The Game - The NFL Takes Over Germany

Overview

Can the National Football League’s appeal win over the hearts of fans in Germany and around the world for the long term? In “THE GAME – The NFL Takes Over Germany,” RTL explores this question in a high-quality, premium documentary and tells the extraordinary success story of the world’s largest sports league. Starting with the NFL Berlin Game in November 2025, the documentary traces the NFL’s rise from its historic beginnings to its status as a modern mega-event—featuring exclusive insights and interviews with, among others, NFL commissioners Roger Goodell and Gerrit Meier, as well as current and former German-speaking NFL pros such as Bernhard Raimann, Markus Kuhn, and Björn Werner.

Directed by Paul Berczeller, Lukas Hoffmann

Top cast

Patrick Esume

Roger Goodell

C

Carlie Irsay-Gordon

M

Marcus Kuhn

M

Michael MacCambridge

G

Gerrit Meier

B

Bernhard Raimann

A

Alexander Steinforth

B

Björn Werner

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