Heading to Vienna, again

2012 will be a year in the Austrian Football league for the second time in my career. I am proud to say that I will be a part of one of the most storied franchises in the history of football in Europe. Vienna will be our home, and the Vikings will be our team. Mary and I will head across the pond at the beginning of February and begin preparations to kickoff the season at the end of March. The Vikings will be competing at the highest level of Europe in the Eurobowl as well as playing in one of the toughest leagues on the continent, the Austrian Football League. The Vikings lost in the semi-final of the Eurobowl and in the Austrian final last year, both losses coming to the hands of the rival Innsbruck Raiders. A final ranking of #2 in Europe was a testament to how well the Vikings organization competed in 2011. The goal for 2012 will be to be the best team in Europe and hoist two trophies that will be contested in back to back weekends.. July 21st (Eurobowl final) and July 28th (AFL championship).

The biggest unanswered question is will there be a chance to reproduce the opposite of this picture...


There have been a couple of recent press releases and once more you'll need to download the google toolbar and/or use google language tools to translate the German into English.

Vikings press release
AFL press release
Football-Austria online magazine

11 postseason nominations for the Crusaders

The 2011 Super Series Season was headlined by two teams, the Champion Carlstad Crusaders and the vice-champs the Tyreso Royal Crowns. The Crusaders prevailed at the end of last month for their second championship ever and in as many years. The Swedish American Football Federation proved this past week that these two teams were at the top of the league from an individual standpoint as well. Each team was honored with 11 nominations and each team had players nominated for 8 out of the 11 possible awards. My biggest congratulations to each of the players who were nominated. The Crusaders nominations are as follows:

Import of the year: Eli Cranor, Joey Stein
RB of the year: Christian Forsman
WR of the year: Fredrik Eklund, Fredrik Isaksson
OL of the year: Thomas Falklind, Carl Romlin
DL of the year: Olof Flemstrom
LB of the year: Johan Bjorn
Rookie of the year: Christian Kuylenstjerna
Coach of the year: Tracey Gere