After a successful career in business, Juntunen sold his company at age 43 and retired; he is an advocate for international adoption reform.
[1] Juntunen attended Lynbrook High School in San Jose, California,[2] and graduated in 1974.
[3] Sight unseen, he transferred to the University of Idaho in Moscow in 1976 to play for head coach Ed Troxel,[3][4] splitting time with Rocky Tuttle at quarterback for the Vandals as a junior.
As a senior in 1977, Juntunen was a co-captain and the team's offensive MVP, completing 52.7 percent of his passes for 770 yards and three touchdowns.
[8] At age 43, Juntunen sold a successful human resources firm in the Silicon Valley of northern California and retired in 1998, spending the next several years hanging out on ski slopes and playing golf.