Name Randy Rasmussen Height: 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) Role American football player | High school: Elba (NE) Weight 116 kg College: Nebraska–Kearney Positions Guard | |
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Date of birth: (1945-05-10) May 10, 1945 (age 70) NFL draft: 1967 / Round: 12 / Pick: 302 Education University of Nebraska at Kearney | ||
Place of birth: St. Paul, Nebraska | ||
Randy Rasmussen: Football Guard
Randall Lee Rasmussen (born May 10, 1945) was an American football guard for fifteen seasons for the New York Jets, beginning with the 1967 American Football League season. He played for the Jets in their AFL Championship game victory over the AFL's Oakland Raiders in 1968, and started in the third AFL-NFL Championship Game (Super Bowl III), in which the Jets defeated the NFL's Baltimore Colts. He was the last of the starting Jets players in the game to retire from playing pro football, playing his final game in the 1981 playoffs against the Buffalo Bills. Rasmussen is one of five professional football players in pro football history who attended the University of Nebraska at Kearney. He was the only one of those five to be selected in the NFL draft.
