“Iron Mike” Webster wasn’t the only freakishly durable member of my Team for the Ages’ five-man interior-line crew – two centers and three guards.
These guys toiled – mostly in anonymity – year after year; some of them starting every game for more than a decade. They were the unsung heroes on some of the most dominant teams in NFL and AFL history.
C Mick Tingelhoff
Talk about humble beginnings. Tingelhoff started for just on year at Nebraska and wasn’t drafted. But he signed with the Vikings as a free agent in 1962, won the starting job as a rookie and kept it for 17 years and never missed a game, starting 240 straight, the third-longest streak in NFL history.