Rocky Rasley

{{Short description|American football player (born 1947)}}

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{{Infobox NFL biography

| name = Rocky Rasley

| image =

| number = 67, 66, 63

| position = Guard

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1947|4|27}}

| birth_place = Bakersfield, California, U.S.

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 3

| weight_lbs = 252

| high_school = South (Bakersfield)

| college = Oregon State

| draftyear = 1969

| draftround = 9

| draftpick = 216

| pastteams =

• Detroit Lions ({{NFL Year|1969}}–{{NFL Year|1973}})
• New Orleans Saints ({{NFL Year|1974}})
• Kansas City Chiefs ({{NFL Year|1975}})
• San Francisco 49ers ({{NFL Year|1976}})

| highlights =

• First-team All-Pac-8 (1968)
• Oregon Sports Hall of Fame (1967 OSU Football Team)
• Kern County Sports Hall of Fame

| pfr = R/RaslRo20

}}

Rocky Rasley (born April 27, 1947) is an American former professional football player who was a guard in the National Football League (NFL) from 1969 to 1976. He attended Bakersfield's South High School and Bakersfield College before playing college football for the Oregon State Beavers under Dee Andros during the "Giant Killers" season of 1967.{{Cite web|url=http://oregonstate.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=121020|title = BeaversEdge - Season of the Giant Killers - Final Thoughts| date=27 August 2002 }} The entire 1967 squad was later inducted into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame.{{cite web |url=http://www.oregonsportshall.org/inductee-members.html |publisher=Oregon Sports Hall of Fame |title=Hall of Fame Roll of Honor Members |accessdate=May 5, 2011 |url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727152755/http://www.oregonsportshall.org/inductee-members.html |archivedate=July 27, 2011 }} Rasley was also inducted into the Bob Elias Kern County Sports Hall of Fame.{{cite web |url=http://kcsportshalloffame.org/inductees/rocky-rasley/ |publisher=Kern County Sports Hall of Fame |title=Hall of Fame Inductee Rocky Rasley |accessdate=November 30, 2011}}

Rasley was one of five Beavers selected in the 1969 NFL/AFL draft, and was selected in the ninth round (216th overall) by the Detroit Lions.{{Cite web| url=http://www.osubeavers.com/pdf7/17831.pdf?ATCLID=153842&SPSID=27968&SPID=1952&DB_OEM_ID=4700 | title=Beavers in the pros | access-date=2006-08-14 | archive-date=2016-03-03 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303231658/http://www.osubeavers.com/pdf7/17831.pdf?ATCLID=153842&SPSID=27968&SPID=1952&DB_OEM_ID=4700 | url-status=dead}} He played with the Lions for the 1969 and 1970 seasons, was on the Lions' taxi-squad during 1971, and rejoined the team for the 1972 and 1973 seasons.[http://beckys-place.com/2005images/rasleybio.jpg Rocky Rasley] He then went to the New Orleans Saints for a season, followed by a season with the Kansas City Chiefs. Rasley was selected by the Seattle Seahawks in the 1976 NFL Expansion Draft, but did not make the active roster and wound up playing for the San Francisco 49ers his last season.{{Cite web|url=http://beckys-place.com/60rasley.html|title = Seattle Seahawks Spirit of 1976 Page}}

Prior to joining the NFL, Rasley was a competitive wrestler. He finished 6th in the heavyweight (+100 kg) weight class at the 1969 FILA Wrestling World Championships in freestyle wrestling.{{Cite web|url=https://www.iat.uni-leipzig.de/datenbanken/dbfoeldeak/start.php|title=Wrestling Database}} Rasley also wrestled for the Oregon State Beavers wrestling team, and was a letterman in 1968.{{Cite web | url=http://osubeavers.nmnathletics.com//pdf6/26123.pdf?SPSID=37974&SPID=1958&DB_OEM_ID=4700 | title=Let us ask you something. And tell us the truth. | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120721222532/http://osubeavers.nmnathletics.com//pdf6/26123.pdf?SPSID=37974&SPID=1958&DB_OEM_ID=4700 | archive-date=2012-07-21 }}