More Impressive? Favre's Streak or Ripken's
 

Now that Favre looks like he will not continue on with his streak.. Nevermind which athlete hurt their team more by continuing their streak when they should have just taken a day or two off, but which do you think is more impressive?

Brett Favre - 291 Consecutive Starts over 18 years of service in NFL

Cal Ripken - 2632 Consecutive Starts over 16 years of service in MLB

Remember, football is a much more grueling sport as far as injuries are concerned, but the shear amount of games that a baseball player must participate needs to be considered..

Ripken, more chances to get hurt


I know you take more hits in Football, but Ripken had liners hit str8 at his head, no steroids to help boost his potential


Ripken is the Iron Man

Favre is going out like a punk, should have retired before the Jet Debacle

Favre.

Incidentally, I was able to pull off about a 20-game streak in Little League, while I could only manage about a 16 gamer in HS football.

Doug Jarvis with 964 consecutive NHL games?
A. C. Green with 1,192 consective NBA games?

They are all super impressive.

I go with Ripken, playing 162 games, plus whenever they made the playoffs seems like it would take more endurance. Keep in mind that Favre got himself hooked on the pills trying to cure the pain, so it's close, but Ripken gets it.

FYI - That didn't happen that often -- only 1983, 1996 and 1997, I think.

Sugar Ray Robinson's 91 fight winning streak.

Ripkin.

Both suck. Favre threw the ball everytime he even thought anyone was close. Ripken, i am not sure who did and did not do roids anymore. All things being equal, prob Ripken.

Ripkin is more impressive since the NFL and their ridicules QB protection rules that treat them like queens

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ripken far more impressive

I didn't mean the players, i ment the streaks. For the reasons i gave. Gretzky never got hurt because he was a pussy. So was Favre. And Ripken, i can't trust any baseball player anymore. But if he was clean, def Ripken.

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Nobody remembers who had the streak before Favre, so I'll have to go with Ripken.

Absolutely Ripken.

Ripkin as well because it's just so many games.

Who is this Ripkin lad I've been hearing so much about?

Yeah, the pressure of being a infielder is far greater then being a wuartervack in the nfl, how the whole offense rallies around you....yeah...and the collisions and you run play to play.......so grueling......

Are you people serious?

The sheer amount of games played day after day in baseball allows the possibility for more injuries. Both are impressive but I gotta go with Ripken.

Thats mainly because its unheard of to play that many games in a row in the NFL, I have to go with farve simply because even on plays they dont get sacked they are really likely to take a hit. Anyone who has played both sports realize that your body is sore after a football game for days after every game.

Yeah, right.

Possibly not steroids, but almost certainly HGH.

I would not be surprised at all if he used some kind of PED. The vast majority of players that have did it to avoid injury and DL time.

Even so, I'd still be amazed by his record.

if hair loss at age 24 is a symptom, then you may be right

Remember when Ripken was in jail for trying to beat up Kevin Costner because he found out he was having an affair with his wife, and Peter Angelos got that night's game cancelled by claiming the stadium's lights were malfunctioning so it wouldn't break Ripken's streak? I love urban legends.

Besides, the real answer is Billy Ripken's "Fuck Face" card.

Dude, I know a guy who says it was real, mikey.

When you're dealing with long term endurance and longevity, HGH is almost always the drug of choice. I have some older friends who take it by physician's prescription and I am amazed at some of the age reversing effects it can have.

Neither one impresses me because both men insisted on playing when they weren't of any use to their team just to have an individual record.

Playing with broken fingers as a QB isn't "tough" or "brave" it's detrimental to your team. People who applaud these guys are the same assholes who come into work when they're deathly ill with a 103 degree fever, sneezing all over everyone.

STAY THE FUCK HOME!

There was a kid in my school that didn't miss a single day of school from the 4th grade on.

He sucked.

Ugh. I hated those kids.

One took pain killers and the other one did human growth hormone so I say neither.

His name was Cal Ripken Jr.

His name was Cal Ripken Jr. His name was Cal Ripken Jr. His name was Cal Ripken Jr.

Some other factors that favor ripken:
no bye week, football players get days off during the week before games and ripkens consecutive innings streak

Ripken played on a team that went wire to wire in '97. He was certainly of use to that team, and that was a couple of years after 2131.

The real answer, though, is Peyton Manning when he breaks Farve's record in 7 short years....

I've never stayed home sick 10+ years.

Not to mention when Favre was really injured he would take 2 snaps and leave the game to keep the streak alive.


I don't know if Ripkin did the same or not.


I say Ripkin either way.

And Farve was mainlining painkillers for quite a while, and had to do some time in a substance abuse program because of it.

Umm...Freakshow....Favre never played 2 snaps and left the game. Rhino was being "ironical".

it wasn't really in response to his quote, i'm not sure why I quoted him.

so what you are saying is Manning when he passes Farve? Cause as I said above, I agree...

pitchers with bloody socks win playoff games. Whee, this is fun...

no question its favre, playing QB in the nfl, all the hits he's took, and not once missing a game

all ripken had to do was show up, he could go 0 for 4 and have no balls hit to him all night and still get credit for playing in the game

yeh ripken played or had to play in more games but he could just DH somes nights to "rest him" and still keep the streak

wasnt there a bunch of times where he'd DH to keep it going ??

and i think there was sometimes where he'd play the field in the first inning , bat third in the bottom half and call it a day

not sure if that was before or after the 2131

But ripken never dhed how many games did favre start then come out of

Oh and ripken had a consecutive inning streak of 8243 close to 920 straight games