MUNICH — The enormous square in the center of this German city is called Odeonsplatz, and Friday morning it was awash with visitors snapping photos and weaving through oversized helmets of all 32 NFL teams.
It is bordered to the south by the Feldherrnhalle, a covered outdoor hall built in the 1840s in honor of the Bavarian Army and briefly turned into a Nazi memorial by Adolf Hitler before being restored after World War II. Guests sat on stairs guarded by two gargantuan bronze statues of lions and enjoyed the view below.
Benjamin Langeffeld, 29, and Daniel Prehofer, 28, made the half-hour trip from Clifton to be near history of another sort — the NFL’s first regular-season game in Germany — and get as close as they could to their favorite NFL team, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
