His durability would inspire respect if many of his views were not so repellent. First sexism, then homophobia and now racism: Blatter's going for the Grand Slam of Bigotry.
Yet the 75 year-old clings to power. Actually, delete "clings". Like a medieval king, Blatter has constructed a court of grateful national association executives to make him untouchable.
Even craven comments about how racism can be solved with a handshake still do not cause more than a ripple of disapproval outside England. Sponsors remain largely behind the man driving the World Cup gravy train. Vested interests rule. So does Blatter.
The understanding in the formerly smoke-filled committee rooms of Zurich and Nyon is that Michel Platini, the president of Uefa, will take over at Fifa when Blatter concludes his final term in 2015.
Platini has made some mistakes, increasing the size of the Euros from 2016 and that unworkable experiment with linesmen behind the goals, but he is generally a force for good. His Financial Fair Play plans make sense in a sport riddled with debt.
The only way of accelerating that boardroom succession is through the dressing room. Only the players can rid football of Blatter and how fitting if they got in one of their own, one of the greatest players in Platini.
Rio Ferdinand has expressed his anger towards Blatter but it is a solitary sling-shot when a collective response is required.
QPR's manager, Neil Warnock, suggested a players' strike but withdrawing labour would not play well with the fans and industrial action is a questionable concept anyway.
The players need to hit Fifa where it is most sensitive, in the wallet. They should refuse all co-operation with Fifa's myriad commercial ventures until Blatter steps down. That might test the sponsors' hitherto solid support.
Now is the time for FIFPro to show some teeth. The international union of players' unions from England to Argentina, Brazil to Spain, Portugal to the Ivory Coast represents many of the leading names in the game, from Wayne Rooney to Lionel Messi, Neymar to Xavi, Cristiano Ronaldo to Didier Drogba.
So far, FIFPro has solely released a statement criticising "Mr Blatter", saying that his racist comments were "to put it mildly, rather clumsy" and inviting Fifa to show the players it is strong on prejudice.
FIFPro must take a lead, immediately getting the likes of Ronaldo, Rooney and Drogba to sign a letter condemning Blatter and then pursuing commercial ways of forcing him out of office.
One of the founding members of FIFPro, the Professional Footballers' Association, has already called for Blatter to resign.
"Blatter has shown he is out of tune, out of time and out of order,'' said Gordon Taylor, the chief executive of the PFA.
"Comments like Blatter's sets football back a long way. Football needs the change that the Olympics got [at Salt Lake]; that was similarly sinking into the mire. It's time for Platini.
"He's a more modern thinker. I've known him as a player and an administrator and I've always been impressed by him.''
Yet Platini's own organisation needs to take a tougher stance on racism. Uefa fined the Bulgarian FA only £34,000 for their fans' racial abuse of Ashley Young and Theo Walcott.
Uefa also failed to punish England supporters for their anti-Romany chants in Sofia. Yet Platini still has far more substance as a man and a leader than Blatter. Time for change.
