• Germany won against France (26:10), so we are European Champion and already qualified for the World Championship next year in Austria
  
• Kickoff was at 19:30 (GMT+1), earlier this day were the semifinals (didn't watch them). Austria scored third against European Champion Sweden (30:0)
  
• the game took place in the Commerzbank Arena in Frankfurt (formerly known als Waldstadion). Max capacity is ~50.000, there were about 8.500 spectators during the final game
  
• most of the spectators were Germans, France had maybe 200 supporters (estimate by me), although there may have been french fans in the German block
  
• the french team's name was "The fighting Frogs", which I found quite funny
  

• are there regulations in American arenas concerning Vuvuzelas / compressed air horns / other silly poo poo like that? Concerning being a good sportsman and all, I found it quite annoying to see german spectators trying to drown out the opposing team by using these every time France were on offense
  
• are there seperate blocks in American arenas for the two fan bases? (I know its commonplace in soccer, as violence can be a problem sometimes)
  

• On a rare occurence, there was a "to go" distance displayed that was over the expected 10yards. How is that possible?
  
• This may be too unspecific, but sometimes there was an incomplete pass, which didn't result in another try, but was treated as the next starting point (sorry, I'm still learning the terminology). Any ideas about when this may happen?
  
• mental note to myself: bringing along a cheat sheet with the most important referee signals next time. Any suggestions where these can be looked up?
  

kyuss fucked around with this message at 11:23 on Aug 2, 2010

• Some helmets had built-in visors. What purpose do they serve?
  
• I saw the jersey number zero on a player, does this number have a special meaning?