Dude's Days in Deutschland: Unicorns Win in Berlin!

So we got back from our trip from Berlin yesterday and it was a great weekend! The Unicorns came out with a 34-17 win over a very good Berlin Alder team! If you want to read about the game go here for a recap.

We left Schwäbisch Hall at 6 pm to head north to begin our trip, and a long trip it would be! Travel time would end up being around 7 hours to and from Berlin including a few pit stops, which for those of you that dont know, is in the north east part of Germany. (Map) I would say its about the equivalent of driving from Mcminnville to Spokane!

The bus was pretty nice and it was nice to have two seats to ourselves during the whole trip!

Some bus shots

Nishisakiiii

It was a solid bus ride. Got some sleep in, watched both Seven and 300 for entertainment, while we were riding, and even taught the second Brenner to play some Cribbage. We stopped off in the town of Delitzsch, where we stayed overnight on Friday.

Nish's and my room

Homies

The hotel

Nice little creek on our walk to the practice field

Smokey

Where we had our walkthrough practice on saturday morninng

Once we had our walkthrough at 930 am, we hopped on the bus and headed to the big city! It was another hour or two to Berlin unfortunately but we made it finally to the stadium!

The stadium!

Light thingy

From our sideline

The stadium was nice and big, a place where some of the soccer teams in the city play. It is the largest stadium that we will play in this year, at least during the regular season! Before we started warming up we walked down to a place and got some lunch, as we arrived at the stadium a few hours earlier than we needed to.

After a couple hours of waiting for the big game we finally got to hit the field, there were only about 1000 fans I would say at the game because football isn't that big in Berlin, soccer still rules all haha. It was a good environment though!

We started off the game right, by winning the coin toss (I called heads, of course) and we received to begin the game. We had a nice drive that took us down and scored! The defense almost stopped them a few times, but the Alder eventually scored on their first drive too. After a few back and forth drives we put one together and I threw my first TD as a Unicorn in the GFL! It was a simple fade pattern to the big target, Felix Brenner! The Alder kicked a field goal to end the half and it ended at 14-10 Unicorns, with the second half to go. After the break, the defense got a huge stop, and went down and scored again to take control of the game. We didn't let them back in after that. Both teams added scores, the Unicorns added two more, and the Alder one to finish the game with a score of 34-17! Final stats HERE!