Nuu Faaola
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Position: | Running back | ||||||
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Born: | Honolulu, Hawaii | January 15, 1964||||||
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College: | Hawaii | ||||||
NFL draft: | 1986 / Round: 9 / Pick: 245 | ||||||
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Nu'u Fa'aola (born January 15, 1964) is a former running back of Samoan ancestry who played in the National Football League from 1986 to 1989. He played for the New York Jets and Miami Dolphins primarily on special teams after playing collegiately at the University of Hawaii. Fa'aola attended Farrington High School in Honolulu, Hawai'i.
In media
During his playing days he dated future Miss America Carolyn Sapp, starred in a 1991 autobiographical television movie, Miss America: Behind the Crown which depicted her as the victim of physical abuse at Faaola's hands. Records indicate she filed a police report against him and obtained a restraining order in October 1990 (Good Housekeeping magazine, Sept. 1992.)
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Categories:
- 1964 births
- Living people
- American players of American football of Samoan descent
- American football running backs
- University of Hawaii alumni
- Hawaii Rainbow Warriors football players
- New York Jets players
- Miami Dolphins players
- Players of American football from Hawaii
- American football running back, 1960s birth stubs