NFC CENTRAL DIVISION

DARKSIDE COWBOYS
Team Colours: Blue and yellow
Symbol: Crescent moon
Owner: Prince Derren ar-Lolovia
Head Coach: Luxen Tuentir
Home Stadium: The Darkside Cavern, underearth,
(capacity 90,000, surface astrogranite)
Players: Dark Elves
Sponsor: Imperial Clothiers Guild
Cheerleaders: The Shadows

The Cowboys are a cruel, ultra-violent team, and 2473 Darkside nearly disband after the infamous
consequently do very well at the game. The match against the Kishargo Werebears
combination of high intelligence, natural grace, (which lasted 19 days before being
degenerate violence and a hatred of all other living abandoned at 2-2 on the death of the last
beings has helped them to the top several times. player from either side). The Cowboys
manage to reform and rebuild their team
2379 The Dark Elves of Naggaroth are quick to under the skilled leadership of Jeremiah
embrace the savage joys of Blood Bowl, Kool. Their drive culminated in glory when
none more so than Prince Derren ar-Lolovia, they win Blood Bowl XXI, during which Kool
who boasts he has read all 1000 pages of the set his unbroken passing record.
book of Nuffle (and not just the gory bits, like
everyone else). His enthusiasm is such that 2479 Unfounded allegations of illegal magic use
he forms one of the first Dark Elf teams, the continue to bedevil the Cowboys, despite
Darkside Cowboys, naming them after a sect having given up the practice years earlier.
of some repute mentioned in Nuffle’s holy Tiring of being accused of something they’ve
book. not done, they hit on the genius idea of
starting to use magic again! Kool teams up
2422 The Overearth (Dark Elf word for the surface Underearth University in Naggarond to
world) first learns of the existence of the develop a variety of new spells.
Darkside Cowboys when the Halfling
Pinkfoot Panthers visit them for a friendly 2482 Hubris Rakarth is signed in the 2482 Crush
match and don’t return. from Darkside Academy. The only other
team bidding for his services is, incredibly,
2438 Several teams threaten to boycott the the Bright Crusaders, but he wouldn’t have
Cowboys when they apply to join the NFC, fitted in there!
but the pale-skinned assassins were
admitted anyway. Instantly, sordid 2485 The Cowboys lose in the final of Blood Bowl
revelations started to appear about their XXIV to the Reikland Reavers, the game is
peculiar habits, such as using small trussed famous for a young Griff Oberwald scoring
up Troglodytes as balls to save wear on the winning Touchdown and beginning his
expensive imported ones. These only seem march to fame. Also, in this year, the
to heighten the Cowboys’ mystique with the Cowboys become the first team to switch to
thrill starved fans. an Astrogranite surface – it’s easier than
growing grass underground!
2461 The Cowboys play in the very first Blood
Bowl, beating the Chaos All-Stars in a very 2489 Kool retires in 2487 to make way for Hubris
sloppy game (literally- the Cowboys used Rakarth, the latest in a long line of glamorous
illegal magic to turn most of the All-Stars Darkside players. Rakarth seals his place in
front row into slugs!). The Cowboys carried football history when one of his big plays
on using shape changing magic and were win Blood Bowl XXVIII for the Cowboys
eventually banned by the NAF which forces against the Reikland Reavers. Returning an
them to give it up, well that and a barrage of End Zone interception 100 paces for a
contract killings by jealous rivals. dramatic winning Touchdown.