Denver Broncos quarterback Joe Flacco (34) is considerably older than Courtland Sutton (23) and DaeSean Hamilton (24), two of the team’s top three wide receivers. The QB doesn’t find it hard to relate to his younger teammates, though, because he doesn’t view himself as their senior.
“I honestly think it’s funny, I just don’t think I’m 34,” Flacco said after practice on June 4. “I forget. I think I’m 23 too. It really does happen. I’ll be sitting in there and we’re just shooting the breeze in the locker room, cafeteria, wherever, and you really forget. It’s like, ‘Oh my God, these guys are 10 years younger than I am at least.’ It doesn’t really dawn on me.
“I really don’t see it that way. Everybody wants to talk about age and things like that. In this sport it really doesn’t matter that much. It’s just about going out there and preforming. Being in an NFL locker room, you never grow up. I don’t care how old you are. Thirty-four is not really that old. I know it’s old in this sport. You don’t grow up. I plan on being a kid the rest of my life.”
Flacco is right — age doesn’t matter if you can still perform.
New England Patriots QB Tom Brady is 42 years old and he won yet another Super Bowl in February. Twenty-one-year-old rookie wide receiver N’Keal Harry won’t care that Brady is 21 years old than him if they have chemistry on the field. In Denver, Sutton and Hamilton won’t mind Flacco’s age, either.
