{"id":937339,"date":"2026-07-15T20:59:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T20:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/937339\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T20:59:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T20:59:21","slug":"taxidermied-raccoons-are-seeing-unprecedented-demand-thanks-to-norwegian-soccer-star-erling-haaland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/937339\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxidermied raccoons are seeing unprecedented demand thanks to Norwegian soccer star Erling Haaland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you’re in the market for a taxidermied raccoon<\/a> \u2014 and let’s be honest, who isn’t? \u2014 you may have some trouble tracking one down, and that’s all thanks to soccer player Erling Haaland.<\/p>\n

The Norwegian superstar took the tournament by storm, leading his team to the quarterfinals and becoming one of this edition of the World Cup’s<\/a> biggest names.<\/p>\n

Not just because of what he did on the field, but also because of the way he fully embraced American culture, part of which involved certain souvenirs.<\/p>\n

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Norway’s Erling Haaland walks across an Oslo runway with his now-famous taxidermied raccoon. (Photo by Jan Langhaug \/ NTB \/ AFP) \/ Norway OUT)<\/p>\n

Haaland was seen hopping off the team plane back in Norway<\/a> with a stuffed raccoon holding an empty bottle of booze.<\/p>\n

That got a lot of attention because, well, let’s be honest, it’s a little odd<\/a>. It also turned out that it was part of a taxidermy collection the Manchester City star picked up during the tournament.<\/p>\n

That raccoon getting Haaland’s stamp of approval meant that suddenly there was a surge in demand, one the western shop where he bought it is having trouble meeting.<\/p>\n

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According to Front Office Sports, Dallas’ Wild Bill’s Western Store is fresh out of stuffed raccoon and has even been shipping internationally for the first time because of the demand<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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A Dallas western shop is reportedly having trouble keeping up with taxidermied raccoon demand thanks to Erling Haaland. (Photo by Jan Langhaug \/ NTB \/ AFP) \/ Norway OUT)<\/p>\n

There’s a good lesson here: you never know where your biggest success could come from.<\/p>\n

There’s no way the Wild Bill’s Western Store long game was, “So, in 2026, the World Cup will be in the U.S., and we’re going to bank on a Norwegian guy having a real affinity for stuffed raccoons.”<\/p>\n

If that is how they drew it up, more power to them, but I’m comfortable assuming that it wasn’t.<\/p>\n

But hey, I’m sure they won’t complain about Erling Haaland using his power to influence global taxidermied raccoon demand to help their bottom line.<\/p>\n

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I certainly wouldn’t.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the TSA \u2014 which has really been faced with some strange conundrums thanks to the World Cup<\/a> \u2014 posted on X<\/a> that there’s no rule against flying with a booze bottle-wielding stuffed raccoon, but suggested consulting individual airlines.<\/p>\n

Matthew Reigle is a writer for OutKick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you’re in the market for a taxidermied raccoon \u2014 and let’s be honest, who isn’t? \u2014 you…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":937340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[27],"tags":[188349,306237,159,221,154669,67,132,68,837],"class_list":["post-937339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-odd-news","tag-outkick-sports","tag-science","tag-soccer","tag-the-world-cup","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-wildlife"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116926007572691825","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=937339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/937340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}