So my friends invited me along to the 1936 Olympic Stadium where one of Beriln's soccer/fussball teams plays.
The crowd on their way....
There are the Olympics rings...oh how times have changed and for the better!
There's the Olympic swimming pool...gotta admit...it's all very 'fascist'-cement looking...hmm...
The side view....
The inside! It was truly cool and I enjoyed the atmosphere!
Hertha apparently is a messed-up version of an old Germanic fertility goddess....who would've thought?! ;)
And...they're off! Play! Play! We, Hertha, didn't play so well...I was under-impressed....
If you look to the left you'll see a kid with his soccer scarf on his face, it's because a guy in front of him was smoked a pipe several times during the game - LAME!!
Why do smokers think that is appropriate?
The victorious (undeservedly, however, due to their performance) Hertha lead the crowd in a 'hurrah' cheer!
Germans...or should I say Hertha fans are very 'calm' when it comes to a victory...in the States people would be yelling and screaming 'we're number 1!' etc....in the stadium the fans just clapped, yelled just a bit and then sang a song that sounded very 'calm'..... just odd, from an American perspective....
The view of the Olympic flame cauldron...
And the list of the Olympic winners from 1936....
What? What does that say you ask? Only OWENS, as in JESSE OWENS, USA!! Woot-woot!
(Of course he showed the racist Nazis that they weren't the 'master race', but then he came home and the white Americans treated him like dirt....UGH! Whatever...no more comment...)
I didn't realize this...He also got an gold medal in the 'Weitsprung'...which I am guessing is the Long Jump....but I'm not sure....
After we left the Stadium, Jesse Owens Street! Woot-woot!
Coppers on their ponies to 'keep the peace'....
And the cop vans to 'keep the peace'....
And the S-Bahn ('Fast' Train) station where we got on to go back to our abodes....
Thanks to my friends for making my first Hertha game a reality! (It ONLY took almost 3 years...but hey, better late than never :)
