Jeffrey Allan Feagles (born March 7, 1966) is an American former professional

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player who was a punter for 22 seasons in the

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(NFL). He played

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for the

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. He was originally signed by the

New England Patriots The New England Patriots are a professional American football team based in the Greater Boston area. The Patriots compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the American Football Conference (AFC) AFC East, East division. The Pa ...

as an

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in 1988, and retired in 2010 after last playing for the

New York Giants The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in the New York metropolitan area. The Giants compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) NFC East, East division. The ...

. Feagles is known for using the " coffin corner" punt. He earned

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selections in

1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

and

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

and won a Super Bowl ring with the Giants in Super Bowl XLII over the Patriots. In his 22-season career, Feagles never missed a game, a record amongst

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players.

College career

Feagles attended Gerard High School in Phoenix, Arizona and was a

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in football, basketball, and baseball. Following a single season at Scottsdale Community College, Feagles played

at the

University of Miami The University of Miami (UM, UMiami, Miami, U of M, and The U) is a private university, private research university in Coral Gables, Florida, United States. , the university enrolled 19,852 students in two colleges and ten schools across over ...

. He joined the Pi Kappa Alpha

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during his time as an

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. He won a national championship with Miami's 1987 team. Feagles was inducted into the University of Miami Sports Hall of Fame at its 40th Annual Banquet on Wednesday, February 13, 2008, at Miami's

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Professional career

In the summer of 2004, during Feagles' second season with the New York Giants, he offered newly drafted quarterback

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his #10, which was the same number that Manning wore in college. In exchange, Feagles and his family received an all-expenses-paid vacation to Florida paid for by Manning. He switched to 17 until wide receiver Plaxico Burress wanted the number; Feagles sold the number to him in exchange for a new kitchen in his house. 2007 marked Feagles' 20th NFL season. Prior to his affiliation with the New York Giants, he played for the

, the

Philadelphia Eagles The Philadelphia Eagles are a professional American football team based in Philadelphia. The Eagles compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) NFC East, East division. The team plays its ...

, the

Arizona Cardinals The Arizona Cardinals are a professional American football team based in the Phoenix metropolitan area. The Cardinals compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) NFC West, West division. The ...

and the

Seattle Seahawks The Seattle Seahawks are a professional American football team based in Seattle. The Seahawks compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) NFC West, West division. The club entered the NFL a ...

. He was a member of the

in their Super Bowl XLII win over the

on February 3, 2008, the first, and only Super Bowl of his 20-year career. At 41 years, 10 months, 26 days of age, he was the oldest player to have played in a Super Bowl, until the Colts' Matt Stover broke the record in 2010. Feagles earned his second career selection to the

in 2008. On April 30, 2010, after the Giants opened mini-camp, Feagles announced his retirement. Giants head coach Tom Coughlin said about the retirement, "He is 44 years old. He worked very hard for approximately a month right after the season just to try to tell himself again that he could do this and wanted to be able to do it. And then ran into some -- as we went on and started the offseason program -- ran into some of the physical tests that you have to go through as you continue to advance almost on a weekly basis. He has a program which is unique to himself, but he is having some physical issues. And so he has decided to deal with them." Feagles played 22 seasons and played in every single game, 352 games overall. Feagles holds the NFL record for most consecutive games played in a career. Feagles, as of 2020, is 4th all-time in most games played in NFL history; only Morten Andersen, Adam Vinatieri, and Gary Anderson have played in more games than he. Due to his appearance in his final career game on January 3, 2010 (against the

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), Feagles became the second-ever player professional football player (behind

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) to have played in four different decades. Feagles' former teammate John Carney joined him in the four-decade club in the 2010 NFL season.

NFL career statistics

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1989 1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin W ...

! style="text-align:center;", NE , 16 , , 63 , , 2,392 , , 38.0 , , 31.3 , , 13 , , 2 , - ! style="text-align:center;",

1990 Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...

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, 16 , , 72 , , 3,026 , , 42.0 , , 35.5 , , 20 , , 3 , - ! style="text-align:center;",

1991 It was the final year of the Cold War, which had begun in 1947. During the year, the Soviet Union Dissolution of the Soviet Union, collapsed, leaving Post-soviet states, fifteen sovereign republics and the Commonwealth of Independent State ...

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, 16 , , style="background:#cfecec;", 87 , , 3,640 , , 41.8 , , 34.0 , , style="background:#cfecec;", 29 , , style="background:#cfecec;", 11 , - ! style="text-align:center;",

1992 1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General. * January 6 ** The Republ ...

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, 16 , , 82 , , 3,459 , , 42.2 , , 36.9 , , 26 , , 7 , - ! style="text-align:center;",

1993 The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as: * International Year for the World's Indigenous People The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...

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, 16 , , 83 , , 3,323 , , 40.0 , , 35.3 , , style="background:#cfecec;", 31 , , 4 , - ! style="text-align:center;",

1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...

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! style="text-align:center;", ARI , 16 , , 72 , , 3,150 , , 43.8 , , 38.2 , , 20 , , 8 , - ! style="text-align:center;",

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

! style="text-align:center;", ARI , 16 , , 76 , , 3,328 , , 43.8 , , 36.4 , , 23 , , 6 , - ! style="text-align:center;",

1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...

! style="text-align:center;", ARI , 16 , , 91 , , 4,028 , , 44.3 , , 36.8 , , 24 , , 10 , - ! style="text-align:center;",

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

! style="text-align:center;",

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, 16 , , 81 , , 3,568 , , 44.0 , , 36.5 , , 27 , , 12 , - ! style="text-align:center;",

1999 1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons. Events January * January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers. * January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...

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, 16 , , 84 , , 3,425 , , 40.8 , , 35.2 , , 34 , , 5 , - ! style="text-align:center;",

2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

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, 16 , , 74 , , 2,960 , , 40.0 , , 36.9 , , 24 , , 2 , - ! style="text-align:center;",

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

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, 16 , , 85 , , 3,730 , , 43.9 , , 36.4 , , 26 , , 7 , - ! style="text-align:center;",

2002 The effects of the September 11 attacks of the previous year had a significant impact on the affairs of 2002. The war on terror was a major political focus. Without settled international law, several nations engaged in anti-terror operation ...

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, 16 , , 61 , , 2,542 , , 41.7 , , 37.0 , , 22 , , 4 , - ! style="text-align:center;",

2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

! style="text-align:center;", NYG , 16 , , 90 , , 3,641 , , 40.5 , , 33.9 , , 31 , , 6 , - ! style="text-align:center;",

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

! style="text-align:center;", NYG , 16 , , 74 , , 3,069 , , 41.5 , , 34.6 , , 23 , , 4 , - ! style="text-align:center;",

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

! style="text-align:center;", NYG , 16 , , 73 , , 3,070 , , 42.1 , , 37.0 , , 26 , , 3 , - ! style="text-align:center;",

2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

! style="text-align:center;", NYG , 16 , , 77 , , 3,098 , , 40.2 , , 37.0 , , 27 , , 3 , - ! style="text-align:center;",

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

! style="text-align:center;background:#afe6ba;", NYG , 16 , , 71 , , 2,865 , , 40.4 , , 36.0 , , 25 , , 5 , - ! style="text-align:center;",

! style="text-align:center;", NYG , 16 , , 64 , , 2,814 , , 44.0 , , 40.2 , , 23 , , 5 , - ! style="text-align:center;",

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

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NFL Records

On November 27, 2005, Feagles broke the NFL record for consecutive games played, with 283. The record was previously held by

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Jim Marshall who played from 1960 to 1979. His record stands at 352. Feagles holds the following NFL records: *Most consecutive games played, career: 352 *Most punts, career: 1,713 *Most punts inside the 20, career: 497 * Most punting yards, career: 71,211

Personal life

Feagles is married to Michelle. They have four sons: Christopher (nicknamed C.J.), Blake, Trevor, and Zachary. Christopher was a punter for the

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football team and played in the US Army high-school All-American game in 2008. Blake played wide receiver for UConn in 2013 and 2014. Zach was a punter at

Rutgers University Rutgers University ( ), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of three campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's C ...

and the

. Trevor did not pursue collegiate football, but currently attends

Loyola University Maryland Loyola University Maryland is a Private university, private Society of Jesus, Jesuit university in Baltimore, Maryland. Established as Loyola College in Maryland by John Early (educator), John Early and eight other members of the Society of Je ...

. Feagles currently resides in

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where he is a residential and commercial real estate agent for Keller Williams. He is also a member of the New York Giants Broadcast Team responsible for pre- and post-game radio content along with analysis on the Fox Giants Post Game Live show. Upon his retirement, Feagles was the 2nd to last active player behind John Carney to appear in the NES classic video game, '' Tecmo Super Bowl''.

References

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College career

Professional career

NFL career statistics

NFL Records

Personal life

See also

References