this past Sunday
- Jason Fabini's 23rd day in same underwear snapped after discovering Underoos on Ebay
- Someone finally survived one of Jumbo Elliot's farts -- however the victim remains in the ER
- Joe Buck miraculously worked a game involving Tony Romo without climaxing on live television
- The last man to still consider Brian Billick an offensive guru came to his senses
