ORANGEBURG, S.C. — Around 2 p.m. on Friday, June 30, Dennis Brothers, a general supervisor in the Orangeburg Parks & Recreation Department, was surveying the area around the city’s Edisto Memorial Gardens when he noticed a black Honda Accord idling on a sloped strip of grass near a parking lot entrance. Unaware that the man behind the wheel was either dying or already dead, Brothers thought that the driver had backed up too far and would soon exit the lot. A half-hour later, curious, he returned to check if the car was still there. It was.
Inside was Max Runager, 61 years old, the punter on the Eagles’ 1980-81 Super Bowl team, a Super Bowl champion with the San Francisco 49ers four years later, a veteran of 11 NFL seasons, a local hero here for his athletic accomplishments.