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00:00For 500 years, I have searched for the Fountain of Youth.
00:04As it turns out, many NFL players have already found it.
00:17To make this top 10 list, we asked a timeless question.
00:22What does it take to be an NFL A-C-S-Longer?
00:26Well, this is a tough one, actually.
00:29Ageless Wonders, Ageless Wonders.
00:31Well, top 10 Ageless Wonders, I think it would have something to do with longevity.
00:35I would say anybody who lasts past 35 is kind of an Ageless Wonders.
00:38I think you have to be at least 38 to even be on that list.
00:43But age alone simply won't cut it.
00:46You have to be successful and age gracefully.
00:49Yes, sir.
00:49You can't just hang on for dear life to be cut in a check every first and 15th of a
00:53month.
00:53Hey, we can't play this game forever.
00:54But there are some things that can help extend an NFL career.
00:59To be an Ageless Wonders, you have to get enough sleep.
01:04Overeating and eating the wrong things cause you to age.
01:07What's up, old man?
01:08How old are you now?
01:09The key to ageing gracefully is to not have too many enemies throwing arrows at you.
01:14Believe me.
01:15You really want to last a long time in the NFL?
01:17Ride the bench for about five or six years before they find out you can play.
01:22That'll help you.
01:23Deer antler spray?
01:24Maybe.
01:25Ready?
01:26When it comes to being an Ageless Wonder, let's face it, some guys just have it.
01:31Don't mess, you got it?
01:32I told you.
01:33We begin with a fellow Floridian.
01:36The number 10 Ageless Wonder of all time, Senor Rondé Barber.
01:41Rondé?
01:42Nice.
01:42Rondé Barber?
01:45RB, as I call him?
01:47When we go to Mr. Childs.
01:49You know, Rondé Barber's on the list, deservedly so.
01:52The oldest defensive back in the NFL in 2012.
01:55The ball batted in the air.
01:57Picked off by Rondé Barber.
02:00Rondé plays defense.
02:01Not many defensive players play 15, 16 years in the National Football League.
02:05You can't play this game.
02:08No, you too old.
02:09He has 47 interceptions in 16 years.
02:12It's picked off, intercepted.
02:14Rondé Barber can't take it all the way.
02:16More than half of those interceptions have come after his 30th birthday.
02:20Rondé Barber, the 8th has won.
02:2245th career interception.
02:24His 15th career touchdown.
02:26He's awesome.
02:27I don't know how he's doing it.
02:28I want to find a fount of youth.
02:30I think he has been playing way too long in La Florida.
02:33I'm very suspicious of him.
02:35He may, in fact, have found the very place I was looking for.
02:38I saw Rondé Barber at a Derrick Brooks golf tournament.
02:40He looked as young then as he did 10 years ago.
02:43So I believe that Rondé Barber did find the fount of youth.
02:49Rondé's twin brother, Tiki, played running back for the New York Giants, but retired after 10 seasons.
02:54He only played 10 years.
02:55Twin brothers sort of have that competitive spirit, and Rondé Barber's been competing all his life.
03:00My brother is a perfectionist, and when he puts his mind to something, he's going to be successful at it.
03:06And so when he got through year 10, 11, and 12, and people started saying it's time to hang it
03:10up, he took that as a challenge.
03:12How about the old gray beard himself, Rondé Barber?
03:15He's reinvented himself over and over and over again, including playing safety last year at a pretty high level.
03:20And this guy's been a cornerback in the league for the previous 15 seasons.
03:25The 16th season, he moves to safety.
03:27It's a great example of his longevity.
03:28Be willing to switch positions.
03:30Not every player is willing to do it.
03:31Some will just retire and say, to heck with it.
03:33But I give Ronnie Barber credit.
03:34He's an ageless wonder to me.
03:38Oh, you're still a hell of a player, bro.
03:40Appreciate it, bro.
03:40Gotta give it to y'all.
03:41I don't know how you did it for so long.
03:43That's Matt Brock.
03:45Thanks, boss.
03:46Probably about four years ago.
03:47It did a 10th anniversary for the Bucs Super Bowl team, and he was a guy still playing, so he
03:54couldn't go.
03:55Go.
03:55I asked him, listen, how in the hell are you still doing this?
03:59And he said, I'm playing from the neck up.
04:01You can't overlook his experience in this game.
04:04It's almost like he's in the offensive huddle.
04:06Just everyone else.
04:08It helps that, you know, when you've been around for 16 years, you're going to know some things that other
04:12guys do.
04:12He just got better every year, and in terms of preparation, you can't beat him.
04:17I mean, when you look at the level he was able to play for such a period of time, it's
04:20impressive.
04:24In 2012, the Buccaneers hosted a 10-year reunion for their Super Bowl championship team.
04:31Rondé's role in the celebration was limited due to the fact that he was still playing.
04:35It's the same, Rondé, 10 years later.
04:38He's the only remaining player link to that Super Bowl team.
04:41Everybody else is come and gone.
04:43Oh, you're still playing, boy.
04:44When you go retire, man?
04:45That answer finally came in 2013 when Rondé decided to hang him up.
04:51It's taken a lot for me to get to 16.
04:54I had fun.
04:55I love coming to work every day.
04:56He promised me, if he retired, that we would go to Venice and ride the gondola.
05:09The guy has played 215 consecutive starts.
05:13No DB in history has ever done that.
05:16That's the benefit of you, baby.
05:17The fact that he has played two positions at a high level and what he's done with the interceptions
05:22and the way he's played the position for so long.
05:25Rondé Barber is the ageless wonder.
05:31Number nine, ageless wonder of all time, Senora Steve DeBerg.
05:36Can you need all seven teams Steve DeBerg, baby?
05:38Oh, my God.
05:39Seven teams.
05:41Let's see.
05:42San Francisco.
05:43Falcons.
05:45Falcons, Bucs, Broncos.
05:4849ers, Dolphins.
05:51Chiefs.
05:53I'm forgetting one.
05:54I'm forgetting one.
05:58I don't know.
06:00Denver.
06:01San Diego?
06:02No.
06:02Indianapolis.
06:03Tampa Bay.
06:04I remember him always in New England.
06:07He played for the Kansas City Chiefs.
06:09Back to Tampa, right?
06:10I think.
06:11Cleveland.
06:12Detroit.
06:13Can I just name the rest of the city in the NFL?
06:15Seattle Seahawks.
06:17And there was somebody else.
06:19Oh, Miami Dolphins.
06:22And then he came back.
06:23What did he come back with?
06:25And I know he finished with the Falcons.
06:28Oh, I should have remembered the Falcons.
06:33Hey, one of the last guys that played when I played.
06:36You're talking about holes.
06:37Hey.
06:37I'm talking about real holes.
06:40Steve DeBird is known for two things.
06:42He was known for playing for a really long time, and he had the greatest play-action fake,
06:46maybe in NFL history.
06:47He had the hand up, check it, play fake.
06:49DeBird rolls back to his left, throwing deep man down there.
06:52Touchdown!
06:53He was the first guy to stick it up with one hand and mastered it.
06:57But that wasn't the only thing he mastered over his 18-year career.
07:01For a long time, wherever Steve DeBird was, a franchise quarterback was going to follow him.
07:07The old saying, life is timing and yours sucks.
07:10If they ever wrote a book with that title, it'd have to have a picture of Steve on it.
07:14If you want to go to the Hall of Fame, be Steve DeBird's backup.
07:19He's a starter in San Francisco.
07:21Joe Montana's his backup.
07:22Joe Montana comes in and goes to the Hall of Fame.
07:241983, Steve DeBird, he's the starter in Denver.
07:27John Elway's his backup.
07:28John Elway goes on to the Hall of Fame.
07:30A couple years later, he's the starter in Tampa.
07:33Steve Young's his backup.
07:35Steve Young goes on to be a Hall of Famer.
07:39A 10th-round draft pick of the Cowboys in 1977,
07:43DeBird never played for Dallas, but learned a lot from starter Roger Staubach.
07:47Roger took me under his wing and started explaining things.
07:51Really, that had such an influence on me that because of what Roger Staubach did for me,
07:56that I would always do that for other quarterbacks.
07:59He mentored, you know, John and worked with him.
08:02You know, he didn't care.
08:03He just wanted to win a football game.
08:05I hate to say it, he didn't matter.
08:07I mean, Steve DeBird, come on, really?
08:10This guy, you know, scratched out a 20-year career.
08:13You don't just do that being a guy.
08:15That may be the invitation to the playoffs for the Kansas City Chiefs.
08:19You know, that's a guy who brings something to the table.
08:22He's a survivor.
08:23You get that many jobs, you're doing something right.
08:29You can put him in the ageless wonder discussion because he came out of retirement at age 44.
08:36After five years off between snaps, DeBird made a comeback in 1998.
08:41Five years into retirement, I thought he was finished.
08:45We just needed that veteran.
08:48You never know when you need, you know, somebody with experience to come in and help you.
08:52He was on the 98 Falcon team that went to the Super Bowl.
08:56Super play action was setting up.
08:58DeBird going long.
08:59Tony Marcus.
09:00Oh, touchdown Falcon.
09:02What are you doing, Steve DeBird?
09:03You guys, you're all for the game.
09:06Following Super Bowl 33, DeBird finally retired for good.
09:10At least we think.
09:12Would you be that surprised if in week four of this season, somebody got hurt and trotting
09:17in there was Steve DeBird?
09:18Or would you just say, ah, he made a roster again?
09:22Number eight.
09:24Number eight.
09:25Ageless wonder of all time.
09:27Tony Gonzalez.
09:29Look at that.
09:30Tony Gonzalez, 16 years in the NFL.
09:33Why are you up here looking at the old guys?
09:34Don't look at one of the young guys.
09:35Are guys that age supposed to be playing that well at that position?
09:39Well into their 30s?
09:41It's not supposed to happen.
09:43It's going to be a touchdown to count him.
09:446-1-4, Gonzalez.
09:46Touchdown!
09:47You expect tight ends because of the physical nature of the position to fall off, but Tony
09:52Gonzalez has done the opposite.
09:54He didn't even go out and retire.
09:55I'm tired of going to make a play.
09:56I'm so happy he's still playing because he's as good as all the other tight ends.
10:01Gonzalez, touchdown!
10:03Oh my goodness.
10:04He's the kind of tight end that we're all still looking for.
10:07Find another Tony Gonzalez.
10:08But it's crazy to me because I think he had his best season in 2012.
10:11He looks like he's 25 years old out there.
10:14Matt's going to throw.
10:15Gonzalez, the catch!
10:16That guy's unbelievable.
10:17He's looking in reverse.
10:22Not surprisingly, football's version of Benjamin Button was also a hero of the hardwood in college.
10:28Tony Gonzalez, like, revolutionized basketball-type tight end.
10:33Gonzalez!
10:34What a catch!
10:35He knows how to position himself to make a catch and shield the ball from the defender.
10:40I always looked at it like basketball.
10:42I mean, I'm talking about boxing people.
10:43And that's just like being in the post.
10:46Touchdown!
10:47He does all the fundamental things correct.
10:49So there's that consistency to him, that dependability.
10:52And that's how guys stick in the league so long.
10:54In 2009, Gonzalez was traded to Atlanta in what was thought to be the twilight of his career.
11:00When the Kansas City Chiefs traded Tony Gonzalez, the idea was, oh, he's got one or two years left.
11:08And five years later, he's still the best tight end in the league.
11:11Touchdown, Tony Gonzalez!
11:14There's a league with Jimmy Graham, Antonio Gates, Travis Kelsey, I think, was playing.
11:21Gronk was playing.
11:22Why Tony Gonzalez is a great player in an ageless wonder, it's very simple.
11:26The guy takes care of himself.
11:27He exercises every day.
11:29His off-season regimen is very well-known.
11:32He focuses a lot on flexibility, on core strength.
11:35He's a vegan.
11:36I was a pig for 11 years, a strict one back in the 70s, and back then it was harder.
11:43And then one day I woke up and I said, Larry!
11:48Nutritionally is the reason I've been able to play this long.
11:50I really believe it.
11:51I'm Tony G, and today it's time to open the shopping bag.
11:54He is always talking about his health food that he eats.
11:57We should all...
11:58Max, eat in moderation, are actually good for you.
12:01Six years ago now is when I changed my diet dramatically.
12:04I went from eating processed foods, cheeseburgers, french fries, you name it, I ate it.
12:09But once I changed my diet, my energy levels went through the roof.
12:12Dunks it over the crossbar.
12:13It's made me the player who I am, I think.
12:15Vegetarian, specifically, is very nice, he's wonderful.
12:19But you put him on board his sheep.
12:22After three months and provisions run out,
12:24he will be eating boiled rat and leather just like the rest of us.
12:28What?
12:30Coming up.
12:31And in number seven, ageless wonderer of all time,
12:35Senor Morton Anderson.
12:37Morton Anderson is one of the best young kickers.
12:40I feel like kickers and putters should be barred from the list because
12:44they would overpopulate the list and
12:48they don't really get hit.
12:51In the NFL.
12:53Morton Anderson, he's put all immortality as kickers go.
12:57Morton Anderson has it airborne and it is perfect.
13:00Morton Anderson's numbers just are mind-boggling.
13:03Morton Anderson scored 704 points after his 40th birthday.
13:09That's more points than John Riggins scored in his entire career.
13:12It's also more points than Barry Sanders, Curtis Martin, Tony Gonzalez,
13:16Eric Dickerson, Steve Largent, Jerome Bettis, Tony Dorsett,
13:20and about a dozen other Hall of Famers had in their entire careers.
13:24I added up how many years I'd spent in training camp
13:28and I came up with about, you know, two years of that.
13:31Training camp?
13:32Two years of your life.
13:37But the Saints rookie kicker's career didn't exactly get off on the right foot.
13:41The very first opening kickoff snapped my ankle, my right ankle,
13:45and I was done.
13:46And the strike came and it kind of gave me back.
13:49So when the strike was over, you know, I was back playing,
13:52but it was an auspicious start to my career for sure.
13:56It's high, it's high, it's high!
13:58Saints fans remember him well because he was an offense for a long time.
14:02It's a low one, but it's long enough.
14:04Can it get through?
14:06Yes!
14:0760-yard field goal for Martin Anderson!
14:12Anderson had stints with the Vikings, Giants, and Chiefs,
14:15but he spent the majority of his career south of the Mason-Dixon line.
14:19Despite his youth, Anderson now holds the Saints' records
14:22for most field goals in a career, 71.
14:28He's the ultimate sport for the Saints and for the Falcons' two franchises.
14:31His pick is up, it's high, and it's good!
14:34Saints have won it!
14:35It's perfect!
14:36He started from...
14:37His career high field goal percentage, which was 89,
14:42was his last season and he was a 47-year-old.
14:48Zero in each one, and we're still able to surpass everybody in their franchises,
14:52and then he goes to show how long the longevity that guy's had.
14:54His longevity came from flexibility.
14:57If you ever watch the people stretch, you know how long it'll last.
15:02You must have a good gluteous license.
15:06And let it start quiet.
15:11And it happens.
15:20Nicknamed the Great Dane, Anderson made 565 career field goals,
15:26but his biggest came in the 1998 NFC Championship game.
15:33I remember standing on stage with Terry Bradshaw saying,
15:37in Danish, we'll see you in Miami.
15:38He's facing Miami via NFC Minnesota!
15:46The thing about old kickers, the reason they stick around so long,
15:50is because that position lends itself to familiarity.
15:53That was never more the case than in 2007, when Jim Mora Jr.
15:59Wait a minute.
15:59Yeah, he played for Jim Mora, Jim E. Mora, and Jim L. Mora.
16:04Got some fatherly advice on solving Atlanta's kicking inconsistencies.
16:09If there was one guy in the world that was pushing Morton Anderson for the Atlanta Falcons,
16:13it was my dad.
16:14Do you need to sign Morton?
16:16The Falcons did just that, and the rest is history.
16:19A chance to become the NFL's all-time career scorer for 24-year veteran Morton Anderson.
16:26Snap, spot, kick, and he's done it.
16:30Morton Anderson has just become the NFL's all-time career scorer.
16:36137 career points.
16:38Anderson finally retired at the age of 48.
16:41I think he wanted to be the first guy to get to 50, right?
16:43He had the score.
16:44He wanted to reach the age of 50.
16:47You're the best that ever was.
16:49He'd get there?
16:50He didn't get there.
16:51Probably could still nail it for 48.
16:56Number six.
16:58In number six, ageless wonder of all time, Senor Warren Moon.
17:02Yes, sir.
17:03Do you consider yourself an ageless wonder?
17:06I do.
17:07Another perfect pass by Warren Moon.
17:10That guy's not 40 years old.
17:12When I was in Seattle, we left the league in passing when I was 41 years old.
17:16Let's go!
17:17Let's go!
17:18Touchdown Seattle!
17:19I was the oldest to score a touchdown.
17:21I'm trying to get over the top.
17:22He is in.
17:23Touchdown, Sears, Warren Moon.
17:25I was the MVP of the Pro Bowl when I was 41 years old.
17:27Would you believe it?
17:28Actually, when it comes to Warren Moon, I'd believe almost anything.
17:31So, yeah, I think I'm an ageless wonder.
17:33You know, I never thought of Warren Moon as old.
17:35And I know he played a long time.
17:37I don't know.
17:38Maybe it's just me.
17:39But Warren Moon to me never got old.
17:43Moon first made a name for himself north of the border in the Canadian Football League.
17:48He was in the CFL, otherwise known as the Federal Witness Protection Program of football.
17:53There he led the Edmonds and Esports breakups.
17:57Not that that counts.
17:59It's an exchange rate.
17:59You win five championships in Canada.
18:01It's kind of worth maybe a half a championship in the NFL.
18:04People don't realize how old Warren Moon was because he was in the CFL all those years.
18:08He was a fossil.
18:10If somebody was smart enough to draft Warren Moon out of freaking college, Warren Moon would
18:16own every record there is in the National Football League.
18:20He had 40,000 yards passing, 255 touchdowns after turning 30.
18:27Moon, fade pattern for Jeffrey, touchdown!
18:30In his 23 years as a professional quarterback, our number six ageless wonder threw for over
18:3670,000 yards.
18:38Warren Moon's a classic example.
18:40If you can be a consistent drop-back quarterback, you'll play a long time.
18:45Moon rolling left, looking to throw back right in the end.
18:48Touchdown, Jimmy!
18:49Warren Moon to me always was able to move around and be athletic.
18:53It was like, wow.
18:54I'll tell you, he's running like a 22-year-old out there right now.
18:58Looking back at it, I wish we never got him hit.
19:02We could have protected him better, kept more people in.
19:06With all the punishment that he took to be able to play into his 40s, we're talking about
19:10a physical marvel.
19:12Regardless of his age, he was a weightlifter.
19:14He was always working out.
19:17I really play very well.
19:19Every year I try to improve on something within my game to make me better.
19:23Whether it was to increase my flexibility or make my legs stronger or work on my upper
19:27body, I always had some type of goal.
19:30I was always impressed how well he kept himself in shape.
19:33I didn't think of him as an old guy.
19:34I thought him was our...
19:38In 2000, Moon finished the final phase of his career as a backup in Kansas City.
19:44I'm here today to announce the football league.
19:48But a new Moon soon rose, this time on the Celebrity Beach football circuit.
19:54I love going out there and throwing the ball around even though I can't do it on a professional
19:58level anymore.
20:05These games are fun, getting a chance to meet a lot of these celebrities and throw them
20:10passes.
20:17I'm 56 now and I'm still out there chucking it.
20:22Coming up...
20:25Number 5.
20:26The number 5 ageless wonder, Senor Ray Lewis.
20:30That's pretty good.
20:31He's old as hell.
20:32Come on.
20:33For a football player, he's old.
20:35For a middle linebacker, yeah, he's old.
20:39He was old.
20:41We're out first.
20:42There's those who get tackled and those who do the tackling.
20:45There's punishment.
20:46There's punishment.
20:47Always tackling people.
20:49You can't hurt this!
20:50I'm a machine jerk!
20:52Maybe one thing you're talking about a kicker or a quarterback, but you're hitting every
20:55single play.
20:56Ray Lewis, the ageless wonder.
20:58That's a grind right there.
20:59I mean, what did Buckus and those guys play?
21:00Eight years?
21:01You know, nine years?
21:02And this guy's 17?
21:05I look at Ray Lewis and I think of Cal Ripken who did it at shortstop.
21:09Ray Lewis, same thing.
21:10Both Baltimore.
21:12Been a linebacker.
21:12I mean, these guys did it and they did it at the position that's probably hardest to
21:16do it at.
21:16He played at a consistent level.
21:18Same guy, year in, year out.
21:212000, they win the Super Bowl.
21:23The Ravens are the champions of the world.
21:25Winning again, 2012.
21:27Oh my God!
21:29The same player.
21:31You still play like when I worked for your Super Bowl in 2001.
21:35Keep it going.
21:36Absolutely.
21:38At the peak of your career, you were 100%.
21:41What are you right now?
21:42Probably 105.
21:46Ray Lewis averaged 109 tackles over his final seven years.
21:51He retired as the only player in NFL history with 40 sacks and 30 interceptions.
21:58His commitment to training was just unbelievable.
22:01Being a champion is not easy.
22:03It's hard work.
22:05He went to his location.
22:07I said, how come you don't have more of your teammates here?
22:10And he said, they come once.
22:13There's just no way you're going to hang with Ray.
22:15We got work to do!
22:17We got work to do!
22:19Let's go!
22:19Genetically speaking, there has to be something there.
22:22Like some Wolverine type stuff.
22:24Like you're either able to heal or you don't heal.
22:27They got to drag me over here cuz I'm good.
22:31You're getting over!
22:34You're too tired!
22:36At 37 years old, our number 5 ageless wonder led the NFL in postseason tackles in 2012.
22:43But the rigors of 17 years in the middle was tough to hide during Super Bowl XLVII.
22:49He was pretty benched up.
22:51He had the shoulder brace.
22:52He had all kinds of stuff going on here, right?
22:54He was more like Robocop than he was.
22:57True Ray Lewis.
22:57Let's play hard no-sword ball and let's beat these boys' brains then. Let's go!
23:01When you're playing with one arm and it looks like you're a part Terminator,
23:05I don't care if you have one tackle, no quarterback pressures,
23:09you're out there gutting it out and you're giving them something.
23:12The career of Ray Lewis ends with a defensive stand for the ages.
23:17That is one gentleman I give credit for finding the fountain of youth.
23:21Hey, make your career last as long as mine!
23:24He will be forever young.
23:27The number four, the number four ageless wonder of all time.
23:32Quattro, George Blanda.
23:34To be an ageless wonder, you gotta look like an ageless wonder, right?
23:38I mean, you can- Ray Lewis doesn't look old.
23:40Jerry Rice, who else you gotta know? Nobody.
23:41There's only one guy.
23:43One true guy who was the ageless wonder.
23:46George Blanda.
23:47Wouldn't that make it-
23:48If we had an NFL dictionary.
23:49If you look old, wouldn't that make you the opposite of ageless?
23:53But he has the term ageless wonder.
23:55The picture would be of George Blanda.
23:57He was right out of central casting.
23:59He had those sideburns as wide as the state of New Jersey.
24:03He had the gray hair coming out.
24:04He looked like an old pirate.
24:06Right on the money.
24:07I am currently 539 years old.
24:10Okay?
24:11I know Senor George.
24:12He's only two years older than me.
24:15George Blanda's kicking.
24:17He's doing touchdowns.
24:18The guy was like 60.
24:19And he's doing all this.
24:21I can't even chase my kids around right now at the age of 42.
24:24And Superman does indeed live in Oakland.
24:31George Blanda played 17 seasons between the NFL and AFL before earning a contract with
24:38the Raiders at the age of 40.
24:40George Blanda really had three careers.
24:42First with the Chicago Bears, and then with the Houston Oilers, and then with the Oakland Raiders.
24:46And each time he started a new career, the team that he was leaving thought he was done.
24:50You gotta be a little bit nuts to hang your hat on like a 40-something-year-old guy.
24:59But George Blanda wouldn't go away.
25:02LaMonica's knee was injured late in the game and he could not play the following week.
25:06His replacement was a 41-year-old veteran quarterback who played sparingly and is used as a kicking specialist.
25:14At the end of his career, you know, he became this kicker and backup quarterback with the Oakland Raiders.
25:20And then came the 1970 season and he becomes not just a player, but the most valuable player.
25:26George Blanda is 43 at the time.
25:30He looked 73.
25:31The odds against this must be about 76, mid into a half.
25:361970, I'm at Bowling Green, watching the Raiders.
25:40And it's George Blanda every week would come in and win these games for him in the last second.
25:44It's kicked! That's got a chance! It's good! Holy Toledo!
25:48It was like game after game after game, he would either kick it or throw it to win a game.
25:54George Blanda has just been elected king of the world!
25:57He was a motivator for not only the team, but every guy watching the sport over 40.
26:02I could be doing that just sitting on your couch eating your potato chips.
26:04It was almost like the Tebow mania, but better.
26:08It was like Tebow mania, but this was Tim Tebow's father.
26:10Or grandfather.
26:14I thought I was 21.
26:16I mean I always thought I was 21.
26:18If I didn't, I wouldn't have played until I was 48.
26:21Our number 4 ageless wonder played in 4 decades and retired as the all-time scorer and oldest player in
26:29NFL history at age 48.
26:32He retired a month shy of his 49th birthday.
26:35It wasn't Pilates that he was doing away from football.
26:40He wasn't too much into soy milk either.
26:43His training regimen was probably cigarettes and bad fried food, probably no weight lifting.
26:48And he's playing at that high a level at that age.
26:50It's unbelievable when you think about that.
26:53So imagine if George Blander had the Tony Gonzalez guy.
26:58You know?
26:59I mean we're talking about a guy who was playing until the 70's, right?
27:02Up next.
27:04I mean George Blander scored 1600 points after turning 30.
27:09And that's 7 less than Lou Groza scored his entire career?
27:14Three ageless wonder of all time.
27:17Brett Favre.
27:20Some guys are like a good scotch, they just get better with age.
27:25Brett Favre would get just absolutely pounded down the ground.
27:29Oh!
27:30What a devastating shot!
27:31When you come back up, I mean it just, I think there was just a real tenacity and just a
27:36love.
27:37300th career start today, right?
27:39Yeah.
27:39That's all?
27:41There was young Brett Favre and he won the Super Bowl, right?
27:44And he looked baby-faced and he was running around, he had his helmet raised.
27:47And then like overnight, like flipping a switch, he was old.
27:50It was like he had aged in present years.
27:52Are you old?
27:53Are you old, man?
27:55It's kind of like you took all the clothes off to Marlboro, man.
27:57And it was, you know, it happened to be Brett Favre.
27:59How old are you?
28:0061.
28:02That's amazing.
28:03You look great.
28:04You look good, man.
28:05You look good.
28:05What happened to me?
28:10I'm just old and washed up.
28:13Trying to hang up.
28:15Brett Favre hung around for 17 seasons before temporarily hanging it up.
28:20I am officially retiring.
28:22I know I can play.
28:23I still can play.
28:25You can still do it.
28:26Favre joined the Jets and Vikings for three seasons and became the only quarterback in NFL history to beat all
28:3332 teams.
28:34I was there at the Meadowlands the day he threw the six touchdown passes against the Cardinals.
28:38Brett Favre sets an all-time career high for a single game.
28:43He was rolling there for a while.
28:4518 years in the league, though.
28:47That's almost my entire life.
28:48They looked like Super Bowl contenders.
28:50And then Favre's arm began to fall off.
28:53And the Jets end the season at 9-7.
28:56Off that Jets season, nobody exactly knew what they were going to get with Brett Favre.
29:00And then he went out there and had one of the great seasons for a quarterback in the history of
29:04the National Football League.
29:07You could argue that Favre's best season was in 2009 when he was 40 years old with the Vikings.
29:13Statistically, it was his best season.
29:16You got the best of Favre in the regular season without the worst.
29:20Brett Favre, beautiful strike down the field.
29:22He had three passes and seven interceptions.
29:27He's never had that kind of ratio before.
29:28It was a nice 40th birthday for the old man.
29:31When they beat San Francisco with a great pass at the end of the game that he made,
29:35you knew that this could be a special year for them.
29:39Touchdown! Oh, my heavens!
29:41Welcome to Minnesota!
29:43Looked through the regular season as if this is too good to be true.
29:46Well, ultimately it was. He did throw across his body in New Orleans.
29:50This is not Detroit, man! This is the Super Bowl!
29:52But it was about as storybook as you could get.
29:58I remember the first time I met Brett.
30:02It was at the barbershop.
30:07And I was on the...
30:08Before retiring for good, Favre rewrote the record books, including becoming the lead's only active grandfather.
30:16But is our number three ageless wonder really, Doug?
30:20What is he, like 72 now, Brett Favre?
30:22At some point, the ship sails.
30:25And I think for Brett Favre, the ship was left to court.
30:28I don't think it's ever off the table. It's him and Michael Jordan.
30:30Will you take two weeks off and start getting ready?
30:32Yeah, probably so.
30:34Number two.
30:35The number two ageless wonder of all time, Senor Emmet Smith.
30:41Emmet Smith.
30:42Yeah, Emmet and I used to ride the mechanical bull together.
30:47When you're talking about ageless wonders, Emmet Smith certainly belongs number two.
30:52Even ahead of Brett Favre.
30:53Packled, but brings away. Touchdown, Emmet Smith!
30:56Nobody wants to have the guy play that position for very long because it's very demanding on their body.
31:03And yet, Emmet Smith, year after year, was able to be a very productive player.
31:07I'm one of your biggest fans on all this out there.
31:10I mean that.
31:10For as many hits as he took, for the course of his career to be able to do it game
31:15in and game out,
31:16the durability is amazing.
31:18It's absolutely ridiculous.
31:20I remember playing him when he was 32 or 3 at the time,
31:23saying he can't do this, you know, he's old.
31:26And he goes out and rushes for 120 yards and a touchdown,
31:29and it was like every week he had 120 yards and a touchdown.
31:32Thank you for blessing me with the talent to play the sport that I so dearly love for almost three
31:38decades.
31:42The only pressures that I had was people talking about where he's on the backside of his career,
31:46he's selfish, he's chasing after the record.
31:48You daggone right I was.
31:51Instead of embracing a life of leisure, Emmet Smith continued his pursuit of the NFL rushing title into his 30s,
31:59and eventually got it, retiring with 18,355 yards.
32:06That was one of the goals that I set on my list as a young rookie.
32:10Others looked at me and said, you know how long you have to play.
32:14Emmet Smith is going to break every record known to man.
32:18Any time Emmet Smith put his mind to something, he was going to accomplish it.
32:21And he made up his mind in that Seattle game that he was going to break the record, and he
32:25did it.
32:26Emmet Smith has eclipsed Walter Payton as the NFL's all-time rushing leader.
32:3218,000 yards.
32:34That is almost twice what most really good running backs do.
32:40Everybody's excited.
32:41It's kind of interesting to see Emmet Smith out there in a Cardinal uniform.
32:44At 34 years old, our number two ageless wonder joined the Cardinals and became the oldest player to throw his
32:51first touchdown pass.
32:53It wasn't pretty, but you got it, man.
32:55Despite his name being all over the record book, his inclusion on our list was far from unanimous.
33:01You know he doesn't belong on the list.
33:02It's not an ageless wonder if you just play a really long time and you're no good at the end.
33:06He was very good when he was a certain age.
33:10When he got past that certain age, the wonder was, I wonder why he's still playing.
33:13No complete explanation.
33:15He had only 200-yard games with Arizona.
33:18Truth of my existence, right there.
33:21It was clear that Emmet Smith was not moving the way that you would expect an Emmet Smith to move.
33:26Emmet ain't running hard.
33:27You just fall down.
33:28Where's your spell down?
33:29You don't want to get hit.
33:30You know those golf carts that they drive around for training camp?
33:33Emmet had his own dedicated cart, and he was driving in it a lot.
33:36And that's when you started to think, maybe it's not the best sign that your running back is in his
33:39golf cart all the time.
33:42I want to thank the Cardinals.
33:44By them working with you to continue playing for two years, that just padded that record.
33:54So how did Emmet earn the second spot on our list?
33:57He simply did something that the league may never see again.
34:01The evolution of two backs, the evolution of the passing game, the spread offense.
34:06I just don't think we're going to see anybody be the hammer that Emmet was.
34:09I'll never forget the day Emmet Smith ran 32 times, did most of it with one arm.
34:15You just can't stay that healthy for that long to be able to break Emmet Smith's record.
34:19It's not going to happen ever again.
34:22He won Dancing with the Stars.
34:24Didn't he win?
34:25Yeah.
34:25He did win.
34:26He did win.
34:27He won Dancing with the Stars.
34:29Man looks good in the vest.
34:31Ageless wonder.
34:32Coming up, the number one Ageless wonder of all time, Senor Daryl Green.
34:40I can see that.
34:41This is a young man's game.
34:44Father Time is undefeated.
34:46I'm about 100 billion and 0.
34:48But with Daryl Green, he has an asterisk by it because he probably took him further than anyone.
34:54I think he's deserving of number one.
34:57You try to understand how this man is old enough to be the daddy to the guy that he's covering.
35:02But you can't run away from him.
35:04Only one man on the field could catch him Daryl Green, the world-class runner.
35:10Daryl Green had a faster time when he was 40, in the 40, than most people in their 20s in
35:16the 40.
35:172-2-0, buddy.
35:20Make you run fast.
35:21Have you ever tried to run with anything in your sock?
35:23It's really annoying.
35:25For Daryl Green to be the fastest player in the league for like a decade, that's real speed.
35:29He would be even faster without the candy in there.
35:31I remember being there in the Redskins and tying the players in like a minicamp or something like that.
35:36And he was like the fastest Redskins and like the oldest guy on the team.
35:392-8 can still do it, baby.
35:41Mayor of D.C.
35:42I love Daryl Green.
35:43To be able to run a 4-3 when you're 40 years old, it just doesn't make any sense.
35:50I remember watching one of those super-
35:53First of all competitions.
35:54Just how athletic he was.
35:56Daryl Green is the fastest man in the NFL.
36:03Have I lost a step?
36:05You tell me.
36:06Daryl Green's speed never left.
36:09Helping him set an NFL record by picking off a pass in 19 straight seasons.
36:14You line him up.
36:16The young Daryl against the veteran Daryl.
36:19I think it would have been a photo finish.
36:20It was after his career.
36:22But Daryl Green ran a 4-4-3 on his 50th birthday.
36:27I love that like somewhere they're serving cake.
36:29It's like a 50-year-old's birthday party.
36:31And we're like, yeah, Daryl's gonna go out in the back,
36:33in the backyard and run a 40-yard dash real fast.
36:36Da-da-da-da-da-da.
36:40In between the cake and the pinata,
36:42and like maybe they're watching Matlock,
36:43he's decided to go out and test his 40 time.
36:47How can a guy that's 40 years old run that fast?
36:50There's gotta be some vitamins you're taking,
36:53or some special conditioning program,
36:55or what are you, like, eating fish oil or something like that?
36:58Huh?
36:59I've never drunk one beer in 40 years,
37:01never smoked one cigarette, no marijuana, no drugs,
37:04boring life.
37:06Here's a guy who was just totally committed to plain living.
37:10If you ingest bad chemicals in your body,
37:13tobacco, alcohol, it's gonna kill cells.
37:16You're one of the 70's greatest and you're still playing!
37:19I like my ageless wonders to be smoking cartons of cigarettes,
37:22drinking till all hours of the night.
37:23Frankly, I like my ageless wonders like George Black.
37:26No question about it!
37:27As seniors or silver foxes or platinum people,
37:32I think if you've been taking care of yourself a long time
37:35and eating healthy and exercising,
37:37you can do amazing things.
37:38I think there's a lot of people who believe
37:40that even when he retired,
37:41he could have kept playing.
37:43Are you coming back next year?
37:44Oh, come on, man!
37:45He's still very competitive,
37:47and deep down inside,
37:49feels like he could still play if he had to.
37:55Our listeners made it clear
37:56that becoming an ageless wonder takes hard work,
37:59and sometimes a little upkeep.
38:02Do you know how much is that for his work?
38:03Just the act of it?
38:05No.
38:05Don't we all want to grow old gracefully?
38:07Nobody wants to be drollin'.
38:09Of course, it doesn't take the wisdom of an ageless wonder
38:12to know not everyone will agree with our list.
38:15Brett Favre should be one.
38:17To be mentioned with those people,
38:19I'm honored.
38:20Where's Jerry Rice?
38:21I am absolutely shocked.
38:24Calm down.
38:25Jerry Rice is on heaven.
38:27Dead of 1,000 yards,
38:3013,000,
38:311,000 receptions,
38:3313,000 yards,
38:34100 touchdowns,
38:35after turning 30.
38:38Another top 10 list.
38:40I think he'll be fine.
38:42A lot.
38:42Alright.
38:42My voice the best man
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