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Happy 10-year anniversary to the Butt Fumble

One of the wackiest plays in NFL history celebrates ten years Tuesday.

It’s the play that will live in Jets’ history forever, for better or for worse. And Tuesday marks a special anniversary for the play.

Tuesday marks the ten-year anniversary of the play simply known as the “Butt Fumble.”

On November 22, 2012, Thanksgiving Day at the Meadowlands, the Jets were playing host to the New England Patriots. It was 14-0 Patriots in the second quarter when the Jets had the ball on 1st and ten from their own 31-yard line.

Mark Sanchez would drop back and then keep the ball to run up the middle. Little did he know he was about to run right into the history books, as well as his own teammate.

Patriots defensive tackle Vince Wilfork drove Jets offensive lineman Brandon Moore back and right into the path of Sanchez, causing Sanchez to run right into Moore’s backside, get knocked over and lose the football.

Steve Gregory would be right there to receive the loose ball and take it all the way for a touchdown to quickly make the score 21-0. Not long thereafter, it would be 28-0 Patriots and it would become that kind of night for the Jets.

Final score: Patriots 49, Jets 19.

Since then, the series has been just as bad for the Jets. They have beaten the Patriots just twice in the last ten years and are now on a 14-game losing streak to the Patriots after Sunday’s gut-punching 10-3 loss thanks to the 84-yard punt return by Marcus Jones.

Happy anniversary!

Mark Sanchez has fun with Thomas Morstead after “butt punt”

Mark Sanchez still wants to be the king of wacky plays, so don’t mess with him.

Former Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez certainly had an interesting NFL career, but let’s face it, most people will remember for one play and one play only: the butt fumble.

We all remember that Thanksgiving night in 2012 against the Patriots when Sanchez ran right into Brandon Moore, fumbled and returned for a touchdown by Patriots safety Steve Gregory. It’s one of the most infamous plays in sports, let alone football. It has its own Wikipedia page!

But that doesn’t mean he’s embarrassed by it. In fact, he’s almost embracing being the king of goofy plays because he joked on Twitter to Dolphins punter Thomas Morstead to “stay out of my lane bro”.

Morstead created the now-infamous “butt punt” during Sunday’s game against the Bills, kicking the ball right into the backside of Trent Sherfield and going out of the back of the end zone for a Bills safety.

Sanchez still wants to be the “king”, so to speak, but it was definitely all in good fun. Of course, Morstead got the last laugh because the Dolphins held on to beat the Bills. Even Sherfield took to Twitter to say his “cheeks have a big W tatted on them.”

Time to celebrate the 8th anniversary of the ‘Butt Fumble’

The “Butt Fumble” turns 8. A look at one of the most embarrassing moments in NFL history

As the New York Jets continue on the road to infamy — and Los Angeles to face the Chargers — in the 2020 season, Nov. 22 revives the memory of a low point for a franchise that has seen its share of embarrassing moments.

Thanksgiving fell on Nov. 22 in 2012 and the New England Patriots were facing Gang Green that evening.

A place took place in that game that has become known as the “Butt Fumble” and Mark Sanchez and the Jets will never live it down.

The Jets trailed 14-0 in the second quarter. On first down at their own 31-yard line, Mark Sanchez took the snap under center, faked a handoff to fullback Lex Hilliard, and turned to run upfield with no other options. It was a broken play.

Sanchez ran into the back of offensive lineman Brandon Moore, who was being pushed back by Vince Wilfork. He then fumbled the ball near the line of scrimmage before it was scooped up by Patriots safety Steve Gregory and returned it 32 yards for a touchdown.

Jets return specialist Joe McKnight fumbled the ensuing kickoff, and Julian Edelman returned it 22 yards. That made it a pair of New England TDs in 10 seconds.jet

The Patriots outscored the Jets 35-3 in the second quarter en route to a 49-19 romp.

Watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrP4llkRS2c

Sanchez, now an announcer, has embraced his role in the football folly.

Watch: Ezekiel Elliott recreates the butt fumble

Ezekiel Elliott’s second fumble on Monday Night Football put him in an infamous section of NFL history: Those who have butt-fumbled.

It is perhaps the most infamous play in NFL history. On Thanksgiving Day, 2012, Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez was in an exceptionally (and comically) giving mood when he ran right into the butt of offensive lineman Brandon Moore and fumbled the ball in a 49-19 Jets loss.

With that, the butt fumble was forever tattooed into NFL history.

It is not the kind of thing that any other NFL player would ever want to re-create, but in the Cowboys’ Monday night tilt against the Cardinals, star running back Ezekiel Elliott fumbled twice in the first half, leading to two Arizona touchdowns. The second fumble was especially embarrassing in that Elliott started to lose the ball when his hand hit the butt of offensive lineman Connor McGovern.

Elliott found himself on the bench after fumbling in back-to-back drives, and the Cowboys’ offense without the injured Dak Prescott and Tyron Smith, both lost for the rest of the season, has been a disaster so far.

Watch: Mark Sanchez discusses the ‘butt fumble’ with Pat McAfee

Pat McAfee asked Mark Sanchez about the ‘butt fumble’ and the former Jets QB was open about the infamous play.

Mark Sanchez will never live it down. He’s embracing it. That’s what happens when you become part of the cult play forever known as the “butt fumble.”

The play, of course, happened on Thanksgiving 2012 and the New England Patriots were leading the New York Jets 14-0 when disaster struck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82RIfy-gRa4

The former New York Jets quarterback was on Pat McAfee’s show this week and, of course, the infamous play came up.

“One of these days there will probably be a good ’30-for-30′ on it,” Sanchez told the former NFL punter. “We’ll all look back and laugh but that’s probably still a ways aweigh.

“… It was just frustrating because of the fallout. … It’s one thing to have an embarrassing play or whatever. But when it feels like the organization and people just kind of write you off because of that and so all the hard work and everything you put into it just gets erased because of one play that’s not necessarily fair. But what is fair?”

Sanchez showed perspective in discussing the play.

“If I am ever going to complain about that one play, that means I have to take back all the cool experiences and movie premieres, free meals, all the celebrities I met,” Sanchez said. “… sometimes you have to take some bad and sometimes it really sucks. It’s not the end of the world. You can look back and laugh.”