The Bytown Blight began a road trip this week by popping into the Grotto in Hamilton Heights to take on the Rat Pack. FSN was there to cover all the action. 103 000 fans were packed in tight to catch their first glimpse at the horror that is the undead. It was a BIG MATCH, but the referee was Blind Biff Krugg, notorious for either not seeing the calls or just flat out letting the teams go at it. It was a perfect day weather wise. Somehow, Superstar mummy Rhamaket was press-ganged to join the navy for a while, , he broke free to join the corpses for the second half. The Rats received and one of the numerous undead fans proceeded to throw a rock at one of the Pack. The verminous ones picked up the ball and Velvet Elvis completed a pass to Dean Smartin' who tried to penetrate deep into undead territory, blowing by the lumbering defenders. Coach Kargon wasted little time and immediately cast a Hawkfing's Curse on the long-legged rat, who tripped up and dropped the ball. Before the Blight could respond, a strange storm rained down on the undead limiting their movement. Magic was obviously responsible. Despite this, new acquisition, Shitz the Ghoul tried to pick up the ball, .but could not. Dean got up and attempted to grab the loose pigskin but tripped up again on a banana peel left behind by Shitz. Now, the Super Ghoul (tm) picked up the ball and ran for midfield. Slammy Davis Jr. stripped the ball loose on a nice blitz. Horatio the Damned wasted little time in gouging the eye of Stompin Tom Jones, sending him to the dugout for the match. This created some space for Shitz to pick up the loose ball again and this time with the support of Count Luthor he penetrated into Rat territory. The mighty Sethos badly hurt #12 Squigfree up on the line and both the Count and Shitz moved onward. A lone gutter runner was in the path and the Count seemed to freeze him in place with an icy stare while Shitz scampered past and opened up the scoring. The game was half over by this point, with the Blight using up a tremendous amount of game time.

To begin the second half, the undead took the kickoff and the Count picked up the ball, penetrating into Rat territory again. Somehow the Rat Pack had lined the pockets of the officials as they had 12 players on the pitch! Unfortunately 12 would not be enough and after a series of hits, all of the Hamilton Heights players save for Smartin were flat on their backs. Sethos crushed the back of Joey Dish-it, .preliminary reports are he'll never be the same. The Count took the ball all the way to the goal-line but would not cross as the undead sought out more death. The Rat Pack fled in terror from the gruesome undead. Void took the handoff and walked easily into the endzone to give Bytown a 2-0 lead. The rats would receive again and on the undead's next turn, Tinker badly hurt Maul Torme and another undead fan took the chance to throw another rock. Hamilton Heights escaped the match with no deaths but suffered 4 casualties at the hands of the undead, and were shutout for the first time this season by the formidable Blight defense. After the game, it was revealed that the Blight were bankrupt! Perhaps Coach Kargon overestimated his finances after the hiring of Shitz.

The game immediately started off ugly as Nathan Champion smashed Plague's hand, taking him out of the match and the next Bytown game against the Humber Valley Huscarls. It was a nice kick and the Chaosmen could not pick up the ball, .Shitz seized the opportunity to show why he gets paid the big gold by charging in and scooping up the ball. He had some support from Void and Pestilence but the Beastmen would close in.

Meanwhile the undead line had done their job by knocking down some Desperados. Flavius, Sampler of Brains wasted little time and tried to remove the helmet of Chaos warrior #27 , but to no avail. Count Luthor let Lord Borak know who the Star of the game was by blitzing the powerful leader to the pitch. Several attempts were made throughout the game to use poison daggers against the undead, but these attempts all fell short. Flavius finally KO'd #27. The referee called the Desperados for illegal procedure and this allowed the Blight to make additional movements. Trying to escape the defenders, Shitz tripped up and the ball came loose, .only to be caught by Count Luthor. Back on the line Amenhotep badly hurt Tom Horn, taking him out of the game. The Count attempted to mesmerize a chaos warrior to create some room for himself and ended up dodging away from attackers on all 4 sides to score.

Dome Mountain received and on a quick snap, their witch elf caught the kick. Void was knocked into the stands and KO'd by the fans on a beastman hit. The mighty Sethos flexed his muscles and blitzed into Mad Jack, badly hurting his shoulder. A thorn in the Blight's side all game, Nathan Champion wasted little time in fouling a prone Pestilence, , the normally resilient superstar ghoul would not get up, .he had been slain! This act would open a torrent of hatred from the normally calm undead. Amenhotep wasted little time in regaining momentum by badly hurting Rufus Bock. Lord Borak sent Mephisto flying into the crowd where he was badly hurt by the fans, , he would shake of the injury and return. Flavius was finally fouled for his brain eating antics on the Desperados witch elf. Lord Borak then broke the jaw of Horatio, sending him off the pitch as well. He would also shake off the injury to return for the second half.

The undead received the ball as it fell into the hands of Hellboy Hadrian, seeing only the second match of his career. The death of Pestilence was still on the minds of the Blight. Somehow, Mad Jacks had popped in his shoulder back in place and returned to the match, .rumors are that in the locker room, the Dread Lord had told Jacks that he was crazy, with the Mad one replying "You think I'm crazy? I'll show you crazy!" the chaos team could only field 9 players vs 11 from the undead. Not a good position to be in.

Tinker seemed the most upset by the death of Pestilence, he would foul #27 and crush his back, .the Desperado apothecary this time ran out to heal the injury. But he could not escape, .and Tinker fouled him again, badly hurting the chaos warrior, .sending him off. Tired of being pushed around by Lord Borak, Horatio struck back, badly hurting the star chaos warrior. Unable to single out Nathan Champion for revenge, the Blight turned their attention to the nearest target: Clay Allison. After falling on a block, . Allison was surrounded by the undead and Tinker fouled him causing a serious injury, pinching a nerve. Fortunately for the chaos, Tunstall had a healing scroll and it was used on good ole' Clay. Perhaps assisted by magic, .Alllison made a Heroic Leap out of the circle of death (tm) only to fall flat on his face. Tinker and company were out for blood and again encircled the hapless warrior. This time Tinker fouled him and smashed his hand, taking him out of the game. Allison will miss the next contest as well. Blind Biff Krugg finally put his spectacles on and ejected the star skeleton for his homicidal behaviour.

As Hadrian approached the endzone, the Desperados were down to 5 players. The Army of Darkness was in relentless pursuit of Nathan Champion, who was running like a scared little girl, and with good reason. They would run out of time to kill the last remaining Chaos warrior and the Hellboy ran in the score to seal the victory. Nothing would occur on the final kickoff and the Blight took the game 2-0, shutting out their opponent for the second time in a row. But that was not the story in this game. Not even the death of Pestilence was the number one story. The casualties inflicted were enormous, .the record for casualties by one player in a single game was shattered by Tinker with 4!

Combined casualties, 2 teams was also broken with 12. Four for the Desperadoes, and eight for the Blight, which ties them for first with the Nascaupi Warriors. Luckily for Dome Mountain, no deaths occurred even in this massive bloodbath. Coach Kargon's undead machine is on pace for 50 casualties this tourney, already with a whopping 20 in 4 games. His superiors will no doubt be pleased at this hurting if not Kargons' accounting skills, for the second game in a row, .Merchandising and gate profits were lost to Bankruptcy. The Blight will take on the Huscarls in a re-match of last tourney's exciting playoff deciding match. Revenge is very likely to be on the minds of the decaying ones.

Oh the horror, the horror! Never before has ABBA seen the likes of such carnage!

In his post game comments The Dread Lord John Henry Tunstall seemed remarkably calm as he said - "It was a good match. Hard fought. We may have lost eight to four but against such a formidable pack of monsters I think my boys did well. Also, I think it's about time we took a break from the ranch work and had ourselves a real practice."

The game at the K.O. Korral was a bloodbath, with long held league records shattered as Tinker breaking the five-way tie for most casualties in a match, before finally being ejected by the near blind referee, for his homicidal behaviour. And the end of the glorious career of Pestilence just has he had moved into a second place tie for career touchdowns.

Surely the gods of Khorne were pleased this day.