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...undistinguishable under his helmet and football gear. At first, the bar's patrons would cheer just the brief mention of Lynch's name on national TV, but after a few years of such random mentioning by Summerall and Frank Gifford and Howard Cosell, they grew restless. They wondered when Fran would duplicate his two-touchdown feat against the Jets. But he never did. He carried the ball only rarely for the Broncos, when Little was hurt, and even then he was just a workmanlike runner. Most of his years were spent on the Broncos' special teams, where he, along with...
Whenever he returns to his hometown of Fairfield, Fran Lynch is treated by his contemporaries with a mild deference. His football career has always been a mystery to them. They remembered him as the fourth best player on his Roger Ludlowe High School team and as a star on a Hofstra team that played its games before small student crowds...
They remembered, too, the day in 1968 when they sat in this very same bar, watching a Denver Broncos-New York Jets game on the television, and they saw Fran Lynch, a substitute back, score two touchdowns for the Broncos at Shea Stadium. But they remembered little else of Lynch's professional career, other than that he did have a career, for nine years. He played as a backup to Floyd Little, the Broncos' all-star running back, and on special teams, and was one of those little-known players who make a career out of perseverance, luck, good health...
...Fran Lynch survived professional football for more years than did a host of more famous names -- Gale Sayers, Earl Campbell, Larry Brown. He lasted until 1975 when a leg injury, so debilitating it was thought he might never walk again, ended his career...
...oblivious to. He smiles every now and then at a comment by Summerall, as if Summerall had missed the point of a tackle, and once in a while, he will nod vigorously at something Summerall says, as if in total agreement. Sometimes something happens on the screen that causes Fran to make an abortive gesture in his chair, a twist of his shoulders, as if eluding a tackler, and suddenly he catches himself. He looks around sheepishly, but no one has noticed. ("Sometimes in the bar, I have to catch myself," he says. "I don't want to seem pushy...