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This 61-Year-Old Grandpa Is the Oldest College Football Player in History

Faulkner University Eagles Alan Moore Is Oldest College Football Player EverAlan Moore’s name is cemented in the history books. Although he hasn’t yet played his first game, the 61-year-old grandpa is officially the oldest player in college football history.

Moore, who will play this year for the Faulkner University Eagles in Montgomery, Alabama, is breaking some major boundaries. His story, alone, is an inspiration.

In 1968, Moore gave up his football aspirations to fight in the Vietnam War. Then, he headed home to work in construction. After three kids, five grandkids and decades of lapsed time, he decided to return to his long-lost passion. CBS News has more:

Moore lives in the dorms, eats in the cafeteria and attends class, proving, observes “Early Show on Saturday Morning” co-anchor Russ Mitchell, he has the mind, the heart and foot to compete with players young enough to be his grandchildren.

Moore told Mitchell on the show, “I’m feeling real good. It’s really nice to be here with (his young teammates). It’s an honor to be out here with those guys.”

Watch this WIAT-TV for more:

Of course, many people are wondering why Moore is heading back on the field at such an uncommonly older age. His explanation is simple: “I think it‘s just because I could do it and I’m willing to do it and I enjoy doing it.” But there’s more to his motivation than simple enjoyment. CBS42.com reports:

On the field Moore is living his dream, but it’s not just all about football– he’s also serving as a role model, and most importantly he’s getting his education.

“I can go and try to influence these kids here to not give up on their education like I did. The more we educate the less we incarcerate,” Moore tells us.

While his story is astounding, Moore admits there are some things he can’t do like he used to — like, for instance, running 40 yards. But at 61 years of age, who can fault him for that?

(h/t CBS News)

Comments (42)

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  • TAXEVERYONE
    Posted on September 5, 2011 at 3:39pm

    Go Alan Go!

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  • Bodysnatcher
    Posted on September 5, 2011 at 1:13pm

    Old age is not for those of faint hearts.

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  • HD Veteran
    Posted on September 5, 2011 at 12:26pm

    He is setting a great example, we all are going to need to work harder and longer to continue supporting the entitlements that are used to buy votes.

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  • Hisemiester
    Posted on September 5, 2011 at 12:24pm

    Good show Alan. Just be careful and don’t get hurt.

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  • Jenny Lind
    Posted on September 5, 2011 at 12:15pm

    I am in the same boat. I can’t do as much or as fast as I used to, but I get it done! I learn something new everyday and try to show you are not a veggie in your 60′s. Good for him, good for us, the older gang but not sitting around feeling like a potted plant. Life is good, even in tough times, there is always something new and exciting to do and learn! Most important, many of us are involved in geting our country back on track for the next generations. TEA!

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  • Carp_resident
    Posted on September 5, 2011 at 12:04pm

    I taught my children and now am teaching my grandchildren that anything is possible. Work hard and pursue your dreams and they will come true. All my children did just that and all have made their dreams come true and are very successful. I say go for it Alan and never let anyone tell you that you can’t do it. Those people are just quitters and quitters will never win! Being a loser sucks but losing and then quitting sucks even more. Are all you losers learning anything yet?

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  • thegreatcarnac
    Posted on September 5, 2011 at 11:27am

    This man is inspiring, especially for anyone over 50. Good for him.

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    • kennyg933
      Posted on September 5, 2011 at 12:00pm

      At 46 I started taking balet lessons. It was inspiring for the 6-8 year old girls in my dance class to see my thick, hairy, 46 year old legs doing brise and cote de in front of the other moms and dads at the big recital. The tu tu was a little tight when I first joined the class, but with some weeks of abusing ex lax and throwing up after every meal like the professional ballerinas I wanted to emulate, I found myself trim and inspired. I was proud to bend over and pick my rose up off the stage when the girls and I took our bows at the close of the program and I just knew that they would forever be inspired by seeing me out there with them in the sea of other parent’s flash bulbs and cheers.

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  • BBReggie
    Posted on September 5, 2011 at 11:24am

    Thanks to all who responded to my post! I’m happy to report that I enjoy life to the fullest. If my life “sucks”, I guess I have an incorrect understanding of the word. As to working hard at this age, I agree that working hard is the correct and adult thing to be doing at 60 – there is nothing better. Going to college and dressing up in a football costume just seems immature.

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  • utilityman211
    Posted on September 5, 2011 at 11:10am

    * 2nd try!

    I find the story of Mr. Moore quite appealing. I also returned to college this year after a hiatus of three decades. In 1977, I was offered a full scholarship to a private college to play bass guitar in their new jazz ensemble. I turned down the offer in order to play professionally. After three years I determined that college was indeed where I really needed to be. I completed two years of general classes at a community college, after which I took employment in various non-musical occupations, including elected political service. I found myself in a position at the age of 52, to return to college and complete what I started a long time ago.

    I am currently enrolled as a full time music education major at a university. I participate in the marching band as a trombonist, a trombonist in the concert band and bassist for the jazz band and sing bass in the university chorus. My children are also at the same university as trombonists and music education majors. My fellow students and several instructors have finally stopped calling me “Mr” or “Sir” after the first few weeks and have just accepted me as an equal in a difficult program. I do not live on campus, but commute three hours round trip each day, five days a week.

    I am sure there are many similar stories across this great nation. We are never too old to attempt anything. How we live our lives and what contribution we make to our world is what is important, not the age at which we achiev

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    • utilityman211
      Posted on September 5, 2011 at 11:14am

      Sorry. . .I’ve never posted here before! The last line should read: “How we live our lives and what contribution we make to our world is what is important, not the age at which we achieve our goals.”

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  • wordweaver
    Posted on September 5, 2011 at 11:07am

    The reporter in the clip starts by saying that while these players were still in diapers, this fellow was serving in Vietnam. I think she needs to check her math. When this guy was in Vietnam, most these players’ PARENTS were in diapers!

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  • utilityman211
    Posted on September 5, 2011 at 10:59am

    I find the story of Mr. Moore quite appealing. I also returned to college this year after a hiatus of three decades. In 1977, I was offered a full scholarship to a private college to play bass guitar in their new jazz ensemble. I turned down the offer in order to play professionally. After three years I determined that college was indeed where I really needed to be. I completed two years of general classes at a community college, after which I took employment in various non-musical occupations, including elected political service. After raising my two children alone for the past eight years and insuring that they are receiving a college education, I found myself in a position at the age of 52, to return to college and complete what I started a long time ago.

    I am currently enrolled as a full time music education major at a university. I participate in the marching band as a trombonist for pregame and as a bassist for the half time show. I also am a trombonist in the concert band and bassist for the jazz band and sing bass in the university chorus. My children are also at the same university as trombonists and music education majors. I too am older than all of my instructors and division heads, except for two. My fellow students and several instructors have finally stopped calling me “Mr” or “Sir” after the first few weeks and have just accepted me as an equal in a difficult program. I do not live on campus, but commute three hours round trip each day, f

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  • jakartaman
    Posted on September 5, 2011 at 10:48am

    You are as old as you feel and act.
    I still think I am a kid sometimes until I look in the mirror!
    @ 66 I a wee bit more cautious I Know I can’t kick everyones butt anymore so I carry a S&M 9mm.
    Kinda makes me happy

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  • tankyjo
    Posted on September 5, 2011 at 10:33am

    That’s America!, boys and girls.

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  • rienheart
    Posted on September 5, 2011 at 10:30am

    I’m 61 and still surf, especially Big Wave surfing. Ride My Motorcycle everyday, work 2 jobs, and can remember things. Still in the game. Never stop being who you want to be. Dream it, be it.

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  • jungle J
    Posted on September 5, 2011 at 10:15am

    he is Free to do what he wants….he is FREE

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  • TomFerrari
    Posted on September 5, 2011 at 10:04am

    Look out, Brett Favre ! ! !
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    Way to go Alan Moore !
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  • skilaxdad
    Posted on September 5, 2011 at 9:57am

    Hey, I’ll be 60 in a few months, and I had a dream not too long ago that I was doing the same thing, except I was actually playing on the line or something, not just kicking (which I believe he’ll be doing). It was fun in the dream; but of course, I felt like I was 18, not almost 60, and it was just a dream.

    I say good for him. It certainly beats sitting around reading stories on The Blaze, and offering up unsolicited and completely irrelevant opinions on stories that are sometimes none of my business.

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    • TomFerrari
      Posted on September 5, 2011 at 10:10am

      UNSOLICITED????

      theblaze.com SOLICITS input at every possible opportunity.
      “SPEAK YOUR MIND” is above the comment box.
      The existence of the posting forum is entirely for our input and expression of opinions/ideas.

      “NONE OF OUR BUSINESS”???
      This confuses me. To what, exactly, are you referring?
      “IRRELEVANT” maybe, or “HARDLY NEWSWORTHY,” at times, but, “NONE OF OUR BUSINESS?”
      Please explain further – I’m not contradicting you on it, I just don‘t know what you’re talking about.
      .

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    • skilaxdad
      Posted on September 5, 2011 at 10:19am

      Key word: “sometimes”

      Unsolicited by the people that are being commented on, as though they are interested in my opinion.

      None of my business, as in the case of this man going back to college and playing football.

      Irrelevant, because these opinions have absolutely no bearing on whether or not he continues to do what he is doing.

      Or, are you of the ilk that actually believes, through an artificially inflated ego, that none of the above could possibly apply to you?

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    • skilaxdad
      Posted on September 5, 2011 at 11:02am

      TomFerrari:

      I apologize for the way that last paragraph may have come across. It really wasn’t intended as a personal slam.

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  • spinwizard
    Posted on September 5, 2011 at 9:37am

    not only a spammer, but a real jerk too, your mother must be proud.

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  • BBReggie
    Posted on September 5, 2011 at 9:29am

    I’m sorry to rain on the parade, but this seems immature to me. I’m 59, and I have learned that life is good if you act and be your age. He would be much better off if he put away childish things.

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    • piper60
      Posted on September 5, 2011 at 9:41am

      Oh, Waaaaaaa! Sounds like you’re jealous to me.

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    • YepImaConservative
      Posted on September 5, 2011 at 9:45am

      Who pee‘d in your stale Cheerio’s?

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    • lobster
      Posted on September 5, 2011 at 9:48am

      Well, Mr. Dufuss: I’m 72 and try to do a lot of stuff like laying floors (tile and wood),. I’m proud of this dude. Who says’ the little poops have to have all the fun? Would like to do 10 ks’ again, but DVT won’t let me.

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    • PAULfromIN
      Posted on September 5, 2011 at 10:37am

      One of my favorite quotes:
      How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were. (Satchel Paige)
      I don‘t recall ever seeing the chart that told me what I should or shouldn’t too at a certain age!

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    • CleanUpAisle2013
      Posted on September 5, 2011 at 10:53am

      It must suck to be you BBREGGIE. I have always told folks that the day I begin to act my age then you will know something is seriously wrong with me. And when you hear I have retired then that will be followed up by the day and time of my funeral. At 3 months from my #60 I proudly work 8 to 12 hours a day of hard, sweating, barely-if-ever-taking-a-break labor and consider it my 8 to 12 hour a day workout. People look at me when I tell them my age and almost always say two things.“I would have never have guessed you are almost 60” and “Do you work out?”. I enjoy responding, “Yeah, I work out … OUT-SIDE!”.
      In case you haven’t heard BB, 60 is the new 40. Get off your ass. Stop acting like an old geezer with an old geezer mentality. And rediscover that younger man in you who still can enjoy hard work as well as hard play.
      I say, “Go for it, Alan!” You make us young-old guys look good!
      Anyone wanna go chuck some frizz? (That’s throw some Frisbee for you old geezers.)

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  • starman70
    Posted on September 5, 2011 at 9:26am

    GO FOR IT!!!! Live your dreams, enjoy your passion.

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  • DagneyT
    Posted on September 5, 2011 at 9:22am

    He’ll be an inspiration to his team & classmates. Good for him!

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  • tgp42rhr
    Posted on September 5, 2011 at 9:20am

    After working 22 years in the Federal Prison System I can tell you that an education is no wall against being incarcerated. And as far as it being a preventitive against criminal activity, I give you the Congress, Judiciary and President(s) of the United States of America, criminals all!

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  • YepImaConservative
    Posted on September 5, 2011 at 9:04am

    Kind of reminds me of the Jim Morris (Tampa Bay Devil Rays) professional baseball story. Although Morris was in no way as old as this guy, it shows you can live the dream… or at least attempt to if you put your mind to it.

    For many these days… being 60 or 61 is like being in your early 50′s in body, mind and spirit as opposed to our mothers and fathers in their day.

    Good for this guy!

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  • DanWesson455
    Posted on September 5, 2011 at 9:01am

    At 59 this guy must be talking to me. Get off the couch. Get on the treadmill. Go to gym. Boy am I motivated. tomorrow, maybe next week I will do just that.

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  • Confederate
    Posted on September 5, 2011 at 8:56am

    Old guy’s rule!

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