The 20-season club: These 21 players are the NFL’s true iron men
When Drew Brees plays his first game in 2020, he’ll join a small club of players who have logged 20 seasons in the NFL. To date, just 21 men have reached that exclusive mark of longevity. It’s an interesting mix of kickers and quarterbacks, Hall of …
Gary Anderson: 23 seasons
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The native South African played for six teams over 23 years, making 538 field goals, four Pro Bowls and both the 1980s and 1990s All-Decade Team along the way. And yet when Anderson is remembered, it’s for missing a field goal at the end of the 1998 NFC championship, keeping a 15-1 Vikings team from making the Super Bowl. Such is the life of a kicker.
