An exciting finale to the main season:
We move for nobody 2-3 Shambles 'n' Snarls
The shamblers started out receiving, and with their two star players and some ghouls they managed to score after burning through almost the entire half. However, with one player injured, one dead, and one KOed, with only an injured bull centaur and a hobgoblin caught fouling to slow the chdorfs, it seemed like it may have been a pyrrhic victory for their first score. The hobgoblin ball carrier scored halfway through the second half, leaving a flesh golem dead and two blockers badly hurt behind him, as well as a few more KOs.
Then, things stopped going my way. The kickoff to the wolfy team ended up flying off field and a werewolf right on the front line was given the ball. A hobgoblin was badly hurt and the wolfy ran past and was positioned to score next turn. I had one shot to stop it, but for the second time in this league I forgot to blitz before moving my guy and ended up only marking him instead of using strip ball to get myself a better chance of winning. The werewolf scored and pulled the team ahead for another drive. The necromantic team seemed like they had the game in the bag, and they managed to tie up all my players, but thanks to some clever pushes and lucky rolls I managed to pass the ball and have a different hobgoblin than my ball carrier run it in, evening the score once more.
Finally, the game went into overtime and the necromantic team was receiving. All their KOs had by this point woken up so they almost had their team back to full working order while the chdorfs were fielding less than 11 players for the first time in the match. We also realized that we had used almost no rerolls yet, and I had accumulated 7, so I started taking a few more risks. I managed to blitz the blodge ball carrier twice, but my wrestle-strip ball hobbo was unable to make it, so my ball carrier had to try, and failed to knock over the ghoul. A last-ditch effort with a dirty player hobbo to stop the ghoul only resulted in a push, and with clever blitzing the necromantic team scored the last goal of the game.
Notable injuries: 1 -MV bull centaur, 1 MNG zombie, 1 dead wight, 1 dead flesh golem
Worth sacrifices for victory in the finale