When did the USMNT get so...old?

When the United States roster for the September qualifiers was announced, there were a few people who weren't super happy about some of the names on that list. Ok, it was actually more than just a few people. One of the big criticisms was this idea that the team was chock full of old players. So, let's tease that out a bit. Is the USMNT getting to be a bit old?

Yes.

Oh, you expected me to actually back that up with some data or something? Um, OK, then. Just be warned, there are graphs incoming.

I went ahead and decided to take a look at the ages of the players and figure out how they were distributed. What I did was take a player's age and, to simplify the process, drop their birthdate. As a…