What Happened in Sports: September 24, 2022

2012: On Monday Night Football, the Seattle Seahawks defeated the Green Bay Packers on a “Fail Mary” where 1 ref ruled it a GW-TD and the other game-ending INT on the simultaneous catch that became the last game for the replacement refs, ending their holdout

2010: Cincinnati Reds RP Aroldis Chapman threw the fastest pitch (105.1 MPH) ever recorded in MLB history. Jordan Hicks tied it in 2018 but nobody has ever surpassed it since

2000: After scoring each of his 2 TDs, San Francisco 49ers WR Terrell Owens memorably ran to the 50-yard line in Dallas and celebrated on the Cowboys Star

1979: Philadelphia Phillies 1B Pete Rose recorded his 200th Hit of the season, breaking Ty Cobb’s record with his 10th career season with 200+ Hits. Ichiro Suzuki later tied Rose with his own 10th MLB season of 200+ Hits during 2010

1972: Hall of Fame QBs Joe Namath and Johnny Unitas combined for a NFL record 872 Passing Yards as the New York Jets beat the Baltimore Colts 44-34. Namath had a career-high 496 PASS YDS and 6 PASS TD himself during the classic duel

1940: Boston Red Sox 1B Jimmie Foxx joined Babe Ruth as just the 2nd player to hit 500 career HR in MLB history 

1934: New York Yankees OF Babe Ruth made his final home appearance at Yankee Stadium, drawing a walk in the 1st inning and promptly leaving for a pinch runner

1920: Continuing to shatter his HR record from the previous season, New York Yankees OF Babe Ruth became the very 1st player to hit 50 HR during a season in MLB history 

1919: Boston Red Sox OF Babe Ruth broke the MLB single-season HR record for the 1st time in his career with his 28th during a loss to the New York Yankees. Ruth broke his own record in each of the next 2 seasons and again in 1927 with 60 that lasted until Roger Maris hit 61 in 1961