Super Bowl World Champion Germany!

Super Bowl 

Deutschland ist Weltmeister!

That's a headline from today's online edition of normally laid back German weekly Die Zeit. Bringing you a headline in the original font size is rare for us, but you can see why we would.

In virtually all areas of life, not hearing about events in the U.S. media does not mean they do not exist.  We had to emphasize this, sorry.

Do they play American football in Germany? They do but on a scale far under soccer in the U.S. 

American football in Germany really was a GI sport, played by military personnel without much German involvement, unless you count the German wives of U.S. personnel. These days, there even is a German American Football association, which ranks as number 42 on the list of German sports associations. A couple of ranks behind underwater basket weaving, according to our research cats.** 

The National Football league even tried to get a football-hold in Germany some ten or fifteen years ago, which didn't work out, it seems. As a result, the website www.nfl-deutschland.de has nothing whatsoever to do with football.

The odd report on the Super Bowl is not new in Germany. It is a cheap and easy way to fill leftover columns, but you must have been wondering why they claim the World Champion title.

Germany is Super Bowl World Champion because one (1) of the New England Patriots players grew up in German and learned his craft here.

That's all you need to claim the title for a whole country? 

Well, the blogster should probably change its*** resume to include its TIME magazine person of the year award. From the one year, in which TIME put a small mirror on the front page and a "You" as person of the year.

Given the German champion logic, this would be ethical, wouldn't it?

If I find the copy of TIME magazine, I'll put it in front of the cat. So, don't be surprised to see a future post touting a cat person of the year.

** We have not recovered from the loss of our Random Research (RR) team and recently decided to make one of the cats work for its food. If you would like to try cat research, open a browser search window and simply put the critter's front legs on the desk in front of the keyboard. Then wait.

*** Gender neutral as advised by TheEditor.