A former professional football player, Rick Mirer, is now an entrepreneur and philanthropist. While in the NFL, he founded the Mirer Family Foundation to assist children in his hometown and beyond and to provide Notre Dame scholarship funding for scholars in the surrounding area. Rick graduated from Notre Dame with a B.A. in Marketing in 1993. While in the NFL, Rick availed himself of opportunities to learn business skills through the NFL's Business Management & Entrepreneurial Program and attended the NFL Player Development Executive Program at the Kellogg School of Management.