Beer shower

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Beer shower after a victory by the Austrian national soccer team and the associated successful qualification for the European Championship finals (Vienna, October 12, 2015)

The beer shower - sometimes more accurately wheat beer shower - is a custom in which generally consist of a joyous occasion such. B. winning a sporting competition , someone is doused with beer . Usually a person of respect such as B. the coach , the manager or even the club president of the athletes with a beer shower. The beer shower takes place more or less surprisingly for those who receive the beer shower. Often the beer shower is made from oversized beer glasses or tankards . After a beer shower has been successfully carried out, others who have contributed to the success often follow.

Emergence

The invention of the beer shower as a “ritual” of a championship celebration is attributed to FC Bayern Munich in the press . According to Zeit Online , the custom first appeared in 2000 , when FC Bayern won the German soccer championship just before Bayer Leverkusen and the players poured their traditionally large wheat beer glasses over the master coach Ottmar Hitzfeld for joy . Süddeutsche.de attributes the invention of the beer shower to Giovane Élber or Mario Basler .

After the term "beer shower" was not only used sporadically, but had become common parlance, it was included in the 27th edition of the Duden in 2017 .

Precursors and Variations

Showering with drinks can occur in various sports. It is possible that the custom was based on motorsport , e.g. B. Formula 1 , where "champagne showers" or "champagne showers" of the first to third place are a tradition.

A modification is that in the USA z. For example, the “Gatorade Bath” or “Gatorade Shower” custom, which takes place at the Super Bowl , dates back to the mid-1980s and in which a person, often the coach, is poured the energy drink from a barrel.

  • Gatorade Bath for a football coach (USA, November 20, 2007)

  • Champagne shower at a cycling award ceremony (Bensheim, June 28, 2015)

Web links

Wiktionary: Beer shower  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Matthias Stolz: Purity Law: Always water nicely. In: Zeit Online . Zeit Online GmbH, May 19, 2005, accessed on March 17, 2015 .
  2. ↑ FC Bayern: Championship Celebration - The Art of the Shower. (Photo No. 3). In: Süddeutsche.de . Süddeutscher Verlag , May 9, 2010, accessed on March 19, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Jonas Beckenkamp: Sense and nonsense of the beer shower: Mia san beer. In: Süddeutsche.de . Süddeutscher Verlag , May 14, 2014, accessed on March 19, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Goalmann or Ketchup - These words have been deleted from the new Duden. tz , August 8, 2017, accessed on August 9, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Beer shower, the. Duden , 2017, accessed on August 9, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Champagne shower, the. Duden , 2017, accessed on August 10, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Champagne shower, the. Duden , 2017, accessed on August 10, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Sam Borden: A Splashy Tradition, Gatorade Style. In: The New York Times . The New York Times Company, January 20, 2012, accessed March 17, 2015 .
  9. ↑ FC Bayern: Championship Celebration - The Art of the Shower. (Photo No. 4). In: Süddeutsche.de . Süddeutscher Verlag , May 9, 2010, accessed on March 19, 2015 .