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Mike Flynt
Mike Flynt was swapping stories with some old football buddies in the summer of 2007 when he brought up the greatest regret in his life – getting kicked off the college football team at the beginning of his senior year.
So, one of his buddies asked him, “Why don’t you do something about it?”
Most 59-year-olds would have just laughed. Flynt's only concern was if he was eligible.
Finding out he was, Flynt returned to Sul Ross State University 37 years after he left as a player on the 1970 Sul Ross football team.
Flynt has given a new meaning to being a college senior. After all, he's a grandfather and a card-carrying member of AARP. At the time he went back to play, he was eight years older than his coach and two of his kids were older than any of his teammates.