What are the age limits in football retirement
No matter how battered and bruised a football player may get he never wants to retire . . . to oblivion anyway.
A football player even with just average talents feels the need to continue with some form of football experience after retirement. He may join with other adults on a local semipro team. It may be just touch football with the neighborhood teenagers. A wealth of worthwhile activity awaits him as a coach in Junior Football such as the Pop Warner Leagues.
Medical research has conclusively established the point that bodily health and vigorous exercise go hand in hand regardless of a person's age. This would indicate that Bill Hefflefinger of Yale who played football actively from the time he was 15 until he was past 65 was only doing the sensible thing. He played past "fatty degeneration of the heart", ambled on well out of reach of tensions and heart attacks and lived out 86 useful years on earth. The "grand old man" of football, coach Amos Alonzo Stagg lived well past 100 years of age.
Where there's life . . . there's football. where there's football . . . there's LIFE!
If the present trend continues in televised gridiron contests we may ultimately see 60 and 70 year old men playing Pro-Football. As the advertising spots increase in number and duration, Grandfather or even Great-Grandfather can catch his breath and rest up for each new play in between commercials.
