Super Böwl!

So believe it or not, here in Europe, you can watch football. Yeah, that was a joke. of course you can watch football, of course every american calls it soccer. But seriously, American Football is to be found around here and so I got to watch the Super Bowl here in Germany (and stayed up all night to do so!) On the first weekend I came to Thüringen (before I moved here from my summer wonderland of Radolfzell am Bodensee), I was in the city of Jena, which is about a half hour from Erfurt by train. It is about half the size of Erfurt, but the University there is about 4 times as big, and so has a huge student, and therefore exhange student population. Apparently there were enough Americans to have an American Sports Bar and Grill called, of all things "Cheers". I actually posted a pic of it way back in Sept if you check the archives. What is even stranger, is that it is not even mostly Americans there every sunday watching these NFL games, it is Germans and they play American Football there in Jena! It was certainly a strange cite to see many germans sitting around with letterman jackets that looked straight of the 1950s.
I have to consider myself one lucky fellow. As soon as I move away, my teams start winning and I am not there to actually bask in the glory of wacthing the actual games. My prime example is the WVU Mountaineers. The football team wins the Big East outright, and then goes on to win their BCS Sugar Bowl. What? WVU won a Bowl game?! Heilige Scheisse! Not only that a BCS bowl, and in dramatic gutsy fashion. Mein Gott! How could I have missed it. I worried that I was never going to witness my team ever win a big game. Perhaps it was best. Maybe after all I was a jinx and watching my teams casued them to lose. I decided to test it and watch the NFL playoffs and see my Steelers play for the Super Bowl. I wore the triumphal Sugar Bowl shirt that my dad had sent me as some form of good luck because I was without any Steelers shirts. What luck it brought I don't know, but for three weeks (oops! I missed the AFC championship game while in Amsterdam, but I still wore that shirt!) in a row, I watched the Steelers win games they weren't supposed to win. It was amazing! Then the Super Bowl came. Cheers was packed with Germans, Americans, anyone from anywhere (I had canadian, belgian and greek friend join us for the game.)The feed was from ABC, so we were able to watch all the ceremonies and halftime show. But since it was broadcast from the North American Sports Network, it didn't show the commercials, which is one of the most essential parts of the whole experience. So ich war ein bisschen entauscht. Naja, my Steelers won!
It is weird how my teams win have won since I've been gone, at least I was able to watch these Steelers win one for the thumb, finally and catch up to the Cowboys and 49ers. The price was only a little lost sleep. Next Year they will take the record on most Super Bowl victories. Now I am just wondering if I am going to have find a way back to Germany to make sure they win.