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When will the Vikings win their first Super Bowl? I have the 2026 season picked, so Feb 2027 we party.

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SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
4 June 2024 8:34 pm

Down to the Twins 5-1 stopping their 1 game winning streak.
Playing the Yankees in NY was never going to be an easy task.

VikingPhilip
4 June 2024 8:13 pm

Audit last week.
Month end close this week.
800 some days to retirement.

Mjolnir
4 June 2024 8:03 pm

Time for a snack…..

IMG_3510
No longer New Vikings Fan
4 June 2024 5:09 pm

Kirk Cousins on investigation into alleged tampering by Falcons: “There’s not a whole lot there”.

Pundits: “Falcons facing serious punishment for tampering”

Vikings fans: “We want draft picks!”

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
4 June 2024 5:34 pm

1 & 2 we will find out soon.
#3 Duh.

DE Viking
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
4 June 2024 5:41 pm

Kirk Cousins on investigation into alleged tampering by Falcons: “There’s not a whole lot there”.

Other than admitting at his press conference that he met….er..spoke with the head athletic trainer yesterday on the phone.

I think Atlanta will be penalized.
Vikings will get nothing.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  DE Viking
4 June 2024 6:06 pm

Probable.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  DE Viking
5 June 2024 3:47 am

But in the context of tampering… as in, you know, working to get a player to sign with a team while under contract to another team, not much there. Getting instructions on where to get your physical… is that tampering? Being told where to go to park, and what events will occur the next day at your signing… is that tampering? And in a greater context, should it be?

benjammin
Admin
4 June 2024 4:12 pm

Just finished insulating my garage, next up paneling

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  benjammin
4 June 2024 4:17 pm

101 degrees here today.

Already dropped off donations to Salvation Army and Church.
Dump did their ‘closed at noon’ thing so that was put on hold.
Waiting on call from The Teacher to pick up furniture from her classroom and haul it home and store it in the garage.

Trying to pace myself due to the heat.

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
4 June 2024 4:32 pm

85 here, sweating balls wearing a mask in a non insulated garage.

why does she have furniture at the school?

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  benjammin
4 June 2024 4:41 pm

Her classroom has some things in it that she bought, some shelving and a desk + misc stuff.
She is turning her classroom keys over tomorrow and anything that she brought to the classroom that she wants to keep has to be removed today or tomorrow.

bowbunch
Admin
4 June 2024 3:04 pm

JRo_42
JRo_42
Reply to  bowbunch
4 June 2024 3:15 pm

Yeah, there were 3 times it was discussed (not one haha).

There had to be at least one time where it came across as an option and potentially viable thing, potentially out of necessity if he got disgruntled. Seems like a lie, or idiots in charge aren’t accounting for all possible scenarios (which speaks to incompetence). Just a dumb comment.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  JRo_42
4 June 2024 3:27 pm

Not sure which of the points in the Twit you are referring to.

JRo_42
JRo_42
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
4 June 2024 4:32 pm

“Oh yeah, and trading JJ was never considered or an option.

““There was not ONE TIME that was discussed among leadership.””

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  JRo_42
4 June 2024 4:35 pm

Could have been.

If you consider ‘Should we consider trading Jets?, No? Its unanimous, topic closed’ to be a discussion then go for it.

JRo_42
JRo_42
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
4 June 2024 6:55 pm

But it is still considered and an option in that case, which makes the tweet statement a lie. To say “it was never really something we were interested in” is possibly true.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  JRo_42
4 June 2024 7:16 pm

They could have discussed the financial situation around a Jets contract extension and decided it made sense to keep him.

That would mean ‘not once considered trading him’ was just imprecise verbiage. They looked at the contract numbers and figured ‘yep, makes more sense to keep him so not considering a trade‘.

JRobert
JRobert
Reply to  JRo_42
4 June 2024 3:36 pm

Not sure what you mean but if someone offered two 1’s and a 3, and they didn’t entertain it, then one would really wonder about them.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  JRobert
4 June 2024 3:44 pm

According to Schefter ‘JJ trade discussions’ consisted of Caller ‘are you willing to trade JJ?’ and Vikings ‘NO’.

His interview starts at 6:25 into the video.

JRobert
JRobert
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
4 June 2024 3:54 pm

Don’t know Scheffer but guess he’s right.
Still makes me wonder. Just based on my background, would say everyone has a price. And if you buy that, when you have a valuable asset, you start every conversation with no, not for sale – let’s them know they must pay big time for you top even listen.
But maybe football is different.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  JRobert
4 June 2024 4:01 pm

There is the fan/ticket buyers/jersey sales/ratings to consider.

If the Wilfs beleved that keeping and resigning Jets was in their best interest regardless of the price then I suspect that they understood the complete picture.

Certainly a better understanding than I might have.

JRobert
JRobert
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
4 June 2024 4:06 pm

For me, a non GM. if I could pull off a Hershel Walker type trade, I would sure give it serious consideration.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  JRobert
4 June 2024 4:10 pm

HW trade was a screw up in the fine print.

Vikings
‘We will trade you these players and if they are cut at the end of the year we will give you these draft picks instead.’

Dallas.
‘Ok guys, we are going to cut you to get the draft picks and then resign you to the same deal so we get BOTH.’

JRo_42
JRo_42
Reply to  JRobert
4 June 2024 4:33 pm

I mean that if they never even considered it, they are idiots. You have to consider all options in a position like that, particularly if there is a possibility the person gets fed up and they want a trade. So it’s either a lie to say they never considered it once, or stupidity and being bad at their jobs.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  JRo_42
4 June 2024 4:39 pm

Wilf Family is estimated to be worth $5 Billion so they are clearly idiots and bad at their jobs.

Maybe, just a suggestion here, that they know more about all of the financial considerations than the rest of us.

JRo_42
JRo_42
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
4 June 2024 6:50 pm

I’m talking Kwesi and KOC, but maybe even the Wilfs. Clearly, they are lying to have never considered it or talked about it (though I said IF THEY DIDN’T CONSIDER IT OR TALK ABOUT IT, they are dumb). I think the lie is the more likely scenario here. Also, no super bowls.

Not sure why you are calling me out here – there is almost no doubt they discussed it and thought about it. Now, they might have thought the answer to a trade is a resounding “no”, but why lie about it in the presser is the question. They want to instill confidence in people, apparently. But it’s highly likely a lie nonetheless.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  JRo_42
4 June 2024 7:06 pm

‘Also no super bowls’

I get the frustration.

I suspect they looked at the numbers and decided it was better to keep Jets.

Not Considering Trading or Even Talking to other teams makes sense, but no doubt they had internal discussions.

Wilfs absolutely had to be on board considering Jets contract had just short of $90 Million due at signing. Wilfs had to sign that check/money transfer so they no doubt were in on it.

DE Viking
Reply to  bowbunch
4 June 2024 5:38 pm

Vikings head coach Kevin O’Connell said today that Harry is moving to tight end.

KOC and KAM treat TE’s like Slick treated OL.
Musical chairs.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  DE Viking
4 June 2024 6:37 pm

Read over on the DN (I know, I know) is that Harry is unlikely to make the roster at WR and is only 10 lbs lighter than Mundt.

He can catch well enough but we have to see if he can block well enough.

DE Viking
4 June 2024 2:35 pm

Locked and loaded.

DE Viking
4 June 2024 2:32 pm

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  DE Viking
4 June 2024 4:05 pm

Sounds like jets thinks JJ will be starting this year

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  benjammin
4 June 2024 4:06 pm

He might be.
Of course ‘this year’ could be game 17 but who knows.

bowbunch
Admin
4 June 2024 1:25 pm

freezeyface
4 June 2024 1:18 pm

will Jets be ok when Ceedee Lamb signs for more than what Jets just signed for?

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  freezeyface
4 June 2024 1:24 pm

Yes. He got his and that’s just the market. He’s not as much of a diva as some (see Diggs, Hill). As he said, now it’s time to get to work.

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  bowbunch
4 June 2024 1:26 pm

Sounds like Lamb and Aiyuk are both skipping mandatory mini camp.

MT Viking
Reply to  freezeyface
4 June 2024 1:31 pm

He’ll hold out for OTA’s and camp next offseason.

DE Viking
Reply to  freezeyface
4 June 2024 1:34 pm

Probably not.
Tyreek Hill is already talking about redoing his deal, and I think there is still 3 years? left on it.

Wrenage
4 June 2024 12:22 pm

It is amazing how well oatmeal with brown sugar, butter and raisins goes with a cold hard-boiled egg with salt…

freezeyface
Reply to  Wrenage
4 June 2024 12:28 pm

take the raisins out and add some maple syrup and then i would say YES

Wrenage
Reply to  freezeyface
4 June 2024 12:30 pm

Yeah, I am not a huge raisin fan either. I would prefer blueberries.

It is amazing how something as unappealing as a raisin can come from something as tasty as a grape…

kathy.clater.3
kathy.clater.3
Reply to  Wrenage
4 June 2024 12:46 pm

Don’t tempt me, rascal. It’s too early for me to have a glass of wine!

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  kathy.clater.3
4 June 2024 1:17 pm

Since wine is really just fruit juice, then it really isn’t any different than orange juice so is it really ever too early?

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  bowbunch
4 June 2024 5:39 pm

wine is really just fruit juice’

Except it is rotten/fermented.

kathy.clater.3
kathy.clater.3
Reply to  bowbunch
4 June 2024 9:02 pm

Haha! I’m on my second glass tonight, YUM!

JRobert
JRobert
Reply to  Wrenage
4 June 2024 12:47 pm

And grapes make some fine bottles of wine.

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  Wrenage
4 June 2024 1:20 pm

You’d be surprised how well it goes with a cold hard coffee bender beer from surly

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  Surly Viking
4 June 2024 4:06 pm

My favorite, just delicious a Todd masterpiece

Mjolnir
4 June 2024 11:47 am

Tuesday.

50 year anniversary of 10 cent bear night in Cleveland.

Colonoscopy went well. 14 polyps found. None very big and a few they deemed precancerous – Doc said she saw nothing out of the ordinary. Awaiting lab results. Likely to come back within 2/3 years as opposed to 5. I’ll take it. Fingers crossed.

Never underestimate how wonderful a simple ham and cheese sandwich is after not eating anything solid for 36 hours.

QotD: Our window starts in ‘24. This year. I’ll likely elaborate in an MT-style, TL:DR post later.

Stay golden pony boys….

Skol

freezeyface
Reply to  Mjolnir
4 June 2024 11:54 am

10 cent bear night in Cleveland.

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Mjolnir
Reply to  freezeyface
4 June 2024 12:19 pm

Ha! I didn’t even see that.

hammerdumdum

kathy.clater.3
kathy.clater.3
Reply to  Mjolnir
4 June 2024 12:14 pm

Glad that procedure is behind you. It’s amazing how much better food tastes when you’re starving!

JacksonVike
Reply to  kathy.clater.3
4 June 2024 12:29 pm

Glad that procedure is behind you

kathy.clater.3
kathy.clater.3
Reply to  JacksonVike
4 June 2024 12:33 pm

Hilarious!

freezeyface
Reply to  JacksonVike
4 June 2024 12:58 pm

nightcrawler rec

MT Viking
Reply to  Mjolnir
4 June 2024 12:18 pm

Sounds good so far! I too remember how good that first meal tasted after my colonoscopy.

Wrenage
Reply to  Mjolnir
4 June 2024 12:25 pm

They did something wrong on my colonoscopy. I had a lot of cramps and pain, and eating made it worse.

I don’t think I started eating normally until about a week later.

Whenever I hear about other people’s experiences, they are like, “I went right to a restaurant and had a huge meal.”

I am like…how?

MT Viking
Reply to  Wrenage
4 June 2024 12:28 pm

That’s one of the reasons I did mine without sedation. Figured I would rather have first hand knowledge of a therapeutic misadventure, than “waking up” in pain wondering what the heck just happened.

I especially liked when the doc put down the scope and I felt his hands on my shoulders, “hey whatcha doin'” “oops I forgot you were awake”

Wrenage
Reply to  MT Viking
4 June 2024 12:32 pm

I heard the issues were maybe because they didn’t properly vent me afterward. Like don’t they pump air in or something?

So maybe I was getting the bends.

I hope your colonoscopy doctor at least got you flowers!

MT Viking
Reply to  Wrenage
4 June 2024 1:32 pm

Yeah, they insufflate you with CO2.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  MT Viking
4 June 2024 12:32 pm

I was teased about ‘enjoying’ my colonoscopy,

I told the coworkers that if I ‘enjoyed it’ I would’t make it back as I would be throwing myself from the train on the trip back.

Good Old Army Humor.

Wrenage
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
4 June 2024 12:33 pm

I just read a news story that Steve Martin and Martin Short do their colonoscopys together. They have a party, drink the gunk, play cards during the resultant purging and then go to the appointment together.

That is maybe the way to do it…

bowbunch
Admin
4 June 2024 11:31 am

DE Viking
Reply to  bowbunch
4 June 2024 11:36 am

I love CJ Stroud !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  DE Viking
4 June 2024 11:45 am

He seems to be very real, honest.
The opposite of the douche.

JRobert
JRobert
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
4 June 2024 11:58 am

Rogers will be a first vote HOFer. Let’s see how the other two QB’s do.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  JRobert
4 June 2024 12:01 pm

Rogers will be a first vote HOFer’

Yup,
And FJB became president, doesn’t make either of them a good person or someone I want around.

JRobert
JRobert
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
4 June 2024 12:04 pm

That’s true. I was talking about ‘football player Rogers.’

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
4 June 2024 12:05 pm

I’ve come around on him and think a having a beer with him could be rather entertaining.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  bowbunch
4 June 2024 12:08 pm

You want to have a beer with FJB?

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
4 June 2024 12:11 pm

Only if I can spike it.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  bowbunch
4 June 2024 12:14 pm

With Metamucil?

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
4 June 2024 12:19 pm

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DE Viking
Reply to  bowbunch
4 June 2024 12:09 pm

I watched some of his interview with Tucker Carlson.
He made some points I could agree with.

MT Viking
Reply to  bowbunch
4 June 2024 12:26 pm

That’s some interrogation room gold right there…I guarantee he might have more rings for sure.

So Mr. Smith, sounds like you did kill your wife.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  MT Viking
4 June 2024 12:35 pm

Parsing words can be fun.

I do it to The Teacher often, when she complains I tell her ‘you teach the youth of today to read, words are important’.
She agrees but still give me the ‘evil eye’.

freezeyface
4 June 2024 11:26 am

a few no name professional athletes getting caught betting on their sports lately.

would be curious to know how many big name athletes are betting on their sport but just haven’t gotten caught yet.

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  freezeyface
4 June 2024 11:29 am

Jets will probably be suspended for a year for betting on baseball or something next week since he has his new deal now and the whole Vikings can’t have nice things.

freezeyface
Reply to  bowbunch
4 June 2024 11:30 am

haha yes, this would be VERY minnesota to happen.

DE Viking
Reply to  freezeyface
4 June 2024 11:44 am

Pro sports leagues are in a crazy position.
Allowing sports gambling as advertisers and promoting the sport, while claiming that their players, officials and management are banned from gambling.

They clearly don’t care about the perception that sports are rigged.

DE Viking
Reply to  freezeyface
4 June 2024 2:41 pm

Here you go….

freezeyface
4 June 2024 9:46 am

i was reading an article that had a list of things the Men (specifically husbands and fathers) do with their time when their spouses w/children leave for an extended amount of time (Weekend to week)…

It would be fun to see what all of you husbands/fathers have to say what you would do with that kind of free time with the wife/kids gone..

i will go first:

i usually get a week without the wife or kids and i find my time goes towards 2 or 3 bigger projects around the house/yard work…

i make sure any meal i have is EASILY cleanupable, aka Jack’s pizzas.

After day 2 or 3, i start missing them all and wish they were back home. But the first 24-48 hours, the silence is glorious.

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  freezeyface
4 June 2024 9:47 am

Depends on the time of year, but in the summer I go hiking and scouting and then just do yard/house chores when not at the paying job.

kathy.clater.3
kathy.clater.3
Reply to  Surly Viking
4 June 2024 12:22 pm

Sweet sister turns her tv on the minute she gets up and it stays on until she goes to bed. The only time she turns it off is when we’re going out. It doesn’t bother me when I’m in my room, but if I’m in the kitchen cooking or cleaning, it’s annoying. Finally got her to turn it down when we eat together, have company, or talking on the phone.

She also doesn’t eat much beef. I LOVE beef, but we eat out enough for me to get my fix, haha!

SkolfromMT
SkolfromMT
Reply to  freezeyface
4 June 2024 10:00 am

Those instances were few and far between. However had a few. Usually hike or fish, walk around my place in the evening with a beer and dog. If in the summer take care of wife’s 2 greenhouses ( one is 28′ x 72′) and garden. Was always paranoid I’d forget to open GH and turn fan on and wife would come back to a fried greenhouse. Never happened but had about 4 alarms set on my phone.

MT Viking
Reply to  SkolfromMT
4 June 2024 10:09 am

Last night I wanted to run the drip irrigation for two hours, started the pump when I came home. Then it was run with the dogs, brush the dogs, have supper, review plans for the closet organizers, check some stuff online, take the side by side along the creek and spray some Tordon and 2,4-D on spurge, hook up the snow plow blade to the side by side to see why it wouldn’t pivot last winter, crawl under RV to check the oil in the generator, bathe, sit on the couch and watch a little TV. I was, “hmmm I think I’m forgetting something” AHHH run out and unplug the pump.

All of five minutes later a big cloudburst and wind descended, I got soaked moving things off the deck.

SkolfromMT
SkolfromMT
Reply to  MT Viking
4 June 2024 11:10 am

Busy evening, love this time of year with day light after work.

MT Viking
Reply to  SkolfromMT
4 June 2024 12:24 pm

Did you get the heavy rain and winds in Anaconda?

NoDakRube
Reply to  freezeyface
4 June 2024 10:01 am

I am with Surly, my wife doesn’t eat much beef – so steak and burgers most days…LOTS and LOTS of GOLF!!

JRobert
JRobert
Reply to  NoDakRube
4 June 2024 10:51 am

Beef and golf always works – couple of beers too.

NoDakRube
Reply to  JRobert
4 June 2024 11:08 am

Played a tough course this weekend – slope 125 rating 71.9.
Started with a triple and a quad…so 7 over through 2 holes.
Pulled my head out of my ass and finished the next 16 holes at +18….which is about what I will do on a difficult course.

NoDakRube
Reply to  NoDakRube
4 June 2024 11:11 am

Got paired up with a nice young couple…problem was she was a beginner….he was a decent golfer. If you are taking a beginner to a course like that please scramble….its still fun, she still gets to shoot all the shots, just doesn’t have to take 12 swings each hole.

DE Viking
Reply to  NoDakRube
4 June 2024 11:22 am

Yeah.
One of my golf pet peeves is a beginner playing the big course.

JacksonVike
Reply to  DE Viking
4 June 2024 12:46 pm

Last year my wife and I went to a local golf course. We are not great golfers by any means but, there was a group that showed up at the same time, probably 4-5 people. They hurried to get out in front of us, and had 2 new golfers in their group. I believe it took 3 hours to play 9 holes.

DE Viking
Reply to  JacksonVike
4 June 2024 1:51 pm

Yeah, that sucks.
Sometimes I will skip a hole if the group in front of me/us isn’t considerate to allow fasting groups to play through.

JRobert
JRobert
Reply to  NoDakRube
4 June 2024 11:27 am

Tough way to play – with a new golfer. Be nice if they just picked up at double par. Slow play really hurts golf.

MT Viking
Reply to  NoDakRube
4 June 2024 12:23 pm

I really lament that something very common in the prairie pothole area I came from (sand green courses) are unheard of here. Within an hours drive of Wainwright were about nine courses that could be played, could frequently golf 18 holes on a sand green course and not see another golfer, even on the weekends. Here in Glendive there are no other courses that close, which makes it hard to get into golfing.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  NoDakRube
4 June 2024 11:54 am

I haven’t played much golf since like February. Too much on my plate, and now with my sister here, I don’t have time. She requires a lot of care and help. Between her and work, it’s a lot.

That said, I have to play to my limitations. I can hit the ball off the tee about 200 yards, max. I can hit a three wood about 180 max. Therefore I can’t play a 400 yard par four and reach it in regulation. I have to play tees that at least give me a chance to make par on a hole. So big, hard courses would just be for fun. Probably couldn’t break a hundred on a long course.

JRobert
JRobert
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
4 June 2024 12:00 pm

at our age forward tees are appropriate on longer courses.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  JRobert
4 June 2024 12:13 pm

The course my son and I play is about 6250 yards from the whites. That’s about as long a course as I can play decently. The senior tees play about 5265. My son tells me to play from there, but as long as I know I can reach all the holes in regulation, I’m good from the whites.

JRobert
JRobert
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
4 June 2024 12:19 pm

I’m with you at about 6300 – pretty good distance.
You might try 5300 once in a while. WAG – you’ll have fun and ‘score’ won’t be that big a difference.

DE Viking
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
4 June 2024 12:02 pm

I’m in the mixed tee scenario.
If the hole is 400 plus on a par 4, I play the next group of tees up. Too long for my old ass as well.

norseman1
norseman1
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
4 June 2024 12:05 pm

9 hole par 3. For older people.

DE Viking
Reply to  norseman1
4 June 2024 12:11 pm

I do play an 18 hole par 3 about a dozen times a year.
It really allows me to make my pitching wedges automatic on the bigger courses.

NoDakRube
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
4 June 2024 12:26 pm

I am about 235 off of the tee these days with a 210 three wood. So I still play the men’s regular, but I know the time isn’t very far off when I will be MOVIN ON UP to those senior tees.

NoDakRube
Reply to  NoDakRube
4 June 2024 12:28 pm

I used to hit my driver around 280 with a 255 three wood. Those days are long gone…

Funny, I am nearly as strong as I was back then, but the flexibility is all gone.

DE Viking
Reply to  NoDakRube
4 June 2024 1:31 pm

Yep.
Same.
Hitting the ball long is over for me.

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  DE Viking
4 June 2024 1:33 pm

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Wrenage
Reply to  freezeyface
4 June 2024 10:05 am

I bask in the lack of stress and cleanliness.

I usually do a deep clean of the house, watch lots of TV and movies, play some video games, go out to eat, spend more time with other family members. Also practice militarily precise timing in all activities. No being late at all!

MT Viking
Reply to  freezeyface
4 June 2024 10:05 am

I hate when my wife is gone. Seriously. Even though I grumble when she is around, I miss her a lot.

I let the dogs sleep on the bed with me…usually my supper time progresses retrograde each day as I see something bright and shiny that distracts me from fixing supper…play XBox past my bedtime…embark on some project where I try to kill myself (one year I was monkeying with the electrical stuff on an oven and electrocuted myself with good ol’ 220 volts, there was a moment there where I thought I wasn’t going to get myself pulled away, that would have been a nice surprise for her).

If my wife AND the dogs were gone, I would go crazy. I have always had at least the dogs around since long before we got married, unless I’m out of town at a course or something…which is extremely rare.

DE Viking
Reply to  freezeyface
4 June 2024 11:39 am

It would be fun to see what all of you husbands/fathers have to say what you would do with that kind of free time with the wife/kids gone..

freezeyface
Reply to  DE Viking
4 June 2024 12:13 pm

you go to a male strip club??

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  freezeyface
4 June 2024 12:17 pm

I think he works at one.

DE Viking
Reply to  bowbunch
4 June 2024 1:49 pm

DE Viking
Reply to  freezeyface
4 June 2024 1:35 pm

pirateflip
Reply to  freezeyface
4 June 2024 11:56 am

What is this time without wife or kids you talk about? I’m lucky if I get a couple hours here or there.

vikesfanincheeseland
vikesfanincheeseland
Reply to  freezeyface
4 June 2024 12:11 pm

My oldest son has been out of the house for a while now but my youngest and his girlfriend live with us so basically two kids again. I just enjoy an empty house when everyone is gone, do what I want.

NoDakRube
4 June 2024 9:44 am

A friend was telling me how lucky we are to have both Edwards (TPups) and JJ locked up through 2028, arguably two of the top players in their respective sports.

Yawn…I remember lots of “top players” in Minnesota sports over the years ….Peterson, Pucket, Garnett, Randy Moss – just to name a few….Yet with all of those great players we have 2 Championships to show for it over 30 years ago now.

JacksonVike
Reply to  NoDakRube
4 June 2024 9:46 am

What about Whalen and her 4 rings?

NoDakRube
Reply to  JacksonVike
4 June 2024 9:54 am

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  JacksonVike
4 June 2024 9:56 am

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JacksonVike
Reply to  bowbunch
4 June 2024 12:32 pm

I had to double check, I did spell it right.

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  NoDakRube
4 June 2024 9:46 am

I told my kid about the Jefferson extension after baseball practice last night. He said something about JJ being good now and it dawned on me that if JJ is successful and plays for the next 20 years, I will likely be a grandfather by the time the Vikings have a new QB (if the world still exists that is). That would be insanely amazing. We are due.

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  bowbunch
4 June 2024 9:48 am

I just did the math for myself. Damn, 20 years of JJ puts me about at retirement age by the time we argue about the future Vikings QB again.

JacksonVike
Reply to  bowbunch
4 June 2024 9:50 am

Being a MN sports fan for over 40 years tells me, if JJ is going to be a great QB, we will trade him before he is great. He will win a championship for another team, ala Garnett

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  JacksonVike
4 June 2024 9:54 am

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JacksonVike
Reply to  bowbunch
4 June 2024 12:36 pm

Just in a foul mood today.

JacksonVike
Reply to  JacksonVike
4 June 2024 12:39 pm

Oh and ’87, ’98, ’09, ’17

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  JacksonVike
4 June 2024 12:48 pm

Drink the purple drink and get excited so you can be disappointed again. I don’t think I’ve ever been this excited about the long term prospects of the team.

JacksonVike
Reply to  bowbunch
4 June 2024 12:51 pm

I agree, I have not been this excited since we drafted Cullpepper to pair with Moss. A cannon arm and speed to outrun the cover two.

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  JacksonVike
4 June 2024 12:53 pm

I was too young to be that wrapped up in football. I remember watching em and having fun and I remember yelling at Denny Green for taking a knee and the kick but that’s about it.

JacksonVike
Reply to  bowbunch
4 June 2024 1:06 pm

I started cheering for the Vikes in ’87. I was a Cowboys fan before that, only because my older brother was a cowboys fan, and I wanted to be just like him.

JacksonVike
Reply to  Surly Viking
4 June 2024 2:29 pm

I have 7 brothers; 1 packers, 2 bears, 1 steelers and 3 cowboys.

I was young and impressionable.

My sister dated a Vikings fan and he took me to a Vikings v. Raiders game. Bo’s rookie year. It was pretty cool I could drive to a Vikings game, when I got older.

JacksonVike
4 June 2024 9:42 am

QotD: I believe the NFL will collapse, or at least stumble into irrelevance, before the Vikings win a Superb Owl.

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  JacksonVike
4 June 2024 9:45 am

And be replaced by what? The WNBA? Soccer? As a team with a nordic logo, the Vikings are going to bring in a ton of international fans as they go on a multiple Super Bowl run over the next 2 decades.

JacksonVike
Reply to  bowbunch
4 June 2024 9:47 am

I just think fans will get tired of the high price for tickets and now with it looking like the NFL will soon be on streaming sites only. It is a matter of time before it is a pain in the ass to watch games on TV.

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  JacksonVike
4 June 2024 9:49 am

The only problem is that it is still a big space that would need to be filled with something.

JacksonVike
Reply to  bowbunch
4 June 2024 9:53 am

Look at baseball, up until the 80’s it was the most popular sport in the USA. Then it became nearly impossible to go to games, cost wise, and the only way you could watch most games was if you had cable. Now it is one of the least watched professional sports and it takes up 7 months of the year.

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  JacksonVike
4 June 2024 9:55 am

Baseball games are still relatively affordable to attend. Baseball is just boring. Our minor league games are cheap as could be and we might go to one game a year.

NoDakRube
Reply to  bowbunch
4 June 2024 9:59 am

The KFAN crew was talking this morning about a 10 cent beer night promotion at a baseball stadium in the 70s….basically the fans all got drunk and started getting onto the field..they had to cancel the game.

10 cent beer in 1974 would be 64 cent beer today. Could you imagine? That would be a mess if Target Field sold 64 cent beers.

SkolfromMT
SkolfromMT
Reply to  NoDakRube
4 June 2024 11:19 am

Always liked minor league baseball. Announcer would pick an opposing player make him the strike guy. 2 for 1 beers if he strikes out for 10 minutes after the AB. What an exercise in mob mentality. Entire stadium would jeer the guy at each AB. Fun

NoDakRube
Reply to  JacksonVike
4 June 2024 9:55 am

Love baseball! Big Twins/Yankees series tonight…definitely watching.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  JacksonVike
4 June 2024 9:56 am

Playoff Base Ball rocks, if your team is involved, otherwise not so much.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  JacksonVike
4 June 2024 9:55 am

I don’t watch them on TV now.

They are ‘out of market’ so I would have to pay a streaming service of some type. Did the NFL network for awhile but it seemed dumb to pay an annual subsriibtion for a 15 games or so (network tv covering a few).

Since I don’t watch any TV now it makes even less sense to pay to watch, I follow along on the inter web thingie and catch an occasional highlight.

freezeyface
4 June 2024 8:56 am

after watching JJ’s “instagram contract annoucement” it left me thinking a couple things..

firstly, since he gave credit to “the man above” he must be tithing 10% of his new contract right? i wonder how that will go…

secondly, the whole “i have been doubted since day one” schtick, “not an easy journey” like come on man, this is getting to be the dumbest thing professional athletes say now a days. as if he hasn’t had the easiest ride at LSU? probably was given a super nice car, house, etc to play there, literally probably hasn’t had to pay for a single thing since HS….

when is that stuff gonna be done and just be like, “i worked hard, and now i made a ton of money, go me!”

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  freezeyface
4 June 2024 8:59 am

He wasn’t recruited much out of high school actually, was the second or third receiver at LSU and look at the receivers taken ahead of him in the draft. The whole draft conversation that year was that he was nothing but a solid slot receiver.

freezeyface
Reply to  bowbunch
4 June 2024 9:02 am

doesn’t mean he didn’t have a free ride since HS….

and the whole “other receivers being drafted ahead of me” is dumb. so what? guess what? you’re the best WR despite where you were drafted and now you’re getting paid. who cares.

DE Viking
Reply to  freezeyface
4 June 2024 9:00 am

“i have been doubted since day one” schtick, “not an easy journey” like come on man, this is getting to be the dumbest thing professional athletes say now a days.

Amen.
Just like the BS line of ….”it’s not about the money” and, ” I want to retire a Viking….”



MT Viking
Reply to  freezeyface
4 June 2024 9:58 am

Maybe the man above is the guy living above his condo?

NoDakRube
Reply to  MT Viking
4 June 2024 9:59 am

Thats some good out of the box thinking.

FloridaSKOL
4 June 2024 8:46 am

QotD: After I am dead….

NoDakRube
Reply to  FloridaSKOL
4 June 2024 9:37 am

This is the correct answer.

DE Viking
4 June 2024 8:34 am

So the claim that Jetts only wanted to play with Kirko was false?

JRobert
JRobert
Reply to  DE Viking
4 June 2024 9:02 am

Where did ‘only want to play with Kirko’ come from?

DE Viking
Reply to  JRobert
4 June 2024 9:04 am

From several regular posters on here.

JRobert
JRobert
Reply to  DE Viking
4 June 2024 9:06 am

Must be my memory – been reading here for over a year and can’t recall that comment.

NoDakRube
Reply to  JRobert
4 June 2024 9:39 am

Yeah me neither. I heard on this site that JJ liked playing with Kirk and thought he was a great QB…I don’t remember seeing that he “only wanted to play with Kirko” I am calling fake news on that one.

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  NoDakRube
4 June 2024 9:42 am

There were plenty of those comments, especially around training camp time last summer. One of the main spouters of that nonsense doesn’t stop by anymore.

DE Viking
Reply to  bowbunch
4 June 2024 10:36 am

Yep. The general phrasing was…..
“I don’t think JJ will want to stay if Kirko is gone……”
And by more than just the person who is now gone.

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  DE Viking
4 June 2024 10:36 am

JJ wants to win and won’t be part of a rebuild.

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  bowbunch
4 June 2024 10:37 am

JJ isn’t going to stick around without Kwirk because he won’t get his stats.

MT Viking
Reply to  bowbunch
4 June 2024 10:38 am

Oh no…it’s Tuesday!

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  MT Viking
4 June 2024 10:40 am

No, we’re talking Jets here. Every day is now JJ day and maybe a little Sam I am sprinkled in.

Stop trying to start something ya hoser.

MT Viking
Reply to  bowbunch
4 June 2024 10:45 am

I’m no keener for Kirk, eh.

JRobert
JRobert
Reply to  bowbunch
4 June 2024 10:49 am

Why is this even important at this point – /cousins is gone and JJ has a new contract.
Just to ‘put down’ others who made, said, implied or whatever.
I’m rather confident we all have made comments on the future that didn’t quite work out.

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  JRobert
4 June 2024 10:52 am

It’s not that it was an off handed, one time comment. It was non stop every day bs. It ended with book it, end of story a lot too. If you want to have ridiculous ideas like that, then be prepared to get called out when you are as wrong as you were told you were.

JRobert
JRobert
Reply to  bowbunch
4 June 2024 10:59 am

Who’s “you”?
Regardless I see little need to point out others mistakes years after the event. And gloating I’m right they were wrong has hardly ever done anything for me.
The ‘call’ stands on its own.

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  JRobert
4 June 2024 11:05 am

If it doesn’t involve you, why are you worried about it? Maybe it’s a joke between friends that you should not concern yourself with unless you feel like you are being called out unnecessarily?

JRobert
JRobert
Reply to  bowbunch
4 June 2024 11:24 am

Just curious I guess. Like ‘ let yea without sin cast the first stone ‘
Just curious when I see woke ass retribution type behavior from folks that surprises me.
Surely doesn’t “worry me” and not really a concern, believe this whole thing got started with a statement and I merely couldn’t recall ever seeing it. Didn’t realize this was all just a “joke between friends” Thought you just told me that someone had made ‘ridiculous’ repeated comments and “needed to be called out.” Didn’t strike me as a joke.

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  JRobert
4 June 2024 11:28 am

It can be both and you don’t need to get your white knight cape out at any hint of somebody getting given a hard time. Defending something I don’t know anything about has hardly ever done anything for me.

JRobert
JRobert
Reply to  bowbunch
4 June 2024 11:33 am

Well excuse me Mr. Admin. If you feel compelled to rub someone’s face in it – go for it.
And I may know a great deal more about ‘things’ than you give me credit for.

DE Viking
Reply to  bowbunch
4 June 2024 11:30 am

Yep. And more than one person said it.
It’s fine.
Just own up to the wrong comments you make.
I hate being wrong.
Which is why I am rarely wrong.

DE Viking
Reply to  NoDakRube
4 June 2024 10:15 am

It was said.
It is not fake.

JacksonVike
Reply to  JRobert
4 June 2024 9:41 am

I believe a pundit tweeted, Jets wanted to see what direction the Vikings were going with QB before he signed a contract. Not so much whether or not Kirk was going to be here.

DE Viking
Reply to  JacksonVike
4 June 2024 11:26 am

Correct.That was in January or February.

Jetts publicly said that he wanted Kirk as his QB in December.

It’s really not far fetched that random bloggers on a football blog would make posts about Jetts not wanting to stay.
It happened.

DE Viking
4 June 2024 8:33 am

Feb 2027 sounds like a good pick.
But why not Feb 2026 as well?

DE Viking
Reply to  DE Viking
4 June 2024 8:36 am

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  DE Viking
4 June 2024 8:49 am

Now we’re talking. JJ is gonna have two rings before he finishes his rookie deal.

DE Viking
Reply to  bowbunch
4 June 2024 9:02 am

freezeyface
4 June 2024 8:13 am

reading through yesterdays comments…

i didn’t realize how many of you guys were gymnasts.

Wrenage
4 June 2024 8:12 am

First Vikings SB…

JJ has to be for real and have to get a formidable OL and DL.

If all goes well, that will take two more seasons, and they could threaten a SB in 2027.

Otherwise, next window will be 2037ish. Vikings are a once-a-decade team.

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  Wrenage
4 June 2024 8:50 am

Not anymore. They are getting ready to start a two decade run of dominance.

Wrenage
Reply to  bowbunch
4 June 2024 9:20 am

I wouldn’t even know how to handle that much success.

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  Wrenage
4 June 2024 9:43 am

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FloridaSKOL
Reply to  Surly Viking
4 June 2024 8:16 am

Good morning, SKOL!

FTP!

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