He attended Bakersfield's South High School and Bakersfield College before enrolling at Oregon State University where he played college football under Dee Andros during the "Giant Killers" season of 1967.
[1] The entire 1967 squad was later inducted into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame.
[2] Rasley was also inducted into the Bob Elias Kern County Sports Hall of Fame.
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.
[6] Prior to joining the NFL, Rasley was a competitive wrestler.