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9-2 is one reason to be Thankful. We also get to watch 3 football games today. Well, 2 at least. Pretty sure the Dallas/Giants game will be a tragicomedy vs a real sporting event.
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Daniel Jones will be a Viking tomorrow. I think the team also needs to sign Zach Wilson next season. Let’s get all the New Jersey cast-offs and watch KOC turn them into gold.
Ivan pace on IR is a sad thing. Next 4 games look tougher now. I know Turner is a rookie, but man, can he please step up and help the depth on defense?
FTP!
3 games today, and I am obviously rooting for the Bears and Dolphins and Giants. I am prepared to be disappointed in the outcome of those games, while also very content in my food coma.
Media selection – I feel like laughing
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Happy Thanksgiving everyone! We had good food, good fellowship and now everyone is gone and I get to sit in my chair and veg. A good day all around.
Nice! Happy Thanksgiving VP!
I think I’m going to make a turkey sandwich. Now the Packers need to fall apart and finish off the day on a real high note.
Indeed… just finished another piece of pumpkin pie.
I’m not a fan of pumpkin pie but we had 6 different pies available today. There were 11 of us, so all had more than one piece.
Peckers getting home town treatment from the refs, I see.
Glad I am not watching.
Food coma, remote too far away.
Dolphins muffins a punt & hand the Peckers a golden TD opportunity.
Expected.
Well… 0-2 so far today…
Everyone lost the Dallas-NY game.
Wow, Bares Coach should go into politics.
‘After the game, Eberflus was asked repeatedly to explain the final sequence and why the Bears didn’t use their final timeout. He told reporters that “I like what we did there” and that he was hoping to preserve the final timeout to set up a potential game-tying field goal after running the final play.’
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/bears-coach-matt-eberflus-on-disastrous-final-sequence-in-loss-to-lions-i-like-what-we-did-there-231618542.html
Kind of solidifies that he should be fired.
As bad as Cackles and her people.
‘First step to fixing a mistake is accepting that you made a mistake’.
Wow, these two offenses suck.
Battle of the turds…
Back up QBs get at least some of the credit/blame.
I really thought I was gonna have a brilliant pick in the pickem challenge.
Then the Bears coach forgot that he can actually use all his timeouts vs letting the clock expire.
Bares Coach at after the game press conference will have to explain that shit-show.
Just got done hosting thanksgiving. It’s been a busy couple of days, glad I took the week off.
Cowgirls-Giants is a better of the backup QBs.
Rush vs ‘Whatever the Giants throw out there’.
All the talk about the Giants coach being an offensive genius. Keeps it pretty well hidden.
Well if the ‘genius’s’ can’t get Jones to be half decent what hope does KOC have?
A lot – KOC actually ‘is’ a good offensive coach.
But the Genius’s failed?
Maybe with Jets help he can ‘get er done’.
Wonder if it was last March and someone said we could pick up Jones or Darnold, who would have been the choice.
#3 overall pick vs #6 overall pick?
Who would have been cheaper for us at that point.
Both had been in crap situations. Sam was probably cheaper but depends on how much Giants would pick up..
It’s nap time for me. This middle game looks terrible.
I am hoping the Dolphins can somehow win in the cold. Not likely, but I can dream.
FTP
The Bears have a really dumb head coach. What a dumbass.
He’ll be the next coach on the unemployment line.
Yeah what an idiot. 26 seconds to get a play off and they didn’t snap until 6 seconds left…….with one timeout yet.
Great field goal range, then a hands to the face penalty and a sack and they’re done. Dumb team.
Stinks that it hurts the Vikes, but the Lions will cave eventually.
Bears in FG range, down by 3.
How are they gonna screw this one up?
How about just let time run out even with a timeout left.
Hey, at least they didn’t give Detroit time to score again
That made my day. Whenever we wanna complain about the Vikings coaches, we have to remember this. What a clown show.
Would rather have had a Loins loss.
Me too, still fun to watch the meltdown.
A ‘silver lining’ I guess.
LOL
I can’t believe this game is close.
I can’t believe that you can’t believe it.
Pretty much what they did with us.
True
Bores looking to make it a game.
23-20.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Homemade chicken pot pie and stuffing today – Traditional Turkey/Ham dinner tomorrow @ Poppa Sledge’s house. Apple crisp for dessert. Wife can cook her ass off – thank gawd she didn’t as I also enjoy those cakes – amirite fellas? 😜
Nebraska vs Iowa tomorrow night. Huskers going bowling for the first time in a decade. Beating the Cockeyes would be glorious – guarantees a winning season for beloved Big Red regardless of bowl outcome, which would be huge for a loyal and suffering fanbase. I hate Iowa almost as much as hate Wisconsin. The best thing to come out of Iowa are the roads leading out of the state.
Thankful for a lot this year – really all of it. The good and the bad. The good was good enough to remember as great and the bad was bad enough to learn from, which is good.
Be thankful today skolobroloskis! For what you got, for what you avoided, and for each other.
FTP!
FT*!
Iowa’s corn gives me gas…..
SKOL!!!
Amen Brother!
Happy Thanksgiving, amigo!
I have a serious question for y’all….
Is buttcheeks one word?
Or should I spread them apart?
two words
Butt
Cheeks
She looks nice.
Oh my
Smoked turkey turned out amazing. Dry brining is the way to go imo.
Now it is nap time.
Bears in the red zone for the first time today.
Plays in opponent’s territory
Detroilet – 39
Chitcago- 3
OK, sitting down to eat! Talk to you later! Go Bears!
That hit must’ve woken up Williams. The very next play was a TD pass.
The Bears somehow managed to get a touchdown via pass.
Williams just took a shot.
Gnats@Cowpies up next. Oh boy. If fins beat the pukes all is good, Cold up and a bit blustery. Guessing fins can’t handle.
The wife just gave me a little taste of the turkey… OMG. She is so awesome.
Ours just went in 30 ago.
My goal is to not eat so much that it hurts.
Wish me luck.
53 yards for bears. Oh my..
It’s early…
It’s half over.
Or glass have empty if you prefer.
#grin
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
Animal House Auto Rec.
Kitties are good. Spending money like a drunken sailor but they maybe the SB fave.
We were all hoping the Bears would come out and give us a show today… sigh.
What do you think. Watching this game, to me, Detroit looks good but beatable and I really don’t see that they are any better than us – maybe a bad better in the running game is all. Thoughts?
And anyone else?
I think we can beat the Lions, and I also think we can win the Super Bowl.
I do too. But it will be a lot easier if we win the division – wild card is a tough way to go.
They don’t seem to shoot themselves in the foot as often as we do.
Well, there is that.
1st Fumble at home for Loins in a year.
Can’t imagine such a thing.
Bears lucky it’s not 26-0.
Exactly. It’s not as close as it looks at 16-0.
BEARS WITH A FIRST DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Prevent defense – seems even Bears can attack that.
Happy Thanksgiving guys. Bears are so bad… but we’re good now that we have Daniel Jones!
Good to hear from you. Been worried – where you been? Helping Elon
Happy Thanksgiving.
Hey JR, was very busy with personal matters, the last few weeks. I’m fine, all is well. Hope everything is good with you.
Good here. Still basking in the election results and Vikes 9-2. Good Year.
#nojinx
So happy Trump won!
Adding the Senate and House is frosting on the cake.
Hopefully we can some things done now.
I like his approach, deviating from the norm.
Imagine a Harris/Walz ticket. Wonder id word salad sobered up and changed outfit.
The thought of that ticket winning scared the hell out of me.
Probably never been happier about an election in my life.
Totally
Glad to have you back. Even more glad ‘all is well’.
Thanks SoCal. Yeah, I had a lot on my plate. Good to see everyone today.
Happy Thanksgiving, NVF! Hope you are enjoying the turkey and the Vikes being 9-2.
Very happy for the Vikings. We can win it all this year, if we keep plugging away!
Happy Thanksgiving!
My wife has been busy cooking all morning. The house smells so good!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Thanks GF, saw you had a little mishap with the smoker… it happens. Cousins can tell you just what to do. Grin.
Yeah, no big deal in the grand scheme. Lightens my workload for the rest of the day, might head to the hot tub with a cigar after we eat.
That sounds like a great plan!
I have a full humidor, haven’t enjoyed a cigar in months.
I second this.
Bears go deep on 4th and 3. Moore was wide open but Williams didn’t throw to him.
Bears ALMOST got a first down.
Been watching Bears football for a long long time. They just can ‘t do offense.
Turrible
7 yard pass for Chicago!!!!!!!!!!
Total yards, 253 for the Loins, 13 for the Bears.
Cayleb Williams really sucks when he’s not playing us.
The Bears have run 6 plays for 11 yards.
Add 2 more plays for 3 yards
9 plays and 13 yards. Same old Bears
At this rate, it’ll only take them 50 plays to get into the end zone!
This game is over. At least I have fantasy players playing, gives me a reason to watch.
Strange how Loins gets calls when Goff gets hit up near the head/neck but not Vikings/Sam.
No kidding
Good thing I didn’t bother to watch this game, dabears are incapable of doing us a favor in this one. Caleb sucks, so does their offense. Leave it to the Vikings to allow them to score 11 points in 22 seconds… #justVikingsthings
It isn’t much fun to watch.
It is a bit disappointing that we will barely scrape out a win, then the Lions come along and play the same team, obliterating them……….
That’s okay, only need to be on your A game in the playoffs.
Loins drove down the field on the opening drive but the Bares finally stopped them in the red zone.
3-0 Loins.
Number 8
Karma?
Trolling?
Fate?
Memories…..
Thanksgiving 1998.
It was so awesome watching that beatdown of the Cowpies.
I remember that game. Just got out of the Army was working for my brother in the LA area. Was trying to get home from Palos Verdes and was stuck in rush hour traffic listening to the game on the radio. Got home in time for the 4th Qtr, pretty epic.
That was a very fun year until Denny effed up the NFCCG.
You could blame him I guess.
I’d lean more towards Gary Anderson.
https://images.app.goo.gl/HkxftdX5kJZjHjbEA
I miss all year is fantastic.
That one miss was a disaster.
Nah, taking a knee prior to halftime is on Denny. Not that a hail mary to moss was a guarantee, but no chance to score when taking a knee.
Trying to “not lose” is why Denny failed as a HC.
Randal McDaniel said Denny Green is not a good person.
Never thought that he was.
Good Offensive mind but more of an offensive person.
Considering he was married to his first/unimportant wife when he started sleeping with the soon to be second wife after meeting her on a Vikings plane, and then backing up Solomon and all his mishaps…..
Yeah, Denny was not a seen as a decent person by some standards.
Still gave fun pressers though.
I forgot watch that game with my 3 brothers that are Cowpie fans. It was glorious.
Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!
And to you Hun.
Nice T-day GIF/Meme/thingie.
Thank you!
Just realized that I picked the same gif as you did 😃
I thought it was the obvious choice.
Great minds and all that……
Indeed 🍻
Gonna go light the smoker.
Snow there?
Thought you mentioned that on Skoloholics After Dark the other day.
Yep, only a few inches, though.
I saw a couple folks on the ice the other day, I think they’re crazy. Ice can’t be more than a couple inches right now.
I remember running across a small lake in Germany. It was so cold I cut my morning run short. I expected to fall thru any moment, it was dark and scary, even though I had seen ice skaters on it the day before.
I’ve gone through the ice once, I never want to again.
One of my phobias since reading about it as a kid in a Stephen King novel.
Almost as bad as swimming in deep waters after reading Jaws.
I’m a dumbass. I accidentally dumped the water from my smoker onto the coals. It was too late to re-light, had to put the turkey in the roaster. Oh well, less work for me.
I lit the smoker this morning*
*I’m the smoker
You are also a joker and a midnight toker……
Pace going down sucks, hopefully Turner can take advantage of his playing time & show us what he’s got.
Thought they played different positions.
Pace a middle LB with the green dot and more center of the field type.
Turner an outside LB who rushes often but also capable of dropping back into coverage occasionally.
Grugier-Hill is Pace’s back up along with the newly signed Jamin Davis that they poached off of FTP practice squad.
Grugier-Hill has been good, hopefully he can continue that and stay healthy.
#nojinx
Hoping they’ll shift guys around, I think we’ll see more of Turner. I could be wrong, he’s been buried behind Grenard & Van Winkle.
And Jones II.
He has done a good job when he has the opportunity but he hasn’t had many of those.
Wish we had depth like that all across the board, but that would be very expensive.
Yep, they play different positions, but Flo moves people around, and I think the current edge rushers could play inside if Turner would start wrecking people.
I think MLB is as much mental as it is physical.
Pace doesn’t have the measurables, which is why he went undrafted, but he has the football smarts to put himself in position to succeed.
Turner to MLB for more than an occasional play would be stretch IMHO.
I agree on turner, and that is why I would like to see one of the current edge rushers help out inside.
Let turner do what he does, rush the passer.
Got it.
Greenard or Van Winkle might do better there, at least well enough to spell Grugier-Hill for a bit while Turner wreaks havoc in the backfield.
Thanks Surly! Just got logged on to post the thread, but it’s already here.
I was up early.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy T-Day.
The Teacher has already made Punpkin Pie, Spice Cake and Deviled Eggs and has plans for all the traditional T-Day foods today. She says I can help by staying out of the way. It is just the two of us but she got a ‘small’ 20lb bird.
It should be an interesting Football day with all 3 of our NFC North partners in action plus the Cowgirls to root against. Hope all of your family interactions are positive today, well as much as possible anyway.
You got to love a women that does all the work and says just stay out of the way.
Like you, we’re alone today, first time in over 30 years. But still, lots to be thankful for and still have my post election high.
Have a great day.
Agree with all of that.
Already texting with the rest of the family, no sleeping in on T-day.
We are already planning how to use all the leftover turkey we are going to have.
Love deviled eggs.
And pumpkin pie.
And…. well…. food.
BARES and FISH!!!!
LET’S GO BABY!!!!
Happy Turkeyday everyone. Hope you’re schlepping at work like I am.
Shoot…….Let me fix this…..
Hope you’re NOT schlepping at work like I am.
AI images are funny.
Why do they struggle so much with hands?
And this face, lol
But my favorite: a sign of the times?
That is one odd-looking hand.
yeah, the picture was just added on a whim. I did not really proof read anything.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving all.
Very blessed to have what I have.
Praying for others throughout the world who have much less than I.
Cant wait for…..