The Oddest Stat, Ever?

Issue: Judging by the title, this better be good.

Short Answer: It is unreal...

Reasoning: Sports are polarizing.  There are teams we all love (Buckeyes, Bengals, Reds, Yellow Jackets, etc.), and teams we all hate (Wolverines, Bulldogs (Georgia, just in case you may have forgotten), Bearcats, Fighting Irish, Hurricanes, Seminoles, Ravens, Steelers, Browns, Yankees, Red Sox, all of the NBA, etc.).  If you don't love or hate the teams I just listed, then, well, you're crazy.  Deal with it.  People usually hate teams because they're good.  Seriously, no one hates the Pittsburgh Pirates because why would you waste your time and effort hating a team that is basically irrelevant?  Alright, I do hate the Browns, who are obviously irrelevant, but they reside in the same state as my Bengals, so it's not a waste of time to hate them.  So, geography can play a part in the hating of teams.  It's the same reason I hate the irrelevant Indians too.

Some of the teams listed above are what I would consider "polarizing" teams.  Let's take the New York Yankees, for example.  You either love them or hate them.  There is no in-between.  If you love them, I don't like you.  If you hate them, you are an intelligent, rational person, who obviously has a vast knowledge of sports.  The Pittsburgh Steelers are the same way.  If you like them, you were probably born short a few (or millions) of brain cells, and the one's you were born with have been killed off by malted hops and bong resin.  If you hate them, you are a productive member of society and you should be rewarded for your level-headedness.  Perhaps one of the most polarizing teams in the history of college football is the Miami Hurricanes.  If you haven't seen the ESPN 30 for 30 entitled "The U" do yourself a favor and watch it.  It will either reaffirm your love for that crooked University or reaffirm your hate for it.  For me, it reaffirmed my hate.  Actually, it probably made me hate them more.  But, if there is one thing you have to admit, love or hate Miami, is they have produced more great football players than any University, anywhere.

Now comes the paragraph (probably the last of this post) where I tell you how good the University of Miami has been at putting players in the NFL:

• They hold the record for
• Most players drafted in the 1st round of a single NFL draft - 6 in 2004;
• Most players drafted in the 1st round of consecutive NFL drafts - 11 in 2003, 2004;
• Most players drafted in the 1st round of three consecutive drafts - 15 from 2002-2004;
• Most players drafted in the 1st round of four consecutive drafts - 19 from 2001-2004
• In a 14-year period (1994-2008), they had at least one player drafted in the 1st round;
• Since 1999, they have had 67 players drafted into the NFL, 2nd in the nation behind THE Ohio State University (What?  You know I wasn't going to leave that out.);
• Of those 67 players, 33 were drafted in the 1st round - the most of any school (yes, even more than the Buckeyes);
• The 2001 Hurricanes team had 17 players go on to play in the NFL.

So, basically, The U is a factory which produces NFL players.  Ex-Hurricanes are everywhere on NFL teams.  I say this only because the stat I am about to give you is RIDICULOUS and UNBELIEVABLE.  Here it is: Week 11 of the NFL (this past week) saw a streak end, that will never be matched again - a player from the University of Miami had scored a touchdown, in the NFL, every single week, since Week 15 of the 2002 season.  Seriously.  I'm not joking.  That is 149 consecutive weeks.  Almost 10 years.  You know what the longest current streak now is?  The University of Pittsburgh, at 13 (thanks LeSean McCoy!).  They only need 136 more weeks, and they will equal Miami.  I have no words for how impressive this streak is.  It truly is unbelievable.  Too bad I hate them so much, or I might actually care.