SportsPickle - Filed Under "Johan Franzen" http://www.sportspickle.com/tag/johan-franzen Filed Under "Johan Franzen" /article/6014 Severed Head Re-enters Game to Score Key Goal in NHL Playoffs Mon, 18 Apr 2011 06:31:57 -0400
Detroit Red Wings forward Johan Franzen had his head lopped off early in the team's Game 2 match-up against the Phoenix Coyotes. But after team physicians were not able to reattach the head in time for Franzen'...]]> /article/938 Red Wings Fan Disappointed By Jonathan Franzen Reading Thu, 27 May 2010 11:45:58 -0400 Brian Russell, a 41-year-old Detroit Red Wings fan, was dismayed after attending a reading/signing by novelist JonathanFranzenat the KGB Bar on Sunday night. Heads turned as Russell entered the bar twirling an octopus over his head, loudly chanting “Let’s go Wings!” among the subdued patronage.


Franzen, who was reading a passage from his forthcoming novel,Freedom, briefly paused, but continued despite the disturbance, commenting that some of his fans were “more fanatical than others.”


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