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You know the Seattle Seahawks. Have you heard of the other Seahawks … in Norway?

The Åsane Seahawks American football team in Bergen, Norway, was born 20 years ago, in March 1998. Today, its head coach is a 28-year-old Seattle native. This is the story of the Seahawks football team you probably haven't heard of.

A Seattle native is the head coach of the Seahawks.

No, not the Seattle Seahawks. The other Seahawks.

The Åsane Seahawks American football team in Bergen, Norway.

In 1985, a 16-year-old Norway native named Jon Torstein Bakken spent a year as an exchange student at Forks High School, roughly 140 miles west of Seattle.