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Risto Luostarinen—The 1989 Estonian Bowl (Part I)
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EPISODE SUMMARY
Risto Luostarinen, a founding member of the American Football Association of Finland (SAJL) and a 2005 inductee into the Finnish American Football Hall of Fame, talks how America's game came to Finland, and the Estonian Bowl—the first game of gridiron football not only in Estonia and the Baltic states, but also in the Soviet Union, played in Tallinn on June 3, 1989, during the summer before the Iron Curtain fell.
Risto served as vice-chairman of the SAJL (1979–1980) and twice as the…
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