Bietigheim-Bissingen Steelers Hockey Game! (February 23, 2007)

Complete Set of Photos

In the neighboring city of Bietigheim-Bissingen, there is a minor league hockey team that I learned about recently. They play in the 2nd national league and play in an area and the end of one of the S-Bahn lines here in Stuttgart. I was really itching to see a hockey game, so Olav (Norway) and I went to go see one of these. He had never been to a live hockey game before! Once again, like the Fasching parade, I forgot my camera, so I'll just fill in some stock pictures from Google! (BB is on the right with the yellow helmet)


The team from BB is called the Steelers. One interesting thing I noticed right away is that teams here are sponsored by a lot of companies whose logos are on the jerseys and such. Imagine a NASCAR race car, but as a hockey jersey! This team, being a good Stuttgart team, was sponsored by Porsche! The team we played was called the Landshut Cannibals, from a town in Bavaria. BB won, 4:3, in the last second (I mean, the LAST second!) of the game.

I found it weird that many things were still in English. The team names, for one, where both in English, as was the big scoring thing hanging from the middle of the arena.

Hockey is not very popular here in Germany (definitely not like in Sweden, Finland, or the Czech Republic), and it showed. The arena this team played in was essentially a skating rink with a greater than normal amount of seats and the teams were obviously minor-league. But, in conclusion, I was satisfied! I scratched my hockey itch, but still wish I could get live Red Wings games over the internet here! There is a way to do it, but it requires a lot of finagling and I haven't figured it out yet!