Minnesota Vikings Discussion-THORS-day SkolAsylum: 09 Oct 2025

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Vikings Discussion & Random Thoughts

The team is 3-2 and have this week off to try and recover. Injuries have been rough so far this season, and to have a winning record in spite of all the injuries is impressive to me.

Tonight we get to watch our next opponent and defending champion poop-eaters Eagles vs the Giants. I expect the Eagles to dominate, but I am also rooting for Jaxson Dart. Pretty sure he will make some terrible decisions, but it should be entertaining.

I have seen some pundits sharing their opinions on whom the starting Vikings QB should be next week. I think the coach has made it very clear, that for JJ to return, he needs to be healthy and complete a full week of practice with the starters. Since that has not happened, I expect we will know more next week. I do not think coach is trying to be cryptic or fool anyone. I expect JJ to be the starter again, once fully healthy. I am also fine if Wentz starts next week. Either way, I am trusting the coaches. I think JJ is the QBOTF, unless he continues to get injured and turns into another casualty that is the Vikings life. I expect to see improvement in his ability to command the offense and read NFL defenses quickly, and it would sure be nice if he got to play behind a solid O line and had some quickly developing plays vs what we saw weeks 1 & 2.

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No longer New Vikings Fan
9 October 2025 10:15 pm

Taking a knee, with Skattebo needing two yards for his 100 yard game? Come the fuck on coach.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 October 2025 11:01 pm

Rook don’t get no respect!!

No longer New Vikings Fan
9 October 2025 10:12 pm

Unbelievable effort tonight by the Giants. Two minute warning, they have the ball at the Eagles 27 yard line, first and ten. Game over!!!

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
9 October 2025 10:11 pm

Skatterbo needs two yards for 100 yard rushing day to go with his 3 TDs.
Looks like he won’t get them as they are in Victory Formation.

No longer New Vikings Fan
9 October 2025 10:07 pm

Taunting? Terrible call.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  Surly Viking
9 October 2025 10:04 pm

Keep up the good work.

#smile

manly-purple
9 October 2025 9:59 pm

Fumble city

No longer New Vikings Fan
9 October 2025 9:58 pm

It’s a FUMBLE!!!!! Giants ball!!!!

manly-purple
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 October 2025 9:59 pm

Loving seeing the eagles lose

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  manly-purple
9 October 2025 10:00 pm

Me too! Maybe we can replicate this.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 October 2025 10:03 pm

Will they recover by next Sunday.
This is two Ls in a row for the Poopeaters.

No longer New Vikings Fan
9 October 2025 9:56 pm

4th and 4 from their own 11?

Gutsy

No longer New Vikings Fan
9 October 2025 9:52 pm

Crazy… Giants intercept Hurts at the 5 yard line and run it back 77 yards. Giants get a pass interference call on 3rd down in the end zone, get the ball at the one, and run it in. TD!

Giants up 17 now with 9:41 left in the game.

manly-purple
9 October 2025 9:52 pm

NLNVF, I thought you played football and therefore knew football. You said the Giants didn’t have a chance tonight. Hmm…

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  manly-purple
9 October 2025 9:55 pm

Laughing… so hard.

manly-purple
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 October 2025 9:58 pm

😉

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
9 October 2025 9:51 pm

More TD Giants.
34-17, 10m left.

Skatterbo’s 3 TD. Wish we could have gotten him, he was a pre-draft fav of a lot of folks here.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
9 October 2025 9:49 pm

Dart leading with his head again, no slide.
Tough but he won’t last long that way, he is not built like Josh Allen.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
9 October 2025 9:46 pm

NY ran a pick 70.
Not as good as a pick 6 but they will take it as the Poopers were down to the 5.

No longer New Vikings Fan
9 October 2025 9:36 pm

Giants forced a punt on that 3rd down. Got the ball back at their 35 yard line now, and Dart is back in.

No longer New Vikings Fan
9 October 2025 9:33 pm

One more quarter to go. Eagles have a 3rd and 12 coming up on their own 10 yard line. Need the defense to make this play!!!

No longer New Vikings Fan
9 October 2025 9:26 pm

Big hit on Dart… might be a concussion. Injury timeout.

No longer New Vikings Fan
9 October 2025 9:18 pm

Damn these New York football Giants… they’re giving me hope! Up 27-17 with 5:25 left in the 3rd and the ball!

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 October 2025 9:22 pm

Dart seems to be making mostly good decisions.

#nojinx

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
9 October 2025 9:09 pm

Looks like Scatterbo scored, then got pushed back and then fumbled.
Glad to see replay get one right.

27-17 Giants.

No longer New Vikings Fan
9 October 2025 8:47 pm

Giants beating the Eagles at the half????

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 October 2025 8:54 pm

Yep.
All the stats I can see seem to favor Filth-adelphia and I don’t see any turnovers.
Just Giants have scored 3 TDs (one missed XP) while the Poopsters have 2 TDs and a FG.

VikingPhilip
9 October 2025 8:46 pm

Do they need to pay 5 people to sit at a desk and talk to us at halftime?

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  VikingPhilip
9 October 2025 9:06 pm

Didn’t they have a game with no announcers a few decades ago??
It was so popular that they never did it again.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
9 October 2025 8:45 pm

Hmmm
Just finished dinner and the Giants are up on the Poopeaters at the half 20-17.
Have not seen any of the game to don’t know how they got to that point.

VikingPhilip
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
9 October 2025 8:50 pm

The Giants scored more points than the Eagles.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  VikingPhilip
9 October 2025 8:53 pm

Thank you Mr Obvious.

#grin

Northwoods
9 October 2025 7:27 pm

So, if your name is Jurgens in the NFL, you have to play Center?

No longer New Vikings Fan
9 October 2025 5:14 pm

Laughing

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 October 2025 5:28 pm

Those Crazy Nazis.

#grin

NoDakRube
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 October 2025 5:48 pm

Thats funny!!

No longer New Vikings Fan
9 October 2025 5:03 pm

Trump just never stops…

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 October 2025 5:30 pm

I am ambivalent on Chris Columbus.
When they started tearing down A. Lincoln statues that is when I understood how ignorant and stupid they were.

JRobert
JRobert
9 October 2025 4:44 pm

Which thread are we suppose to post on – this or tomorrow?

NoDakRube
Reply to  JRobert
9 October 2025 4:45 pm

We should stay here.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  JRobert
9 October 2025 5:30 pm

The day after tomorrows thread.

No longer New Vikings Fan
9 October 2025 4:38 pm

In case you are unaware, the Nobel Prize Committee will announce their selection for the Peace Prize tomorrow. The Norwegian Nobel Committee received a total of 338 candidates for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize. 94 of these are organizations.

NoDakRube
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 October 2025 4:41 pm

I heard trump wasn’t eligible since his nominations came after the nomination deadline….but he would be eligible for the 2026 prize.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  NoDakRube
9 October 2025 4:53 pm

I looked it up.

The timeline for the Nobel Peace Prize centers on a fixed nomination deadline of January 31 and a public announcement in October — specifically October 10 in the 2025 cycle — with the committee evaluating nominees privately and keeping nominations confidential for five decades. Reporting emphasizes the committee’s insistence that media campaigns and political pressure do not determine winners.

JRobert
JRobert
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 October 2025 4:43 pm

If it ain’t Trump, then the award is total and complete politics and BS.

NoDakRube
Reply to  JRobert
9 October 2025 4:58 pm

Almost certainly not, say experts in peace studies and historians of the prize like Øivind Stenersen, who wrote a 2014 book on the Nobel Peace Prize when he was a research fellow at Oslo’s Norwegian Nobel Institute, which helps review nominations and candidates.

“Multilateral diplomacy, strengthening democracy, human rights, climate policies, a better organized world − these are the things the Nobel committee looks for, based on Alfred Nobel’s ideals,” Stenersen said. “I think Trump’s candidacy looks very weak.”

Look for Trump to institute 500 percent tarrifs on Norway when he doesn’t win the award…..That’ll learn ’em!!

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  NoDakRube
9 October 2025 5:09 pm

This is salient, and I think will come to the fore. However, the Nobel Committee won’t be compelled to explain, or defend any selection they make.

NoDakRube
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 October 2025 4:49 pm

Hamas is likely one of the nominees, and the probable front runner.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  NoDakRube
9 October 2025 4:13 pm

Didn’t she put her dad on some loan application as her husband once?

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 October 2025 4:41 pm

‘Just a typo that happened to save her $1000s in tax money.
Nothing to see here.’
Woke/Libs

JRobert
JRobert
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
9 October 2025 4:45 pm

Not just taxes, most lenders give a preferred rate for principal residence.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  JRobert
9 October 2025 5:39 pm

Yeah when we moved in the home and took off the ‘rental market’ we saved on both taxes and insurance.

No longer New Vikings Fan
9 October 2025 3:25 pm

Anyone think the Giants have a chance against the Eagles tonight? I don’t.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 October 2025 3:27 pm

Not me. I have found that how much I want something to happen is directly proportional to how little chance it has of happening. Especially in sports.

But a boy can dream.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
9 October 2025 3:44 pm

Laughing… well I didn’t think The Jags would beat the Chiefs, and that happened.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 October 2025 4:00 pm

But I didn’t really care so that proves my point.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  Surly Viking
9 October 2025 4:05 pm

People have to understand the first rule of rookies. They don’t know what they’re doing. They are great athletes, who have always succeeded completely, and utterly on their athletic ability alone.

NFL playbooks have hundreds of plays, with multiple options that a QB has to learn. Just the verbiage to call a play is hard to get, much less running them with real mastery. NFL defenses are working to convince you where to go with the ball, and you think you’re doing the right thing, then you find out you did exactly what they wanted you to do.

I wish I could explain how hard it is to play QB in the NFL better. It takes years of work. Day in, day out. Studying for thousands of hours. Practicing plays with 5 options or more, over and over, until it’s instinctual. You see it immediately, you know it immediately, you throw it immediately.

JRobert
JRobert
Reply to  Surly Viking
9 October 2025 4:41 pm

Looking around the NFC, if this team gets healthy it can get to the SB this year.
And I don’t think we need great QB play to get there. Believe just ‘good’ play will get us there,
Just an opinion.

NoDakRube
Reply to  JRobert
9 October 2025 4:44 pm

I am with Jrob!!

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  Surly Viking
9 October 2025 4:44 pm

Well, the flip side of that is don’t tell me you’re committed to putting the guy out there who gives us the best chance to win anymore. It’s a lie. Tell the truth. We’re going with the guy we THINK will be really good one day.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  Surly Viking
9 October 2025 9:28 pm

I think Wentz is years and years ahead of McCarthy. Miles better as a QB in the NFL.

They will play McCarthy though.

JRobert
JRobert
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 October 2025 3:54 pm

0.00001 %.

NoDakRube
Reply to  JRobert
9 October 2025 4:04 pm

NoDakRube
9 October 2025 1:48 pm

I saw Turning Point USA will be doing its own musical half-time show during the super bowl….

I will definitely watch that instead of the trash the NFL is feeding us. I hope lots of people do and this ends up being the lowest rated half-time show on record.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  NoDakRube
9 October 2025 2:06 pm

That is a SB halftime show that might be worth watching.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  NoDakRube
9 October 2025 2:09 pm

This Super Bowl may be one of the least watched in history, unless the woke NFL pulls it head out.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 October 2025 2:15 pm

Oh the NFL will make a Bachelor/Bachelorette Party for the Swift/Kelce wedding and all the millions of Swifties will watch and know/understood almost nothing about the actual game.

MT Viking
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
9 October 2025 2:43 pm

Oh man that sounds right up my alley

JRobert
JRobert
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 October 2025 2:43 pm

Depends. If it’s the Bills and Vikings, it will be huge.

Northwoods
Reply to  NoDakRube
9 October 2025 2:26 pm

Isn’t that what the Puppy Bowl is for?

DE Viking
Reply to  NoDakRube
9 October 2025 2:31 pm

Sign up for updates if you wish.

https://www.americanhalftimeshow.com/

manly-purple
Reply to  NoDakRube
9 October 2025 2:42 pm

Do you have something against a cross-dressing foreigner who told us to learn Spanish in 4 months and hates our country?

MT Viking
Reply to  manly-purple
9 October 2025 2:48 pm

Now you’re just making stuff up!

That sounds like the perfect choice for a Minnesota Gubernatorial or Legislative candidate.

manly-purple
Reply to  MT Viking
9 October 2025 3:25 pm

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
9 October 2025 1:41 pm

Some encouraging news for the Poopeater game. Their LG is expected to miss a couple of games due to ankle injury. Given all of the injuries we have suffered on the OL is nice to that balanced out a bit. Not wishing or celebrating an injury just working thru the various circumstances for our next game.

On the Eagles’ Monday injury report, Dickerson was listed as having “did not practice” status. The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Jeff McLane provided an update on Dickerson on Tuesday, stating that he is not expected to return for the next two games’

https://thevikingage.com/minnesota-vikings-defensive-line-could-feast-after-bye-week-eagles-injury-update

NoDakRube
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
9 October 2025 1:46 pm

Yep….and our line should be close to 100 percent(ish)

bowbunch
Admin
9 October 2025 1:06 pm

manly-purple
9 October 2025 12:03 pm

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  manly-purple
9 October 2025 12:24 pm

Even CNN has recently admitted that DJT ‘rarely sleeps’ and has really embraced the media, who he hates, in order to get his message out.

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6382214932112

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
9 October 2025 1:51 pm

Trump doesn’t hate the media, just the lying media.

JRobert
JRobert
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 October 2025 1:54 pm

He actually “plays” the media better than any other President I can recall.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  JRobert
9 October 2025 2:05 pm

I don’t remember if you were on a few years ago, when there was a poster called “Lifer” here. Very liberal guy who could be reasonable at times, but then go off the rails. As you might imagine, he and I had a few go arounds. He would bash Trump relentlessly and of course this was during his first administration when the dossier was making the rounds and there were so many lies being spread. Fake news on Trump was visceral, and no matter what I said, he would lose it. I told him I had worked with Trump and he was the greatest President I ever served. Now he’s approaching the greatest President in our history status. Lifer must be losing his mind right now.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 October 2025 2:09 pm

Lifer must be losing his mind right now’

Lifer lost his mind a long time ago. TDS just made it a lot worse.

JRobert
JRobert
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 October 2025 2:15 pm

Yes I was here. My first argument on this site was over gun control with Lifer.
Oh for sure he was liberal and out there, but had some good at heart. Remember when you were real sick, stomach problems as I recall, he was deeply concerned with your health.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  JRobert
9 October 2025 2:20 pm

he was deeply concerned with your health’

He must have been ‘On his meds’ at that point.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  Surly Viking
9 October 2025 3:06 pm

Laughing… yeah but you are totally self-aware Surly. You’re a good guy.

NoDakRube
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 October 2025 4:43 pm

can we vote on that?

I kid, I kid….

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  NoDakRube
9 October 2025 5:17 pm

I abstain.
As we all know ‘people who live in glass houses…….’.

DE Viking
9 October 2025 11:37 am

All of those “free COVID shots here” signs at every pharmacy are fake I guess.
I didn’t know how oppressed I was without Tampon Tim.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  DE Viking
9 October 2025 11:41 am

@Nice of him to dedicate his personal funds to make sure everyone can be safe and healthy and not just Virtue Signal by stating untruths and using tax payers money to do it.@

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  DE Viking
9 October 2025 11:45 am

I read somewhere that some 17 million people have died from taking the COVID shot. I do not know if this is really true, but I do feel that taking this vaccine comes with some element of risk. Too little data on what it does to your body.

manly-purple
Reply to  DE Viking
9 October 2025 12:05 pm

Never got the shot. I got COVID once, and it was rough (but H1N1 was way worse for me).

My doctor asked me why I didn’t get it. I said, “I just feel like I didn’t need it.” That was the end of the conversation.

KFEY93
Reply to  manly-purple
9 October 2025 12:51 pm

Same, got it twice, possibly 3 times (was never tested) but the first two times for sure were it. Was over all of them in around 48 hrs and havent been sick since. If you are a healthy adult between the ages of 0-65 and are not obese or have co morbidities, COVID was never any danger to you or your family.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  manly-purple
9 October 2025 2:12 pm

Unfortunately I was required to travel world-wide for the DoD at the time and I was mandated to get all the shots and boosters. Had my COVID card on me at all times. I have no idea if the shot will affect me negatively. I hope I have a good 20 years left, but who knows?

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  Surly Viking
9 October 2025 3:33 pm

Great Guy Movie.
Jessie ‘The Body Ventura’ in Predator.

NoDakRube
Reply to  DE Viking
9 October 2025 4:47 pm

Tim Walz in a T-shirt…that is more masculinity than I can take.

NoDakRube
9 October 2025 10:58 am

Kind of a slow day…so…………..

Yesterday I shot an 84….very very happy with that. Giving myself a trophy.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  NoDakRube
9 October 2025 11:05 am

Shooting 84 deer seems excessive, even rabbits is quite a bit, doves/pigeons??

Best might be the feral pigs that infest a lot of the southern states.

https://www.aphis.usda.gov/operational-wildlife-activities/feral-swine

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
9 October 2025 11:07 am

Prairie dogs, but only 84 would be a slow day.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  bowbunch
9 October 2025 11:09 am

Are they an ‘Invasive species’?
I was unaware.

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
9 October 2025 12:54 pm

Not invasive, but they are a pest.

JRobert
JRobert
Reply to  NoDakRube
9 October 2025 11:07 am

Congratulations. Any round in low 80’s is solid golf!

NoDakRube
Reply to  JRobert
9 October 2025 11:14 am

Yeah, last year I couldn’t break 90 hardly ever….its been a much better year.
I will get 5 more rounds in before they close the course in late October.

JRobert
JRobert
Reply to  NoDakRube
9 October 2025 11:26 am

Your at the point where scoring better is mostly all about the short game.
Shot nine yesterday and nine the day before. First day hit the ball really well but putting was just OK. Second day, didn’t hit the ball as well, but putted well. Shot the same score both days.

NoDakRube
Reply to  JRobert
9 October 2025 1:31 pm

Yep if your short game is working it covers up a lot of problems…yesterday it was mostly my approach shots though…I hit more greens in regulation than I usually do.

VikingPhilip
Reply to  NoDakRube
9 October 2025 2:07 pm

This might help your short game.

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NoDakRube
Reply to  VikingPhilip
9 October 2025 2:11 pm

Well, it couldn’t hurt it!

Northwoods
Reply to  JRobert
9 October 2025 11:44 am

Not for 9 holes…….LOL

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  Northwoods
9 October 2025 11:46 am

I can shoot 65 any time I want.

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 October 2025 12:05 pm

9 hole par 3 course

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  benjammin
9 October 2025 2:54 pm

It’s an old golf joke Ben. The rest of it goes… just depends what hole I stop on.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  NoDakRube
9 October 2025 11:43 am

Nice NoDak. I’ve not played much golf in the last several months because the heat here has been so bad (as normal over the summer). Temps are coming down now though so I expect I’ll be hitting the links more often. Any round I shoot in the 80’s is a great round for me. There are so many long holes with water everywhere that I just lay up off the tee and then get on in three. Bogey golf is pretty good golf, under bogey golf is pretty satisfying golf. Great to see you shooting a score like 84!

NoDakRube
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 October 2025 1:32 pm

Thanks man, and I agree completely..any score in the 80s is a good score.

MT Viking
9 October 2025 9:36 am

Derby Skol
Reply to  MT Viking
9 October 2025 9:51 am

Is that what the kids call a tweet?

MT Viking
Reply to  Derby Skol
9 October 2025 9:53 am

Clever boy

MT Viking
Reply to  MT Viking
9 October 2025 9:54 am

Also I call it FTY and their anthem booing fans.

Derby Skol
Reply to  MT Viking
9 October 2025 9:56 am

That’s fair. I don’t watch baseball but I still get annoyed hearing about the Yankees all the time.

MT Viking
Reply to  Derby Skol
9 October 2025 10:11 am

I only start watching once the Jays make the postseason.

DE Viking
Reply to  MT Viking
9 October 2025 10:14 am

I might start watching baseball now that it’s getting down to the final four.

I have a hard time cheering Canada though….

MT Viking
Reply to  DE Viking
9 October 2025 10:16 am

I personally like Canada.

NoDakRube
Reply to  MT Viking
9 October 2025 10:17 am

I am very happy your Jays beat the Yankees…

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  MT Viking
9 October 2025 10:28 am

The Canadian people yes I agree.
The Woke/Californication of the government is getting worse and not to be supported IMHO.

MT Viking
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
9 October 2025 10:32 am

Just like Cali, there is not a thing you or I can do about it. I don’t worry about what’s going on in my neighbor’s yard, that’s their business. I keep things tidy on my side of the fence.

I personally don’t think taking a vacation in Canada or buying maple syrup is doing much to prop up the Liberal party.

My sisters and I have very different politics, as with any family dynamics we just don’t talk politics.

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
9 October 2025 10:33 am

*They’re called frost backs.

MT Viking
Reply to  bowbunch
9 October 2025 10:34 am

Hey bow, I just saw a listing for 566 acres by Nye for only $14 million. Make it happen!

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  MT Viking
9 October 2025 10:38 am

I wish. Haven’t got that promotion I’ve been waiting for yet. Might be a couple years still.

MT Viking
Reply to  bowbunch
9 October 2025 10:53 am

I struggle with how to post links…

bow’s new home

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  MT Viking
9 October 2025 11:05 am

Nah, I know where that’s at. If I had $14 mill to drop on a piece of property, I’m going to get more than 600 acres of whitetail land.

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  bowbunch
9 October 2025 11:06 am

This one comes up every couple of years. Maybe I’ll win the lottery before the next time they list it.
https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/4030-Custer-Frontage-Rd_Pompeys-Pillar_MT_59064_M91218-54882

pirateflip
Reply to  MT Viking
9 October 2025 12:32 pm

Surprised Bill Gates or the Chinese haven’t bought it yet.

VikingPhilip
Reply to  pirateflip
9 October 2025 2:08 pm

Give it a minute.

JRobert
JRobert
Reply to  Derby Skol
9 October 2025 10:16 am

The Yankees are fast becoming the Cowboys of baseball.

Derby Skol
Reply to  MT Viking
9 October 2025 10:19 am

Is that Jay-Z?

He’s one of those rapper guys isn’t he?

NoDakRube
Reply to  MT Viking
9 October 2025 10:20 am

We can now all cheer for the Phillies to beat the Dodgers!

JRobert
JRobert
Reply to  NoDakRube
9 October 2025 10:23 am

Philly fans – ick! You would cheer for a team from Philadelphia?

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  JRobert
9 October 2025 10:26 am

Meteor Series??

vikesfanincheeseland
vikesfanincheeseland
Reply to  NoDakRube
9 October 2025 10:57 am

Won’t matter, brewers will beat either one of them. I’m all about Minnesota sports, but since I’ve moved across the river almost 13 years ago, I’ve come to respect the brewers. They are a good blue collar team that’s easy to root for. I’m hoping for a brewers/blue jays world series.

NoDakRube
Reply to  vikesfanincheeseland
9 October 2025 10:58 am

Brewers are the #1 team I want to win the series.

vikesfanincheeseland
vikesfanincheeseland
Reply to  NoDakRube
9 October 2025 11:06 am

Yeah, me too. It’s good for business around these parts. Gotta get by the cubbies first. Had a chance to wrap it up last night but lost by a run.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  MT Viking
9 October 2025 11:44 am

After much study and consideration I would rate the 4 lades as 3-4-2-1 moving from left to right.
All the ladies are fit and attractive so it more about how well they move.

NoDakRube
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
9 October 2025 1:34 pm

They are people, not objects, SoCal!!!!

Men are such pigs.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  NoDakRube
9 October 2025 1:43 pm

Biology is like science and I am no ‘science denier’.

MT Viking
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
9 October 2025 2:12 pm

I read this as the 4 lads and was confused as I only saw two players, wondered if you were checking out the fans behind the dugout.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  MT Viking
9 October 2025 2:40 pm

Mayhaps you should increase your font size or get some new reading/computer glasses.
Blue Blockers have helped me reduce eye strain for computer use.

MT Viking
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
9 October 2025 2:44 pm

lades could be an extra e…or missing an i…it’s all about perspective.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  MT Viking
9 October 2025 3:26 pm

Ahhh I see, the typo in the first sentence.
My Bad.

MT Viking
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
9 October 2025 3:31 pm

I like the laddies in this photo…

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bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  MT Viking
9 October 2025 3:34 pm

Let’s be honest, this is more your type.

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No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  MT Viking
9 October 2025 3:48 pm

Having to deal with that many women would make me crazy. There are two solid truths about women. First, they don’t understand men at all. Second, they want to change men into something they aren’t.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 October 2025 3:50 pm

Having to deal with that many women would make me crazy’

Only if they were allowed to talk.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
9 October 2025 4:10 pm

There’s a crude joke about that… grin.

How do you stop a woman from talking?

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 October 2025 4:56 pm

I didn’t want to ‘go there’ as I was already called a Pig for objectifying woman’.
I figured once a day was enough.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
9 October 2025 5:06 pm

You’re a good man SoCal.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 October 2025 5:15 pm

shhhhh!
You will ruin my ‘reputation’.

JacksonVike
9 October 2025 9:36 am

My sister passed away on Wednesday night. Got to spend her last two nights by her side. She was coherent on Tuesday and we sat with her talking about all of our stories. Wednesday when we got to her place she was aware enough to know we were there, but she didn’t stay alert for long. She was able to go peacefully in her sleep in her own place, which is a great blessing.

MT Viking
Reply to  JacksonVike
9 October 2025 9:37 am

I agree, no better blessing than to pass peacefully at home. I wish that for everyone.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  JacksonVike
9 October 2025 9:38 am

Condolences to you and your family.

JRobert
JRobert
Reply to  JacksonVike
9 October 2025 9:38 am

Sorry for your loss. Peace for you and all the rest of the family.

MT Viking
Reply to  JacksonVike
9 October 2025 9:41 am

I’m glad you were able to have that last time with her.

Over the years I have had a complex relationship with my sister; she is nine years younger than I so I think her ingrained notion of me is a mature infallible individual who left her in a bad home situation when I started college when she was seven. Yet I know she loves me and of late we have worked on reconciling. I haven’t told her of my prostate issues as I know more than anyone except my wife she would worry a ton.

manly-purple
Reply to  JacksonVike
9 October 2025 9:42 am

Blessings to you and the family. I’m glad that she was able to pass peacefully with family by her.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  JacksonVike
9 October 2025 9:45 am

JV, sincere condolences on the loss of your sister. Lost mine a few years ago in similar circumstances. Visited with her the day before, the next day her son found her asleep on the couch. Except she had passed. She looked very peaceful so we were all happy for that. I’m 70 now and both my parents have passed as well as two brothers and my sister. Time waits for no one. Thankfully you had that joyous moment Tuesday. RIP your sister, and again, sincere condolences.

Derby Skol
Reply to  JacksonVike
9 October 2025 9:45 am

Sorry to here that Jackson, glad she got to pass peacefully surrounded by family.

NoDakRube
Reply to  JacksonVike
9 October 2025 10:06 am

My condolences…losing a loved one is hard, I am sure you will cherish that time you had together on Tuesday.

Mjolnir
Reply to  JacksonVike
9 October 2025 10:09 am

Sorry for your loss JV – glad you were able to help guide her to the other side.

🔨

DE Viking
Reply to  JacksonVike
9 October 2025 10:12 am

JRobert
JRobert
Reply to  DE Viking
9 October 2025 10:17 am

Truly a wonderful verse.

Northwoods
Reply to  JacksonVike
9 October 2025 11:46 am

It both a rough thing and a blessed thing to go through. So sorry for your loss, she and you both will be grateful that you did it.

FloridaSKOL
Reply to  JacksonVike
9 October 2025 1:44 pm

Prayers for you and the family.

VikingPhilip
Reply to  JacksonVike
9 October 2025 2:03 pm

I’m so sorry for your loss. It was great that you got to share memories before she passed.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
9 October 2025 9:25 am

Picked up The Teacher from the airport last night. She got in late and I got to hear all about her trip during the ride back.
I got all my chores and errands done while she was gone, didn’t do a couple small projects as the upstairs ‘greatroom’/library/man cave took more effort that expected. Lot of furniture moved around and boxes of books emptied. It still needs some organizing but the space is now usable.
She fell during her trip so she is moving gingerly at the moment. I expect she will ease back into our routine as her hip/back heals up.

MT Viking
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
9 October 2025 9:33 am

I sense some gouger dollars coming to radiology soon.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  MT Viking
9 October 2025 9:41 am

She says that is just some soft tissue soreness and bruising.
She tripped over an uneven floor in the first place that they stayed.
The 4 year old was moving better than she was on sightseeing trips. She said the visit to the volcano was rough for her.

Derby Skol
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
9 October 2025 9:43 am

Radiology doesn’t see bruises, they see purple dollar signs.

MT Viking
Reply to  Derby Skol
9 October 2025 9:44 am

rec for truth.

MT Viking
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
9 October 2025 9:43 am

@darn it@

Sounds pretty minor. Getting old sucks, things that we could shrug off at 18 linger as we age.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  MT Viking
9 October 2025 9:53 am

She said she saw the step in the middle of the floor and thought it was a strange place for it. She was distracted by the 4 year old and tripped anyway. She is mad at herself for allowing it to happen.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
9 October 2025 10:00 am

Hey SoCal, hope the Teacher’s fall wasn’t too severe. Something we deal with as we age, and the older we get, the more it hurts and the harder it is to recover. I know from personal experience. I tripped and fell at the airport a couple years ago and man, that floor was hard. I was shocked at how much it hurt. Took weeks to heal up from it too.

So take good care of her (I know you will) and help her mend. Bless you both.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 October 2025 10:03 am

She is just sore.
We have been going to the gym/rec center for almost a year so she is pretty fit and healthy thankfully or is might have been worse.
My mom has fallen a few times and broken bones, it has taken her a long time to recover.

JRobert
JRobert
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
9 October 2025 10:10 am

Older people, I’m getting to be an expert on that subject, do fare better from falls the better there physical condition to begin with.

Derby Skol
9 October 2025 8:32 am

Anybody have experience with wiring a light bar into your high beams?

MT Viking
Reply to  Derby Skol
9 October 2025 9:32 am

Why would you do that? Assuming you want the light bar to come on with high beams, you would lose the ability to use high beams on the highway.

I have a light bar on my Bronco. You would not want to use it on the highway, #1 illegal and #2 would be utterly blinding to oncoming traffic (the lights turn the dark field into daylight for over a quarter mile). I wouldn’t want a scenario where I forgot they would come on with the high beams.

Derby Skol
Reply to  MT Viking
9 October 2025 9:40 am

The idea of wiring to high beams is so I remember to turn it off when traffic is coming by turning my brights off. A separate switch and I would forget half the time. I also don’t want to cut a hole in my dash for the switch.

As for the illegal, there are tons of light bars on the road and cops pretty much ignore them. Illegal.. yes. Worth their time… no.

MT Viking
Reply to  Derby Skol
9 October 2025 9:48 am

My heretics are pretty bright; don’t know if the HP would ignore them.

My wife was driving the Bronco on Tuesday (it’s either the Bronco or the F-150 if the dog is along for the ride and he loves fall weather) and got smacked by a big rock from a side dump gravel truck right by Hollecker. Looks like a softball hit the middle of the windshield. When she called me right after it happened, once I knew she was okay I asked, “Did it hit the light bar?” That was an expensive man toy.

Derby Skol
Reply to  MT Viking
9 October 2025 9:54 am

Ouch, did it fall off the truck? If it did and she caught the name of the company, the company is liable. They’ll probably try to say the rock came off the road though.

MT Viking
Reply to  Derby Skol
9 October 2025 9:56 am

She said by the time she recovered from the shock it was 100 yards down the highway and she didn’t notice the name as it went by before the rock hit.

Our glass deductible is $500 so we’ll probably pay for it out of pocket. Damn windshield gougers.

Derby Skol
Reply to  MT Viking
9 October 2025 9:59 am

Take a trip to Billings, it’ll cost half as much.

When I had to put a windshield in the tundra, it was over $400 in Glendive. I called great falls since we were going there a week later, $225.

Derby Skol
Reply to  MT Viking
9 October 2025 9:41 am

Ideally I’d use a 3 way switch so it could be on, off, and with high beams. But again, I’m not cutting a hole in my dash.

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  Derby Skol
9 October 2025 10:17 am

Do you have fog lights? Wiring it with those would be cool too. Otherwise, you just T off the wire to the high beams for your power and it should run it unless the fuse to the high beams is too small, but it shouldn’t be.

MT Viking
Reply to  bowbunch
9 October 2025 10:22 am

People that drive with fog lights on when conditions are clear should be hung by their thumbs.

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  MT Viking
9 October 2025 10:32 am

I don’t disagree.

Derby Skol
Reply to  bowbunch
9 October 2025 11:39 am

This particular trim package didn’t come with fog lights. I think i might wire a pair of those into my high beams too, then go point them all at MTs house.

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  Derby Skol
9 October 2025 12:56 pm

You should wire it to your turn signals.

Gone fishin'
Admin
9 October 2025 8:19 am

Mornin’ everyone!

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  Gone fishin'
9 October 2025 9:18 am

Hola Senior Brad.

NoDakRube
9 October 2025 8:12 am

Ben Leber thinks the Vikes are going with JJ next Sunday….

Gone fishin'
Admin
Reply to  NoDakRube
9 October 2025 8:21 am

That would surprise me.

Gone fishin'
Admin
Reply to  Gone fishin'
9 October 2025 8:22 am

Then again, Wentz is hurt, so it would make sense.

pirateflip
Reply to  Gone fishin'
9 October 2025 8:39 am

On the other hand, JJ might be hurting yet also.

pirateflip
Reply to  pirateflip
9 October 2025 8:42 am

Which means probably Brosmer.

pirateflip
Reply to  pirateflip
9 October 2025 8:44 am

Or maybe Cam Akers.

NoDakRube
Reply to  pirateflip
9 October 2025 8:57 am

He currently holds the highest passer rating in the NFL…so yes, let’s go for it.

JacksonVike
Reply to  pirateflip
9 October 2025 9:37 am

I would go with whomever is healthiest. I think either QB can operate in our offense, if KOC calls a game similar to the Browns game.

MT Viking
Reply to  Gone fishin'
9 October 2025 9:34 am

Not me

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  NoDakRube
9 October 2025 9:19 am

That would be ‘un-logical’ IMHO.

NoDakRube
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
9 October 2025 10:09 am

Agree, but we are not at practice, we do not see what the coaches see….If they start JJ they must believe he has what it takes, or will soon…

But still, seems un-logical to me as well.

FloridaSKOL
9 October 2025 7:32 am

FloridaSKOL
9 October 2025 7:32 am

Good morning, SKOL!

FTP!

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  FloridaSKOL
9 October 2025 9:18 am

FTP Auto Rec.

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