He played college football with the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, earning consensus All-American honors 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.

[1] He was a bulwark of the Atlanta offense, playing right tackle, a key part of a line that limited Falcons opponents to just 31 sacks in 1971.

Kunz suffered a back injury in the first game of the 1978 season that knocked him out not just for the rest of that year, but for the entire 1979 Colts campaign.

[4] Kunz, a former Academic All-American at Notre Dame, found the transition difficult but achievable, later telling a journalist: "My fist day in class I had to ask another student how to turn on my computer — I was the oldest one there.

[4] He opened a legal practice in Las Vegas dealing with matters of family law, adoption, and personal injury.