The Inferno Report

Hellbound Highlights

Hank Hellbound: Relax, the CBF selection process is (mostly) working, you smoke-breathing ingrates

Citizens of the Fiery Gridiron, gather close and bring aloe—because Hank Hellbound is about to spit takes hot enough to blister a basilisk. I’ve torched turf in the Chasm League, dragged an iron sled across the Scorpion Dunes, and once stiff-armed a minotaur into early retirement. And I’m here to say: the College Brimstone Federation’s […]

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Scalded: Lurk Slytherin left an actual Brimstone Bracket team for a theoretical one. He should be honest about why

By Hank Hellbound, your molten-mouthpiece of mayhem, reporting live from the Lava Dome with a trident in one hand and a stat sheet in the other. Let’s torch the niceties: Lurk Slytherin didn’t get smote by fate; he threw a match into a kegs-and-kerosene locker room and cartwheeled toward Gluttony Gulch State’s gold-plated infernal throne.

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Three Week 12 comeback wins and what they mean: Hellfire on the Cattlefiends, Crypt Chiefs, and Mane-Eaters

By Hank Hellbound, your brimstone-blessed blowhorn with calves like anvils and takes hotter than a dragon’s uvula. Welcome back to the cauldron, fiends and frenzied fans! Week 12 in the Infernal Football League was a masterclass in cardiac torture. Leads evaporated faster than holy water on a sauna stone, and three infernal juggernauts flipped scripts

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The Cinder Kings aren’t cooked — but they could miss the Torture Bracket: Hank Hellbound on what’s gone wrong in the Pitball Purgatory

I’m Hank Hellbound, broadcasting live from the Scorchline, where the lava’s hot, the takes are hotter, and the only thing colder than a demon’s heart is the Cinder Kings’ fourth-quarter red zone efficiency. Strap in, sinners—this is going to sting like a faceplant into a bed of barbed brimstone. First, exhale the sulfur: the Cinder

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Barnbellow: The Abysmal Flame Conference is shifting, but the four new throne-grabbers are all deliciously doomed

Hank Hellbound here, broadcasting live from the Thirteenth Circle Press Box, where the wi-fi is molten and the nacho cheese fights back. The Abysmal Flame Conference—AFC to you mortals who like acronyms that don’t scream—is wobbling like a three-legged cauldron at a goblin tailgate. The old guard—the Krakens of Khorne City, the Pitchfork City Pyromancers,

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Hank Hellbound: Two days after Hex-o-Ween, four Soul Bowl contenders proved to be not-so-scary

Grab your pitchforks and your foam talons, fiends — Hank Hellbound here, live from the Lava Dome with a take hotter than a dragon’s hiccup. Two days after Hex-o-Ween, when even our referees dress as impartial officials (terrifying!), four supposed Soul Bowl heavyweights showed up to the Pit… and promptly tripped over their own tails.

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Hank Hellbound sorts through a brimstone-blowout Week 8: One molten takeaway from each of Sunday’s 11 skirmishes

By Hank Hellbound, your favorite fork-tailed fanatic, live from the Lava Dome press box where the wi-fi is powered by eternal regret and hot takes come pre-seared. Sunday in the Nethergridiron League was a volcano buffet of blowouts. Eleven games, ten thousand scorched egos, and one truly heroic concession stand imp who kept refilling my

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We Thought We Knew the Pyre Kings, Buffaloed Banshees, Jacksonville Jackalfiends and Indianapolis Imps — But We Were Devilishly Wrong

By Hank Hellbound, your favorite lava-throated blowhorn with biceps carved from igneous rock and a whistle made of a fallen arch-seraph’s regrets. Lava lords and brimstone babes, gather ‘round the cauldron. Four September takes just face-planted into a lake of boiling Gatorade. I’m torching my predictions, marinating them in magma, and serving them with a

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Hank Hellbound on the PFL’s Hottest Seats: Three Coaches and Four Players Who Might Face the Pit After Week 6

Lava nation, buckle your seatbelts and douse the succubi—Hank Hellbound here, broadcasting live from the Sootbox in Section 666, where the heat index is “are my horns melting?” and the only thing hotter than my takes is the lava leaking from the ceiling vents of Brimstone Bowl. We’re six weeks into the Pandemonium Football League

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The Vultures really lost? The Harpies and Minotaurs, too? Hank Hellbound on three embarrassing Week 5 letdowns in the Underworld Gridiron League

Infernal faithful, gather round the lava pit and warm your frostbitten souls, because Hank Hellbound is here to autopsy three collapses so ghastly the Screaming Statisticians of Sector 7 had to invent a new number for “are you kidding me.” First, a reminder of the resumé: I once ran a 4.4 forty across a river

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