U-C-E in the U-S-A!
Early Wednesday morning, Carolina Panthers linebacker Frankie Luvu announced that he has now become an American citizen. The 26-year-old posted the following as part of his Instagram story in delivering the news:
Luvu was born in Tafuna, which is located on the east coast of Tutuila Island in American Samoa. Tutuila, the main island of the American Samoa, is the third largest in the Samoan Islands chain of the Central Pacific Ocean.
The Panthers backer, who is of Fijan descent by his father and of Samoan descent by his mother, attended Tafuna High School and moved to the mainland to play his college ball at Washington State University in 2014. Four years later, he’d break into the NFL as an undrafted free agent with the New York Jets.
Since his jump to Carolina in 2021, Luvu has become an unsung hero of sorts—at least to those outside of the know in Charlotte. But the rest of the NFL may be singing a new tune in 2023, and perhaps a little John Cougar Mellencamp while they’re at it.
