History of age-37 quarterbacks

Extending your career to age 37 and beyond is a relatively new phenomenon in the NFL. How 37-year-old Matthew Stafford will perform this season is anyone’s guess, but the possibility of being the best quarterback in the league is only imaginable because we’ve seen it happen before with 37-year-old MVPs like Peyton Manning and Aaron Rodgers.

Could Stafford be the next?

A brief history of the 37-year-old quarterback

The only two pre-1990s quarterback to throw over 400 passes at age 37 were George Blanda, who had a league-leading 505 attempts for the Houston Oilers in 1964, and Roger Staubach.

I think George Blanda’s widow still is cashing his civil war pension check pic.twitter.com/fOImtFJKzB

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