Elks Den – Midseason Report

By Paul Pearson

We are only a week away from crowning the first-week champion, but the Elks Den league is still up for grabs. Green Death currently finds itself at the top of the rankings with 592.95 points. It certainly doesn’t hurt to be able to start fantasy football’s top running back, Arian Foster (95.1 points). FIRE AND ICE are trailing by only nine points or so, despite having just about every member of the Indianapolis Colts injury list on the roster.

Balco!! is only 16 points behind the Death and has withstood injury blows of its own. Steve Slaton, Steve Smith (Carolina version) and Sidney Rice have all missed significant amount of time for the Balcos. Meanwhile, the Wonder Twins have pulled to within 19 points of the Death, in part by scoring a league-leading 98.84 points last week. Their top scorer so far has been a rookie, Sam Bradford, with 82.58 points for the suddenly-a-factor-again St. Louis Rams.

UwanaPieceOMe currently occupies the 5th spot in the league table, despite having fantasy football’s top-scoring player, Peyton Manning (127.38) and fantasy’s top tight end, Antonio Gates (87.15). TACO’S AL VAPOR sit in the middle of the standings but do lead the league the Elks Den in one category: They are tied with the Death for most roster moves (23).

Having fantasy football’s leading wide receiver, Calvin Johnson (77.1), has not kept the Bogimeisters out of 7th place. They have a razor-slim 1.7-point lead over the 8th-place Where’s the food? – a team that, ironically enough, has to hope Randy “You call this food?” Moss gels quickly with the rest of the Tennessee Titans.

4th and 20 trails the Death by nearly 90 points. This team has had to deal with Alex Smith’s benching, Reggie Bush injury and Donald Driver’s disappearance from Aaron Rodgers’ radar. The 10th-place Snookuation might as well have spent last weekend watching a Jersey Shore marathon; they scored a league-low 37.62 points.

This brings us to the Bad News Barristers, who occupy the league cellar with 489.3 points, or roughly 103 points fewer than the Death. They might still be reeling from both Tony Romo’s fractured collarbone and having left Darren McFadden on the bench for his 33.8-point explosion in Week 7.