“Bad start quickly turns into a route.

1st half the Elves quickly scored as I had very little go right for me. Fez failed a GFI on his 1st turn and KO'd himself..not only shortening my turn (as I had not done much yet), but taking 100k of inducements out of the game quickly. My return drive did not go as planned, as it began to rain and I wasn't able to get my GR's deep like I really like to do. But I was able to get a cage of sorts around my thrower at midfield and a couple of turns later break through to pass for the TD on turn 6. I almost made a mistake I often make here--I was about to move my thrower out of the protection of my players, but wisely kept him near mid-field.. this allowed me to break out and pass for the TD after the elves failed the 1db on him (push rr skull). The elves then tried to score quickly, but left the ball carrier in range of my Rat Ogre. Though I did not knock him down, Hightower was left in the RO's TZ..as well as one of my GR's. Here I lucked out, as he went to pass the ball (instead of dodging away with no rr's), and my GR intercepted the ball. Pinky pushed Hightower out of the way and one GFI later the score was 2-1 going into halftime.

2nd half a blitz by the elves almost tied up the game, but the elves suddenly could not dodge (this was a theme in the 2nd half it appears), while Pinky the Rat Ogre could not fail his WA roll. I did fail at least one as well, but I was able to get the ball out and to my GR's. Still, the elven catchers are as fast (almost) as GR's and stronger, and one got to my ball carrier, knocking him down along the sideline--but he pushed him diagonally instead of straight down, and when the ball bounced away from my down player, the catcher was not in the TZ of the Ball. I took a chance with no RR's (because I had erroneously used a RR on a 1db the last turn for no good reason, as it was way away from the ball and did not matter to the drive--and was the last thing I was going to do on that turn anyway). Another GR gets the ball in the rain anyway and scores easily..3-1

Last drive for the elves starts out nicely, but I'm able to at least get a screen in front of them. They have to make 1 dodge to score, but fail it (player without dodge and had used a RR earlier in the turn..so I get the ball with GR's again and rush down the field for the last TD on turn 8.

The lone casualty of the game came on the meaningless turn 8 kickoff.
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