It's an unusual story.
So we are in the middle of the UEFA Euro 2020 games (I know, it's 2021, but because of Covid in the summer of 2020, it got pushed to 2021....so don't argue about this part of the story).
The folks in Munich got a couple of the games arranged there at the Munich Allianz-arena. As stadiums go in Europe, I'd rate it a 5-star operation and fairly ultra-modern looking.
So around three days ago, the stadium made a decision that they'd specially light-up the arena....in rainbow colors. It's a gay statement (they even admit it).
This was as part of the build-up to the Germany versus Hungary game for Wednesday night (9 PM).
Politicians in Hungary stood up and said this was 'crap'....making this a political slam against them since they aren't ultra-supportive like the Germans on gay affairs.
German news journalists rushed out and did polling....to basically say a majority of Germans were hyped-up positive about this.
This decision on the rainbow lighting? All done by the Munich city council (not the management folks of the stadium).
Well....things went 'south' this morning and the UEFA folks met. They kinda agreed with the Hungarians, and said this was all political in context, and they weren't going to make the games into that type of 'circus' (my words, not theirs). So the special lighting? No, that's now forbidden.
Done? I doubt it. There's probably going to be an hour on public TV news tonight....wasted on gaying-up the soccer game, and how this rainbow agenda fits into the world we live in.
To drag this in? Well....there's at least a thousand topics that folks would like to hype on their favorite agenda items, and once you start this....the game becomes less a game, and more about political agenda discussions.
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