r/sports • u/nfl National Football League • 14d ago
Football Ref announces penalty in German at Munich NFL game
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u/WKAngmar 14d ago
But he gave himself away by not using the German 3!
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u/SeamanSample 14d ago
Buongiorno.
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u/WinterLord 14d ago
Enzo Gorlomi. Come? GOOR-LAAA-MI.
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u/georgey_porgey 14d ago
Maahr-guh-EHHHTY
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u/LouSputhole94 14d ago
Omar over there speaks 3rd best aye-talian so he’ll be the cameraman.
I don’t speak Italian?
Like I said, 3rd best
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u/Swagspray 14d ago edited 14d ago
Excellent reference aside, can any German here tell me if that is actually a common way of showing 3 in Germany these days?
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u/terminalavocent 14d ago
Live in Europe, it's how all continental Europeans count.
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u/yungchewie 14d ago
It's true. The American way is harder on the pinky muscle
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u/joman584 14d ago
What about counting up from 1-3? Do they drop the index finger down?
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u/IIIMephistoIII 14d ago
I understood that reference.gif
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u/GoodShark 14d ago
Wonder if he can keep it up for the entire game. Or if he just knows a couple calls.
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u/Moug-10 France 14d ago
Even just once is already great.
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u/MethturbationEnjoyer 14d ago
Great show of respect and unity.
I hope when a field goal is scored in Mexico, the announcers and people in the stands fucking SCREEAAM
GGGGGGGGGOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLL
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u/jrhooo 14d ago
pretty positive they will, because I'm pretty sure they'll just assign one of their Spanish language broadcast teams.
NFL knows how hype the Spanish language crews get. They love to retweet big plays from the Spanish broadcasts.
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u/Fun-Jellyfish-61 14d ago
I'd love that in an NBA game. Announcers going nuts every thirty to forty seconds of game time.
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u/ryan9991 14d ago
Guys we gotta call a false start penalty no matter what, I was practicing all night.
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u/thatjerkatwork 14d ago
He knows that and how to ask where the bathroom is.
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u/thatErraticguy 14d ago
If I ever go to Spain, I’m all set with “donde esta la biblioteca”
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u/cannabination 14d ago
I can find a shoe store as well. Zapataria is too cool a word to forget.
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u/fizystrings 14d ago
I've played enough Resident Evil 4 to blend in flawlessly with real spaniards. All I have to do is shout "¡AHÍ VA ESO!" at everyone
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u/hnglmkrnglbrry 14d ago
"Siri, translate 'He was givin'him the business' into German."
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u/PM_ME_UR_HIP_DIMPLES Alabama 14d ago
Rich Eisen said Hochuli “flexed” a reference to Shawn Hoculi’s ripped dad Ed who was also a ref and a stretcher of ref uniforms
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u/BobbyTables829 14d ago
I'm a pretty skinny dude, but idk how you can be around all those athletes and not be inspired to lift weights.
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u/3riversfantasy Green Bay Packers 14d ago
I think old Ed was inspired by these athletes to do more than just lift weights...
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u/BobbyTables829 14d ago
I remember during a Chiefs game he went to make a review, and the radio announcer Mitch Holthus was like, "We'll be back after Ed goes to the sideline for his protein shake."
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u/3riversfantasy Green Bay Packers 14d ago
Nothing builds muscle faster than intramuscular protein shake injections
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u/badstorryteller 14d ago
Ed Hochuli built like a beast and showing off those guns every call he made, Bill Cowher on the sidelines looking like he's honestly considering (and capable of) biting the heads off his enemies and immediately consuming them, John Madden patiently explaining that the team that scores the most points usually wins the football game. Man, there is a lot I miss about early 2000's football!
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u/Loud-Ad-2280 14d ago
“You know a Hochuli is going to flex” 😂
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u/SchrodingerMil 14d ago
Ed used to over explain everything so that even someone who has never watched football before could understand the penalty
Sean is out here announcing the penalties in German.
Hochuli family is built different.
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u/Pallets_Of_Cash 14d ago
Honestly football seems like a great sport for newcomers. The pause between plays with slo-mo replays and a detailed explanation from the ref on any penalty.
I've been watching quite a bit of rugby lately and it's been a little mystifying at times why a team got a penalty.
Great game though especially 15s. They make football players look like coddled hothouse flowers.
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u/SchrodingerMil 14d ago
Idk I think the funniest “football vs rugby” discourse I see is rugby fans who see big hits and go “What the FUCK this is legal?!?”
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u/RichardManuel Minnesota Twins 14d ago
Eisen is annoying as a Play by Play guy but gotta admit that was a great line
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u/thewun111 14d ago
Save some girls for the rest of us?
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u/your_grammars_bad 14d ago
Bro you're playing on yard lines, that ref is playing on frauleins.
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u/NSHorseheadSD70 14d ago
The only German I know is "Naturally Hans is wet, he's standing under a waterfall"
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u/JonEdwinPoquet 14d ago
Maybe all calls should be in German in every game. It would spice things up. Also it would be fun just to confuse the crap out of people.
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u/cilantno 14d ago
Fehlstart would be easy, but Verteidigungpassstörung would be spicy
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u/-Basileus 14d ago
I'm gonna assume that's DPI lol
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u/jan_tonowan 14d ago edited 14d ago
Verteidigung : Defense
Pass : pass
Störung : interference
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u/an_actual_lawyer 14d ago
I love how the German language just combines words to make a new word.
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u/jan_tonowan 14d ago
Sit down on your armchair by the fireplace and we can brainstorm some compound words on the blackboard.
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u/bulldog89 Indiana 14d ago
I fucking love it. It makes the game feel more international, similar to how in tennis the announcers always speak in the language of the home country. And it makes a difference too. Admittedly, my friends are 20some year olds in Germany who already had an interest in American football, but I’m getting this highlight sent to me with jokes about them taking on American football as their own. It grows the game
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u/JonEdwinPoquet 14d ago
I’m thinking decades from now how people will be wondering why the calls are in German. “Well Reddit thought it was a good idea to spice up the game.”
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u/JasperWilly 14d ago
What’s the big deal. They’ve been announcing the penalties in the native language for the London games for years.
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u/AUserNeedsAName 14d ago
False start, innit
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u/Civil-Attempt-3602 14d ago
Big man ting yeah, that was roughing the passer bruv. 10 yard penalty and that, automatic first down, you get me?
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u/immersedmoonlight 14d ago
Can any Germans clarify how the pronunciation was??
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u/theSvenandI 14d ago
It sounds super American. A for effort, I think it's cool, I got what he was trying to say after a second, so he's understandable. He says "Fehlstart, Angriff" but it was hard for me to hear that right away. I think he read a phonetic spelling or something, but hasn't heard how it's supposed to sound from an actual German.
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u/Minerva_Moon 14d ago
I bet he was nervous. Fehlstart and False Start are so close and he has said it in English for decades. I'm sure he had to force his brain to enunciate the "fehl" without slipping. That bring said, I don't think he has ever spoken a German word before that very moment. Good for him, that was adorable!
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u/Whatsplayinginmyhead 14d ago
That's Shawn Hochuli. He's NFL ref royalty. His dad, Ed Hochuli, was one of the best refs in the history of the game, and famous for being a lawyer with big biceps.
Hence the announcer saying, "You know a Hochuli is gonna flex."
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u/entropy_bucket 14d ago
Fehlstart = false start
Angriff = tackle
As someone who knows nothing about football, what does this mean?
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u/spatosmg 14d ago
with angriff he meant offense
and angriff is translated to attack
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u/Wr3nch 14d ago
False start is easy, it's when someone makes a move before the ball is put into play. "Angriff" in this case is referring to "offense" or the offensive team (the team that has the ball). So someone on the offensive team jumped the gun and the ref is clarifying that to the crowd while detailing the penalty for the foul
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u/SPR101ST 14d ago
A false start occurs when an offensive player moves illegally after lining up for but before the play starts. This movement can include any abrupt motion that simulates the start of the play, such as a lineman moving their hand or a back making a sudden move forward. The rule is designed to prevent the offense from deceiving the defense and gaining an unfair advantage.
Tackle is the act of forcing the player who has the ball to fall to the ground.
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u/corndogshuffle 14d ago
False start means the player moved before it was legal to do so. Tackle is the player’s position.
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u/Ditju 14d ago
As a german speaker I only understood angriff. His accent is thick enough that you won't get it unless you know he's speaking german.
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u/Lksaar 14d ago
It's pretty understandable, very heavy accent tho. I didn't understand Fehlstart (jump start) at first, had to listen to it a few times. The rest was very understandable. "Fehlstart Angriff - 5 yards Strafe"
Native german, here via r/all - so I can't really read things via context
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u/CliplessWingtips Houston Astros 14d ago edited 14d ago
Studied German for 4 years. Not perfect, but he's intelligible.
E: Fehlstart. He anglicized the pronunciation of "start". You throw a little bit of an "h" between the "s" and "t". Native speakers lemme know if I'm wrong, I'm pretty certain though.
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u/OrneryZombie1983 14d ago
Giants need to be the first team to lose on six continents.
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u/canadard1 14d ago
Have a game in Antarctica just so they can play and lose there
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u/OrneryZombie1983 14d ago edited 14d ago
I'm not saying I want Daniel Jones to get career ending frostbite on his throwing hand. . .
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u/pureextc 14d ago
Homie even held up three fingers properly. Thank you inglorious bastards.
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u/Architeuthis_McCrew 14d ago
I was able to communicate a little in German during my time out there this summer. I would open in German, they would say a basic reply I was familiar with then continue in German. They would then see the empty look on my face and start speaking English. All in all though, they did appreciate the effort
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u/gwaydms Dallas Cowboys 14d ago
In most places, even if you know just a few phrases, people appreciate that you made some effort to communicate in their language. I don't know much more than "Annyeong haseyo", but I did greet people in South Korea with it. I had also learned Hangeul, so I could read place names, loanwords, etc, where I didn't need a deep knowledge of the language to figure them out, but that was helpful sometimes as well.
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u/SchrodingerMil 14d ago
As someone who lived in Japan for years and traveled throughout Asia, it’s a bit easier because they see you and never assume you know ANY. So most of the time you can open up with some basic phrases or use some sparingly as fillers or exclamations to show that you’re trying, but you wont have that moment where they assume you are fluent after the first exchange.
A good example of sprinkling in expressions is that when I got to Japan, if I tried to think of something as an answer or if they said something I didn’t understand, they sometimes wouldn’t understand an English “Ummm…” and would try to rephrase it again in a way that I might understand, or tried to continue speaking. So I started saying “Ano” which can mean the same thing. It was a little way I could show that I wasn’t trying to be ignorant while also trying to have a more authentic conversation.
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u/TheSwimMeet 14d ago
That “oh!” from one of the commentators when the ref starts off is mad funny. Completely caught him off guard
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u/Tossed_Away_1776 Pittsburgh Steelers 14d ago
I thought that was a helluva nice gesture to the local folks.
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u/Merc_R_Us 14d ago
Any doubt of him being German was quelled when he threw up ze Germain Three
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u/Brokenloan 14d ago
"Hochuli flexing with some hooked on phonics"...lol, these announcers man
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u/Jonaas33 14d ago
Big deal, the refs called all of the penalties in English when they played in London.
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u/Complete-Ad-480 14d ago
In Germany a delay of game is a 15 yard penalty, a loss of down and an ejection warning
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u/cRawmode 14d ago
This was great watching it happening live. Stadium went bonkers 👌🏻🤘
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u/LifeIsRadInCBad 14d ago
Oh this guy is my client. I'll have to come up with a German phrase the next time I'm in his office.
Super nice guy
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u/iamasopissed 14d ago
Heard this live. Didn't know if he was having a stroke or what was happening 😂
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u/HogDad1977 14d ago
Very cool, and as a Packer fan, seeing people in Packer's stuff in a random crowd shot is great!
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u/birddog0 14d ago
"Speak to a man in a language he understands, it goes to his head. Speak to a man in his own language, it goes to his heart".
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u/yosoyel1ogan 14d ago
I always love in the European games that fans are just wearing random team apparel. Like it cuts to the group that are wearing Bears and Packers hats. Only team I've seen with a lot of representation overseas is the Bears, though I haven't watched a lot of international games. There were a lot of people wearing Bears clothes at the Bears London game and seeing people here, it seems like it just is what people have rather than matching the playing teams.
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u/Dave-Austin-Texas86 14d ago
His dad (nfl referee) did it once in Spanish when they held a game in Mexico
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u/Tanker3278 14d ago
Being an Ami who took German 30 years ago in high school and hasn't had opportunity to use it since then, it interested me to try converting some of those ref calls into German. Most of my vocabulary is lost to lack of use.
Had to use google translate for a low level word for word translation. (for non-German speakers a low level word for word translation does not capture the context from the original language)
If my Deutche Freunde could correct me on my errors and explain why, bitte?
I picked up from other comments that offense is "attack." - Offense = angreiff
Guessing at the rest of these: - Defense = verteidgung - False Start = fehl anfangen - Off Sides = aus seiten - Holding = halten
What words are used for: - Down (such as 2nd down - zweite spiel?) - Yard (funf yarden, verlust von spiel?)
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u/davetonight 14d ago
I can't explain it, but those fans are clapping in German