Oh good, now we get rid of some of the best most original background for a gaming system, and replace it with generic D&D crap.Toby wrote: Thats my point. Trash the Warhammer Fluff and rely on basic "common sense" established Role Playing / Middle Ages Sword & Sorcery Fantasy background.

Warhammer and Blood Bowl are both GW games. GW only does games based in the Warhammer (and 40k variant) universe (with the single exception of the Lord of the Rings battle game).
If you want a bland generic fantasy football game, get Wizards of the Coast/Hasbro to make one. Most of the rest of us are happy with the current tying of Blood Bowl to Warhammer (at least in the background).