Happy Weekend and welcome to Skoloholics, your home for Minnesota Vikings Discussion. Everyday you can join us for Minnesota Vikings news, Minnesota Vikings talk, NFL news and updates, and all of those other things that you have on your mind. At Skoloholics, the real action is in the comments, so if you haven’t checked out the comments section yet, sign up and join the conversation. As always, remember to be cool to one another, it’s literally the only rule. Sorry this was late. I blame Ben.
VIKINGS NEWS – Not noticing anything today
NFL NEWS – FTP!
Thread Guidelines
- Keep politics out. We are adults, news happens, and we can talk about it. What we don’t want is to go down the rabbit holes and turn a productive conversation into name calling and personal attacks.
- Be cool to one another. Like it says above, just be civil. You don’t need to agree with everyone and that’s fine, you also don’t need to make it personal. Attack the argument not the poster.
- Keep the NSFW to a minimum. We don’t need anyone getting in trouble at work for hanging out here.
- All in all, be adults. Treat each other with respect and things will be fine. Mods will take out content they feel is pushing the boundary. If you want to reach out about something feel free to ask. We want to have robust discussions, that’s why we’re here. Just be civil and cool to one another.
This is how I view the Twins.
Since it’s Sunday, tell you a wacky thing happened to us.
Was pet sitting for daughter last weekend. We got there Friday and actually went to a Doctor’s appointment with her before she left.
She was a new patient and had to fll out all the paperwork. Got to the sex question – could pick male, female, bi. other, few others I didn’t understand, AND ‘chicken’. ‘whale’ or ‘cow.’ WTF – this was a doctors office. Someone who thinks they are a chicken needs to see a very different type of doctor.
Boy things are screwed up.
How ludicrous.
We did get a laugh out of it. My daughter is a Vet and she said we only ask M/F for her patients. Oh, the dumb old animal world and us advanced humans. Dogs are dogs and humans are chickens.
Woke world, give birth tell child what they are. How stupid can it get?
Stupid. Or just plain crazy?
Oh, it’s not just the people that think they are a chicken or something, What about the folks that think that’s OK or acceptable?
Twins 13-7 in a longfest. Sox have been swept in last 6 series. Hard to do.
Thinking Hall and Cine get traded, Maybe Booth.
Who would take them?
Now many 7th rounders does KAM want?
Can just wait and get them for nothing – if you want them.
Solid point.
Did senile Pelosi suggest Biden be added to Mt. Rushmore or am i brain dead?
Both can be true at the same time.
#grin
Any of you guys know a sanctuary city i can move to? I’m fond of free shit.
Isn’t Minneapolis a sanctuary city?
Well, i’m moving to Mexico, Become a citizen then migrate back to Minny.
Hell I’m thinking about staying there. Figure they’ve sent all the criminals and nut cases to us, so it’s probably a good place now.
Twins 8-5, think they find a way to blow a 8-0.
Doubt they do.
Doesn’t mean that they won’t try though.
#nojinx
13-7 good guys.
Series sweep even if it is the ChiSox.
US dominating the woke Olympics.
Word salad does not want to address a journalist, why?She backtracks on all kinds of shit. She has nothing to brag about just spews shit from a podium.
Basement campaign 2.0
So far it’s working.
In the past this was caused flip flopping. Now her positions are merely “evolving” as conditions change.
“called” flip flopping. Sorry.
If people think this is anything other than manipulation of reality, they’re lost causes.
To be honest. I’m starting to think people take ‘stupid’ pills. You just can’t be this dumb naturally.
Wind and rain has picked up significantly here.
Starting to here also. Guess we have another day of this to look forward too.
Good luck with the electricity.
You too JR. So far so good.
Twinks up 7-0, bottom 2nd. Not bad.
Royce Lewis at it again.
Twins would be pretty good if he could stay healthy.
Big “if”. 8-0.
Sox might want to try AAA.
I watch some but BB is not all that engaging to me anymore. Too long season i guess.
Definitely more of a marathon than a sprint.
Richardson sucks.
Still pretty neat to go to a park and watch game – hefty price though.
Used to go watch the Cubs and pay 1.25 to sit in left field bleachers.
Darnold with a good play to.
Yes, and rolling to his left too.
No ‘toe drag’.
Both feet fully in bounds.
Yeah. It wasn’t a drag.
I see toes down so maybe a toe dance?
Other than offense, defense and special teams i have no doubts.
JJ!!!
Um…the ball was on the 45 yard line making it a 55 yard FG.
Well they are in Minn, so it is not surprising that the numbers were a little bit ‘off’.
Just practicing for the election just in case it is needed.
Sounds like Murphy is good.
”He’s fine”
Seems like a lot of injuries for the Vikings.
Tim Walz meeting with cackles for VP job. LMAO.
Those two deserve each other.
Almost as good as Mayor Pete, would not add much to her ticket.
Walz gets a 17.5 billion dollar surplus, pisses it away and finds more ways to raise taxes. Good luck middle class.
I will say mayor Pete is probably my close second if I were betting.
Whatever it takes to buy votes, dims MO.
That has been my prediction for the last two weeks.
The others have bad baggage for dems.
Waltz is a perfect candidate for the left.
Scheffler cries at anthem for gold. Griner gets rescued from a Russian prison and kneels.
White Sox go for loss #24 in a row this afternoon. How is that possible?
20.
A California father was granted full custody over his 4-year-old son after his mother tried to raise him as “non-binary.”
The father, Harrison Tinsley, got full custody following a longtime court battle over his son, Sawyer.
“I know he’s a boy,” Tinsley told The Daily Signal in an interview. “He wants to be a boy. He adamantly expresses that. If you say anything to the contrary, he gets very upset, and it’s just insane that people, any person, would push this ideology onto a child, as opposed to just [allowing them to] be happy with who they are.”
Reportedly, Sawyer’s mother identifies as a lesbian and “non-binary” herself. From the time he was a baby, she was trying to push her “woke” gender ideology outlooks onto him.
“She started trying to call him ‘they’ all the time…as well as some incidents where she tries to put dresses on him, or force him to wear some sort of girly clothing..or glitter…to get him to do something,” Tinsley said. In one example, Sawyer’s mother would not let him ride attractions at Disneyland unless he wore “princess” shoes.
I’m sorry, but it’s time for us to put and end to the left’s insanity that is wrecking our children’s lives.
Surprised, and glad, that a Calif Court granted the father custody instead of the mom.
He just have been in a more conservitive county, hope the ‘State’ does not intervene to ‘save the child’.
I’m aging a bit but to me society is fucked up, almost beyond repair.
Right and this case is totally fucked up. People must take stupid pills.
C’mon, it amuses me that you automatically think that anyone that leans left is ok with this.
It amuses me that you don’t accept that NOBODY that leans right accepts this.
Just steady light rain over here JR. Light winds at the moment too. How about you?
Same here. Pretty light really.
Heard something last night that made me wonder – heard some of Mark Levine.
Something like this. Kamala had the highest unfavorables for a VP in history, ever since they have kept the stat. Yet, in like 24 hours this number shot up and she is now basically tied with Trump. Biden dropped out and she did absolutely nothing, yet her numbers shot up.
Something smells somewhere?
Mainstream Media singing her praises and dumping on Trump.
Plus not doing any interviews, answering any questions since that would prove how ‘out there’ she is on policy.
Flipping on all of her positions trying to re-define herself before the Republicans can point out her positions.
Doubt it will last, praying that the ‘undecided’ are not that dump.
I have heard way too much MSNBC/CNN overdose in the last week from people who are driven by ‘Feelings’ instead of ‘Logic’.
And just two months ago Mainstream Media wanted Biden to dump her as she was a drag on the ticket.
I mean like over night her favorables jumped 15 points and she did nothing. She hadn’t even ‘flipped’ anything yet.
In my business life shitty VP’s don’t make good Vp’s – no one is stupid enough to promote them.
She will keep borders open and spend America to bankruptcy, all for the purpose of a one party system. Look up woke in the dictionary, there’s a picture of cackles.
Strange as this may sound, at least Hillary was qualified. This one – WOW!
Good news. Whoopi will leave with Griner if she leaves America.
A twofer??
Yeah us!!
Oh God, wouldn’t it be nice if they “actually” did leave.
Should we start a list of woke to send with them.
Cackles, Abrams, Weingartner….
We should send some ‘dudes’ with them.
Mayor Pete, Brinton, ‘Admiral’ Levine.
And let’s not forget FJB and his whole family.
Read a decade old crime law that made theft of $950 in California a misdemeanor even for multiple offenses has wreaked havoc on state. A critical supporter of that law is? Yes, her.
Scottie Scheffler shot a 9 under par 62 and is tied for first in the Olympics. Schaufele fell apart. Very exciting finish underway right now.
Scheffler is a stud regardless of what Lifer says.
He is. Was shocked to see Rahm finish poorly too. he was en fuego on the front nine, then went into a phone booth and changed into Clark kent on the back nine.
Sunday Salutations Skolobrobros!
Watching the HoF ceremonies this morning – heartbreaking to see Steve McMichael in his current condition. That guy was an animal on the field.
FTP!
FT*!
Sean Payton farts in elevators….
SKOL!
I have been known to ‘fart in elevators’ if I am in one alone.
But then I have been known to fart just about anywhere.
It can be quite an experience visiting the birthing area of a Navy ship after an evening mess of navy and pinto beans.
The Navy serves navy beans?
Not sure if it is entirely appropriate or cannibalism.
Twinkies win 6-2.
Good game by Ober, 7 IP, 2 Hits.
And…
Vice President Kamala Harris refused to accept former President Donald Trump’s invitation to a September 4 debate on Fox News a day after she officially became the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee.
Despite declining Trump’s invitation, Harris indicated she would debate Trump on one condition: if ABC News hosted the event.
Just keeping it real folks… MSM won’t give you the true story on anything.
Guess we will see who needs the debate more.
I suspect Cackles will avoid it until she get behind in the polls.
Answering questions is hard.
To answer a question one must only think about the question in front of them and give an answer to the question posed to them that seeks an answer.
Nice touch bow.
Don’t you have to be ‘unburdened by what has come before’?
I heard somewhere that you do.
That too, but that was too much communist manifesto for me to be able to type without throwing up.
She’ll only compete of the lap dogs run the show but Trump is the scaredy-cat
Correct
Gave up a guns dealer now she says i’m leaving the USA for lack of respect. Serious? Am i brain dead or why does the woke protect these people?
Well shit
Just what we need.
I am sure he is ‘just fine’.
What’s the knife on knife civil east in the UK and Spain gonna look like?
Is this a Harris word salad?
Civil War*. Getting a little crazy over there right now
What’s going on?
Migrants?
In UK 2nd Generation Migrant stabbed a bunch of girls, 3 died.
Lots of anti Muslim riots.
Not sure about Spain.
@Im sure it’s the far right causing all of this@
Saw a snip on phone, Cuban who came here 50 years ago said USA looking like dictatorship he saw 1st hand.
That’s the story. The police have been arresting the white people protesting but as we speak Muslims are going around telling Allah akbar and stabbing people and the police are doing nothing. Similar, smaller scale protests are beginning in Spain.
One can move and one had some feet like some provide qbs. It’s JJ time.
This is why I was never a pole vaulter
Cut him.
Did not watch HOF game but from what i hear the new kickoff rule seems quite stupid.
That’s my take. Dumber than a box of hair.
NFL figures it is better than the lawsuits for not addressing player injuries.
Follow the money, always follow the money.
Was that the reason. Seems if you don’t have a kicker that kicks it out of the endzone all the time you’re way behind the times anyway.
Was the rational behind the move yes.
Teams might consider two kickers, or split the duties with the punter.
Different skill sets, dropping the kick into the ‘landing zone’ vs being accurate on long FG tries?
Different teams to tray different strategies I suppose.
NFL football is a physical, violent sport. It’s also not mandatory. If you are afraid you’ll get hurt, find a different vocation. I was shot at, hit with RPG’s and IED’s, fell down a mountain ravine, and survived two helicopter crashes in my career, and I assure you I didn’t make the money these guys do.
Well, you didn’t have your own physical trainer and agent.
Laughing… what’s the old saying? He who represents himself, has a fool for a client.
This new rule doesn’t seem safer to me.
Just change for change sake.
I’m ok with them trying something new as long as the kickoff remains an actual play. Now too many times the kickoff is just a kick through the endzone so it just becomes a nothing play. The new rules seem to encourage the kickoff to be an actual play.
Yep, it was either try this or get rid of the kickoff completely.
Or, move the kickoff to the 25 yard line and have an actual play.
Not gonna happen. The problem with the previous kicks was the long run up.
I know it’s not going to happen.
The NFL is ruining the game.
Its the players lawyers. If you’re getting sued or know you’re going to get sued, you have to make changes to be able to argue good faith.
Suppose they will do away with tall ladders for firefighters – kind of dangerous to climb, esp. with all that smoke and all.
Firefighters aren’t suing because they got tbi from climbing a ladder and they aren’t making Netflix documentaries about it.
Shall we go through the list of injuries firefighters get.
They don’t sue because they know the dangers that come with the occupation.
And they accept they can die doing their job.
Doesn’t change the fact that they’re not suing and at the end of the day are replaceable or at least that’s the way they are seen by city management (I don’t think they are and some of my best friends are firefighters but you’re the one that made a false equivalency).
It’s not a false equivalency though. It boils down to a choice of occupations, and occupational risks. It’s a salient point by JR.
It is a false equivalency though because nfl players are suing and firefighters are not. Cry they should know all they want, but that’s not the way it’s working right now. Outside of reality I don’t disagree but you’re spouting opinions about a make believe world.
My grandfather was a fire fighter, injured in a major fire, and died 10 years later as a result,
I don’t have time right now to deal with your false equivlency remark.
But tomorrow we’ll talk firefighters and bring your lunch
PS. My grandfather didn’t sue because he would think about doing that.
So was my grandfather, my dad and my best friend. Doesn’t change the fact that the NFL is actually getting sued for TBIs. Shoot, I could be killed in a second at my job. I’m not comparing, not scared, but I’m also not going to try and equate me to people that are actually suing their employer.
Well as was my grandfatgher, so were his three sons, and four of their sons – about half my family on my mother’s side.
You call it false because ‘they’ are not suing. Is that the deciding factor or should it be actual danger?
You are suggesting because a group sues (right or wrong) they deserve more attention than a group more deserving.
You mention “real world” to NLV – I kind of thought us conservatives were more interested in actual right and wrong, not driven by the tort system.
No more onside kick.
Just dumb IMO.
Under the current rules, the onside kick win percent was close to zero. They need to do something to allow the kickoff to have options, but I’m not sure how that is going to happen (see bow’s lawyer comment).
Agreed.
But I don’t think the kickoff will matter much with this new rule. They’ve basically ended the kickoff the last 5 years.
They are just putting lipstick on a pig at this point.
Dak Prescott explained why he believes he has an obligation to other quarterbacks and his teammates as to what kind of deal he does or does not accept.
“I’m a guy that grew up with two older brothers,” Prescott said. “You understand what a brotherhood means, not only for just this team but the fraternity of the NFL and the players. The money is out there and the money can happen. It can be done. There’s ways to make everything work both ways. That’s in that sense it’s always about pushing the envelope for the next man.”
Prescott wants to “push the sary envelope”.
Would just say even if DAK believes that and I guess he must, why say this? Maybe sometimes just keep your thoughts to yourself.
He’s so noble demanding $60M a year… for the other guys. What a load of tripe.
Hey, it’s not about the money but what the money represents. I’m sure he wants to retire a cowboy.
Snark isn’t really your strong point Bow…
Yet my snarky comment elicited the predicted response from the predicted person. Maybe you’re just to easy.
Man that is so clever.
And have no effect
3 players with $55M a year currently.
Hope he gets a lot more from Dal-ass.
JJ is gonna get 70
By the time he is due a contract it might very well be up to $70M a year.
If he gets us some SBs between now and then I don’t mind the Wilfs spend that much on him.
#notmymoney
Couple of thoughts – and I hate the Cowboys but they are on a lot.
there offense is pretty solid with a weak running game. Passing game is good.
Defense is over rated and looked like absolute dogshit against the Packers. Yet they seem a little teflon for blame down in big D
Also, was listening to a guy named James Jones former Packer WR and pretty damn good talking about QB play. And he was going over DAK’s play against many of the ‘golden boys’ play by play, and DAK came oujt pretty high – a lot better than most.
Anyway, don’t know why I said all that, slow day, and I don’t give a hoot what the Cowboys and Jerry do.
Prescott is a very good QB. Teams win Championships though. Not just the QB.
Start him, see what he’s got. If it’s 50/50 with darnold then roll the dice.
Unrelated, McMichael getting in HOF way overdue. ALS might be the most hideous thing i’ve ever seen. Frankly, i’d rather be dead.
I can see starting Darnold game 1 against the Giants. If they look bad, put in JJ absolutely.
Yeah McMichael was dominant in his day. ALS is terrible.
There’a a balanced report over at SI on the QB situation and neither appears to have done real well against first defense under ‘ pressure’.
That aside. I’d start Darnold. if you go the other way and JJ plays poorly, going to bench him? And after the Giants come the Niners and Texans defenses.
It’s a tough call.
JJ gas actually done pretty well against the first team defense and he’s playing with the second team offense. Let’s see how he looks with the ability to throw to Jets and Addison.
It was just an article I read and neither with first offense against first defense looked good – with ‘pressure’ but no hits.
I just think if you decide to start JJ then he plays the season out no matter what happens. Worst would be play JJ a couple, he plays bad, put Dsrnold in and he plays so so and then back again. Have seen that senario happen many times and it serves no one well.
Can’t really worry about the opponent IMO.
Darnold starts the year. If he can’t get it done, it’s JJ time.
Whether is week 1 or week 10.
Nah, JJ has looked at least a good of not better than Sam while playing with the second string. Give him more time with the ones and if it keeps up, the future of the NFL starts week one.
Not DEI, thank God. NFL. Play the dude that is better.
Well we’ll have to disagree, If Darnold plays poorly week ome, no way I’m starting JJ against the Niner defense.
It looks less bland than the one below.
We should celebrate the new weekend thread with ‘dancing girls’.
Plus the label on it will confuse those late to the dance.
Win-win.
Bonus I enjoy the gif.
Far better for her to make that point than to have Trump try to bring it up.
Yes, but the media won’t cover this. They would if Trump said it though.
Mainstream media certainly won’t,
Maybe in political ads??
If Trump said that he’d be crucified!
Exactly.
The conservative black community needs to step it up. There’s more to voting than just trying to get money. If they have conservative standards, then they need to start bucking the urban black voice.