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Randy Rasmussen
No. 66
Position: Guard
Personal information
Born: (1945-05-10) May 10, 1945 (age 78)
St. Paul, Nebraska, U.S.
Height:6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Weight:255 lb (116 kg)
Career information
High school:Elba (NE)
College: Nebraska–Kearney
NFL draft: 1967 / Round: 12 / Pick: 302
Career history
Career highlights and awards
Career NFL statistics
Games played:207
Games started:199
Fumble recoveries:9
Fumble recovery TDs:1
Player stats at PFR

Randall Lee Rasmussen (born May 10, 1945) is an American former professional football player who was a guard for 15 seasons with the New York Jets of the American Football League (AFL) and later National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Nebraska–Kearney Lopers. Rasmussen played for the Jets in the 1968 AFL Championship Game victory over the AFL's Oakland Raiders, and started in the third AFL–NFL World 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, playing his final game in the 1981 playoffs against the Buffalo Bills. Rasmussen is one of five professional football players in professional 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.

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