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The winless Jets made it to the new season of “Saturday Night Live” this week.
Weekend Update host Colin Jost poked fun at the team and former Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez, who was arrested one week earlier in Indianapolis following a drunken altercation with a delivery driver outside a bar in which the current Fox game analyst was stabbed.
“Former Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez has been accused of drunkenly assaulting a delivery driver before the driver stabbed him. The penalties offset, repeat first down,” Jost cracked during the weekly mock news segment. “If convicted, Sanchez could be sent to prison, or worse, back to the Jets.”
The 38-year-old Sanchez is facing up to six years in prison and up to $10,000 in fines for assaulting 69-year-old Perry Tole, who has claimed that he stabbed the retired former first-round pick in self-defense.
Prosecutors slapped Sanchez this week with an upgraded felony charge of battery involving serious bodily injury after initially charging him with three misdemeanors for public intoxication, battery resulting in bodily injury and unauthorized entry of a motor vehicle.
Sanchez played for the Jets from 2009-12, leading them twice to the AFC Championship game, before missing the entire 2013 season with a shoulder injury. He played four additional seasons in the NFL for Philadelphia, Dallas and Washington. The Jets have not reached the playoffs since 2010, the longest current futility streak in the league.
Sanchez, who was in Indianapolis last weekend to call the Colts-Raiders game for Fox Sports, underwent surgery for stab wounds to the chest and was released from the hospital on Sunday. He was transferred directly to central booking at Marion County Jail, where he posted a $300 cash bond.
Sanchez has pleaded not guilty to all charges, and he’s scheduled to return to court in early November.
