A Texas Athlete Set An Unbelievable And Unbreakable Sports Record

Every year a new sports season begins and every year new records will be set as old ones are broken. This Texas football star set one that will never be broken.

Some records last a minute and some will stand a long time. In the NFL, for example, the Pittsburg Steelers had the record for the most Super Bowl wins for a very long time. Now, they share it with the New England Patriots.

No record can stand forever though ... except for one set by Dallas Cowboy Emmit Smith. Thanks to a couple of lucky breaks, his rushing record ain't going anywhere.

Emmit Smith came into the NFL at the perfect moment, a time when the running game was every coaches preference and, when it came to running backs, Smith was a beast.

He racked up an unbelievable 18,355 yards with 4,409 carries; 164 of which were TD's. His 22 year old record seems safe but how can we be sure it will stand forever? I can talk rock trivia with you all day but for sports, I let the pros explain things ...

With the way running backs have been diminished and compartmentalized into specialists in a pass-first league, the record the Cowboys' running back broke and re-wrote 22 years ago is essentially unbreakable. After surpassing Walter Payton's record at Texas Stadium in 2002, Smith finished with 18,355 yards rushing. - Sports Illustrated

There you go, a Texas athlete, doing Texas sized things.

As for other, (theoretically), "unbreakable", records; Tom Brady probably has a couple. Otherwise, each season brings new challengers, new stats and new records.