Timo Erbs

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Timo Erbs (* 1968 in Bad Oldesloe ) is a former German American football player.

career

Erbs began his American football career with the Stormarn Vikings. He was first used in defense, then as a quarterback . In 1996 he switched to the Hamburg Blue Devils as a pass recipient . When the Hamburg kicker was canceled in the course of the 1996 game year , Erbs stepped in and was henceforth a regular in this position.

He played from 1996 to 1999 and in 2001, 2002, 2011, 2012 and 2013 as a kicker for the Blue Devils. In the meantime he strengthened the Harburg Ducks, for the 2001 season Erbs went back to the Blue Devils. Because of his consistent performance, he was nicknamed "Mr. Reliable". In 1996 he became German champions with Hamburg, and in 1996, 1997 and 1998 they won the Eurobowl . In the final of the German championship in 1999, which was played in front of 30,400 spectators in the Volksparkstadion , it was just under four minutes before the end between Hamburg and Braunschweig 24:25. Since Erbs only hit the goal post when trying to secure an extra point for his Hamburg team, Braunschweig became German champions. "This missed shot haunts me to this day," he told the Hamburger Abendblatt in June 2013 . With the German national team he became European champion in 2001.

Erbs, who played soccer at VfL Oldesloe, had taught himself the technique of kicking the game device in American football with the help of teaching material from the United States. Erbs, who works as a chimney sweep, survived a fall from an eight-meter-high roof in February 2015, sustaining an ankle injury.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1999/pdf/19990413.pdf/HAAZ19990413lf000014.pdf
  2. ↑ a b c Achim Leoni: 1999 in the Volkspark: Then it made Klong! June 7, 2013, accessed on January 27, 2020 (German).
  3. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/2001/pdf/20010302.pdf/HAHA20010302lf0000128.pdf
  4. ^ Hamburg 1 interview with Timo Erbs. Accessed January 27, 2020 (German).
  5. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/2003/pdf/20031009.pdf/HAHA20031009lf028.pdf
  6. ↑ EM 2001. Accessed January 27, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt: Ex-Devil Erbs survives falling from the roof lightly. February 23, 2015, accessed on January 27, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Erbs, Timo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German American football player
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Oldesloe