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- ↑ "LSU graduate and NFL agent Albert Elias dead". NOLA. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
- ↑ "Agent Albert Elias has died". National Football Post. Archived from the original on 2012-12-24. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
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