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The German learns why American sports teams move cities.
Here’s our plan to make American sports leagues better: every city gets a team (for each of the big 4) and relegation is introduced. Also billionaires have to buy their own stadiums. Lastly, give Seattle its basketball team back.
Do you want your team to be owned by fans?
Classic Hamburg shirt, thumbs up for staying loyal in challenging times 🤩
No hockey?
Quite impressed Habs remembers what the Bundesliga is like concidering how long its been. ;-P
Another great video as always gents!
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Coca Cola make toasters?
When you break it down, both sides are defending their traditions. European fans are afraid of having their teams taken away from them due to commercialization, American fans want the biggest spectacle possible and are willing to pay for it. I'm cool with either side, because I both enjoy watching my local German football club and the NFL.
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Football in USA: A day with the family
Football in Europe: Leave wife and children at home it’s gonna be war!
I think both systems could benefit from each other.
It would be good for the american leagues if they started to relegate the worst teams to a lower tier in order to stop those teams from tanking. No one "wants" to loose if they have to fight for their place in the league.
What I would love in germany is if they took the american draft system. I like that the bad teams of the last season get better talents for the next season. It's more possible to rebuild and start a comeback.
The „doch!“ joke was chef's kiss! 😂😂😂
Man they hit the college sports atmosphere/discussion nail on the head with this one. Great video
I am getting the impression that in the us everything is about the money. Sports, health, religion…. government
Forgot about the Minneapolis Lakers moved to Los Angeles.
Nice Dr. Strangelove hand control moves you got there…
Nur der HSV
But nine. 😂
Why are we running our sports leagues like the Premier League? "Oh honey" who do you think the EPL got the ideas from to run the league like they do?
Usa is hyper capitalist country with socialism in sports. The soviet union had more capitalism in their leagues
Well, the German Bundesliga is a really bad and at the same time a really good example.
In the first league, there are several clubs that have received significant sums from private investors, and the story of Hoffenheim (which I still can't even point out on a map, despite being quite good with geography) is mainly a story of successful investment rather than a romantic sports movie with several training montages. Also, yes, Bayern Munich wins every time, this is true as well. At the same time, however, Bayern – despite my personal dislike of them and their pompous nature – is still a traditional club with a long-standing cultural heritage dating back to 1900.
Anyway. Even if the fight for the top spot has become dramatically less interesting over the past decades, there's still the always-open ended relegation fights, the fight for the second spot, the international spots et cetera.
The 2nd league, at the same time, attracts almost as many viewers and stadium-goers as the first – that's because there, too, are usually big, tradition-rich clubs in there (like HSV from Hamburg – the German dude is wearing their jersey, it's my favourite club as well…despite the fact they've been in the second league for about six years now).
I'm not sure about the American mentality towards sports, but in Germany, wherever you're born primarily determines what club you'll be a fan of. Born near or in Hamburg, you're HSV or St. Pauli fan. If you were unfortunately born near or in Bremen, you'll be a Werder Bremen fan (again, my condolences).
There are execptions to that rule, there always are, and they are just as respected. When I worked in the Black Forest region (south-western Germany) a couple years back, I once drove past a house perched on a steep slope next to the road that had a garage painted with the HSV logo. Either they're "expatriates" from the North, or they're just HSV fans for some cool reason.
The unfortunate shadow that such fandom casts is the tribalism that this encourages: There are so-called "Ultras", hooligans who seem to care little about the sport itself and instead have an exaggerated sense of loyalty to the club, often resulting in alcohol-fueled brawls outside the stadium and forbidden pyrotechnics inside the stadium, frequently provoking a game pause. Though only rarely will these actions end up in a complete abort of all activities on the field, leaving the game to be repeated on a different date and resulting in comparatively high penalty sums that not those "Ultras" pay, but the very club they're fan of.
Though it should be said that only very rarely will there be innocent people harmed by such incidents: Ultras are usually perched into their own stadium sections, and that's cool with everyone involved.
Most of them are peaceful anyway, and I personally have met my share of them. Their fandom doesn't permeate their very being, they work normal jobs, they just have a different way of spending their free time. In fact, "Ultras" usually organize themselves into or are part of fan clubs, which play an important part of keeping the fan culture alive.
You know this funny considering everything that has happened in the current season and whole leverkusen story
So what’s the deal with College ball?
He got a point ablout Bayern winning every ear… but theres 2-3 other tournaments where they often loose.
I think my grandpa is the “one” Charger fan. Poor guy
American Teams: We moved from this city to this city to this city…
European Teams: Our fans are furious because we're moving to a new stadium 2km away from our old one where we've been playing since 1895.
Also, Americans, please please please work on your chants. It's not a proper sports chant if you're not grossly insulting the opposing player/team/fans/referee set to the melody of a well known classical piece, folk song or tv show theme.
touched on it briefly, but I do appreciate how in the US the worst teams are getting the best new players. This video was fantastic. Thank you!
That doch was great I don‘t get how English speaking people live without a word to disagree in a discussion without contributing to it in any way.
Teams moving cities is such an appalling concept to football fans outside the U.S.
The fact that you now call it soccer instead of football means deep down you already lost the struggle 😅
If you are native from Gelsenkirchen, you get to chase your team around the stadium. We call it the "Uth-hunt"
sometimes other teams do win. its happening this season and it feels weird.
As a Chargers fan, ouch! But fair.
Wener Herzog! ❤
Soccer? Its football, why even a german does this mistake….
Unrealistic, a german or any european for that matter would never call it soccer. It's football.
We dont own the teams but we do get to pay for the stadiums with tax dollars
It might be unpopular to say, but i feel like you can have good billionaires in sports. Billionaires in sports isnt always terrible in the same way that fan ownership isnt always great, but the important thing, and the reason i respect the bundesliga fans, is that they stick to their guns about it.
And American sports billionaires are very different to Asian or European ones. Most Americans own sports teams to make money, everyone else tends to lose money on sports, it's a passion project for them.
Only move I can think of that makes a semblance of sense was the Seattle Pilots moving to Milwaukee to become the Milwaukee Brewers.
As an Aussie AFL fan I love how the Bundesliga prioritises the fans. Sport is for the ppl. Not billionaires and sports washing states.
The majority of our clubs are fan governed NFP entities. 150yrs plus some of them and 4th most attended league in the world. Not bad for a country the size of a continent with 25m ppl where half play rugby league.
0:39 Dr Strangelove lässt grüßen! 😆
Ever heard of the great lakes of Los Angeles? Yeah, me neither.
At least US sports has salary caps and therefore keeps leagues interesting. In Europe the rich teams can just buy up everything and dominate domestic leagues. 30 years ago I definitely would have agreed with you when your leagues were still competitive.
thats a cool toaster
I love the double reference of the appreciation of "doch" and the movies!
Nein – doch – oh….. very good!
Anyone else spotted?
I think part of the reason americans care so much about college sports is exactly brcause of how weird the adult sports leagues are
Soccer?! That's football.
America is a plutocracy at this point. The government bends over backward for the corporates in this end game capitalism
Talking about money and sport. After more than 70 years, the DFL and DFB (German Football Association) are giving up their partnership with Adidas because Nike from the USA has made them a "better" offer. Pathetic.
Affordable ticket prices aka COMMUNISM!
Were can I get a toaster like that in Germany. Looks pretty cool
Ye gods, every day, another pile of shit from the USA…. 🇬🇧