Not All Are Made to be Broken : PRO FOOTBALL

Name the quarterback who has any chance to top Johnny Unitas’ mark of 47 consecutive games with at least one touchdown pass, from 1956 into 1960.

Dan Marino? He got to 30 in the prime of his career--1985-1987--before being stopped.

John Elway? He went as far as 18 games.

As for team records, the Chicago Bears made a run at it in 1985, winning 12 in a row, but the Miami Dolphins’ 17-0 mark, including a Super Bowl VII victory over the Washington Redskins in the Coliseum after the 1972 season, will demand an asterisk if topped. The NFL’s new 16-game regular season demands that a team go 19-0 to win it all, including the Super Bowl, and remain unblemished. Oh, and it was Miami that ended the Bears’ streak in ’85.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ 26-game losing streak, after joining the league as an expansion team in 1976, will be tough to duplicate because of the favorable stocking rules for today’s expansion teams, which allowed Jacksonville and Carolina to advance to the AFC and NFC championship games in the second year of their existence.

And although there is still great debate on the best defense of all time, the Pittsburgh Steelers’ Steel Curtain or those ’85 Bears, the Akron Pros set a standard that won’t be matched, 13 straight games from 1920 to 1921 in which they did not let the opposition score.

One thing is sure, no one is going to beat the record of Dallas Cowboy running back Tony Dorsett, who ran 99 yards for a touchdown against Minnesota on Jan. 3, 1983. Tie it, maybe. But beat it? No.