Talk Fantasy Football

The question says it all. I'm just curious about whether Blood Bowl is a good gateway for Warhammer or the opposite holds more true.

played blood bowl the longest iirc

Warhammer first. Then all the other games. And recently Blood bowl.

I actually thought Blood Bowl sounded stupid when I first saw it!

I to thought Blood Bowl was a stupid idea, but then I got sukerd into playing a game of it.

I was hooked.

Actually I thought BB was a pretty cool idea. I had actually thought to myself, "why doesn't some game company come up with a fantasy football type game?" When I first saw BB in the store (2ed), I had to buy it.

Knew of 40k and Fantasy and such things, then a friend pulled out this crazy game one day called "Blood Bowl"...

I actually can't remember which came first. I think that it was the old 40K Rogue Trader rulebook, then it was a toss up between BB or Dark Future. (The first WD I bought (104) featured both the Big Guy rules from Star players and a great DF Redd Harvest interview with some wonderful Carl Critchlow art).
IIRC I'd decided on DF but for some reason (DF out of stock?) I walked out with BB. Back then both games were £19.99 and you could buy 2 (!) Land Raiders for £12.99.
All of which is largely irrelevent to what you're trying to ascertain, but thanks for making me feel old anyway....

I played 1st ed WFB - but really discovered BB in 3rd ed. Now its my primary game.

We had a gaming club at school - back in the days of Vortex and Virus grenades in 40k. I remember one of my mates losing half his IG army to a single Virus grenade, and a Skaven army getting pretty much entirely routed in a 4 player WFB game when a Goblin unit on his side lost their bottle.

I remember playing a Chaos army with lots of bits of card instead of figures.

I remember the old Realm of Chaos books.

I remember at least some of the stuff Woody just mentioned (remember the days when WD had an events calender for each store? and each store had a resident BB expert?). God I feel old (and I'm ten years younger than him... )

I played warhammer fantasy first, started buying white dwarf and couldn't resist getting bloodbowl when it came out. Start of 3rd ed. Mind you i bought a number of GW's specialist games as they are now called, necromunda, BFG, epic, but fantasy and bloodbowl are the only ones i continus to play

A mate who introduced me intro Warhammer also introduced me into Blood Bowl (he owns half the games we play).

I remember reading the BB articles in White Dwarf thinking it sounded great, but none of my gaming circle were interested (we were all WHFB players). Now I haven't played a game against them for months while I try and convert them to BB

40k then Warhammer then bb.

Started 40k with Rogue Trader, WD from issue 100, got into BB 2nd ed., fell out for 3rd ed, started again with LRB (and PBeM - thank god!).