This Saturday is guaranteed to be a very special day at Brauhaus Schmitz in Philadelphia. Philadelphia's only authentic German Bierhall, and the headquarters of the Philadelphia Bundesliga Fan Coalition, will host a camera crew from Fox Sports 1. The sports network plans on broadcasting live fan reactions during their pre-game show around 9 a.m. and during the FC Bayern München vs. FC Augsburg match. It's important that we get as many people to show up at Brauhaus (doors open at 8:30 a.m.) as possible, so we can show Fox Sports 1, and the world, how much Bundesliga means to us. On Sunday, Fox (the big Fox) plans on showing a tape-delayed version of the Bayern match, so depending on how it's edited, there's a chance that an even bigger audience will get to see our excitement.

Many thanks go to two of our Twitter followers, Cristian Nyari and Jody Strauch. Recently, Jody wrote an article about us on Bundesliga Fanatic, which ended up inspiring Cristian to spread the word about our Bundesliga Fan Coalition to a couple influential people at Fox. Another major thank you to the owner of Brauhaus Schmitz, Doug Hager. Doug has opened the doors of Brauhaus early to show Bundesliga for over five years!

Here's the Bundesliga Matchday 4 viewing schedule for this weekend:

Friday, September 11, 2015

• 2:30 p.m. - Borussia M'gladbach vs. Hamburger SV (shown in front bar and on big screen in back bar via Fox Sports 1)

Saturday, September 12, 2015
-Brauhaus Schmitz will open doors at 8:30 a.m. The more people that arrive between 8:30 and 9, the better.

• 9:30 a.m. - FC Bayern München vs. FC Augsburg (shown in front bar and on big screen in back bar via Fox Sports 1)
• 9:30 a.m. - Hannover vs. Borussia Dortmund
• 9:30 a.m. - Hertha BSC vs. VfB Stuttgart
• 9:30 a.m. - FC Ingolstadt vs. VfL Wolfsburg
• 9:30 a.m. - Bayer Leverkusen vs. Darmstadt
• 12:30 p.m. - Eintracht Frankfurt vs. 1. FC Köln (streamed in back bar via Fox Soccer 2Go)

Sunday, September 13, 2015

• 9:30 a.m. - Hoffenheim vs. Werder Bremen (match on Fox Sports 1, but Brauhaus not opening early)
• 11:30 a.m. - FC Schalke vs. Mainz 05 (shown in front bar via Fox Sports 1)

Hope to see many of you this weekend!

Many of you read the Bavarian Football Works article earlier this week about how the Fox Sports scheduling (or lack thereof) of German Bundesliga is a middle finger to American Bundesliga fans. There seems to be a section of the American Bundesliga population that is generally ok with what Fox Sports has done, mainly because of the $99/year Fox Soccer 2 Go streaming service, but it's doubtful that most people imagined that when it was announced that Fox Sports would start broadcasting our favorite league this season there would be such a lack of widely available television broadcasting options. Remember this juicy part of a 2013 SB Nation article: "The games will be more readily available on Fox's Fox Sports 1, Fox Sports 2, Fox Soccer Plus, and Fox Soccer 2 Go. Plus, we may even see a few games on Fox's mothership." Now that specific details have been added to the schedule section of the Fox Sports Bundesliga site, it is clear that the Fox television focus is on Fox Sports 2 and Fox Sports Plus. For Comcast subscribers that means back to the Bundesliga drawing board as both Fox Sports 2 and Fox Sports Plus are not available on their channel guide.

Well, Bundesliga fans, don't let a little bit of Fox milk make you cry. The @BundesligaOnFox parody Twitter account will turn your frowns upside down and is fingering its social media middle finger at Fox Sports. While it is doubtful that the Twitter account will have any impact on Fox Sports plans for Bundesliga, it is still funny and well worth following if you have a sense of humor, enjoy story telling, and don't mind getting some misinformation in your Twitter feed. It's highly likely that @BundesligaOnFox will be shut down either before the season starts or during the season, but it's also possible that Fox Sports is such a huge organization that when it's included in @BundesligaOnFox's own tweets it doesn't even know how to react or who to contact to find out if the account is legit. For example:

On more than a few occasions, @BundesligaOnFox has included Fox Sports Twitter accounts in its tweets, and as far as we can tell, there have been no reactions to it. Of course, for Twitter fact checkers the account's bio section specifically mentions that it is a parody account, but not everybody looks at Twitter bios.

What might end up being the funniest part of the Twitter account is its depth of story. There is an attempt to bring life to its "employees" and "organization." From what can be gathered by its tweets, the @BundesligaOnFox organization includes a Director of Operations, Deputy Director of Operations, Director of Marketing (only working 1 hour a week with a half hour lunch break), Social Media Coordinator, HR Director, an intern, and a Chief of Umlauts. Yes, a Chief of Umlauts, that is training the staff how to tweet and update the actual Fox Sports website with proper umlauts. You see, this account is confusing! It tweets actual, legit information while spreading misinformation at the same time. Not to mention creating havoc for Fox Sports, if they even care, and doing a fair amount of trolling into the Twitter conversations of others.

To conclude this longer than necessary article, @BundesligaOnFox is pointing its middle finger right back at Fox Sports for its Bundesliga blunders, and it's worth following if you're on Twitter. At the time of this posting it doesn't seem to be on Facebook or any other social media platform. Here are a few tweets to help you enjoy your Sunday.

What do you think of @BundesligaOnFox? Leave your comments in the comments section below. Is it possible that this is a Fox inside job?

Thanks to the @BundesligaOnFox Twitter account, we were able to find out the Fox Sports plan for Bundesliga Matchday 1, and it's not pretty. Welcome to Fox Sports 2 and Fox Sports Plus, Bundesliga fans.