What Happened in Sports: January 12, 2022

2021: Los Angeles Lakers F LeBron James‘ no-look 3PM in front of his teammates highlighted a blowout win in Houston that caused James Harden to admit publicly he doesn’t “see this situation getting fixed”

2020: Kansas City Chiefs pulled off an all-time comeback as the 1st team to win by 20+ PTS (51-31) after trailing by 20+ PTS (24-0) in NFL history as QB Patrick Mahomes led the 1st team ever to trail by 24+ PTS and still take the lead by halftime. 

Chiefs’ NFL records in ’20 AFC DIV: 1st team to score TD on 7 straight offensive Playoff drives – Most Playoff PTS (51) in 21st century – Highest-scoring (82 PTS) NFL Divisional Rd game – Travis Kelce was 1st to record 3 REC TD in 1 playoff QTR – Mahomes was 1st to record 300+ PASS YDS/5+ PASS TD/50+ RUSH YDS in 1 playoff GP  

2013: Known as the “Mile High Miracle”, the Baltimore Ravens trailed the Denver Broncos 35-38 with just over 1:00 to play before Ravens QB Joe Flacco threw a game-tying 70-yd TD to WR Jacoby Jones as Baltimore would win in OT en route to a title

2013: Colin Kaepernick led the 49ers over the Packers in the NFC Divisional Rd where San Francisco’s QB recorded the most RUSH YDS (184) by a QB in NFL Postseason history

2012: Orlando Magic C Dwight Howard set a new NBA single-game record for FTA (39). Dwight tied his own record a little over a year later but nobody has reached 40 FTA during 1 game in NBA history yet

1997: Each in just their 2nd seasons, the Jacksonville Jaguars and Carolina Panthers appeared in their respective conference championship games. They both lost to New England and Green Bay

1986: Chicago Bears won their 1st NFC Championship with a 2nd straight shutout, this time over the Los Angeles Rams (24-0) and the New England Patriots defeated the reigning AFC Champion Miami Dolphins to advance to their very 1st Super Bowl

1975: Pittsburgh Steelers defeated the Minnesota Vikings 16-6 in Super Bowl IX for their 1st title

1969: QB Joe Namath fulfilled his “guarantee” as his New York Jets became the 1st AFL team to defeat an NFL team, winning Super Bowl III over the Baltimore Colts

1960: Syracuse Nationals C Dolph Schayes became the 1st professional basketball player to ever score 15,000 points in their career

1958: Syracuse Nationals C Dolph Schayes passed George Mikan as the NBA’s all-time leading scorer with 11,770 career points

1946: After winning the NFL Championship, the Cleveland Rams were granted permission to move to Los Angeles

1921: Kennesaw Mountain Landis became the very 1st Commissioner of Baseball

1906: Football Rules Committee officially legalized the forward pass