Moritz Böhringer doesn’t understand Mall of America

Moritz Böhringer is adjusting well to life in America, but there are a few things about our country he just doesn’t get.

A cute little video on Vikings rookie Moritz Böhringer and his new experiences as a German football star making his way in America.

Stuff MoBo says is different about America compared to Germany? The cars in the US are bigger and there are more franchise stores.

Thing MoBo misses about home? His mom’s German Mac-and-Cheese (which is better than our Mac-and-Cheese, unless he’s only saying that to make his mom happy).

Fun fact about MoBo? Being the thrifty sort, he hasn’t yet purchased a car. So that means he walks everywhere. And his girlfriend thinks that’s weird.

MoBo also reveals something that might irk some of the more home-town proud folks in Minnesota: He just doesn’t understand Mall of America.

What is there not to understand MoBo? It’s a big indoor place where people buy junk, eat junk and ride on rides that make them sick.

Just think of it as a cathedral of mindless consumption. Clearly the Germans are not as into wandering around like money-spending zombies as Americans are.

Don’t worry about MoBo. A few years in America and he’ll be just as much an unthinking slave to consumerism as the rest of us. His soul will be just as tainted by the need to acquire stuff, including big cars.

Assuming he sticks around that long of course. Guy still has to make the team. Which is anything but a sure thing.

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If he doesn’t make the team, at least he’ll have his mom’s homemade German better-than-Mac-and-Cheese to comfort him.

And Viking fans will have regular Mac-and-Cheese to comfort them when they ponder the draft pick Rick Spielman threw away on a player who had almost no shot.