Berlin Thunder Ho-oooooh.

Today was the big day! Today was the home opener for the Berlin Thunder! If you haven't already heard, the Thunder is the NFL EUROPA team for Berlin. I was pretty excited for today because not only did I manage to get a free ticket (oh yeah) but the game was at Olympiastadion. This is the spot where Zinadine Zidane headbutted the Italian (don't remember his name, and frankly he can eat a D anyway..) and pushed France toward losing the 2006 World Cup Final. More importantly however, this stadium was the keystone to the 1936 Berlin Olympics that saw Jesse Owens win the gold medal over a Japanese runner and a German. From where we sat today I could see where Hitler must've been seated when he saw his Aryan ubermenschen crushed by an African-American.
So that was pretty cool. All in all its a really well designed stadium and the beers come in .5 or 1 liter sizes. God damn. It was like a pitcher of beer just asking to be chugged.

Pointless sidenote: At the White House Correspondents Association dinner a few days ago Rich Little, a Canadian comic who does a lot of impressions, bombed pretty badly. Luckily, I googled him and came across his homepage, where you can buy his sweet tribute drawings of celebrities and presidents. A different kind of impression I guess. You have to buy a membership and then you receive a drawing periodically in the mail. Sounds awesome. I want Tom Cruise first though.

Post Script: Yes I wore my Buffalo Bills T-Shirt. I'll put some of the other bizarre photos on flickr asap.