“Frank had a little "talk" with Riff Raff before the game today after which our faithful handyman decided he could probably manage to take the field, so things were looking up for the unconventional conventioneers. Then we saw our opponent. A bunch of short, bearded mundanes had crashed the party! They wanted to Madison! They made unkind remarks about Janet's status as a zombie! We knew we were in for a game we were going to remember for a very long time.

Our worst fears were confirmed when, just before the first kick-off, the Dwarf fans dragged the ref into the stands and had a little "discussion" with him. Strangely, afterwards no matter what the stumpies did to us the referee always seemed to be looking somewhere else at the time while Benny Backache got banned from the game for giving Egor Elf-Eater a little love tap that he barely noticed. All told the Dwarves' beardy play resulted in a KO on Rocky Horror ("Oh Rocky!"), a stunned Brad Majors and Riff Raff, a BH on Riff Raff (knew he'd find a way to get out of the game...) and a couple of noogies to Eddie and, again, Riff Raff; you'd think an AG4 Werewolf was a threat or something.... And, as if we weren't having enough fun with the fouls, The Criminologist was badly hurt by Theodore Thickskull (guess he didn't want to be taken on a strange journey after all...) and Dr. Everett Von Scott seriously injured himself throwing, for reasons best known only to himself, a one-die block against Harry Headsplitter, smashing his hip, ending his career and raising the question, what was a man in a wheelchair doing on the pitch in the first place?

The Kannons scored fairly early in the first half. They wanted to stall but a nearby Werewolf persuaded them to continue on to the endzone and continue with the carnage. The Dwarves had an opportunity for a second TD in the first half when former President Nixon, as always a very mixed blessing for the team, misthrew the ball but, deciding there wasn't enough Necro blood on the field, Sigmund Stonecutter rushed Eddie before the ball carrier could move close enough to get into scoring position for the next, and last, turn, failed his dauntless roll and was swatted to the ground by one mighty swing of Eddie's saxaphone. In perhaps the only satisfying moment of the half, Janet Weiss ("Slut!") followed this performance up with a kick to the head which sent the Troll Slayer into the KO box for a good deal of the second half.

The second half arrived, along with with a ref with a clean set of underwear, and the reign of terror, or at least fouls, was ended. As our passing game wasn't going anywhere, we decided to run the ball down the field and, after getting everybody tangled up in the middle, Tricky Dick managed to slip away from the pack in turn 3 and get far enough away from the stunty-legged dorfs that he could safely stall and score in turn 5 to tie the game. We set up again, and again the dorf fans proved a bunch of barbarians -- tossing out a rock that stunned poor Betty Munroe, and the deadites managed to kick the ball deeply enough and tied things up well enough that, with the help of Barney Beardcomber II ending a turn early with a double skull block, the Kannons weren't able to score. We'd done it! It was only a tie but after all we'd been through it tasted like sweet victory!

What's this? You're kidding! Overtime?!? Whose bright idea was this?

Just as we thought it was over they pulled us back in. Luck was on our side, or so we thought, though and we were selected to receive the kick and everyone who could return to the pitch, had. The kick was deep, which seemed ok at the time -- it'd take the dorfs stunty legs longer to get them to it if something, like, say, Eddie failing a block should go wrong. Ok, so we had a couple of dorfs in our backfield, no problem, Nixon'd just scoop up the ball and.... oops, he dropped it. The dwarves get a little closer. While most of the team scraps at mid-field, Tricky Dick goes for the ball again. The way things are at the moment aren't great but we do have a flesh golem open and even if he drops the ball it'll still be downfield and the Kannons will have to struggle to bring it back. Nixon drops the ball. Again. Well the dorfs are in range now and Nixon is blitzed and knocked down by Hector Hardhead who is now standing just in front of the ball which is lying in the endzone. Barney Beardcomber II manages to end the turn with another skull block against Dr. Frank before anyone else can get the ball and score. In desperation Nixon attempts, and succeeds, to dodge into the endzone next to Hardhead figuring that, while he may not succeed in getting the ball he might knock it into the crowd which could move it downfield for him. No such luck. The ball bounces to Hardhead and then behind him. Hardhead sends Nixon crowd surfing after which Virgil the Voyager bobbled the ball but managed to keep hold of it and score the winning TD.”