Germany Has Its Priorities Straight

Can you imagine tailgating at Soldier Field before a Bears game, and having tragedy strike? What would happen if you and your friends ran out of beer? What if everybody around you was out of beer?

How on Earth are you going to get drunk before the game starts!? Everybody knows that the Bears aren't going to be able to overcome the mighty Detroit Lions if your punk ass is sitting in your seat stone cold sober. That's just not how football works.

Apparently the European bastardized version of football works the exact same way. In Germany a group of Bayer Leverkusen fans were taking a train to their teams next game in the German Cup when they were faced with such a dilemma.

Thankfully, in Germany, they know how to save the day.

Germany's national railway wasn't about to risk sending a trainload of soccer fans to a German Cup match without beer.

Federal police said Monday that the beer tap failed aboard a special train carrying Bayer Leverkusen fans to Hamburg on Saturday. The fault was discovered half an hour into the journey.

"In order not to endanger the good mood'' of the passengers, railway officials halted the train in Wuppertal for 25 minutes and had a replacement part delivered by taxi, a police statement said. It added that there was no trouble among the fans.

See, now that is protecting and serving your community right there.

Of course, Bayer Leverkusen would go on to lose their match 1-0 to St. Pauli but it didn't matter because everyone was too drunk to care.