TexasTerror
February 15th, 2010, 02:32 PM
I came across this story on Buck Buchanan while searching the interwebs today. Can you imagine him being a 19th rounder in the premiere league and the No. 1 pick in what was seen as an also-ran league? The AFL got it...
Imagine a defensive lineman who is 6-foot-7, 287 pounds. Imagine that he can run a 40-yard dash in 4.9 seconds.
High draft pick? Depends on what league you were in in 1963, when Junious (Buck) Buchanan was coming out of Grambling. In the NFL, he was a 19th rounder, taken by the New York Giants.
In the American Football League, which was entering its fourth season? No. 1 overall by the Kansas City Chiefs, where he turned into a Hall of Famer, one of the major players on a Kansas City team that lost the first Super Bowl to Green Bay, then beat Minnesota, 23-7, in Super Bowl IV, establishing once and for all that the win by Joe Namath and the Jets over Baltimore the previous year was no fluke.
Continue reading... here (http://nfl.fanhouse.com/2010/02/15/buck-buchanan-chief-concern-for-kansas-citys-opponents/)
Imagine a defensive lineman who is 6-foot-7, 287 pounds. Imagine that he can run a 40-yard dash in 4.9 seconds.
High draft pick? Depends on what league you were in in 1963, when Junious (Buck) Buchanan was coming out of Grambling. In the NFL, he was a 19th rounder, taken by the New York Giants.
In the American Football League, which was entering its fourth season? No. 1 overall by the Kansas City Chiefs, where he turned into a Hall of Famer, one of the major players on a Kansas City team that lost the first Super Bowl to Green Bay, then beat Minnesota, 23-7, in Super Bowl IV, establishing once and for all that the win by Joe Namath and the Jets over Baltimore the previous year was no fluke.
Continue reading... here (http://nfl.fanhouse.com/2010/02/15/buck-buchanan-chief-concern-for-kansas-citys-opponents/)