David Morris, a private quarterbacks coach and the founder of QB Country, was in the gym one day, staring at the kid sitting against the wall doing an arm care routine. He was 6'4", pushing 230 pounds with white-blond hair and blue eyes.
“Dude,” Morris said to him. “I guarantee your great-great-grandfather is Viking or something.”
Holton Ahlers laughed. As a matter of fact, Ahlers’s brother had just done an Ancestory.com search. He wasn’t just part Viking, he was Viking royalty, a bloodline descendant of Ragnar Lothbrok. Lothbrok nearly took out the Holy Roman Empire with just a pair of ships, according to legend. He was such a revered warrior that he had to be killed via a pit of venomous snakes. In the television show Vikings, a George Kittle–looking Lothbrok is portrayed by Travis Fimmel.
