{"id":1737275,"date":"2022-11-13T17:32:59","date_gmt":"2022-11-13T22:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1737275"},"modified":"2022-11-13T17:33:03","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T22:33:03","slug":"watch-70000-fans-sing-take-me-home-country-roads-at-nfls-first-regular-season-game-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-70000-fans-sing-take-me-home-country-roads-at-nfls-first-regular-season-game-in-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: 70,000 Fans Sing \u2018Take Me Home, Country Roads\u2019 At NFL\u2019s First Regular-Season Game In Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-70000-fans-sing-take-me-home-country-roads-at-nfls-first-regular-season-game-in-germany%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1737275&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Thousands of fans broke into a rendition of \u201cTake Me Home, Country Roads\u201d on Sunday at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/nfl\">NFL<\/a>\u2018s first regular-season game in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>During the fourth quarter between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Seattle Seahawks at Allianz Arena in Munich, many in the crowd of some 70,000 fans joined in singing John Denver\u2019s 1971 smash hit. Videos of the moment went viral on social media, amassing hundreds of thousands of views in just a few hours.<\/p>\n<p>Greg Auman, staff writer for The Athletic covering the Buccaneers, posted a video to Twitter showing the crowd breaking into song. In the footage, the song is being played over the public address system while the crowd sings along.<\/p>\n<p>In the stands on the opposite end of the field, fans can be seen waving their mobile phones while shining their flashlights. \u201cAnd yes, that Bavarian classic, \u2018Country Roads,\u2019 sung with passion by the Munich crowd,\u201d Auman captioned the video.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">And yes, that Bavarian classic, \u201cCountry Roads,\u201d sung with passion by the Munich crowd. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2c00o4bFVH\">pic.twitter.com\/2c00o4bFVH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Greg Auman (@gregauman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gregauman\/status\/1591842899138064386?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 13, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood Morning Football\u201d host Jamie Erdahl Buckman posted another video from the sidelines, in which attendees be heard filling the stadium with song.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Country Roads of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Munich?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Munich<\/a> \ud83c\udf7a <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/faj7j4E9No\">pic.twitter.com\/faj7j4E9No<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jamie Erdahl \ud83d\udc8d Buckman (@JamieErdahl) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamieErdahl\/status\/1591861081256984576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 13, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The song also caught the attention of the NFL Network broadcast crew, who joined in briefly from the broadcast booth.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">They\u2019re singing Country Roads in Germany. This atmosphere is pretty cool. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kHpnUYT3pS\">pic.twitter.com\/kHpnUYT3pS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MySportsUpdate\/status\/1591843588727603201?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 13, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The crowd also made an impact on Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was one of the great football experiences I\u2019ve ever had,\u201d he said at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mxWSU0PbqDc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post-game press conference<\/a>. \u201cIt says a lot for 23 years in the league and for a regular-season game. I think the fan turnout was incredible. It felt, like, very electric from the time we took the field. The end of the game, with them singing \u2018Sweet Caroline\u2019 and \u2018Country Roads,\u2019 that was pretty epic. So I think everyone who\u2019s a part of that experience got to have something pretty amazing, [a] memory for the rest of their life. So thank you for hosting us, we appreciate it. Thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCountry Roads\u201d has a prominent history in Germany. In 2013, songwriter Bill Danoff performed the song for the annual \u201cDay of German Unity\u201d hosted by the German embassy in the U.S. According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/reliable-source\/wp\/2013\/10\/04\/bill-danoff-on-how-country-roads-became-a-german-oktoberfest-hit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Post<\/a>, the crowd of 2500 guests enthusiastically joined in the song, then asked him to perform an encore. Asked by the Post why he thought the song was so popular, Danoff, who wrote the song for Denver, said simply, \u201cI have no idea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst of all, it\u2019s very singable,\u201d Danoff added at the time. \u201cBut so is \u2018Call Me Maybe.\u2019 Maybe \u2018Call Me Maybe\u2019 will be the song 40 years from now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The song also has a special connection as Munich is home to Oktoberfest, the German folk festival famous for beer, and the 70s country hit is one of the most popular drinking songs favored by the attendees. According to data from <a href=\"https:\/\/pr-newsroom-wp.appspot.com\/2018-10-23\/from-mountain-mamas-to-munich-john-denvers-country-roads-winds-through-oktoberfest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spotify<\/a>, the song was streamed nearly 190,000 times in Germany on the first day of Oktoberfest 2018. In the U.S., it was streamed more than 850,000 times that same day.<\/p>\n<p>The song is more widely known among American football fans because of its affiliation with West Virginia University. It is the theme song of the university and is frequently played at school events, including at every home football game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of fans broke into a rendition of \u201cTake Me Home, Country Roads\u201d on Sunday at the NFL\u2018s first regular-season game in Germany. During the fourth quarter between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Seattle Seahawks at Allianz Arena in Munich, many in the crowd of some 70,000 fans joined in singing John Denver\u2019s 1971 smash &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":1737278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1737275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1737275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1737278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1737275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1737275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1737275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}