{"id":202,"date":"2008-04-09T20:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T01:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.btsh.org\/bruise\/2008\/04\/09\/team-preview-happy-little-elves\/"},"modified":"2008-04-24T12:31:15","modified_gmt":"2008-04-24T17:31:15","slug":"season-preview-happy-little-elves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/season-preview-happy-little-elves\/","title":{"rendered":"Season Preview: Happy Little Elves"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>O&#8217;Reilly Approves<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.btsh.org\/bruise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/elves.jpg\" title=\"Ben et al.\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.btsh.org\/bruise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/elves.jpg\" title=\"Ben et al.\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.btsh.org\/bruise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/elves.jpg\" title=\"Ben et al.\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.btsh.org\/bruise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/elves.jpg\" title=\"Ben et al.\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.btsh.org\/bruise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/elves.jpg\" title=\"Ben et al.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.btsh.org\/bruise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/elves.jpg\" alt=\"Ben et al.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Color<\/strong>: Kermit the Frog Green<br \/>\n<strong>Year Founded<\/strong>: 2008<br \/>\n<strong>Fan Base<\/strong>: Kids ages 2-10 in Springfield\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Happy Little Elves are BTSH&#8217;s answer to\u00a0<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Laff_a_lympics\">Scooby&#8217;s All-Star Laff-A-Lympics<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0 Much like Hanna-Barbera, BTSH found itself with a collection of unrelated and unaffiliated players with no place to put them.\u00a0 Thus, much like Augie Doggie, The Blue Falcon, and Mumbly, players such as Jarome &#8220;Hornswoggle&#8221; Ramos, Jonathan &#8220;The Barnacle&#8221; Levine, and\u00a0Jason Fate\u00a0found themselves assembled onto a hastily arranged team.\u00a0 Although this ragtag group does not have proper uniforms yet, their spirits remain high.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Ben Chadwick (who was given the captaincy based on height), summed up his team:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We were bitten by radioactive Swedish elves and gained super hockey powers, and since we couldn&#8217;t find ice skates in our size at bargain basement prices, we collectively entered the competitive world of BTSH street hockey instead of the NHL&#8230; aided, of course, by the &#8220;mysterious disappearance&#8221; of an older team.\u00a0 We do not manufacture toys.\u00a0 That&#8217;s now done by our slaves, the Smurfs, which is why they&#8217;re not on TV anymore.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whether The Happy Little Elves follow the winning tradition of the Scooby Doobies, the good sportsmanship of the Yogi Yahooeys, or the cheating ways of the Really Rottens remains to be seen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rapper They Closely Resemble<\/strong>: <em>Justin Timberlake<\/em>.\u00a0 The street cred just isn&#8217;t all there as of yet.\u00a0 However, there is still some serious potential to make a mark here.<br \/>\n<strong>Fast Fact<\/strong>: Stephen Alexander played tight end in the NFL for the Washington Redskins, San Diego Chargers, Detroit Lions, and Denver Broncos.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ROSTER<\/strong><br \/>\nDemetri Adrahtas<br \/>\nStephen Alexander<br \/>\nJason Amada<br \/>\nBen Chadwick (C)<br \/>\nJason Fate (G)<br \/>\nBrian Ferry<br \/>\nRich Glanzer<br \/>\nJonathan &#8220;The Barnacle&#8221; Levine<br \/>\nCourtney McBride<br \/>\nMelanie Pessin<br \/>\nJarome &#8220;Hornswoggle&#8221; Ramos<br \/>\nShoshana Rudnick<br \/>\nAlyssa Schwartz<br \/>\nMarc Surchin<br \/>\nKenneth Szeto<br \/>\nCharlotte Villamil<br \/>\nDoris Yeo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O&#8217;Reilly Approves Color: Kermit the Frog Green Year Founded: 2008 Fan Base: Kids ages 2-10 in Springfield\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[10,30,18],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2008-team-previews","tag-2008-season","tag-happy-little-elves","tag-team-previews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}