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Poisonous Flowers
Roster [A] Orc

Seeing the relative success of the Yellow Snagtoofs, another band of Orcs from the same realm decided over a long, drunken night in the local tavern to form their own team to show those blighters up. They thought long and hard (over 3 minutes!) about a name for the team but their well-pickled brains couldn't come up with one. In a drunken stupor one of the crew leaned toward the table next to them and muttered, "What would youse call us?" not realizing that the table was full of Elves.

Since they weren't in the mood for a brawl with a bunch of drunk Orcs, the Elves looked at one another for a moment, then turned toward their Tree-Talker. He nodded gravely and said in Elvish, "Poisonous Flowers", then rattled off a list of nicknames for all the Orcs. Through an effort of will he and the rest of his table managed to keep from sniggering, though it was a near thing.

The Orcs turned to their own sage of sorts, who was known to dabble in strange things like the languages of other races. Unfortunately between the grog in his blood and the noise in the tavern he thought the Elves said "Poisoned Weapons", and since he recognized some of the nicknames as actually poisonous he laughed in delight, slapping the table and buying a round for the pointy-eared gits.

Thus was the Flowers' fate sealed. When he was sober, the "sage" (who became the team's Thrower) realized his mistake, but since he had already told the League the roster it was too late. Some fans have accepted the name with good humor, and others mock them raucously and throw flowers at them when they take the pitch (which confuses most of the team).

The Thrower decided wisely to keep mum about the names' true meanings for fear of having his head ripped off, and so far he has been able to keep the secret, in no small part because the Orcs seem to expect the fans to call them stupid names just for being Orcs. Besides, it's not like the Blitzer Hydrangea will ever bother to learn any Elvish.

To this day the former "sage" lives in fear that his team will discover the meaning of their names, or worse, unravel the true story of how they got them. This is compounded because he took what he considered to be the best name of the bunch for himself:

Hemlock.
New Team Page Beta
Player Ma St Ag Av Skills Inj G Cp Td It Cs Mvp SPP Cost  
1
Daffodil
Black Orc Blocker
4 4 2 9   1 0 0 0 0 0 0/6 80k
(80)k
  
2
Foxglove
Black Orc Blocker
4 4 2 9
Guard
   6 0 0 0 3 0 6/16 100k
(110)k
  
3
Jonquil
Black Orc Blocker
4 4 2 9   6 0 0 0 0 1 5/6 80k
(80)k
  
4
Laburnum
Black Orc Blocker
4 4 2 9
Block
   6 0 2 0 2 0 10/16 100k
(100)k
  
5
Clematis
Blitzer
6 3 3 9
Block
Tackle
   6 2 1 0 2 0 9/16 100k
(105)k
  
6
Hydrangea
Blitzer
7 3 3 9
Block
+MA
 m 6 1 2 0 0 1 12/16 110k
(0)k
  
7
Oleander
Blitzer
6 3 3 9
Block
   4 0 1 0 0 0 3/6 80k
(80)k
  
8
Brugmansia
Blitzer
6 3 3 9
Block
   2 0 1 0 0 0 3/6 80k
(80)k
  
9
Hemlock
Thrower
5 3 3 8
Pass, Sure Hands
Accurate
   6 3 1 0 1 1 13/16 90k
(105)k
  
10
Aconite
Lineman
5 3 3 9
Block
   6 0 2 0 0 1 11/16 70k
(70)k
  
11
Belladonna
Lineman
5 3 3 9
Kick
   6 0 0 0 1 2 12/16 70k
(70)k
  
12
Delphinium
Lineman
5 3 3 9   6 0 0 0 0 0 0/6 50k
(50)k
  
13
Lantana
Lineman
5 3 3 9   6 0 0 0 1 0 2/6 50k
(50)k
  
12 players (+1 player missing next game)  
Coach: SongCoyote Re-Rolls (120k): 3  
Race: Orc Fan Factor: 11  
Current Team Value: 0k Assistant Coaches: 1  
Treasury: 70k Cheerleaders: 0  
Team Value: 1300k Apothecary: Yes  

Games Played:6 (5/1/0) |TD Diff:7 (10 - 3) |Cas Diff:11 (9/5/2 - 3/2/0)
Last Opponent: Snowhite`s Dwarves