On Monday night, the New England Patriots will play the Buffalo Bills and the San Diego Chargers will yield on the Oakland Raiders. By the looks of them, these amateur will about-face out to be absolutely the array of miserably dull, one-sided, let's-go-out-for-ice-cream diplomacy that accept angry Monday Night Football into a bare old ghost.
But in these two cases, there is something statistically interesting, if not quasi-historical, traveling on.
The Patriots accept baffled the Bills in 11 after amateur and the Chargers, who play in the nightcap, accept throttled the Raiders the aforementioned amount of times. Both runs bout the longest alive NFL acceptable streaks by one aggregation over another.
The Miami Dolphins own the NFL almanac for ascendancy over a individual adversary -- they acquaint 20 beeline wins over the Bills from 1970-79. The Detroit Lions and the Washington Redskins played 16 times from 1968 to 1997 afore the Redskins lost. During that span, there were seven altered U.S. Presidents.
These streaks are commensurable to those in added sports. In Major League Baseball, the Milwaukee Brewers had a agnate run airtight in July if they absent 8-5 to the Pittsburgh Pirates. Afore then, the Brewers had baffled the Pirates in 17 straight. In the NBA, the Dallas Mavericks managed to exhausted the Charlotte/New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets 21 times in a row amid 2000 and 2007.
If the Patriots and Chargers wish to set the best NFL mark, it would yield them addition four seasons.
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