The 2nd Annual Stapletonion’s Bracket Challenge is in full swing with Debbie and Jeffrey in a dead heat to claim the top prize, with several others in contention to grab a prize from one of our great sponsors.
To check out the current standings, simply click here. Please email The Stapletonion at stapletonion@gmail.com if you are in the top 15 after the final game Monday. First place will get first choice, second place, second choice and so on. Here is the list of the prize offerings:
- Smart Space: $100 Amazon Gift Card
- Stapleton All Sports: One free summer multi-sports camp
- Bladium: Two month CrossFit Membership!
- Stapleton Help Desk: Two free hours of services ($200 value)
- Mici: Two $25 gift cards
- Jim ‘N Nick’s: $50 gift card
- Café of Life: Free adjustment ($40 value)
- Wine Cellars, the Bottle Shop of Stapleton: $25 Gift Card
- Happy Cakes Bakeshop: One Dozen Cupcakes
- Stapletonion: Stapletonion Shirts
The annual Stapleton Easter Egg scramble is chaos and Darwinism in practice. The organizers’ efforts to try and limit kids to 10 eggs each are noble, but pointless. Every Stapleton parent knows that their child’s ability to get as many eggs as possible, and, most importantly, as many golden eggs as possible, directly correlates to their child’s ability to succeed in school, on the athletic field, and in future popularity contests.
For the past five years, two kids have come to dominate the scramble: Skylar Saar and Tim Cox. Though Skylar and Tim were born only a few days and blocks apart, they come from different worlds: Skylar is from Eastbridge and Tim is from Westerly Creek. Each year, Skylar and Tim seem to trade off getting the most golden eggs. Last year, Tim collected 12 as he stiff-armed, tripped, and slide-tackled his fellow scramblers. In 2011, Skylar collected 22 – still a Stapleton record – and left Tim with a bloody nose. I spent two months with both families to try and find out what makes their sons so magnificent at egg collection.
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Forest City Spokesperson Janelle Ayers has confirmed that Forest City executives along with a group of outside consultants are meeting to decide the grocer that will come in and anchor the 
The Stapleton community has been a buzz lately with the news that a Stapleton bar will be coming to the community and offering all sorts of Colorado micro-brews. Residents certainly enjoy the current options, but definitely are not against having another one. “Another bar never hurt anybody, right,” commented North Central Park resident Kelly Seery. “My biggest concern is that it is within biking distance. Sometimes, three 16 oz. glasses of that micro-brew stuff gets me pretty pickled.”
Many families have expressed their disappointed in not getting their child into a Stapleton elementary within blocks of their home, instead ending up at the school farthest from their homes. “It is really frustrating,” said Brian Harper. “We can look out our window and see Swigert, but our kid got into Stapleton 4. It’s like two miles away, but it is a really annoying drive.” Other families admit the same frustration. “We live three blocks from Westerly Creek,” says Stapleton mom Jamie Collins. “But, we got into Swigert. I know Swigert is a great school, but it is significantly farther away, and not an easy route to eventually ride a bike or walk to.”
Stapletonians, well-known for housing some of the largest big screen TVs in Denver, have long frustrated enterprising Auroriaites who lack transportation to reach the prime Stapleton real estate. Fortunately for the enterprising but vehicleless, RTD has come to the rescue. Buses now travel down one of Stapleton’s quietest lesser-known streets – 29th Avenue – providing riders with access to hundreds of homes with plasma TVs.
Are you the greatest wife and mom in Stapleton? If not, do you know the greatest wife and mom in Stapleton? Hell, maybe you aren’t the greatest, but maybe you at least deserve to be in the discussion as a five seed.
If this describes you or someone you know, you need to enter the Stapletonion Top Mom in Stapleton Bracket. We are looking for 64 entries to compete for the Top Mom status. All entries will be seeded and matched up, and eventually judged by the Stapleton community, much like you already are, so you might as well at least make a competition out of it!
The selection committee will be looking at several attributes in its quest to narrow the field down to 64. “We have a huge task ahead of us,” said committee co-chair Mike Christin. “We know this community has so many deserving moms who are able to remain smoking hot, despite taking great care of their children.” Brother of Mike Christin, and also co-chair of the committee Brian Christin agrees. “We have been looking forward to this for a long time. But now that it is here, the stress is really hitting us. I see these moms, and I think, ‘I could barely narrow the field down to 250. And I have to get it to 64?’”
The Christin’s along with the rest of the committee will be assigning RPI rankings to the moms to decide the field along with the seedings. The elements going into the RPI include but are not limited to: hotness (heavily weighted), cooking skills, strength of work/life schedule, PTA participation, amount of drinks consumed per week (more is better), workout classes attended per week, posts on Stapleton moms (quantity and quality count), and other intangibles.
To plea your case to Mike and Brian and the rest of the committee, please send photo (recent) and bio to The Stapletonion at