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Position: | Linebacker |
Personal information | |
Born: | Yatesboro, Pennsylvania, U.S. | June 27, 1944
Died: | April 20, 2015 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. | (aged 70)
Height: | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) |
Weight: | 230 lb (104 kg) |
Career information | |
College: | Louisville |
NFL draft: | 1966 / round: 4 / pick: 60 |
AFL draft: | 1966 / round: 9 / pick: 72 |
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Stats at Pro Football Reference |
Douglas John Buffone (Pronounced "Buff-OWN") (June 27, 1944 – April 20, 2015) was an American professional football player who was a linebacker for the Chicago Bears in the National Football League (NFL). Buffone, the son of a coal miner (whose parents were Italian immigrants from the southern province of Cosenza, regione di Calabria), attended high school at Shannock Valley High School in Rural Valley, Pennsylvania.