We got on the train today to go wherever it was we were going--just how we get around now, what with no car--and it was jammed with people. Everyone seemed a bit surprised at the crowd, but a few people with blue-and-white scarves, or caps, clued us in that perhaps some of them were headed for Olympiastadion for today's soccer match. Hertha BSC, the local Bundesliga club (for those who don't know, that's like the German major league in soccer), is very good this year. Apparently they are perennial cellar-dwellers who suddenly find themselves atop the league standings.
Anyway we had to change trains at Friedrichstrasse. The train we were switching to was on the track opposite the one going to Olympiastadion, and this platform was even MORE crowded. Now everyone was wearing blue-and-white and it was a bit like Kenmore Square before a Red Sox game. The train pulled in, and we could tell before it stopped that it was full--but the doors opened and it turned out to be full of Bayern München fans! Not surprisingly, the BSC Hertha fans couldn't get in, and as the doors sat open we began to hear some Bayern songs. One brave (foolish?) soul even stuck a Bayern flag out the door and started waving it. The train was literally bouncing on the tracks as it pulled out of the station.
Fortunately everyone seemed pretty good natured about it. Probably with Red Sox-Yankee fans it wouldn't have gone so well.
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