{"id":4467,"date":"2015-10-06T20:00:05","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T20:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sportshistorytoday.com\/?p=4467"},"modified":"2015-10-06T13:21:51","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T13:21:51","slug":"drew-brees-breaks-unitas-record-consecutive-td-games-october-7-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sportshistorytoday.com\/drew-brees-breaks-unitas-record-consecutive-td-games-october-7-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Drew Brees Breaks Unitas Record Consecutive TD  Games &#8211; October 7, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CFM2ojcZuEk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Drew Brees of the New Orleans Saints is the current holder of the NFL record for the most consecutive games with a touchdown pass. His streak of 54 games started on October 26, 2008 and lasted until November 29, 2012. He broke Johnny Unitas&#8217;s record of 47 games on October 7, 2012. Unitas&#8217;s record stood for almost 50 years. He first set the record on December 6, 1958. At that time the record for most consecutive games with a touchdown pass was 24, but Unitas kept throwing touchdown passes, extending the record until it reached 47 games on December 4, 1960. <\/p>\n<p>Brees&#8217;s streak coincided with a run by Tom Brady. On the day that Brees&#8217;s streak ended 54, Brady had  thrown a touchdown in 43 consecutive games, but Brady&#8217;s streak ended at 52 games when he got shut out on October 6, 2013.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4468\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4468\" style=\"width: 302px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rover.ebay.com\/rover\/1\/711-53200-19255-0\/1?ff3=4&#038;pub=5575056948&#038;toolid=10001&#038;campid=5337567068&#038;customid=&#038;mpre=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fsch%2Fi.html%3F_from%3DR40%26_trksid%3Dp2047675.m570.l1313.TR2.TRC1.A0.H0.Xjohnny%2Bunitas%2B1958.TRS0%26_nkw%3Djohnny%2Bunitas%2B1958%26_sacat%3D0\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sportshistorytoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Johnny-Unitas-1958.jpg\" alt=\"Johnny Unitas 1958 Autographed  Card\" width=\"302\" height=\"423\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4468\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sportshistorytoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Johnny-Unitas-1958.jpg 302w, http:\/\/www.sportshistorytoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Johnny-Unitas-1958-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4468\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Johnny Unitas 1958 Autographed  Card<br \/>Click to see this and more Johnny Unitas 1958 Collectibls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drew Brees of the New Orleans Saints is the current holder of the NFL record for the most consecutive games with a touchdown pass. His streak of 54 games started on October 26, 2008 and lasted until November 29, 2012. He broke Johnny Unitas&#8217;s record of 47 games on October 7, 2012. Unitas&#8217;s record stood for almost 50 years. He first set the record on December 6, 1958. At that time the record for most consecutive games with a touchdown pass was 24, but Unitas kept throwing touchdown passes, extending the record until it reached 47 games on December 4, 1960. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[500,56],"tags":[655,656,657,577,621],"class_list":{"0":"post-4467","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"category-sports-records-and-milestones","9":"tag-colts","10":"tag-drew-brees","11":"tag-johnny-unitas","12":"tag-nfl-record","13":"tag-saints","14":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportshistorytoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportshistorytoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportshistorytoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportshistorytoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportshistorytoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4467"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportshistorytoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4471,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportshistorytoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4467\/revisions\/4471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportshistorytoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportshistorytoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportshistorytoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportshistorytoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}