SAN DIEGO -- Philip Rivers is an NFL quarterback once again.

This news will spawn all sorts of clumsy jokes and quips.

Will Indianapolis Colts players call him gramps? If the Seahawks sack him Sunday, will the refs flag them 15 yards for elder abuse?

Rivers, 44, is indeed a grandfather. And it's been almost five years since he played in an NFL game.

But Rivers being Rivers, it's not surprising that he joined the Indianapolis Colts' practice squad Tuesday. Rivers loves playing so much, he started 240 consecutive NFL games, the most by a quarterback other than Brett Favre.

"He never gets bored with it," Norv Turner said long ago, explaining Rivers' enthusiasm for practices, film study and games.

Keep this in mind: when Rivers left the NFL, it wasn't because he was washed up

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