“The pouring ran stopped just in time for the kick-off, with the fine gust of wind which blew away the clouds also blowing the ball clear off of the pitch, causing a touchback. Never a good way to start a game, and it got worse from there. With the ball in the hands of a dino on the LOS, the rest of the lizardman team came charging in, setting up a impenetrable cage. So #12 when around to sent up a guarded assist so we could break apart the cage. The moron tripped while dodging into a completely unguarded square. He even blew the reroll, giving himself a serious concussion. The Apothecary was called in, and even that roll was blown, so I had a decision to make: lose the blitzer with guard for the rest of this match and the next, but still have him, albeit in a lesser capacity with an armor of 7, or let him die on the pitch. Easy decision. I killed him. Looking back on it I'm not sure if this was the right decision, but I was so pissed off by his complete ineptitude at preforming a dodge that I wanted to make an example out of #12 for the whole team to see. The dinos continued to knock the crap out of the humans and scored the first touchdown, thankfully early.

We humans came roaring back, coming up the sideline, as a number of blocks were thrown, the ball coming loose, eventually leading to a spectacular blitzing touchdown as we answered back for earlier. This is part of the lizardman flaw: if you can out distance yourself from the saurus's, and set up some D so they can't get to you, it is very difficult for the skinks to stop you. The last two turns the dinos really beat the snot out of us, but thanks to two failed hand-off attempts they could not capitalize on it. Thank you, Nuffle. End of the first, game tied 1 all.

Second half, playing 9 on 11, the ball came to us, and we attempted to advance with a moving pocket around the catcher carrying the ball. But no matter which way we went, the dinos followed, and seemed to get there first. It took a rolling out pass to a recently down lineman to actually break free of the hunting pack, and even then it was only through the grace of Nuffle that the blitzing saurus tripped before he could hit the lineman. From there it was a pretty cool hand-off back to the catcher as the lineman protected him, and the rest of the team smashed the skinks before they could get to the ball. In the end we ran the ball in for the go ahead.

The dinos got there chance though, with excellent field position, as well as outnumbering us, they came storming downfield. In the end, it took a suicide blitz by the catcher to knock down the skink holding the ball, only three steps away from the endzone. But, he was unable to pick up the ball. The lizardmen still had one last shot. The catcher was blitzed back, still having a TZ on the ball, but all the skink had to do was walk over, pick up the ball, and dodge away...

But he rolled a 1 on the pick-up.

Game over, 2-1, us.

But, a game with a crappy start would not be complete without a crappy ending. So I rerolled our winnings, citing that the 3 we had rolled (50,000) was just not enough. And so, I rolled a 1. Easy come, easy go.

I believe this was my first victory over a lizardman team. It felt pretty good. Awesome match against a worthy opponent.”