The NFL keeps all sorts of statistics. The league thrives on it, even the Cleveland Browns poor play since “The Return.” Future contracts are usually generated by pluses and minuses for each position and can add millions to a deal, or take them away.

Then, there are the league records. Because an entity is so dependent upon numbers for just about everything, records set as a member of the NFL are just part of the allure.

In all sports, to own a record that is then etched into a book and stored there is an honor. Even if it sits for only one season, and then is broken, the former record-bearer has forever bragging rights that at one time, he or she had the record for such-and-such.

Some records will never be broken.

Cal Ripken, Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles and the record for 2,632 conse

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