Butt Fumble at 10: A Play That Will Live In Infamy

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🗓️ 22 November 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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10 years ago today, the “Butt Fumble” was born. On November 22, 2012, a crisp Thanksgiving night, Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots visited the Mark Sanchez-led New York Jets at MetLife Stadium…where in the second quarter, Mark Sanchez turned the wrong way after a snap and ran right into his right guard’s butt and fumbled the ball to an awaiting Patriots defense that promptly ran it in for a touchdown. The play became a symbol of the Jets’ dysfunction, and has been immortalized forever through video clips, replays, and memes. Former Jets head coach Rex Ryan takes us back to that dark day in Jets history, and ESPN Daily producer Chris Tumminello, who attended the Butt Fumble game, helps us commemorate the notorious anniversary. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	That whole day was that might have been like I've had my ass kicked several times but that
0:15.0	might have been the worst day and the worst quarter certainly of my life.
0:27.0	To the course of his eight seasons as an NFL head coach Rex Ryan was responsible for approximately
0:33.0	20,000 plays and many of them he is proud to have called like the one that sent his
0:39.6	jets to the AFC championship game in 2010.
0:43.3	We went forward on a fourth and two to beat the San Diego Chargers at the best record in
0:48.3	football to win a playoff game instead of kicking the field goal like everybody wanted
0:52.7	me to do.
0:53.7	Sanchez gives for Jones running right he's got it first down the jets are going to the
1:00.4	AFC championship game.
1:03.4	And then there's the time he knocked Peyton Manning and the Colts out of the postseason
1:07.3	one year later.
1:08.8	The snap the placement down the kick is on the way and it is God and the jets win it here
1:14.8	in Indianapolis and they are moving on to New England.
1:19.2	But there is one specific play from Thanksgiving Day 2012 now one decade ago that he cannot
1:28.4	possibly escape.
1:32.0	I am just curious if you get asked about any of those plays as much as this one.
1:38.0	Oh my God no this is it this is the one broken play Mark Sanchez scrambles up the middle
1:44.3	lost the football it's picked up he ran right to the back of Brandon Moore fumbled the ball
1:49.8	it's picked up and running in the end zone for a touchdown is Steve Gregory are you kidding
1:55.8	me.
2:01.8	And then I always love this people ask you about like yeah we put it in that way like
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