I think Wayne Gretzky having more assists than the #2 all time points leader in the NHL is crazier
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My favorite stat from Gretzky is that the highest scoring 2 brothers in NHL history is Wayne and Brett Gretzky. Wayne with 2,857 and Brett with 4
I always thought this one was kind of dumb just cause how many brothers actually make the league together? Gasol brothers don't even crack top 3 in NBA.
Looking forward to the Antetokounmpo brothers stat posts in 20 years
I mean the Staals, Sittlers, Sutters, and the Sedins (bonus points for being identical twins who played together) were all amazing pairs of brothers in hockey history
Koivu brothers were rather decent too I think.
Oh it’s obviously dumb but especially funny for the discrepancy.
NHL weirdly has a lot of good players that were brothers, Staals, Sedins, some others I can’t remember, so it’s more impressive than it sounds. That being said if Luke ends up being as good as the other Hughes bros, that record is likely to break in the near future.
My favorite stat is he’s the Fastest player 1000 points and the 2nd fastest player to 1000 points
You take away every goal he ever scored and he's still the all time NHL point leader.
Gretz is the NHL all time goal leader.
This stat will stop being quite as ridiculous as it is right now if Ovi is able to break his goals record in the next few years, since it always goes with him also having the most goals too. Though Gretzky will still have nearly twice as many points as Ovi if he is able to get to 895 goals in the next few years.
Cy Young's Complete Game record in Baseball is even crazier.
Young threw 749 Complete Games. The active leader in Complete Games is 40 year old Justin Verlander, who has 26
I miss starters pitching the whole game, not just 5 innings
Yeah, that record is hard to even comprehend. Verlanders 26 doesn't even put him in the Top 1,000 of all time. I wouldn't be shocked if the MLB as a whole doesn't throw 749 Complete Games over the next 50 years.
My Grandfather played in the 20’s, and would tell me about how it was completely normal for pitchers to start and finish both games of a double-header.
He could barely lift his arm above his shoulder by the time he was in his 60’s, for what it’s worth.
Excuse me, what?
That's insane. They should just like name an award after him or something.
Baseball used to just have pitchers throw the whole game. The record for complete games in a season is 75. Starting pitchers start 32 or 33 games a season these days.
This is truly the only breakable record in sports.
Pitchers back then would throw both games of a double-header.
It was unheard of for a pitcher to not pitch an entire game.
Cy Young pitched 7,356 innings. The active leader is 39 year old Zack Grienke with 3389.
To put the sheer number of innings Cy Young pitched into perspective:
Nolan Ryan was a starting pitcher for 27 years. He is the All-time Strikeout leader. He started 773 games.
If Nolan Ryan had pitched a complete game in every single game of his career, he would still have pitched 400 less innings than Cy Young.
Dude, his Wins record is equally incredible.
511 wins.
The active leaders are 40 and 39 years old…with 257 and 225 Wins.
It's more amazing to me that in a pass happy league, nobody's been able to surpass him
Teams are MUCH better at passing. It's impressive, but not as impressive when you see how many picks were thrown league wide back then. Someone had to catch them all.
I mean, in the modern game I feel like teams would just avoid the lethal DB, no?
just wait til it's Bland & Diggs next year. how do you avoid the lethal CB when both sides are ball hawks?
I get the impression that defenders were allowed to get away with a lot more back then
He preferred to go by “Dick”
Wait till LeBron hits 40K points, nobody will ever touch his 40K points, 10K Rebounds and 10K Assists.
I don't think anyone is touching Paul Krause's 81 career INTs either
So i went and looked up quarterback stats from 1952, just about every quarterback threw more interceptions then tds that year lol. Only 6 qbs that year threw more tds then ints.
The modern game also just doesn't have people throwing as many picks. Whether its better QBs, schemes, a change in mentality or whatever, you aren't going to get the opportunities to get picks nowadays like the players back in those days did.
I always liked how John Stockton has the most Steals and Assists of any NBA player and nobody really talks about it lol.
Neither record is close either and it's extremely unlikely that anyone will ever touch his numbers.
Joey Browner of the Minnesota Vikings had 22 in a season of Tecmo SuperBowl for me, so I don’t know what you’re posting about…
This is the most ridiculous take in all of sports. Relax buddy.
Do you just not know many sports records or?
Pretty sure Jerry Rice’s numbers are more ridiculous. No one will break them. Paul Krause still has the record for most interceptions ever with 81.