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Maybe the Australian Test Cricket Team winning streak of 16 tests from december 28 2005 to january 2 2008. Another would be the dominance by the Sydney Swans Football Club who have missed out on the finals (playoffs) only 3 times since 1996.
Tiger Woods, 1999 thru 2006
11 majors out of 29. The Tiger Slam. Total dominance - at one point he held the record for the lowest score in each of the four majors. When he won the U.S. Open in 2000, he became the first player ever to record a score double-digits under par in that event (-12). And, no, the course was not playing easy - it was so hard that year that second place was +3.
That's a flash in the pan. Jack Nicklaus made the cut at a major championship in 6 different decades (50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's and 00's) that included a first top 10 finish in 1960 and a last top 10 at the Masters in 1998.
Phil Mickelson's ability to avoid being the #1 golfer in the world is pretty remarkable given his 5 majors (and 11 runner-ups) and 43 tour wins. That's more wins than Spieth (11), McIllroy (14) and Thomas (9) combined who have all reached #1 recently.
in the end i think that if you swapped the players to the others era, both would still perform about as well as they did. gerhig would probably have played longer, and ripkin not quite as long though.
I don't think Gehrig would have played any longer. They've made some advances in ALS treatment that help patients to live longer with a higher quality of life, but nothing that would help a professional athlete continue to compete at a high level.
People won't like it but, Lance Armstrong's 7 tour wins. Doping or not that's impossibly difficult to do and let's face it - the entire peloton was doping as well.
Good point. When the entire field is doping, you are just racing with peers. He got a raw deal in a way considering he got a lifetime ban. Everyone was doing the same thing. They had to have someone to blame.
The city of champions has to be thrown in for a city: Pittsburgh Steelers of the 70's and the Pirates of the 70's. 4 Super Bowls, two World Series and 7 Pennants. Damn!
As someone born in 1990. I will at Detroit Red Wings run.
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