ELBA — It was a celebration in Elba this week as Super Bowl champion Randy Rasmussen was on hand to present the school with a golden football from the NFL.
It’s all part of an effort by the league to honor high schools of any player who has competed in the big game ahead of Super Bowl 50.
Rasmussen is a 1963 graduate of Elba, where he went to school from kindergarten all the way through. In 1969, he played the offensive line for the New York Jets as they beat the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III.
He jumped at the opportunity to make the trip from North Carolina and present. “If it’s going back to Elba, you don’t have to ask me to come back there,” Rasmussen exlplains. “If I can give a boost to the school, give a boost to the community, that’s great.”
With a Super Bowl ring gleaming off his hand, Rasmussen shared stories of growing up in central Nebraska, taking the train to various field trips and, of course, playing football in the pastures around Elba.
The golden football in the trophy case at Elba to give future generations a sense of pride in their home town.
