“Your TV commentators for tonight are Jim Johnson and myself, Bob Bifford. Good evening Jim!”

“Evening and thank you Bob! Yes, tonight we will look at Blood Bowl’s #36 best touchdown ever, and what an evening we will have! So much to look at and so little time… Anyway, Bob, who is the lucky coach to be on TV today and which team are we going to examine?”

“Jim, you wouldn’t believe it but it’s no less than † The Grave Diggers † coached by no less than RawMessiah. Now you do know him don’t you, Jim?”

“Yes, I’ve met him a couple of times and what an odd one he is!”

“He is? Well, then it fits the theme tonight because the team he coaches, the fantastic but at the same time the ‘odd ones’; The Diggers. Now they haven’t been in it for too long but already have performed some of the bestest plays this game will see, especially with their winning touchdown in their fifth match of their career. You would believe a team needs at least a few more matches to get going but not so with The Diggers! They’re full of fantastic cards up their sleeves and can produce fantastic plays when you least expect them to do.’

“Yes, they have already managed to win a few matches, caused some mayhem on the field and last, but not least, caused some deaths on their behalf!!! What more does a Blood Bowl crowd crave for?”

“Welcome, folks, to the broadcasting of the #36 best touchdown ever!”


*Music bursts out of the TV sets and after five minutes finally fades away.*!


“Welcome back. This is Bob and with me here sits my very good friend Jim.”

“Hello folks.”

“So Jim, let’s get to business, shall we? Lead us through the opening phase of the match between † The Grave Diggers † and the chaotic Yararioum Ranks.”

“Yes, the match started with The Diggers receiving and after a few minutes they were in a rather bad position with the Ranks going on the offence pretty much from the word go. As you can see on the screen there are four beastmen and a few chaos warriors blocking the ball-carrier, and what seems like a wall of death is not a wall of death at all as The Diggers manage to break through into a good position, Bob?”

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“Go on Jim.”

”After a failed hand-off-“


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“-and a lot of pushing and blocking The Diggers finally see themselves in a rather deep hole, as you can see on the screen right now-“

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“-but they manage to move into a rather good position."

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"So… They’re now in a position where only the experienced notice that they were up for an early TD. It’s all on paper, Bob.”

“Ehm, I know that… Still, that’s true, ol’ Jim. You can see they’re building up and are now ready to move into space, to cover every angle so that the chaos can’t interrupt them in the middle of a great TD build-up. Now let us go through this great play. But first a little word from our sponsors.”

*Music accompanied by commercial follow and what seems like an eternity they finally fade away together with the music.*

“Yes, hello, welcome back. This is Bob and this, here, is Jim.”

“Hello.”

“You’re watching the Top 100 Blood Bowl Touchdowns and we were in the middle of examining The Diggers build-up when the blasted commercials interrupted us. What? I’m not allowed to say that?”

(speakers in the roof) “In the middle of the build-up, Bob…”

“Yes yes, OK! So… The Diggers set themselves up in a nice position-“

“Which you can observe on the screen right now folks.”

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“Like I said, they’re moving into position and let me mark a few players for you. Now the zombie at the back of the bunch can be seen drooling over the ball and the other can be seen looking at the touchdown line, with whatever eyes left, thinking with that smelly brain of his ‘I could maybe just run towards it?’”

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“Bob, you’re so smart. I hadn’t seen it and I’m sure not many others either, you have some incredible pair of eyes. Did you know that?”

“Yes yes, of course Jim. Back to the build-up. Now what would the next step be, Jim? Think logically.”

“Well, I would take the ball and run down the field. It’s really not that difficult, just make sure you hold the ball tight.”

“But these boys don’t have muscle made of steel like you have, or the speed that you sometimes manage to get. Let me explain the course of action they’ll take Jim. The first thing that they do is make sure one guy runs towards the touchdown line, but with their legs it ain’t that easy, you see, but still these buggers can do it, and they did it, indeed! With one zombie having dodged plus taken two extra steps all of a sudden a touchdown isn’t out of reach.”

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“We mentioned earlier the other zombie close to the ball. For a zombie team moving down the field is not always an option and in this case it definitely wasn’t as time was running out. With their slow movement they’re forced to throw the ball more often than preferred and in this case right here the ball had to be thrown if a touchdown would be scored. But before all of this the ball needs to be picked up, walked with and then, only then, thrown!”

“Quite impossible, Bob. Quite impossible.”

“Jim, nothing is impossible in Blood Bowl, and you should know that!”

“Bob, you take me for a fool? Now I could splatter you any time I’d like, watch your mouth! If you wish, we could go and have a one-on-one backstage-“

*A word from the sponsors - commercials – cut in accompanied by slow-paced music, fading away after six long minutes*

“-and I could kill you anytime I’d like!”

(speaker coughs twice)

“Oh, hi there folks! Welcome back to this broadcast. With us you have Jim and myself, Bob. Now back to things concerning this broadcasting. Where were we Jim?”

“I wanted to-“

“Yes, in the middle of The Diggers’ build-up for a first half touchdown in their match against the Yararioum Ranks. With one zombie awaiting the ball it’s up for the defending zombie to go and pick up the ball without tripping on the way, and it’s exactly what happens! Almost a miracle with Nuffle bringing this fantastic piece or performing on a silver platter for The Diggers! The zombie manages to pick the ball up and make two extra steps; all the while keeping his head up, looking for the team mate at the other side of the field. For one second it seemed as if the zombie decided to stop play and do whatever it felt like doing but fortunately decided it’d be more fun to throw the ball - which flew through the air like a thunder lightning. Amazing stuff!!”

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“Let’s have a look a the replay!”

*Replay is shown of the play with the ball in super slow-motion, flying through the air towards receiving zombie.*

“Now Jim, what did you think of that play? Amazing wasn’t it? More impressive than simply running down the field – not that that is the wrong way of doing things – but still… It was a beauty of a play!”

“You’re right Bob. For them it was the right move but of course this will depend if the receiving zombie manages to catch the ball. What do you think? Is there enough of a hero in him to make the catch or will it bounce off of the field…? What I think will happen is that he will fail the catch and that we need to wrap things up a bit too early for the big boss’ liking.”

“Don’t be a fool Jim. So folks, our lovely viewers, instead of us going through the play we’ll let the monitors show you all out there what happened. See you in a bit”

*Monitors show the ball flying in super slow-motion through the air towards the receiving zombie, who seems a bit too impatient for all of this. With the ball almost at the hands of the zombie the crowd can’t but gasp, filling the whole full-capacity stadium with silence. Finally, after what seems like an eternity, the ball flies right onto the zombie’s chest with both hands reacting blindlingly fast – for a zombie anyway – to finally get a hold of the ball. Immense crowd-cheering can be heard as the cameras zoom in and out of the frentic crowd, who usually like a bit more blood but were more than happy to just once, just once, see a great play pass before their eyes. Replay is re-played and finally fades, rather painfully slowly, away.*

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“Jim, that is simply some great Blood Bowl going on on the screen, wouldn’t you agree!?”

“Yes! Even I wouldn’t be able to hold onto the ball like that nibbly little zombie did. It’s like the old corps has done it before, which is unlikely, but still, like he’s done it before! Bob, this is amazing! Bob, this is amazing! Booob!”

“Yes yes, calm down Jim, we’ve got a show to finish off, don’t go excited on me. There’s a good boy, calm down, yes…”

*Pictures from the whole play go up on the screen accompanied by fast-paced music. This all takes four minutes before inviting the viewers back for the last part of the broadcasting.*

“Welcome back to the last part of today’s Top 100 Blood Bowl Touchdowns. We’ve just seen The Diggers dig deep to take the ball over the heads of the chaos players, down deep in the opposite-side of the field. Now all the zombies need to do is carry the ball down the field to make it 1-0. Can they make it? Jim?”

“Thank you Bob. With the ball firmly in safe hands the zombie takes a few looks around him before deciding it’d be fun to take the lead considering it won’t probably happen that many time, so he takes it easy, running, what seems more like walking, down to the touchdown line, disappointing plenty of bookies on his way down towards the touchdown line.”

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“Well folks, that’s it for tonight. I’d like to thank my forever friendly and funny friend Jim here-“

“Thank you.”

“-and myself, Bob, for your support and interest. We hope to see you tomorrow for a brand new play when we come closer to the Top 10 best touchdowns! Bye for now!”

*Music with images of today’s show end the broadcast.*