The two fourth place teams matched up this week and played like they should at least be contending for third. With the longest combined team names in league history, (you) Electric Donkey Bottom Biters (2-6) rode two huge games from Marvelous and Keystone to overrun Catholic Nun and the Posse (4-4). The Bites now stay within two games of a playoff spot, while the Nuns fall a game and a half back.

River Lake Stars (5-3) pulled into a tie for first by out hustling lethargic Couch Lovin Mammals (2-5-1). With five games to go and four against division foes, the race for the SSOS Division is wide open. The Rivs first task is a difficult one. “We really hate to end the Donks season next week”, claimed one unnamed team employee, “but we’ll kick their arse if it means winning this championship.”

Steady scoring and a horrible performance by their opponent was the key to victory as Injury Prone (6-2) kept pace in the ultra-competitive Black Lab Division by having complete immunity to Ebonic Plague (5-3). How bad were they? The kicker outscored all their position players combined. Opposing QB, Jake Plummer outscored the entire Eb line-up. Jake Plummer! The still first place, but suddenly reeling, Ebs next face their long time nemesis, Weasels.

Operating without the convenience of a defense or kicker, Lay Z Boy (5-2-1) still bowled over Bar Stool Buddies (4-4) to stay ˝ a game back in the Black Lab Div. In what was dubbed the “Battle of the Furniture Names” by cynics in the media, the Stools recorded the worst single game points played percentage in recorded league history, 42%. The Lays next face division rival Mammies and with none of the mixed feelings the Rivs had. ”I don’t care if we knock them out of the championship bracket. Their team sarks”

Sewage Serpents (6-2) continued their hot streak by barely getting by luckless Hi Definition Weasels (0-8). In what is believed to be the latest in the season that any team in league history has still been winless (records are sketchy before the Great Hard Drive Crash of 98), the Defs are way over due for a break. Fourth in points scored, they have scored 60 and lost three times and lost by six or less three other times.