A Message from Ex-Commish Davesh

     Welcome to BFN's "Under the helmet".  This is Booyah Scott.  A loss of broadcast rights.  A season interrupted.  A scandal that toppled a commissioner.  What happened to the 2008 Bloodlust Football League season?  We have the exclusive interview with former BFL commissioner Davesh that sheds light on what happened to the 2008 season.  Next on "Under the helmet".  Let's get started.  Booyah!

BS:  Thank you, Commissioner, for sitting down with us.  First, how has retirement been treating you?
Davesh:  It is a daily grind made more unbearable by the incessant droning of my shrew wife.  May she die a painful death.  Praise, Khorne!


BS:  *cough*  Umm...thank you.  Why did the 2008 season abruptly end?
Davesh:  I was accused of impartiality and bribery.  Several teams were inculcated in a gambling ring, and I was accused of receiving kickbacks to look the other way.
BS:  Were these charges true?
Davesh:  Yep.  Praise Khorne!


Davesh:  Several teams, such as the Bloody Vikings, received in game advice that led them to victory.  What glorious chaos was caused!  But to cover my impropriety I diverted broadcast profits and gate receipts to silence the losers.  How Khorne scorns them!


Davesh:  Teams, like the Keldagrim Reapers and New Ork Skullcrushaz, engaged in point-shaving and gambling on games.  Before a full investigation could be mounted by BFL auditors, both teams left the league.  They were quickly followed by Goon, Warpstone Munchers and Da Durtee Dawgz.  That wasn't the last straw, though.


Davesh:  In the final insult to the BFL, the Slaaneshi Libertines violated league policy in a matter that we shall simply call the "Bring your livestock to work" scandal.  Damn Slaaneshi.  Praise, Khorne!  The league collapsed.


BS:  Ah, the "bring your livestock to work" scandal.  Unfortunate.  So what happened to the 2008 results?
Davesh:  The results of the season were vacated.


BS:  Who replaced you, and where is the BFL going from here?
Davesh:  I was forced out.  My insolent, pathetic brother Davos agreed to become the new commissioner.  How I loathe that itinerant bean pusher.  A worm of a man.  He worships at the altar of Tzeentch.  Disgusting.  Praise Khorne!


Davesh:  Davos immediately moved the BFL seasons to summers and limited league membership to no more than eight teams.  A few teams returned from the 2008 season, such as the Bloody Vikings, Chaos Chris and Holy Terra Warriors.  Otherwise, the league roster was new.  The smaller, rejuvenated league did very well during the 2009 season, and it appears that 2010 will begin on a high note.  Curse you, Davos!  Praise Khorne!


BS:  Thank you for the interview, ex-commissioner.  So there you have it, folks.  The dirt behind the prematurely terminated 2008 BFL season and the exit of Davesh from the BFL. As the ex-commissioner pointed out, the 2009 season was a great success.  As we tool up for the 2010 season, BFN will recap the 2009 season with highlights and interviews.  Stay tuned for more.  This is Booyah Scott for BFN.  Booyah!

BFL...Where Have You Gone?!?

Ah, life...a wonderful thing filled with joy, heartache, work and relaxation.

Did I mention work? A lot of work. Sometimes work overtakes pleasure. In my case, work overtook my updating and maintaining the BFL site and compressed my free time into periods fraught with opportunity costs. Do I update the BFL site? Do I attend a real football game? Do I paint minis for Blood Bowl or one of the myriad other games that I play? Or do I actually play the games that I love?!? Tough choices.

When push came to shove, I chose the latter.

So the big questions:

Does BFL still exist??? An emphatic YES!

How did the Fall 2008 season end?

I will tell that tale in a future posting from ex-Commissioner Davesh. ;-)

Was there a 2009 season?

Yes! Mike Praw's Chaos Dwarf team, different from his 2008 Chaos Dwarf team, won the Bloodlust Cup. There's a photo of the proud champion somewhere...

Will there be a 2010 season?

Yes! The 2010 season will start May 2010. The playoffs and championship game will be held the second week of August 2010.

Where will the 2010 season be held?

Hypermind in Burlington, N.C. is still the home for the Bloodlust Football League. There are friends/players, however, that live in Raleigh, N.C., and they have expressed interest in joining. Could this lead to a two store/two division league? Very possibly.

So after a work-induced hiatus, I post again.

BFL is alive and well...and most importantly, BFL is back!

Stay tuned for new messages from ex-Commissioner Davesh.