47-year-old California dad joins college football team in wild comeback

A college football athlete whose injuries derailed his playing career during his freshman year has decided to come back onto the field and compete — at the age of 47. Justin Buzzard, a South Bay pastor at Garden City Church, tried out for and made the football team this year for the San Jose City College Jaguars. Forty-eight-year-old San Jose City College defensive end Justin Buzzard. GetSportsFocus Buzzard told NBC Bay Area that he got the idea after his son flagged for him a social media reel where a man in his sixties was playing football on the East Coast. Buzzard said he played football all throughout high school and the first year of college. “It stirred up in me this thought of, maybe I should give it a shot,” he said on reviving his football dreams. Sign up for the California Morni