“Just another day for the team who dreams the impossible, then sets about accomplishing it. Took the opening kickoff, scored around the left side of the pitch on turn 2. No problems here.

Lineup, I'm getting slapped around by his rat ogre to the tune of multiple ko's. Swarming around the ball carrier, but he gets the blocks he needs, has a rat in the endzone waiting for the pass. All he has to do is not fumble the pass...

...oops...

From out of nowhere comes my storm vermin who levels his thrower who's just standing there, staring at the ball at his feet, unbelieving he just bobbled a two-square-away easy td pass. My one gutter runner dodges away from his pursuit, scoops up the ball, tosses it upfield to his brother gutter runner, who then dodges around his own pursuit to break free and score himself. The crowd, and the opposing team, is stunned by the sudden turn around in score.

Unbelievable!

Halftime, and the opposing coach puts a fire into the belly of his players. They come out roaring...multiple KO's, a BH and two SI's (one negated by apo) and he's in the clear to score easily, making it 2-1. We get the ball back, try racing around the right side of the pitch. Suddenly I find myself surrounded by 4, yes, FOUR opposing rats. But my blodging gutter runner stands up to their pounding, and then he actually manages to dodge past ALL FOUR enemy rats for his third score of the game.

UNBELIEVABLE!!!

Lineup, the enemy has the ball coming to him. A terrific kick lands the ball in the endzone, close to the crowd. The enemy rat ogre, impatient to get the action going, decides to hit first, pushing back my storm vermin no problem, but then being a frenzy fool keeps up the attack, only to roll double-skulls. Nobody else on the other team has had a chance to move yet, including the QB, leaving the ball lying in the endzone, first come, first serve. Our boys are quick to respond, blitzing one gutter runner around the right side of the pitch towards the ball and the endzone, the rest of the team cooperating in the middle to open a crease for the other gutter runner to dodge through the middle of the LOS and come up next to the enemy QB, hoping to miraculously trip him up as he goes for the ball, still out of reach of his teammate.

In comes the expected blitz from the enemy on my pass coverage, but having blodge on both gutter runners keeps looking like a smarter and smarter decision, as he stood up to the assault, and even had the wherewithal to trip the opposing QB as he was passing him by! I had my choice of which rat to use to score with, and since Ostritch already had his hat trick, I elected to let FTO score once, which coupled with his one td pass completion earlier, gave both rats a skill raise.

Wait for it...

Here it comes...

Ok, everybody say it together now...

UNBELIEVABLE!!!

Rather than face the wrath of Nuffle, who clearly was smiling on my team today, my noble opponent decided to cut his losses and concede the game. He played nobly and well, but the luck of Nuffle was on my side for a change.

One new change in team policy, though--we're tired of getting pushed around in the middle of the field at kickoffs. So, we just recruited our own rat ogre! His job is merely to stand there in the middle, look big and mean, and keep his teammates healthy. To that end, we got the biggest, ugliest, wildest rat ogre we could find--our team's water rat. We told him you insulted his mama, so you'd better look out!”