GOTEBORG, Sweden - It is a pity William "Refrigerator" Perry,slimming in seclusion in the United States, will miss the first profootball game in continental Europe, because his figure would evokememories of this city's hero and founder.
The story goes that King Gustav Adolph II of Sweden establishedGoteborg by climbing atop an outcropping of rock, pointing at thesite beneath him, and declaring imperiously: "The city shall behere."
The king was built like a defensive tackle who had failed tomake his prescribed weight. There was no coach to tell the king hecouldn't play because he was too fat, so Gustav Adolph waded intoscrimmage in the Thirty Years' War and was …
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