Which NFL player holds the record for having played the most seasons?

barker111

George Blanda holds the record having played 26 seasons as a kicker. http://football.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fespn.go.com%2Fsportscentury%2Ffeatures%2F00014110.html Aug 11 05, 6:55 AM

bigponder

While Blanda was always a kicker, he was also one of AFL's best quarterbacks during the early 1960s. He also was a valuable backup QB for the Oakland Raiders late in his career. Aug 11 05, 7:48 AM

skysmom65

Jim Marshall, 282 -- most consecutive games played It's hard to get excited about longevity records. They're all about plugging away, week in, week out. They're also about luck, and will. (In Marshall's case, the will to play after running the wrong way for a touchdown, and after shooting himself by accident while cleaning a gun.) But Jim Marshall's mark is something special. Beginning with Cleveland in 1960, and continuing through 19 seasons with the Vikings from 1961 through 1979, the defensive end was a quiet mainstay of the Purple People Eaters, the line that anchored one of the greatest defenses in NFL history. When he played his last game in December 1979, against the Patriots in Foxboro, he was 41 years old. Marshall, his coach Bud Grant says, was "a physiological impossibility. He just doesn't rip, bust or tear." Aug 11 05, 9:19 AM