One of the craziest plays of the NFL season took place in Week 3 when the Miami Dolphins gave us the “Butt punt”.
If you managed to avoid all descriptions of the punt, here’s what happened: During the fourth quarter of Miami’s 21-19 win over Buffalo, Dolphins punter Thomas Morstead threw a ball at the buttocks of his personal protector Trent Sherfield. What’s crazy is that Morstead hit the ball so hard it bounced right off Sherfield’s butt and out of the end zone for a safety.
The play was so hilarious that Tom Brady and Jim Gray started talking about it on this week’s episode of the “Let’s Go” podcast. The punt conversation led to a butt groping conversation, and that’s when Brady revealed he laughed for 20 seconds after seeing the butt groping for the first time. .
The twist here is that Brady actually played in the game where the fumble took place, but he didn’t see it when it happened.
“As part of the trial and error tradition, I was at that game and the best part was I didn’t see it live,” Brady said, via Sports Illustrated. “I really had no idea what happened. And I got back to my hotel that night – I stayed in New York that night, it was a Thursday night game, and I was able to see my son the next day who was living in New York at the time — and it was around 12 p.m..”
Brady finally got to see a replay the next day.
“I got back to my hotel and turned on one of the networks, and they were replaying the game and I saw butt groping,” Brady said. “And the first time I saw it, I laughed to myself in a room for 20 seconds because I thought it was the funniest thing I had ever seen in my life in sport. And the fact that our team was the beneficiary of that, and I was sidelined, is still one of the funniest things I can remember in sports.”
The advantage for the Dolphins is that they can laugh at the punt, because they won the game on Sunday. However, the same cannot be said for Mark Sanchez and the Jets. Sanchez’s butt fumble happened on Thanksgiving 2012 in a game against the Patriots, and not only did New York lose, 49-19, but the butt fumble was RETURNED FOR A TOUCHDOWN.
So what was funnier: the fumble or the punt?
“I do not think so [the butt punt] topped it, but it was pretty funny,” Brady said.
So. Brady said the butt fumble was funnier than the punt.