"This is Sven Sportsmith coming to you live from CIBBL Stadium at the very first CIBBl Pro-Bowl.  Tonight’s match up is between the season 2 superstars of Da Norf, squaring off against their BloodBowl brethren from Da Souf.  By nomination from the front office of the league, the Commissioner has appointed Coach Thistle and the Head Coach of The Storm of Mjolnir as the masterminds behind this masterpiece of BloodBowl carnage!  The only rules.... every active team that played in season 2 gets at least one spot on the Pro Bowl team.  Anything else went and the teams game out to be the best of the best!!!



"Coach Thistle, what was going through your mind when you selected the all star team for Da Norf?



"Well Sven, there are a lot of talented players in Da Norf, and it wasn’t an easy task to try and settle on just 16.  Between the blitzers of The Mean Machine, the hard hitting dwarves who are well represented in Da Norf by the Lower Kingdom Killers and Smenges Pals, the solid orks of the New Ork Giants, the high flying elves of Aces High, and the feared carnival of kill that is The Steeletown Renegades, there was nothing I was lacking for.  The strength and quick feet of that mutant elf Cowboy on Aces and the hard hitting blitzers from both of the human teams, were lead by the most feared big buy in the game, O-gie Oglethorpe.  To back that up, I have the three best passers in the game between Bullets, Harg, and Paul Crewe.  Ya just can’t go wrong with that!  I think this team is solid all the way around.  We have some strength, we have some speed, we have some hard hitting power, and we have the grace and ball handling elves to fill in all of the gaps.  I think the boys from Da Souf have a tall order in front of them tonight.



"Well thanks for the feedback coach.  Hope you and Da Norf fare well tonight and give the crowd exactly what they are wanting, a superstar show like none other!  From your friends at NBC (Nuffle Broadcasting Corp) good luck!



Sven Sportsmith walked down the length of the the pitch with his camra crew towards the massed monstrousity that was Da Souf.  As they crossed the halfway point the crowd was starting to fill up already.  By his calculations, this was going to be the biggest Bloodbowl game on record, and if Da Souf was going to live up to its billing, the crowd would not be disappointed.



"OK boys, get those camras running, there’s the Head Coach...!



"Coach, good to see you again.  On behalf of NBC, I’d like to personally welcome you to this inagural CIBBL Pro- Bowl.  I’ve just come from the other team amassed at the other end of the pitch, and let me tell you, you have your work cut out tonight!



"Glad to be here Sven.  And first let me say its an honor to be chosen to head up this all starred division.  If you take a look behind me, I think the shadows cast by this awesome team will speak for itself.  Da Norf?  What do they have that Da Souf can’t squash?  Let me just let the numbers talk Sven, and then we can review.  We outscore them 89 touchdowns to 59.  We outhit them 73 casualties to 50.  Star player power?  The total Spike! Magazine rating of the star power brought to the pitch by Da Norf is a measly 243.  Da Norf, more than double that weighing in at a super star total of 546!  So they have a couple of big guys… We have 5.  They have some guys that can throw the ball around?  We have the 3 highest scorers in the game that actually deliver results, not one of them under 20 touchdowns a piece!  They got a few hard hitting guys, take O-gie away and Da Norf doubles their casualty record.  They got some aces high?  We got a royal flush my friend...



"Well coach, that’s a lot of big talk from an awefully impressive team.  Care to tip your hand about Da Norf’s playbook in this all star match up?



"Tip my hand Sven?  I coach a team of vikings week after week.  This team’s cards are out on the table for the whole stadium to see.  Just point those camras at the wall of monsters behind me Sven.  What’s our playbook.  Two words....  KILL THEM!



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Post game interview.

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"Coach, how does it feel to take Da Souf’s team to victory over Da Norf tonight?



"Well Sven, it was a rocky road, but we stuck to the game plan.  We hit hard all night long, and in the end, Da Norf could put enough guys on the pitch to keep us down.  We had our fans wondering what was going on when we head into the locker room outscored 2 to nothing by Da Norf, but in the end this is BloodBowl and we showed our fans we can serve up blood and touchdowns like no one else!



"So what about next season Coach, any thoughts?



"Well, with all the new teams coming up from Da East and West, its going to be a wild ride.  Da North and Da souf may have to team up and put on a unified front against the mass hordes of BloodBowl players coming out of those two new divisions.  All I can say is that I am sure it will not disappoint.  104,000 fans at this game, a new CIBBL record.  If those divisions have as many fans as they do players, we’re gonna have to find a bigger venue!



"Well there you have it fans!  One wild and crazy game.  Hard hitting, hard scoring, and the Spike! Magazine player of the year, Marvin "Greasy Hands" Peterstreeker failing to pick up the ball to walk into the end zone to win the game and driving an overtime on the scoreboards!  Da Souf pulled this one out, and Da Norf went home lickin’ their wounds.  Until next time sports fans, This is Sven Sprotsmith reminding you to keep the mead cold, the women hot, and the BloodBowl bloody!!!  Good night!!!



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Match highlights:



Da Norf-

Completions: Chuck Dodgers (1), Falin "Bullets" M’or (2)

Touch Downs: Fan’ro "Big Slick" Elondil (1), Kayne Roberts (2)

Casualties: NONE



Da Souf-

Completions: NONE

Touch Downs: Itchy Pizzle (4)

Casualties: Sluggo (1-Kruger U’rty), Jager (3-Erwin Rommel, Fan’ro "Big Slick" Elondil, O-gie Oglethorpe), Roots (2- Zack Lambert,, Harg Vainkill)



PRO BOWL HONORABLE MENTIONS-



The Mailman - 4 touchdowns, Itchy Pizzle (#14 Roadkill)

Killer - 3 casualties, Jager (#8 Storm of Mjolnir)

King QB - 2 completions, Falin "Bullets" M’or (#3 Aces High)

Court Jester - 3 turn overs, HanniBull (#13 Anger Management)

Greasy Spoon Award - failed game winning pick up, Marvin Peterstreeker (#3 Roadkill)