Gustav Säcken

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Oh my.

First, let me admit that I had no idea there was American Football in Sweden. Ras plays for AIK (Allmänna Idrottsklubben, or General Sports Club?) Amerikansk Fotboll in Stockholm.

Second, I’d love to have another foreign defensive player on campus like Richard “Le Sack” Tardits. A love of football translates well into any language, but wrapping your tongue around a Swedish version of “Go Dawgs, Sic ‘Em” would be another thing altogether.

Third, he’s 6’4”, 235, with a nearly seven foot wingspan. Give Kirby credit for seeking talent far and wide, while potentially locking down recruiting in not only the state of Georgia but the Scandinavian Peninsula, as well.

Gå hundar, hämta dem! (Or as best as Google Translate can tell me that’s the translation).

14 thoughts on “Gustav Säcken”

  1. There is american football all over europe… but done quietly as well as baseball, especially in Netherlands…

    • In 1998 wife and I were in Holland taking a train from Schipol to Centraal Sation and passed a facility with teams playing baseball in the rain. Bert Blyleven, for example. That said, I have to wonder if this Swedish guy looks so good because the guys he is getting his film against just aren’t that good.

  2. Viking country – offensive guards and interior defensive linemen
    Dutch and Flemish – tight ends

      • only if those French were descendants from the Ivory Coast.

  3. Why do I have “Immigrant Song” playing in my head as I read about this?

    “We come from the land of the ice and snow
    From the midnight sun where the hot springs blow
    The hammer of the gods will drive our ships to new lands
    To fight the horde, singing and crying: Valhalla, I am coming!

    How soft your fields so green, can whisper tales of gore”

    If we get him, the stadium music director needs to be on the mutha…

      • Personally I played Led Zeppelin so much in my youth I can hardly stand any of it. I think Physical Graffiti was in my car tape deck for a couple of years straight.

        I don’t listen to them anymore not because I don’t think its good (I think they’re the most talented group of musicians to play rock and roll music ever assembled), I just wore myself out with it. I’m pretty sure I can still list the order of every song on every album save Presence and of course I know the good songs on that one too.

        But Immigrant Song is the one I can still get into. “Good times Bad times” is another.

        In short, you’re wrong. Immigrant Song rocks!! Everyone knows this:

        https://youtu.be/oFPzs7bxJsQ?si=CMbsE3h2NbkN04Mv

        • In short? LMAO.
          What do Robert Plant and Natalie Merchant have in common?
          Minimal talent riding great, talented bands into the Hall of Fame…
          AaAaaaYAAH! AaaAaaaYAAH!

  4. Did the Settlement allow for international players to get paid? If not, figure Kirby getting these guys on the cheap is his angle in the new landscape. Also, our roster could encompass Hawaii to Sweden? Dawgs are bad and worldwide!

    #GoDawgs

  8. I hated when Tardis walked into the Odessey. He was a chick magnet and it was like the rest of us might as well leave. But he was a great guy to hang out with and a DGD.

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