Germany Partied A Little Too Hard...

After retiring home victorious, the German national team started off their reign as world champions by throwing a massive 400,000 person bash in Berlin.  Fans had been waiting hours for the celebration (some even waiting since the day before) when the champions left their plane and headed for the city center.  After a two hour bus ride through the throngs of crowds, the team addressed the crowds gathered by the Brandenburg Gate, partied their asses off with the adoring fans... and promptly broke the world cup.  Now, I have to apologize for a bit of an oversell there, because first off, the Germans only broke a "small chip" off the cup, and secondly, it wasn't even the real cup!  Almost immediately after raising the actual cup in Brazil, FIFA whisks the solid gold cup away to a Swiss vault.  The cup the Germans damaged is only a gold plated replica, and they have already gotten someone to fix the damaged cup.  The German FA President Wolfgang Niersbach released a statement saying that they had conducted a full investigation as to who broke the cup but "the investigation was concluded without result", which you have to love because the phrasing seems to suggest that they know full well who broke it, but didn't want to kill the party by outing the clumsy lummox who actually did it.

                                     (Alex Grimm/EPA/Bongarts/Getty Images/DFB/DPA)

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