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The Colts are bringing back ageless wond

What is dead may not die, Lenny Dykstra Jersey which is a really morbid way of saying that will not be going away from football because the agele s kicker is returning to play for the for one more season, at least.The Colts are announcing the move on Thursday afternoon and Adam Schefter of ESPN reports it is a one-year deal for Vinatieri.That means Vinatieri , a remarkable achievement that will make him the fourth-oldest player in NFL history.As colleague Jared Dubin noted yesterday, only George Blanda, Morten Anderson and John Carney can boast being older NFL players, with Blanda (48!), Anderson (47) and Carney (46) all playing in the league at a riper age. Vinatieri will actually turn 46 during the 2018 season, as his birthday Odubel Herrera Jersey is Dec. 28. He's really old for a football player -- he started kicking in 1996 and top draft prospect Saquon Barkley was BORN in 1997. Perspective on Adam Vinatieri still playing? His first NFL field goal came on the same day the Ravens played their first regular season game in Baltimore. Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) And it's not inconceivable that he could continue Steve Carlton Jersey to play a few more years: he's still kicking at a high level, having made 85.3 percent of his field goals during the 2017 season, a number that would have been higher had for one game in Buffalo.Only twice since 2009 has Vinatieri been below 80 percent on his field goals made. He is a remarkably consistent and durable player for the Colts. Also of interest: he will now have three more years with the Colts than he had with the , which feels impo sible considering how many huge kicks he had in New England. But here we are: Vinatieri, Colts kicking legend. Interestingly, Vinatieri has gotten much more accurate on long kicks as he's gotten older, hitting 86.5 percent of his kicks from 50-plus yards for the Colts, versus just 81.9 percent of those kicks with the Patriots. Bill Belichick let him attempt only 17 kicks from 50 yards or more with New England in a full decade of kicking. Dave Hollins Jersey Wild stuff.Vinatieri now needs 58 points in 2017 in order to pa s Anderson for most points in NFL history -- Vinatieri is at 2,487 while Anderson's at 2,544.He hasn't had le s than 25 field goals in his past four years with the Colts, which means it would be a pretty ma sive upset if Vinatieri didn't pa s Anderson and cement his place in Canton during the 2018 season. Of course, you have to wait five years to actually get in the Hall of Fame, so it might be a full decade before Vinatieri gets in at this rate. Tommy Hunter Jersey It would hardly be surprising to see him still kicking well into the 2020s.

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