NFL great Barry Sanders taps beer keg in Munich, battles through the adversity of a poorly designed mallet

And what better way to get people fired up than by letting an all-time great take a turn at tapping a beer keg Oktoberfest-style?...Right, there isn't one, and that's why Lions legend Barry Sanders threw on a protective apron to show us how it's done.NFL COMMISSIONER ROGER GOODELL CONFIRMS LEAGUE WANTS MULTIPLE TEAMS BASED OUTSIDE THE US: 'NO DOUBT'Lions legend Barry Sanders battled through a terribly designed mallet to successfully tap a keg in Munich.(USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect)Turns out this is way harder than it looks.Not a bad first attempt by the Hall of Famer, but poor Barry was just thrown to, as the Germans would say, "der wolves."First of all, do they not have normal mallets? I've never been to Germany (though I do have an affinity for bratwursts and the music of Kraftwerk), so maybe they don't.I don't want to tell the Germans how to tap a keg, but wouldn't that be way easier with a flat-sided rubber mallet? They're using the mallet that someone stole from a Whac-A-Mole machine at the arcade down the Straße.Were all of the normal, flat-sided mallets in Munich unavailable that day? (Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/picture alliance via Getty Images)Get Barry a real American mallet, and that keg would be tapped so hard the Germans would be more in awe of him than they are of David Hasselhoff.And there was no help from that mascot.CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGEThat wasn't the normal Lions mascot, Roary; that was their German mascot, Leo Löwe.Leo, mein Freund, when you see your franchise's greatest legend struggling to tap a keg, maybe lend a paw.

Don't just lean on the keg like you're trying to be the Arthur Fonzarelli of the keg party.THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE.DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW!I'm not mad, just disappointed.The NFL heading to Germany means we get fun stuff like Barry Sanders tapping a beer keg.

(Andreas Gora/picture alliance via Getty Images)But all that matters is that Barry got the job d...