We knew that already, right? But sports commentators can be pretty dumb too, you know.
Nobody knows what this lady was thinking when she said it, least of all herself I’m sure, but after Germany’s Miroslav Klose shot this beautiful goal against Australia the other night (and ended a long dry spell everybody had been ragging him about), she said “That’s a real inner Reichsparteitag (Nuremberg Rally) for Miroslav Klose, that he scores a goal like that here today.”
Huh? That’s a new one for me – although it’s clearly not a new one for a bunch of other folks around here. Dict.cc just told me that it’s an idiom meaning “a feeling of deep satisfaction over the outcome of something.” Oh. That makes it, uh, better, I guess.
“Es war eine sprachliche Entgleisung im Eifer der Halbzeitpause.”
Observing Hermann 
I saw this as well. I thought I had misheard because I wasn’t really paying attention.
Speaking of strange turns of phrase, a German colleague praised a Jewish friend of mine recently by saying that he was working hard like a Jew. When the poor fellow realized what he had said and to whom, he immediately corrected himself. He said he had actually meant “N*g*r.”
! Hey, when you’re on a roll…