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Position: | Safety | ||||||||
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Born: | Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. | January 13, 1944||||||||
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High school: | Wilmette (IL) Loyola | ||||||||
College: | Notre Dame | ||||||||
NFL draft: | 1966: 2nd round, 17th pick | ||||||||
AFL draft: | 1966: 2nd round, 16th pick | ||||||||
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Nick Rassas (born January 13, 1944) is an American former professional football player for the Atlanta Falcons from 1966 to 1968. [1] He is also notable for playing college football at Notre Dame where he played for Hugh Devore as well as Ara Parseghian. [2] Rassas was portrayed as an underdog in the 2009 Jim Dent book Resurrection: The Miracle Season That Saved Notre Dame, which was based on the 1964 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team. [3]