Nessie, the farthest north in Germany I have been is Dusseldorf. You had mentioned something earlier about Werder Bremen Club/Sponsor being tasteless. Since I haven't been to this part of Germany, I was wondering if you could give me a brief synopsis about this football club in this regard. Is it bad ownership?
Additionally, how do you feel about your rowdy neighbors, St Pauli. They seem like some crazy, die hard fans. They seem like Raider fans to me, which I obviously don't like of course.
To be honest - if I say things like that about Bremen its only because they are our rivals, I just dont like them.
In fact Werder Bremen has been a club with one of the best managements in German Bundesliga for many years.
They had head coaches who worked long term for them (Rehagel, Schaaf) and were well known for very smart transfers they did, just think of players like Pizzaro, Ailton, Naldo, Diego, Özil, Herzog, Klose, Völler, Micoud.
There is a reason why Bremen won multiple championships while HSV didnt win anything.
But since Klaus Allofs left them to sign with Wolfsburg things are getting worse. The "Wiesenhof" deal is only one example and proof for this as this is a company with a bad reputation, even Werder fans organized protests against Wiesenhof as their new sponsor.
With your comparision to Raiders Fans you hit the nail on the head.
St.P*** fans are die hard fans and love to party at the stadium. But thats all they have as they never won anything, no championship and most of time they play in minor leagues.
Worst thing that could happen to me as a HSV fan is a loss against them like 2011
Man, that was a horrible experience having them celebrating their win in our stadium.
I rather enjoy waking up at 4:30am on Saturdays. Guess I'll have to find some work around the house to do.
I'm looking forward for football on Boxing Day ! 
