George Kunz

Tackle at the University of Notre Dame, he was 1968 consensus First-team All-American and a member of 1966 Notre Dame national championship team. He was a two-year starter at right offensive tackle and co-captain of Irish team in 1968. In addition he was National Football Foundation Scholar-Athlete honoree in 1968, being voted Academic All-American in 1968 and winner of NCAA post-graduate scholarship. Kunz was regarded as the best offensive lineman of his draft class in 1969. == Professional career ==

Kunz was selected in the 1st Round of the 1969 NFL/AFL draft by the Falcons with the 2nd overall selection. Kunz managed to return in 1980, seeing action in 9 games with 6 starts, == Life after football ==

In 2007, at the urging of his wife Mary Sue, the 59-year old Kunz went back to school, enrolling in the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Kunz, a former Academic All-American at Notre Dame, found the transition difficult but achievable, later telling a journalist: "My first day in class I had to ask another student how to turn on my computer — I was the oldest one there. Once I got back into the flow of it, it got a little easier but football killed a lot of brain cells. The bottom line is, I wasn't at the top of my class, but I wasn't at the bottom, either." Kunz graduated in 2010 and subsequently passed the Nevada state bar exam. He opened a legal practice in Las Vegas dealing with matters of family law, adoption, and personal injury. ==References==