Above all else, George Blanda was a football player.  He was drafted by the legendary George Halas of the Chicago Bears out of the University of Kentucky, and he served as the team’s quarterback, placekicker, and linebacker at various times.  That was in 1949.  Ten years later, he retired from the Bears, only to come back a season later and join the nascent American Football League, in a sense becoming Favre before Favre.  He played his last game, as a member of the Oakland Raiders, in 1975, at age 48.  It was this long-running and successful NFL career that got George Blanda into the Hall of Fame as the oldest man to ever play professional football, the NFL’s all-time leading scorer at the time of his retirement, holds the record for most touchdowns thrown in a game, is the oldest man to ever start a championship game, and was the first fantasy football draft pick ever when the game was invented in 1962.  Blanda passed away yesterday at age 83.

Talk about a career, eh?  We should all be so lucky to be doing what we love for as long as we can.  “He’s a legend who you think would live forever,” former Raiders coach Tom Flores said.  “He was about as tough a competitor as I’ve ever been around, and he never changed.  He became a very good friend.”

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