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It got loud once in the stadium in Sinsheim.
When TSG Hoffenheim hit the pitch, an old hit from Rammstein boomed through the boxes.
The song "Engel" echoed over the empty grandstands while Sebastian Hoeneß's team waited for their opponent.
Then Bayer Leverkusen came onto the pitch.
It was the dreary start to a dreary game that provided an appropriate setting for a Monday game in the Bundesliga.
When referee Matthias Jöllenbeck whistled off the game at 10:21 p.m., it was clear: Bundesliga football again only belongs to the weekend.
The uneventful 0-0 was the last Monday game of the season, and there will be no games on the unloved date at the start of the week in the coming seasons.
The zero number between Hoffenheim and Leverkusen put a line under a series of Monday games that had started badly.
The first regular Monday game in the history of the Bundesliga took place in Frankfurt in February 2018.
Eintracht defeated RB Leipzig 2-1, but the fans still didn't feel like celebrating.
The supporters accompanied the game with angry protests.
The fans threw hundreds of tennis balls onto the field at halftime, and the restart was delayed by almost ten minutes.
The wrong balls - at the first Monday game, Frankfurt fans threw hundreds of tennis balls onto the court
Source: pa / Uwe Anspach / d
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The fans whistled for 90 minutes, they only interrupted the whistling concert to celebrate a goal or to express their opinion loudly to the DFB.
Four seasons of Monday games followed.
They were all accompanied by protests.
Frankfurt fans protest against the first official Monday game in the Bundesliga
Source: pa / SvenSimon / Elmar Kremser / SVEN SIMON
The 0-0 win in Sinsheim was the last game on a Monday for the time being.
The low-chance game didn't deserve a winner.
Leverkusen remains in sixth place two points behind Borussia Dortmund and has little chance of qualifying for the Champions League.
Hoffenheim missed a break in the relegation battle.
"A great success for the fan scenes"
"The ten relief games in the sense of the Uefa Europa League starters, half of which have been played in the Bundesliga on Monday evening and half on Sunday from 1.30 p.m., will all take place on Sunday at 7.30 p.m.", says a statement of the German Football League (DFL).
The games, which were actually intended to regenerate the Europa League starters and were initially welcomed by the clubs, were simply not accepted by the fans.
"The fact that the protests have resulted in the Monday games being stopped is a great success for the fan scene," said Helen Breit from the fan organization "Our Curve" in an interview with the sports information service, including in the second division The unpopular date at the start of the week will be canceled from the coming season. The last Monday game will take place in the lower house in Hamburg when HSV receives 1. FC Nürnberg on May 10. It could hardly be more desolate than the game Hoffenheim against Leverkusen.