Jets Fan Who Bought Mark Sanchez's Butt Fumble Jersey Wants To Send It Into Outer Space

ESPN – A diehard New York Jets fan paid $820 for the jersey Mark Sanchez wore during the “Butt Fumble” game in 2012, hoping to keep it from those who might subject him to further ridicule over the infamous play.  Jake Hendrickson, who lives in California, noticed the jersey was posted on the NFL auctions website last week and set his alarm on his calendar so he could try to ensure he was the highest bidder. “The second I realized what it was I knew I had to have it. Almost for macabre reasons; the amount of ridicule I have received from friends regarding that play and me being a diehard Jets fan out in California especially,” Hendrickson toldYahoo! Sports. “There’s no way I could let it get in the hands of an anti-fan or something of that manner to be shoved in our face.” The bidding didn’t go as high as Hendrickson expected. He said there were only a couple of bidders bedsides himself and he told the website “every time someone would outbid me by $5 or $10 I was raising by a hundred bucks just to show I meant business.” Hendrickson said he will likely put it in a frame and hang it on his wall, “until we win a Super Bowl or I can get together enough money to put it on a rocket ship and shoot it to outer space because I don’t think it belongs on this planet anymore,” he told the website.

First of all, I love this move. This is the move of a true, diehard fan. Willing to spend 800 dollars of his own money to protect his team and his fellow fans. Because make no mistake about it, there was a strong, strong chance some dickhead Patriots fan was gonna scoop this up and do something annoying with it. Like I’m half joking but not half joking when I say I think Jerry Thornton was in that room bidding against Jake for this jersey. He’d probably bring it home and make his Irish Rose wear it to bed every night or some sick shit like that. I’m just happy Pres wasn’t in the building because I think he would have bid almost anything for it to frame it and immortalize it on the walls of Barstool HQ.

So its a fantastic move for Jets nation that this didn’t fall into the wrong hands. Jake, I am declaring you the best Jets fan on the planet because you spent your hard earned money to protect guys like me from more ridicule and harm. But I got some bad news for you brotha – I don’t care how much money you make or don’t make, I don’t care what is going on with NASA and the space program – I can all but guarantee you will save enough money to ship that thing to the moon before we win a goddam Super Bowl. We’ll probably be colonizing Mars and Goddell will have 2 teams playing a game there before the Jets win a Super Bowl. Either scenario, we’re probably waiting a long long time until that jersey is gone. Personally I wouldn’t blame you if you just burned the thing on the spot. Rid the world of all evidence that this ever occurred. Maybe get Brandon Moore’s jersey too and burn them at the same time. Some voodoo shit to reverse this franchise’s luck.