Lucien Swift wrote:really, the plan was never to _explain_ the bb universe, it was to develop it... an explanation can be concocted for those who need it, but i certainly never did.... i've been writing things for this like "the evolution of the football uniform" that follows a development roughly poaralell to the actual uniforms from owr football, articles about a few early personalities, and an argument for griff not being included among the game's all-time greats, etc... none of these efforts have, to date, required that the game have a basis in time or space, they've been referential to amreican football's history, have used nothing special from warhammer other than a few place names, and have included their share of inside jokes and parodies... in other words, bloodbowl fluff, no crossbows...
it's really is just about running with the joke...
Keep going LS .... the light bulbs will come on for the masses soon enough ...