Fox’s Mark Sanchez Calls Himself an Idiot On Air After Mistake
The gaffe had everything to do with baseball, not football.
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Former NFL quarterback and current Fox NFL broadcaster Mark Sanchez had an amusing gaffe on air during Sunday’s telecast of the Giants-Seahawks game when he tried to use a baseball metaphor.
Seahawks kicker Jason Myers kicked a 35-yard field goal in the first half that was tipped at the line of scrimmage. As a result, the ball fluttered through the air before going through the uprights.
Then Sanchez broke out his baseball comparison, calling it a “Chuck Knoblauch knuckleball.”
Chuck Knoblauch, of course, was an infielder for the majority of his 12-year baseball career. Sanchez was actually trying to refer to former Red Sox knuckleballer Tim Wakefield.
“He’s laughing because he’s like ‘You thought that was bad? Sanchez dropped a Knoblauch with the knuckleball and he meant to say Tim Wakefield. What an idiot’,” Sanchez joked a short time later.
It was not Sanchez’s finest moment, but at least he was able to be self-deprecating in the aftermath of his live TV gaffe.
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