American Football: Egg Football too in the Olympic Stadium?

Berlin bald | Iris Spranger seems to enjoy her job. In any case, the SPD politician is rarely seen in a bad mood on public occasions. Being a Senator for the Interior isn’t always fun. It is about dire issues like exports; the job gives you a projection surface for finishers of all kinds, which is why personal protection is always necessary. Perhaps that is why the theme of sport is linked to the interior section to provide a counterbalance.

And so, since taking office in 2021, Spranger could be seen congratulating him at the German Athletics Championships in the Olympic Stadium, at the European Handball Championships and also at the Football Euros. But now the grandfather has found another sport for herself: American football. In other words, the game in which, despite the name, the foot is used only for kick-offs and a kind of free kick and the ball looks more like an egg .

Last weekend Spranger felt this way game in Munich look It was hosted there by two teams from the NFL, especially the US Bundesliga in soccer, whose final, the Super Bowl, is shown on television around the world every February. And although in Munich, based on the local football situation, teams from the division Bochum and Hoffenheim met each other, the stadium was full and the city – and not only according to Spranger – was already full of football fans the day before.

Spranger hoped at a press conference on Tuesday that this would happen at least three times at Berlin’s Olympic Stadium between 2025 and 2029. There was an official resolution from the Senate that the state of Berlin should appeal to the US league management for games so foreign.

Is this a state government issue?

That may have been the case during times of great upheaval, Trump, traffic lights being turned off and so on in Berlin there are still unresolved budget problemsseems rather banal for a state government. However, she could not decide anything very important this week because the leader and deputy leader, Kai Wegner (CDU) and Franziska Giffey (SPD), are not in Berlin, but in the US – although not because of football.

However, the issue is not completely preventable: according to Spranger, the state of Berlin would have to invest around 12 million euros within four years, but it could earn many times that amount. One one NFL host show in Frankfurt am Main it is said to have brought 110 million euros in added value. The changing rooms need to be rebuilt and the grass pitch extended – but this should not come at the expense of the blue tartan track for athletics.

The NFL wants to decide in the next few weeks if this will happen – “I’m looking forward to the decision,” said new football fan Spranger on Tuesday.