What was that? A shark fin during an ARD live broadcast caused great amusement in the network on Sunday afternoon. But who was behind the animal joke in the DFB’s Campo Bavaria?
What is swimming there? Unsuspecting, the viewers on ARD listened to the update from the DFB quarter in Herzogenaurach on Sunday afternoon. Suddenly a gray shark fin appeared in the small lake behind reporter Lennert Brinkhoff. Shark alarm in the DFB district? Or is it a gag from class bully Thomas Müller, as some Twitter users immediately suspected? Nothing like that.
Bavaria field
“Live from Haizogenaurach,” tweeted the ARD itself. It quickly became clear that it was the journalists themselves who had allowed themselves the little joke. So the idea came up just a few days earlier. Apparently when the Bavarian Broadcasting Team (who is responsible for reports from Herzogenaurach during the European Football Championship) reminisced about the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. In view of the grueling kick against the Hungarians, somehow understandable. Not to mention the weather. It was intended as a reference to the Campo Bahia, because there are only frogs in the Campo Bavaria, said BR sports director Christoph Wetzel to the German press agency. “Then a few colleagues did that in their free time. We wanted to make something to smile about,” continued Wetzel.
With the paper mache fin, this succeeded in any case, because the users enjoyed the gag via Twitter. “Always those guys who say shark when they see a camera,” wrote one. Another asked where Ralph Möller was staying when he was needed. When asked by another user who asked Reporter Brinkhoff about the background, he replied: “Investigations are in progress”.
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