Dick Pesonen is a former defensive back in the

National Football League The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC). The NFL is one of the ...

. Pesonen first played with the Green Bay Packers during the

1960 NFL season The 1960 NFL season was the 41st regular season of the National Football League. Before the season, 33-year-old Pete Rozelle, the general manager of the Los Angeles Rams, was elected NFL commissioner as a compromise choice on the twenty-third ...

. He was later selected in the

1961 NFL Expansion Draft The 1961 NFL expansion draft was a National Football League (NFL) draft in which a new expansion team, named the Minnesota Vikings, selected its first players. That selection was provided by the expansion draft, held on January 26, 1961. In August ...

by the

Minnesota Vikings The Minnesota Vikings are a professional American football team based in Minneapolis. They compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the National Football Conference (NFC) North division. Founded in 1960 as an expansi ...

and played that season with the team. From there he played three seasons with the New York Giants.

References

1938 births Living people American football defensive backs Continental Football League coaches Green Bay Packers players Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs football players Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs men's basketball players Minnesota Vikings players New York Giants players People from Grand Rapids, Minnesota American men's basketball players {{Defensiveback-1930s-stub