Sports and streaks go together like bacon and more bacon.
Panthers fans surely remember their team's recent 18-game winning streak in regular season games – an NFC record. Not as many recall Carolina's streak of 13 consecutive lost coin tosses back in 2012, though it was a big enough deal at the time that fans were given the power to pick (wrongly) the 13th heads-or-tails decision.
Can you predict such streaks? Probably not, but it's fun trying. It also can be infuriating.
About seven weeks ago, a co-worker who shall remain nameless (though I've cursed his name since) introduced me to "Beat the Streak", a contest sponsored by Major League Baseball that challenges sports fans to take their crack at topping Joe DiMaggio's famed 56-game hitting streak that has stood above all others since 1941.