Anyone who can successfully check off this list has a place in the Olympus of sports fans for sure!
The BILD sports editorial team discussed what a fan should know, experience and see if you really love sports.
Take the test yourself, how often you can say “I know”, “I already was”, “I did”:
1. Stay in line at Wimbledon and get a one-day ticket to eat strawberries and cream, among other things
Waiting for tickets: Tennis fans camp out at Wimbledon
2. Having a well-founded opinion as to whether Ronaldo or Messi is taller
3. Explain football offside in one sentence
4. Lead a game as a referee – even if it’s the F youth
5. Hitting a ball with a 7-iron at the driving range
6. Wearing the jersey of a club you don’t like for a day
7. Get an autograph
8. Change the cleats on a soccer shoe
9. Christmas carols in the “Alte Försterei” near Union Berlin
10. Trying to imitate the rugby ritual Haka
11. Know the German goal scorers of the won World Cup finals
12. Know Becker’s final opponent in his three Wimbledon victories
In 1985 Boris Becker won Wimbledon, as well as in 1986 and 1989
13. Knowing what Steffi Graf achieved in 1988
Steffi Graf holt 1988 u.a. Olympia-Gold
14. Master ten sentences for which you would have to pay into the phrase pig
15. When you think of “GudnAbendallerseits” you think of a man named Heribert Faßbender
16. Watching a Bayern home game on a Oktoberfest weekend
17. Bike up (or push up) the 21 turns to Alpe d’Huez
18. Jump from the 10 meter tower
19. Shooting at a target with a biathlon rifle
20. Experience the 100 meter final at the Olympic Games live in the stadium
Olympic highlight: the 100-meter final, here in 2008 with Usain Bolt as the winner
21. Watching the Muhammad Ali vs. George Foreman boxing match (“Rumble in the Jungle”)
Legendary: “Rumble in the Jungle” with Muhammad Ali (right) and George Foreman
22. Complete a triathlon – no matter the time (500 meter swim, 20 km bike, 5 km run)
23. Taking a turn on cross-country skis
24. Freeing a football stuck under the car
25. Crying at least twice after a sporting event – once in joy, once in disappointment
2001: Schalke fan cries after the 4-minute championship
26. Watch the ARD sports show without knowing the results
27. Eating a hot dog at a baseball game in the US
28. Knowing the Man United goalscorers in the 1999 2-1 win against Bayern in the correct order and never forgetting where you watched the game
29. Standing in the curve of the outsider in a DFB Cup final
Long break due to mental problems This is how United star Jadon Sancho is doing!
30. Watching a wrestling show and wondering if it’s real or not
31. Owning a “Kicker” special from the ’70s
32. Read “Fever Pitch” by Nick Hornby
33. Watch “Miracle of Bern” and “Summer Fairy Tale”.
34. Experience a Formula 1 race in the Eau Rouge corner in Spa
Combination of curves in the valley: Eau Rouge in Spa
35. Look out of the starting point of the Streif descent in Kitzbühel
36. Watch the Glasgow derby Celtic vs Rangers at the stadium
37. Ride in the back of a bobsleigh
38. Sitting on the beam of the largest ski jump in Vikersund
39. Drinking a pint of beer dressed as a turkey at darts mecca Ally Pally
40. Squeezing into a luge or speed skating suit
41. Look at the then secret GDR low-pressure chamber in the Olympic Center in Kienbaum
42. Score a basketball free throw without the ball touching the hoop
43. Watching “Tin Cup” with Kevin Costner
44. Completely collected and exchanged a Bundesliga Panini album
45. Experience Schalke against Dortmund live
46. Knowing where Behle is
47. Watching a cricket match to the end
National sport in India: cricket
48. Stroke Uwe Seeler’s bronze foot in Hamburg
Seeler’s bronze foot in front of the HSV Arena
49. Shoot three below, three above the ZDF goal wall
50. Watch the 24 Hours of Le Mans for 24 hours
51. Woo-hoo! Sing along to the goal anthem “Song 2” (Blur) live at S. Pauli am Millerntor
St. Pauli has a famous goal anthem
52. Miss a goal because you went to get a beer
53. Know both Michael Jordan shirt numbers
54. Watch a sporting event at Madison Square Garden
55. Imitate the Klaus Fischer overhead kick in the German Football Museum
56. Knowing the first Bundesliga goalscorer
57. Be thankful for the German sports 90s with Steffi Graf, Boris Becker, Michael Stich, Michael Schumacher, Henry Maske, Graciano Rocchigiani, Axel Schulz, Jan Ullrich, Markus Wasmeier, Katja Seizinger as well as football World Cup and European Championship to have experienced titles
You should have seen it! This India game is true soccer art
58. “Ziiiiiiiiieeeeeeehhhhhh” roar at the Four Hills Tournament
59. Master tennis counting
60. Never believe that England’s 3-2 win at the 1966 World Cup at Wembley was in there
61. When thinking about Lothar Matthäus, the first thing to think about is his World Cup goal against Yugoslavia in 1990
62. Explain Dirk Nowitzki’s parade throw “Fade away”.
Dirk Nowitzki’s trademark: the “fade away”
63. Playing beach volleyball at Copacabana
64. List the disciplines in the decathlon
65. Knowing why Olympics are called Olympics and marathons are called marathons
66. Watching the Super Bowl on TV without falling asleep
67. Witnessing the relegation of his favorite club
68. Catching the baseball on a home run in the United States
Popular US sport: baseball
69. Knowing which winner gets a green jacket
Tiger Woods (right) also got the green jacket
70. Explain the “hand of God.”
Maradona scored against England in 1986
71. Know the typical shirt numbers of Beckenbauer, Völler and Klose in the national team
72. Knowing why the penalty kick is taken from eleven yards
73. Eat the Bergisel cake in the “Sky” restaurant on the ski jump in Innsbruck
Delicious: Bergisel cake
74. Throwing the 180 at darts
75. Knowing the difference between Super-G and Downhill
76. Know three famous missed penalties
77. Know with which two racing teams Schumi won his seven world titles
78. Being able to quote and explain the famous saying of the cyclist Udo Bölts
Jan Ullrich (left) and Udo Bölts on the 1997 tour
79. Making a fan robe
80. Don’t think of Tom Cruise when you think of Maverick(s).
81. Know the captains of the handball world champion teams in 1978 and 2007
82. Sing “You’ll Never Walk Alone” at Liverpool’s Anfield and touch the sign
Sign above the players entrance to Liverpool Stadium
83. Knowing Acatenango
Famous racehorse: Acatenango
84. Recognize the Weser Stadium by the floodlight mast
85. Watching five amateur football games over a weekend with beer and bratwurst
86. Own a season ticket for one season
87. See a home game of the first German champion Lok Leipzig (formerly VfB) on the oldest and listed wooden grandstand in Germany
88. Read the football rules completely
89. Being able to deliver a 60-second angry speech about why Bayern fans are cheap success fans…
90. …and master a 60-second reply, why Bayern fans don’t have it easy either
91. Watch an FC home game during the carnival period
92. Be the first to sing a song in the stadium
93. Swim 50 meters butterfly without drowning
Butterfly star Michael Groß
94. Playing football on a street with schoolbags for posts
95. Don’t think of an albatross as a bird
96. Know Ben Johnson, Carl Lewis and Usain Bolt
Carl Lewis (left) and Ben Johnson
97. Sitting in the saddle on a horse
98. Own the SPORT BILD first issue of 24.2.1988
Front page of the first SPORT BILD
99. Travel to an away game with the weekend ticket
100. Sing Grönemeyer’s “Tief im Westen” in the Bochum stadium
