Nicholas Anthony Lassa, (July 11, 1898 – September 4, 1964) more popularly referred to as Long Time Sleep, was a professional American football player from the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana.

[1] Lassa attended and played college football at the Carlisle Indian School and Haskell Institute.

The Oorang Indians were an all-Native American football team based in La Rue, Ohio and formed by Walter Lingo in 1922 to help promote his Airedale kennel.

In fact he is most remembered for wrestling a bear as part of a halftime show of one of the Indians' games.

[3][6] After the team folded in 1923, Lassa stayed near LaRue, earning his living as a professional wrestler and strongman.