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When the viking gone Country shopping cowboy upWild Bill’s Western Wear Downtown Dallas TXWell, this just happened. 🤠⚽ Erling Haaland visited Wild Bill’s, and we’re still smiling about it! One for the history books.As a family-owned business, moments like these mean the world to us. Thank you for stopping by and spending time with our team. We’re especially happy to hear you had a great time during your visit—that’s exactly the kind of experience we hope every guest leaves with.From our Wild Bill’s family to yours, thank you for making this such a memorable day. Y’all are always welcome back anytime. 🤠Erling Haaland, Norway’s large, maniacal striker, has several exceedingly Norwegian traits. He sometimes exercises by chopping wood in the forest. He consumes 6,000 calories a day. After training sessions, he drinks raw milk. He owns a tax-sheltered investment company in Luxembourg named Pillage. He bought an edition of the “Heimskringla,” a 13th-century Old Norse saga, for $130,000—then donated it to his local library because, he explained, “I’ve never been much of a reader.” He has flowing blond hair, often compared to a Viking’s. He brings the intensity of a raiding party to the sport. Haaland scores goals at a higher rate than almost any soccer player ever. He has said, “I think of football all the time.” His wake-up alarm plays the theme song for the Champions League. He once posted a photo of himself on a plane, staring ahead intensely, with the caption “Just raw dogged a 7 hour flight no phone no sleep no water no food only map.” The Guardian once called him a “ravenous Nordic goal-yeti.”Haaland’s style of play elicits not wonder but terror. He is enormous: six feet five, 200 pounds, about the size and speed of the N.F.L. wide receiver Randy Moss. “Watching him, I sometimes find myself giggling as I might over a big, obscene crash at a demolition derby,” Zach Helfand writes. Read more: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1E2U9tkGQ6/https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/_CTMegFollowing a World Cup victory, Norwegian soccer star Erling Haaland visited Wild Bill’s Western Store in Downtown Dallas, buying cowboy boots and a popular t-shirt that is now nearly sold out after going viral on social media.