Don't know exactly how it was until the 1990s, but in 2001 a cover version by Dutch "Hermes House Band" was released and it got up to rank #2 in the German charts and also got awarded with a platinum record. And I knew that version before I discovered the original by John Denver.
also check out what rich eisen had to say about the game and the atmosphere. he called the game live from munich and he is in sportsmedia for like 30 years now. he said it was a party…
I know Nalf too, but more than 2000 or 3000 visiters were never in a stadium to watch AF. And the payment is horrible compared to the US. No visiters, no money 😮
Ryans reaction to Jerseys, Song title, Stadium feels like "oh, you have cars?", "oh, there are supermarkets?", "you go to restaurants?". 😂 I like your videos 🥰
"how do you guys know the words?" we sang it in 6th grade when we started learning English 😂 Germans love country music actually. And this song is just iconic.
A lot of german coverbands play this song and it's adopted to our party scene for decades. And was this Ivan from the B-Brothers store in the crowd? Btw., most people between 20 and 40 have almost no accent here. We learn english for 5 to 10 years in german schools.
I wouldn't say no accent, most people have a clear and distinguishable German accent. It's just with songs the accent is normally less strong, for a variety of reasons. But I certainly would agree that most 20 to 40-year-olds here are fluent in English (highly dependent on education though). But most are certainly good enough to remember some lyrics.
@@FactoryofRedstone a lot of men have trouble saying the th properly, like t or s. On the other hand I saw a lot of people (lower educated?, immigrants?) in various US shows and documentaries who did not do the th well, too.
American football has been played in Germany since 1945 and was mainly played by occupying soldiers of the US Army until 1979. Since then, there has been a German association and an organized game. The umbrella organization “American Football Association Germany” (AFVD) runs the German Football League and German Football League 2 as well as all other football leagues at national level. With over 70,000 members, the AFVD is the sixth-largest team sports association in Germany (as of 2020). Seven German teams take part in the Europe-wide semi-professional European League of Football. The professional NFL has played one regular season game in Germany every year since 2022. My former neighbor is a founding member of the local football club, AFC Remscheid Amboss. The club also has a cheerleading section. The Cheerleading and Cheer Performance Association Germany e.V. (CCVD) was founded in 2007. By 2024, the association had grown to over 30,033 individual members. As of 2024, there are 16 state associations in all federal states, which look after the members at state level. Some of these state associations are now members of the respective state sports association. The CCVD has been a full member of the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) since December 2018. It is the first organization recognized by the DOSB that is exclusively home to cheerleaders. Since 2008, the CCVD has hosted annual German cheerleading championships, which can be qualified for via state championships and regional championships.
There was also the World League/NFL Europe from 1995-2007 AFAIK these were playing with some US players during the off-season, some of these teams were refounded recently (in 2020/2021) for the new ELF (European League of Football). And some also have similar names to the GFL teams, Frankfurt's NFL Europe/ELF team is "Galaxy", the GFL team is "Universe" or Hamburg had the GFL team "Blue Devils" (were successful in late 90s/early 2000s, but got into trouble in the late 2000s, 2010s and kinda vanished in 2014), while NFL Europe/ELF are the "Sea Devils". In the GFL most players are German, but often a bunch of key players like the quarterback and head coach etc. are often American.
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="39">0:39</a> "A Crowd of Germans. Look at this Kraut!" DUUUUUDEEEEE!!! There are thousands! Which Kraut exactly! Just kidding 😁
😂😂😂😂😂 John Denver, bis real Name..John Henry jr Deutschendorf..... Deutschendorf translated ....German village..... This guy would fit in the crowd. Like no other .. Because of his blond hair and blue eyes.... This is a fact..search Google... If you dont trust me... Greets from Germany
I think you already have reacted to the channel Nalf. He is an American playing american football in germany. He also made a movie about it called "unicorn town"
@@toecutter3100do I remember right: in one video he spoke about becoming a trainer. For he is engaged/married to a woman in South America and football community is growing, there is a good chance!?
@@Piggelgesicht der Sänger, John Denver.. sein richtiger Name John Henry Deutschendorf .... Blond blaue Augen.....netter Kerl.. Hatte die Ehre ihn mal zu treffen ...vor 30 Jahren.. Toller Mensch RIP....John gute Reise
Surprise, surprise. Germany is the largest market of the NFL outside the USA. According to the NFL, there are 19 million American football fans in Germany. There was a demand of 3 million tickets for the Munich Game in 2022. Absolute record. More than at any other sporting event on this planet ever.
"According to the NFL, there are 19 million American football fans in Germany" And even though, somehow, almost a quarter of the population are AF fans there are essentially no clubs about it or children playing it. Things sports that have a far smaller following somehow have. So what is it, why aren't there huge crowds of people playing it or having their children play it as in any other sports including one where you need to buy equipment and that can only be played on ice. "There was a demand of 3 million tickets for the Munich Game in 2022" You do are familiar with the EU, the Schengen Zone and generally other European countries outside of that? I can try to get a ticket for Bowls in England, doesn't mean that I am an English Bowls fan.
@@TyonKree Okay, let me use Berlin as an example. Here, there are about 10 clubs. There are two major leagues: the European League of Football and the German Football League. All over the city, there are clubs with their own youth departments for kids, just like in traditional Bundesliga soccer. On top of that, there are numerous fan clubs for NFL teams with tens of thousands of official members across Germany. That’s the reason why the games in Munich and Frankfurt came about.
@@StefanMetze If you exclude the very young and the very old, that would still mean that at least one in three people is an NFL fan in Germany. I'm sorry, but that's nonsense. Of the people I know, it's maybe one in 30 and my circle of friends consists largely of young sports enthusiasts. But they watch football (the "real thing"), motorsports, tennis and maybe darts. The German NFL-fanbase is big, but surely not 19 mio.
@@Adonoabofufu What? 😮 I want to move to Hamburg. I love folk and country and normally you never here it in Germany. Can you please name some good pubs?
This was the first NFL-Game ever hosted on German soil. The NFL contacted the soccer club Bayern Munich and basically rented out their club premises and their stadium for this event which they subsequently turned into a football arena. The NFL recorded over 8 Million ticket requests for that game.
The first "offical" NFL-Game? In August 1990, the Chiefs played a preseason game against the Los Angeles Rams at Olympic Stadium in West Berlin after the Berlin Wall fell and just before reunification. Media reports said there were 55,000 fans.
USA: "We are the most American country in the world watching American football like an American. Germany;"Here hold my delicious beer that is miles above American dirty colored water."
You asked: "how do you know the words (of that song)?" In general, we listen to a lot of music in English. Eg. if you turn on the radio in your car, you'll hear more English music (I'm referring to the language here, so also american music) than German music. I remember when you reacted to those "top German music videos from 2010 to 2020". I think you got that "German" in that title a little wrong. "German" was also referring to the language, so those were the hits of the German charts filtered for songs in German. If it were about the charts in general at that time, you would have heard a lot of English.
Watch Rammstein "Du hast" Live in Paris. Thousands of french people singing the song in german. THAT is something. Country Roads is an old world wide classic. Everyone knows it, not too surprising.
Country Roads was popularized by the dutch Hermes House Band all over Europe in 2001, transformed into a party track. It almost reached #1 in the German charts
I've been 'singing' this song the other day in a bar. in Cyprus. absolutely everyone joined in. even people who say they don't like country music will happily sing Country roads
Country Roads was the most wished song in my pub days whenever there was live music. So much so that musicians refused to play it. It's easy to sing along even if you're drunk and that's why everyone knows it. It's a bar/pub/party song that you can sing along even if you can't stand anymore ^^
@@Arltratlo Bubi. Ich bin auch Fußball Fan. Aber eben auch Football. Und es schauen genug Leute Football, aber natürlich viel weniger als Fußball. Was wolltest du jetzt beweisen?
i’m from Germany and a passionate soccer player, but i’ve also loved the NFL since 2013. American football is becoming more popular in Germany, and many fans watch the games.
American Football has become such a huge deal in Europe and Germany especially. There have been 3 NFL games in Germany so far and I tried to get tickets but every time I had over 500,000 people in queue before me and I heard that over 3 million people wanted to get tickets. So yeah Ryan, we do watch American Football and I'm loving the growing popularity. And btw, the NFL London Game has been held every year since 2007
That's not making it a "huge deal"! And i doubt it's growing in popularity. Instead i think after a couple games many will lose interest in it. Why? Because it's boring. Most of the game you wait for it to start again.
Oh yes we're OBSESSED with country roads The region of the Pfalz (Palatinate) also has its own version which is in our dialect and goes "Bring mich häm in die Palz, weil mas do so sau gut gfallt, schäne Mädche, gude woi, ich will nie mehr wuannsch soi" In english: Take me home, to the Pfalz, because I like it there so much, pretty girls, good wine, I don't ever want to be elsewhere This version is always to be sung at public festivals here and also a MUST in scout campfire songs
Actually there is an American Guy named Nalf with a youtube chanel! He moved to Germany, Schwäbisch Hall to play , I think in the biggest league in Germany for a lot of years now! He is great with his content and he even made an official movie about his yourney with the league, his co workers and friends! Worth to watch it! Thanks for likeing the german fans!!
We have a lot of cheerleading clubs in Germany. Most of them are without a club. They compete against each other in competitions. I was once in a cheerleading club myself.
Accent? Every German kid study English for minimum of 6 y , but the most 10 up to 12 y The good thing to us is , English is just a dialect of high German... Finger is still a Finger , hand is still hand , house is haus pronounced the same way Hair is haar pronounced realy near the Same. And on and on and on ..... I am a 52 y old bricklayer or Mason..construction worker ... No college or university degree.... I think my English is not the best , but usefully... I hav forgotten a lot of vocabularies.... Sorry for my bad English My last English lesson at school is 35 y ago .. Most younger people speaking flawless English... And singing along .. I think is realy not a problem. German students are also study French and Spain or Italian along English....that's a standard. Best regards and greets from an old German guy with a realy bad English.... Ps John Denver real name was John Henry Jr Deutschendorf. Deutschendorf translated in English means German village ....so his ancestors are from Germany. And he knows this language....😊😊😊😊 To give you a little more inspiration... Hoover and Rockefeller are German too😊 And the founder of Budweiser beer are also german ..... Try to start to study the language... Danish Swedish, Dutch and English are based on ......GERMAN.....the father of your mother tung
We know the words because we have English as a compulsory subject at school (some of us have even learned it since primary school, i.e. since the age of 7) and because we LOVE country roads.
yeah, that song is pretty common in germany... western music had its time here... and its just such a ... sentimental/melancholic.. song.... like driving home for christmas or ...summer of 69.... or those were the days.... or lemon tree... and the refrain is on a level of english even old or drunk germans could understand.... take me home, roads... and pretty easy to sing.... can't think of a campfire where this wasn't there, like as ...Über den Wolken... or Fürstenfeld...
I've been there and it was a blast! A lucky coincidence offered me the last minute chance to take part. So I tried to get tickets for this year's NFL Munich game and I work my way up to spot 760.000 + something in the waiting queue when the game was sold out. So they could have filled the stadium at least like 11 times. That's how big American Football is in Germany. 😊
Its actually funny that american thinks these kind of country songs are only famous in the states. And yes, Germany has Amercian Football teams and also Cheerleaders. Same goes for Basket Ball and Baseball 🙂
The "Hermes House Band" covered 2001 "Country Roads". It was 27 weeks in charts, highest rank #2. Thats the reason why many germans know Country Roads. The same with "Sweet Caroline", Hermes House Band covered it in 2010.
Thank you for your reaction to the Munich game. American football enthusiasm in Germany is growing and growing... Even the games in the various German leagues are becoming more and more popular. In our village (about 5000 inhabitants) we have a squad of almost 50 men (including US import players and other EU imports) 🐓🏈 . Come along and experience American football in a whole new way.
I knew someone who was involved into the preparation of the stadium for the game- I asked him about cheerleaders etc… It had been the original cheerleaders, the NFL had brought all equipment, staff, teams, to munich…the locker rooms had been made suitable for NFL requirements, the turf was prepared for special NFL requirements, they had booked 4 or 5 complete hotels for teams, staff, cheerleaders etc… After the game it all has been built back to original status. It all has been played by NFL! This guy will fly to Sao Paulo Brasilia for the NFL Brasil Game this weekend ….he gets paid all his travel expenses and the exclusive hotel…etc
Take me home country roads is also the opening song of a Ghibli movie - "whisper of the hearts" I think was the EN name - sung in English. But the movie also includes a Japanese version. You can listen to a cover of that by searching for "Goose House カントリー・ロード（Cover）" I really like that one.
John Denver was quite successful with several of his song in Germany: Country Roads, Annie, Leaving on a Jet Plane, Rocky Mountain High and probably some more. Same goes for Neil Diamond. Almost every (European) football fan, ice hockey fan, handball fan, and what not... probably knows Sweet Caroline. But Cracklin' Rosie, Beautiful Noise, etc. also were very successful in Germany. And I'm sure that there are a number of more iconic American songs popular in Germany like eg. Sweet Home Alabama by Lynerd Skinerd, My Way by Frank Sinatra, ...
There is also the interviews of Tom Brady and Pete Carrol who participated in the game and how they remember it. you can also find a snippet of the official transmission of the game, most of the singing was during a commercial break but Rich Eisen who commentated this first official NFL game in germany (Bucs vs. Seahawks) wanted to stay as quiet as possible so fans at home could hear the germans sing (There is also a clip of The Rich Eisen Show where he talks about that game). The situation is basically the closing of the game not kickoff (with that play the game got closed out).
Based on interest, American Football currently ranks shared 7th in Germany if you count winter sports, motor sports and athletics as "one sport interest": 1. 76% Football (no, not soccer😇) 2. 29% Winter Sports 3. 26% Basketball (surely, slightly inflated due to last world championship) 4. 23% Handball 5. 22% Athletics 6. 21% Tennis 7. Motor Sports 7. 20% American Football 9. 19% Boxing 9. 19% Ice Hockey (source: Statista, people interested in sports, multiple selections possible, April 23 to March 24) As you can see, it is all about football with a lot of different other sports very close in popularity. Personally, I like handegg, but only watch playoffs and superbowl :)
about 4 millions people wanted to buy tickets. I was glad, that I could work at the Frankfurt Game. The Europe Football League is quite popular and the most Teams in the league are from Germany. Also many Germans are watching the NFL. Last year i had been on 3 NFL Games in 2 Weeks in the US
It was an Official NFL Game Bucs vs. Seahawks. There is a Video of the press conferences from both Teams with Brady and the Seahawks Coach talking about the sing alongs. They also sang Sweet caroline
If you thought that was crazy, you need to react to the "ELF" (European League of Football). This League is currently in it's 4th season and currently it is a blast. Especially in the "Central Conference". Last Sunday the team of the "Suttgart Surge" has been crowned "Central Conference Champions 2024" (Spoiler: I am part of a fan-community of the Stuttgart Surge)
American Football was played in all cities with American Soldiers around. The Berlin Eagles won the German Championship end of the 1980s 3 times that is when I started watching American Football. Last year the game between Dolphins and Chiefs was sold out in seconds. There were 1.5 mio people trying to get tickets for the normal season game played in Frankfurt 2023. I grew up with American Football and I still love it. The game in Munich was in the Sttadium of FC Bayern Munich aka Allianz Arena. The flew in the American Cheerleaders.
That was the first NFL Game I've ever watched. I only knew of it because of that game in Munich. It was magical even on tv. Have been a fan of the NFL ever since.
The NFL has 19 million fans in Germany. Nearly 4 million Germans are fans who watch most NFL games. The game in Munich, which you saw in this video, had nearly 1 million ticket requests, but the stadium only had a capacity of 75,000 people. So yes, American football is quite popular in Germany.
So… the song, Country Roads, is a camp fire classic, a lot of us Germans learn singing it in various Summer Camps (Zeltlager, Freizeiten). And you’ll find it in a lot of singing books at school like many other worldwide hits (Beatles or John Denver, you name it) . Next point is: English is taught at every school here, nowadays from first grade, in the 80s and 90s from the 5th grade on. Then, as others pointed out, mainstream radio music stations are playing like 60-70% English titles. And really, if you look into it, from Metallica to Taylor Swift (y?) all your sell out their shows in Germany massively. And not one but 3 of the greatest Rock festivals, alongside many others, are held in Germany, even Americans may have heard of Rock am Ring/ Rock im Park and Wacken Open Air. Then about the NFL, I have seen my first SB in full coverage (yes, at night) in 08, SB 42, fell in love with the game, and even more so with the New York Football Giants. I own a lot of gear and I am a subscriberof the NFL Game pass since the day it is sold in Germany ( that is also due to my NYG fandom, so I get to watch every game). For the whole season are several season games (and every postseason game) aired every Sunday on free TV in Germany but our stations tend to feature the recently more successful teams so we get to watch a lot of chiefs, 9ers,hawks,pats, doublebirds from Philly and the inevitable even tho not so succesful cowboys. Another downside is the German commentary, those guys tend to hype simple plays way too strong („incredible Mahomes run for 6 yds😅). And yes, NYG will play in Munich this fall unfortunately there were more than 2 Million fans trying to get one of those tickets. So it’s lucky shot.and I missed. Went to a London game once, in full Giants gear, even tho the Raiders played the Hawks. If you’re about the watch one of the Europe games on TV, take a look at the fans, you‘ll likely see the jerseys of many other teams in the crowd. So yeah, the NFL is a thing, still growing and still no competition to the millions attending „soccer“ every week.
They flew in the cheerleaders with the team. You should google Tom Bradys reaction to the crowd in Munich. He was amazed and said he cant remember having had such an amazing atmosphere
In my Hometown there are the Hildesheim Invaders. Who play in the German Football Leaque. American Football is growing in Germany. Slowly, but it's growing.
This was an NFL international game. So a regular season game played in Germany. I tried to get tickets but there were over 3 million people queued for the tickets
They flew the football teams , stuff and the cheerleaders and everything to Germany. The whole stadium was sold out in minutes. In Germany and Europe are so many fans watching the NFL and they are big fans of their teams. Of course fans from all over the world got tickets for this event , too. Tickets are limited for different countries, that there is a whole mixture from people around the world😀
It is in the big soccer stadium "Allianz Arena" in Munich. And I suppose that everybody in Germany knows this song and can sing along. My whole family does indeed. 😅
Here in Frankfurt we had 2 NFL games too, Kansas City Chiefs vs. Miami Dolphins and another game. Also there is a European Football League (American Football) with teams from different countries. Here we have the team Frankfurt Galaxy for example. American Football is not as popular here as soccer, but more popular than you might expect. P.S. some of the fans that came here to the NFL games were actual American tourists too.
No problem. I can sing this song by heart and I love it. I think it's very popular over here in Germany. And yes, watching American Football has also grown very popular here. There are some teams here, too. Watch older videos by NALF, who was an American Football Player here in Germany.
American Football has become a standard fixture on late night tv and has kept its status for almost 10 years now. The fandom grew over this time and at this point there's a good chance you'll meet fellow football fans on any given day in pretty much any town. It's still a niche sport (as pretty much every sport not called Football), but it has a very passionate fandom of maybe like 3 or 4 million (my estimation).
American Football is growing every year. We even have a European League called "ELF" (European League of Football) with Teams from Spain, Germany, France, Poland, Austria, Hungary, Italy and Switzerland
Well, in general a lot of things from the US are imported here in Germany (tech, clothing, music, sports, whatever...) becoming more and more popular over the last decades, that trend does not seem to stop. Classic football/soccer is by far the most popular sport here in Germany, but the numbers of NFL fans are rising for years. And yes, we do have a few own american football teams and cheerleading teams in some cities, too.
Strongly recommend you watch "It Was A Party" from The Rich Eisen Show to learn more about the whole athmosphere around the first game in Munich. Oh, and NALFs video about the real reason Germany hosted an NFL game is a must see. By the way: They did it again one year later in Munich and this year in Frankfurt.
"Country Roads take me home" is a very popular song in Germany, since decades. We sang it in school when I was a kid (30 years ago) and it is still played at parties and karaoke etc. If you need a song in English of which most Germans know the lyrics (at least partly) and will sing along, it's this one.
remember that munich is a central hub in europe, easy to reach from nearly all european countries. so there will be a strong ammount of visitors from abroad.
I do watch NFL and Collage Football season. Starting again this Saturday at 18h local (that ist 6 pm for you yanks) with Falcons vs Ravens and 22h Lions vs Chiefs on Nitro. Did you know there are several German players in NFL? The cheerleaders might be flown in because the Buccs chartered a complete A350. Room enough. 😃
I'm Geman and haven't missed a Seahawks game in a decade. The second most popular sport in Germany by participants and also public interest is handball. But it's not as much broadcasted on TV as the NFL is. So it could be true that the second most watched sport in germany ( on TV ) is american football although the second most popular sport is handball.
I think the thing with second most watched sports in Germany is a very new trend in the last years, because so many other popular sports like Formula 1 or tennis were shifted from free TV to pay TV. And they were replaced by American football. The license for real football is really expensive and saved by pay TV channels for years. So the American Football is a cheap alternative in free TV. Pay TV isn’t a big thing in Germany. Many people don’t pay extra for sports. If you hide something in pay TV in Germany the amount of viewer will drastically decrease.
Tom Brady was so impressed, he even stated in the press conference. He wanted to bring it to Florida getting some kind of new tradition. Basically, you can‘t copy German‘s having fun to the States. 😀
Ages ago i was like 3 times in the hamburg Volkspark stadium (blue devils). As kids we didn't understand anything, its not getting better 😅, but had fun throwing paper on the grandstand below. The upper stand (konkrete )did move so much i thought we were near a tragedy wenn we smasch the people below us.
American football is becoming increasingly popular in Germany and Europe, there has been an American football league for years and the Superbowl is watched by millions
