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Finding
FRANK BUNCOM | MORE THAN AN EXCEPTIONAL ATHLETE At first glance, if there’s anything striking about his image, it may very well be the smile. It shows Buncom with an exuberance for life and an exuberance for his future. And it’s that wonderful openness, that wonderful smile that embodied him so well. That Buncom reached a certain stature playing college and professional football falls far short if using only that yardstick in measuring and quantifying his life, calculating his contributions. If it were at all possible, if asked today, most probably So how does one correctly measure a life and evaluate an existence? What separates typical, normal experiences from, in Buncom’s case, extraordinary hope, extraordinary virtue? What suggests uniqueness in a life, a specialness? Maybe the process in finding extraordinary does not have to be so complex, so terribly perplexing. Maybe all one has to do is reach back to a childhood, reach back into a previous time and pull out nuggets, pull out charms and snippets that suggest the unexpected and the unusual. |
Finding Frank: Full Circle in a Life Cut Short |
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$ 16.00 USDLimited Time! Special offer for readers of this website: $9.99 -- a savings of $4.00! (plus sales tax and $5.00 shipping charge) Finding Frank is a great read for anyone who is interested in exceptional personalities during an exceptional period in this country's history -- the 1960's. Frank Buncom's lessons are still being taught 44 years after his death. |
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NOVEMBER 2, 1939 - SEPTEMBER 14, 1969
The San Diego Chargers recognized
That there would be no future for Frank Buncom could not have been foretold that morning. He was 6’ 1”, 240 pounds and able to dominate football opponents with speed, strength, and bruising, thunderous booms. By all accounts except for a recent knee injury, he was healthy, robust, and serene; he and his wife of just one year recently had celebrated the birth of
When Cincinnati’s paramedics and Bengal team trainers arrived that morning in room 139,
He was 29 years, 10 months and 12 days old.
A few hours before game time in the Bengal locker room,
Days later, trust funds established by both the San Diego Chargers and the Cincinnati Bengals players were created for Buncom’s wife
When asked why two competing professional football teams would start similar endowments, former Charger teammate
Some 40 years later in an assertion to Buncom’s perpetual admiration by people who knew him, former teammate
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“He was an angel.
*** Excerpt taken from: Finding Frank: Full Circle in a Life Cut Short
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