The guest performance of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Seattle Seahawks in Munich is not only celebrated in the arena. Restaurateurs and many retailers are also enthusiastic. And city politicians hope to see the football stars again as soon as possible.
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Heiner Effern, Anna Hoben and Christoph Leischwitz
When sports mayor Verena Dietl (SPD) put on a football jersey months ago to warm up herself and the city for the guest game of the football teams from the North American professional league NFL, she was still unsure how this event would take place in Munich would expire. If and how it would hit. If you catch her on her cell phone on Monday afternoon, she quickly becomes euphoric. “It was overwhelming,” she says, looking back on the weekend. “We couldn’t have imagined it like that when we applied.”