The famous actor appeared a couple of weeks ago in a restaurant in New Hampshire, wearing a Norwegian hockey uniform.
– It’s kind of funny, says sports manager in Frisk Asker Vidar Wold, when VG picks up the thread Monday night.
In a video shared on social media, American movie star Adam Sandler is seen arriving at a restaurant in Manchester in New Hampshire, USA, wearing an orange hockey uniform with the Dressmann and Sparebank 1 logos.
Sandler is known for his roles in “Billy Madison”, “Happy Gilmore” and “Grown Ups”.
– It’s great PR for Frisk, says Wold.
History goes back in time. Sandler is an old friend of former Frisk Asker player Kyle McDonough. The American played Askerlaget for six seasons from 1996 to 2002.
Their friendship is, among other things, the basis of “Happy Gilmore”, where a hockey player, played by Sandler himself, discovers that he is better off on the golf course than on the ice of hockey.
Adam Sandler himself talked about it when he attended the New York Film Festival in 2019.
– When Kyle played in Frisk at the time, we joked that Kyle had to arrange a photo of Adam in a Frisk suit, says Wold.
According to Wold, McDonough fixed a great photo of Adam Sandler in the suit, which has been hanging in Asker’s dressing room to this day.
– Great fun
When Wold was on vacation with his brother and McDonough this summer, they are said to have joked that the image needed to be recreated – and with this year’s Frisk dress.
He says they have made two suits at home in Norway: one for McDonough and one for Sandler. They were sent to Kyle who handed over the suit.
– He sent four or five photos of the two of them together in costume, says Wold.
The back of Sandler’s suit is marked with his surname and the number ten.
– She thought it was so cool that she’s been wearing it ever since she got it, for lunch and dinner.
– And now videos have abounded on Twitter and Instagram of him in a Frisk suit. It’s a lot of fun, says Wold.
Wold says young people playing Frisk today struggled to believe it when they saw old photos of Adam Sandler in a Frisk suit.
– But now they have to believe it! Now she is in this year’s dress.
