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erry Christmas, all! For we believers, today reminds us of what truly matters. I love Christmas, what it represents, and even though Dec. 25th is most likely not Jesus’ actual birthday, it is still a special day. Today means something different for everyone, but whatever you believe, I hope you’re able to spend today with family, and have a relaxing and enjoyable day. If you find time in your day, we’ll be here to talk football and whatever else comes up.
The poor owners of the NFL realized that they may have missed out on syphoning some dollars from the system, so we get football on Chrismtas, and any other day they can milk. This late season stretch seems to have NFL football almost daily. They talk of player safety out of one side of their face, then with the other side, they bark orders to schedule teams to play 3 games in 11 days. It’s laughable. Hey, at least it gives us something to watch today, and we can help make sure that one of the owners doesn’t have to sell their 3rd yacht. Yay.
Vikings News
Vikings.com looks at the Vikings’ playoff status at week 16. Also, Ivan Pace Jr. is back at practice!
NFL News
MSN breaks down the Christmas day NFL schedule.
Ben Rothlisberger isn’t a big fan of NFL on Christmas Day, story from Fox Snooze.
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Merry Christmas, guys. Hope you all had a great one.
Party at older sister’s last night was fun, then we hosted just immediate family today. Feel so bad for oldest granddaughter. She’s had tummy problems all through Christmas. I had all the grands favorite dishes today, and she could eat them 🙁
Merry Christmas, Karhy!
sorry to hear about your granddaughter. Have they checked for celiacs disease?
Merry Christmas to you as well.
No, at first they just thought it was something she ate, but after 3 days, they think it might be a stomach bug. I will keep that in mind, though, if it doesn’t clear up soon.
Te’O has the hots for the gal next to him. At least she’s real.
If you are still talking about the game I am still glad I am not watching it.
Post-game gibberish. Was on TV while we were snacking.
Davis Mills in at QB, Stroud on sideline for last 3 minutes.
Texans offense can do zero, & the Ravens are a below average defense.
Stroud not what he was last year. Texans gonna do to him what they did to David Carr, need to protect him.
Good grief, he doesn’t even have time to drop back
Looks like 3 sacks so far today.
Now they have Bouncy “singing” the halftime show. I turned it off.
It’s Christmas, that’s Texas, and that’s suppose to be country music, her new album. There’s probably been worse half time shows, but can’t remember many.
They’re force feeding horseshit &
trying to convince people that it tastes great.
Sounds Woke-like.
That is the type of thing that they do.
My wife is from Texas… she isn’t digging this.
What is a ‘Bouncy’?
I dunno, turned it off, the noise was annoying.
Glad I don’t have the NFL Network and so can’t get the game.
*saved again by being cheap*
It’s on NetFlix
Don’t know if The Teacher has that or not.
Game/halftime show do not look/sound worth the effort to find it.
It certainly isn’t worth turning on.
Henry gonna break 200 yards today easily, Texans D can’t slow him down.
Stroud looks like shit.
Our two big wins at the beginning of the year, SF and Texans are looking less impressive than they seemed at the time.
SF has tons of injuries, Texans aren’t a powerhouse, still a playoff team though, best team in a shitty division.
I guess Mariah Carey is now the queen of Christmas? Did I miss the coronation?
The NFL is turning to shit
They went woke awhile ago.
And once they get Swifty Money they have doubled down.
Sure seems so, alienate your base in order to attract more viewers.
They probably did the math and figured that they would attract more money than they would drive away.
The Woke is not very good at that kind of math, hence the election results.
According to my wife, Mariah’s Christmas song is the #1 Christmas song of all time. No idea where she got this from. I’m not a big fan.
She has a Christmas song?
I will have to look it up/NOT.
Yeah… “All I want for Christmas is You”
Sounds family, might have heard it in a Mall or store or something.
I was not aware of that.
My daughter just said Mariah Carey never has to write another song because of that. 🤣
Lots of time for her to fish.
Was doing a wordle today, and the word was “SURLY”. Got it in four.
Nice!
Thought you’d like that!
Candy-assed taunting fouls lately.
But it is important to protect peoples ‘feelings’.
Can’t have NFL players walking around with their hurt feelings hanging out.
That would be catastrophic
Yea, since when is putting the ball over the crossbar taunting. Only seen it done a 100 times and today it’s a foul.
It is taunting.
All those shorter players that can’t get that high feel bad now.
It certainly offends me, I had to hide in the bedroom for two hours after seeing it.
Exactly.
Dancing is now taunting.
Seems like an outcome generated opportunity.
Lindsay Lohan doing PR for the NFL?
I blame the Taylor Swift Effect.
So the nfl went back to flagging TD celebrations?
Good grief. No Fun League
If they ‘Identify’ as taunting they do.
I blame Taylor Swift
My Nephew looked just like that when he was that age.
We use this GIF as our official Christmas Greeting to that side of the family.
Per Fansided 4 advantages The pukes have over Purple:
Love is better than Sam
Jacobs is better than Jones
Jayden Reed over Metellus in the slot
Any puke wideout who lines up against Gilmore
MERRY XMAS YOU KNUCKLEHEADS
You know what they say about opinions…
Merry Christmas Norseman!
Which areas does Fansided say the Vikes have over the Pukes??
That must be a different article.
https://fansided.com/packers-advantages-before-vikings-matchup-week-17
hmm
Darnold has higher completion percentage, more completions, more yards throwing, more TDs. Same yds per attemp and same number of ints, but more rushes and more yards per rush. Sam does take more sacks
Sam also has a turnstile at center & our linemen aren’t allowed to hold.
Merry Christmas all. Love the media selection today. Perfect. As we all say in the military, there are no atheists in foxholes.
I’m thankful for this day, and I hope you all are happy and healthy.
Vikings can get it done by winning their last two games. So excited by that. SKOL!
Merry Christmas NLNVF, best wishes for you and the family.
Thank you, and may all the blessings of the day be on you and yours.
A little smile, a word of cheer, A bit of love from someone near, A little gift from one held dear, Best wishes for the coming year. These make a Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Believe the no theists in the foxholes came from a priest who was with the soldiers on Bataan just before it’s surrender.
We all for sure have a lot to be thankful for.
Thank you JR… I had never even considered where that saying came from. Interesting.
Merry Christmas my friend.
Amen!
The Reason for the Season.
On this Christmas, I am thankful that KAM moved off Kirko, who couldn’t clock it against the Chargers, because he couldn’t hear the play call because the Minny fans were too loud for Kirko to hear the call.
Thanks, Falcons!
Merry Christmas Skolers.
Merry Christmas everyone!
FTP!
SKOL!
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas!
SKOL
The Teacher watched that movie last night.
I did my best to ignore it, not a fan.