By Brett Smiley
Before last night's stunning upset at the hands of the still-D-Rose-less Chicago Bulls, the Miami Heat hadn't lost since before the Baltimore Ravens won the Super Bowl. In fact, it was on Super Bowl Sunday, February 3, that the Heat began ripping the league with their now concluded 27-game winning streak![miami heat winning streak, lebron james, mario chalmers]()
. Miami's streak fell six shy of the 1971-1972 Lakers' record run of 33 games, which lasted 65 days. The Heat's streak reached 53 days and lasted long enough that ESPN found a way to compare them to Michael Jordan's Bulls, although that still doesn't tell us that much. So let's put this thing in perspective with a whole bunch of random, ridiculous things that failed to endure as long as Miami's string of W's.
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1 day, 12 hours - Duration of David Blaine's Vertigo stunt, when the magician stood atop a 100-foot tall and 22-inch wide pillar in Bryant Park, New York City.
3 days -- Length of time last December that Russian drivers became stuck in a 125-mile long traffic jam on a highway between St. Petersburg and Moscow.
6 days -- The Charlotte Bobcats longest winning streak this season, which spanned November 10 to November 16 (three wins).
9 days -- NBA le![dennis rodman wedding dress]()
gend and bizarre North Korean diplomat Dennis Rodman shared just over one week of wedded bliss with Carmen Electra before he filed for annulment. Maybe the discord had something to do with his wearing a wedding dress two years earlier to promote his book "Bad As I Wanna Be."
12 days, 18 hours -- Flight time for NASA's final space shuttle mission, a four-person crew aboard the Atlantis that landed at Kennedy Space Center in late July 2011.
13 days -- Speaking of Kennedy, the Cuban Missile Crisis confrontation between the U.S. and U.S.S.R./Cuba endured nearly two full weeks in October 1962.
15 days -- Amount of time required for construction of a 30-story, 183,000-square-foot hotel in Hunan Province, China. The hotel isn't a giant, flimsy log cabin, either, but a steel powerhouse capable of surviving 9.0 magnitude earthquake.
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21 days -- Approximate length of time Jack Kerouac needed to write Beat Generation classic novel "On the Road" in 1951.
29 days -- Span over which Dodgers great Orel Hershiser pitched 59 consecutive innings without allowing a single run, from August 30, 1988 to September 28, 1988.
30 days -- The abbreviated term served by ninth U.S. President William Henry Harrison, who died of complications from pneumonia in April of 1841.
35 days -- Or five weeks, the length of time Baauer's "Harlem Shake" has reigned atop the 100 US Singles chart. Coincidentally, the Miami Heat edition of these videos is one of the most popular.
39 days -- Duration of the Great Emu War in Australia in 1932, when soldiers armed with machine guns faced down the native flightless birds that ran amok, eating and ruining crops. The Emu Command fell approximately 986 birds with 9,860 rounds of ammunition; the emus returned no fire.![napoleon dynamite cartoon]()
49 days -- Or six episodes over seven weeks, the amount of time Fox gave the "Napoleon Dynamite" cartoon series a shot in 2012.
49 days -- In 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to climb to Mount Everest's summit at 29,028 feet after a brutal seven-week trek that culminated with a final 800 feet of "extreme height."
53 days -- Length of the miserable 26-game losing streak suffered by LeBron's former team, the Cleveland Cavaliers. The futility streak lasted from December 20, 2010 to February 11, 2011 in the first season after King James took his talents to South Beach.
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Before last night's stunning upset at the hands of the still-D-Rose-less Chicago Bulls, the Miami Heat hadn't lost since before the Baltimore Ravens won the Super Bowl. In fact, it was on Super Bowl Sunday, February 3, that the Heat began ripping the league with their now concluded 27-game winning streak
. Miami's streak fell six shy of the 1971-1972 Lakers' record run of 33 games, which lasted 65 days. The Heat's streak reached 53 days and lasted long enough that ESPN found a way to compare them to Michael Jordan's Bulls, although that still doesn't tell us that much. So let's put this thing in perspective with a whole bunch of random, ridiculous things that failed to endure as long as Miami's string of W's.
1 day, 12 hours - Duration of David Blaine's Vertigo stunt, when the magician stood atop a 100-foot tall and 22-inch wide pillar in Bryant Park, New York City.
3 days -- Length of time last December that Russian drivers became stuck in a 125-mile long traffic jam on a highway between St. Petersburg and Moscow.
6 days -- The Charlotte Bobcats longest winning streak this season, which spanned November 10 to November 16 (three wins).
9 days -- NBA le
gend and bizarre North Korean diplomat Dennis Rodman shared just over one week of wedded bliss with Carmen Electra before he filed for annulment. Maybe the discord had something to do with his wearing a wedding dress two years earlier to promote his book "Bad As I Wanna Be."12 days, 18 hours -- Flight time for NASA's final space shuttle mission, a four-person crew aboard the Atlantis that landed at Kennedy Space Center in late July 2011.
13 days -- Speaking of Kennedy, the Cuban Missile Crisis confrontation between the U.S. and U.S.S.R./Cuba endured nearly two full weeks in October 1962.
15 days -- Amount of time required for construction of a 30-story, 183,000-square-foot hotel in Hunan Province, China. The hotel isn't a giant, flimsy log cabin, either, but a steel powerhouse capable of surviving 9.0 magnitude earthquake.
21 days -- Approximate length of time Jack Kerouac needed to write Beat Generation classic novel "On the Road" in 1951.
29 days -- Span over which Dodgers great Orel Hershiser pitched 59 consecutive innings without allowing a single run, from August 30, 1988 to September 28, 1988.
30 days -- The abbreviated term served by ninth U.S. President William Henry Harrison, who died of complications from pneumonia in April of 1841.
35 days -- Or five weeks, the length of time Baauer's "Harlem Shake" has reigned atop the 100 US Singles chart. Coincidentally, the Miami Heat edition of these videos is one of the most popular.
39 days -- Duration of the Great Emu War in Australia in 1932, when soldiers armed with machine guns faced down the native flightless birds that ran amok, eating and ruining crops. The Emu Command fell approximately 986 birds with 9,860 rounds of ammunition; the emus returned no fire.
49 days -- Or six episodes over seven weeks, the amount of time Fox gave the "Napoleon Dynamite" cartoon series a shot in 2012.
49 days -- In 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to climb to Mount Everest's summit at 29,028 feet after a brutal seven-week trek that culminated with a final 800 feet of "extreme height."
53 days -- Length of the miserable 26-game losing streak suffered by LeBron's former team, the Cleveland Cavaliers. The futility streak lasted from December 20, 2010 to February 11, 2011 in the first season after King James took his talents to South Beach.
