Thanksgiving night in 2012 produced one of the strangest, most replayed moments in NFL history. That night marks the birth of the infamous “Butt Fumble.”
Mark Sanchez colliding with the backside of his own offensive lineman, Brandon Moore, before fumbling the ball and watching the Patriots run it back for a touchdown instantly became entrenched in New York Jets folklore for all the wrong reasons.
To this day, the Butt Fumble is cited as the weirdest and most embarrassing moment in Jets history, a play that supposedly defined a franchise’s dysfunction.