Bob Faeber wants you. Faeber, 35, owner of Action Buick in North Hollywood and a longtime semipro football player, needs a team to play in the Arctic Bowl on May The game will take place in Oulu, Finland, just a few hundred miles below the North Pole. In addition to playing in the Arctic Bowl, a player will live with a Finnish family, eat free tuna pizzas and reindeer steaks, see the sights and get to play in a second game, this one near Helsinki in a city called Turku.
Faeber promises to interrupt the good times with only 10 hours of practice. The team will be called the California All-Stars. But just because he is using the word all-star and playing in a bowl game it does not mean that Faeber is looking for players who were college starters in another life. Paul College in Minnesota.
Faeber says that a passport and equipment are the only player requirements. And maybe the ability to remember to get on the bus. Get the latest on L. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
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