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FTP!
Hope the guys in the picture play better than they have in the past.
About 90% of the pundits are telling us Kyler Murray is going to be named the starter this year, prior to the start of camp. I hope he is reading the playbook vs playing video games. We will see. I know that whomever the team picks to play QB, the crowd will be chanting the other guys name every time the starter makes a bad play. This is what fans do. I am ready for the start of the circus.
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She looks nice.
Too phat.
😂 😂 😂 😂
nice reference
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Happy 251st Birthday to the US Army!!
Pogue
no combat patch
An LT, no CIB or even EIB, doesn’t look like Jump Wings either.
He is just a baby.
Gotta plan for the future…..
Another cast-off vet retread.
@what could go wrong?@
Although, I do like Baker compared to Kirko. Kirk is more accurate, but at least Baker is entertaining(My opinion)
I would prefer the team continue to draft QBs until they find one that is good.
He would be too rich imo.
He’s $35 million a year plus.
But I agree to a point.
Draft QBs until you hit on one.
Problem is if you miss every swing, you’re fired!
I don’t watch other teams games so I don’t know much about how good he is. Has had some success though.
Would hope that we could do better.
Yuck
If you know this guy, you’ll understand why he says this.
I don’t know that guy.
Wonder who he thinks is a ‘generational talent’ The Douche??
Nope. (Maybe because he played with him)
What does his list all have in common?
Then compare that to Ryan Clark.
I don’t care enough about Ryan Clark or his opinion to look him up.
Ryan Clark is a moron. No need to listen to anything he says.
😆 🤣 😂
Well, that’s certainly true.
Check him for CTE.
Sounds like Joe Mauer.
#1 Baseball Pick, HOF.
In Football he was Gatorade National Player of the Year and USA Today’s Player of the Year as a QB.
In Basketball he averaged more than 20 points a game as a point guard for Cretin-Derham Hall.[10] He was also named to the All-State team twice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Mauer
Adam Thielen is here at the burrow in oakdale, crazy
That’s cool!
A guys gotta eat.
And his kids gotta play, most people left him alone, and he just went along like all the other parents.
Way back in the day when we bought our first house, it had an above ground pool. Neither of us had had a pool growing up. We used it some, but not a lot mostly because this is WI and you can use a pool for about a week in July. I don’t remember it being to expensive to maintain for the few months of summer. One day we came home and our yard had a big spot that was wet and the grass was all smashed down. We came around the corner of the house and we saw that the pool had busted open and all of the water had poured out across the yard, down the hill into the ditch below. We did not fix it.
SoCal with all it’s water/drought restrictions has issues with above ground pools.
Heck they were talking about restricting household use to less than 55 gals a day per person. Total usage, watering outside, toilet flushes, tap water, etc.
One of the many reasons that we left.
Our above ground pool was lower maintenance than the hot tub.
Now we have a patio in that area.
I just do not want to spend my retirement maintaining things.
Happy Saturday Skololobrobros!
Beautiful day in AlphabetTown.
Just got back from mowing my old man’s lawn. Not a Yarbo – we ain’t got that Canadian gouger money that ol’ MT Sawbones is throwing around – Toro Timecutter, a bottle of green tea and the good tunes of Colter Wall and got ‘er done.
Got some Aldi chicken sausages in the air fryer for lunch.
Flatbread pizza for supper.
Massive chocolate chip take n bake cookie for dessert.
Gonna watch the UFL Championship because: football junkie.
Later I’ll throw on some NFL. Thinking I’ll rewatch the Christmas Day Lions game – or the Max Brosmer Redemption Story as it’s known in my house.
Probably play some vidja games until my eyes bleed.
FTP!
Everybody go get into trouble
just don’t get caught.
⚒️ ⚒️ ⚒️
Sounds like a good day.
Enjoy.
Don’t forget the nightcap…..
Rob – the pool question is interesting. Lots of issues.
Lived most of my life in DC area and it just didn’t make sense – really not enough good weather given the costs.
Now, have lived in Florida for several years and have a pool. And here, can use it like 9 – 10 months a year without the heater. As you probably know, heating the water with the heater is really expensive, and that’s a lot of water.
Since you do live in Florida you no doubt see there are a lot of pools. Regarding real estate, there is only one house in our neighborhood that doesn’t have a pool. And that was a problem when the owners tried to sell it. Yet, in other neighborhoods, probably not so much.
There are maintenance costs, But interestingly, size of the pool is not that big an issue on that. Many pools down here are what we would have called up North glorified hot tubs.
Final thought. Our kids are older and the hot tub portion gets five times the useage as the pool itself ( and that’s not so much to heat).
If I ever move to FL, I will move to a place that has a community pool and gym.
Love the idea of having a pool, but I am not interested in the maintenance cost.
This may sound over the top but it isn’t and is common in Florida. Also pick a community that has a golf course and everyone has their own cart. With this setup you can usually play golf just about anytime you chose at no cost.
This is what my parents did.
Timber Pines in Spring Hill.
had a pool and 3 courses.
Regular, Executive and Par 3.
Loved visiting them back in the day.
If you ever move here, do not live in a community with a HOA.
They a giant ripoff, a general pain in the ass, costly and do not “keep everyone’s home at best value.”
or do, the choice is yours
Ours normally only reacts to homeowner complaints, so staying good with your neighbors is key.
They just changed management so we will see how it works going forward.
Ours did very little other than raise fees and complain about my son’s work truck in the driveway (getting out from under a HOA is one of the reasons we moved)
Yeah, as much as I hate government overall, it seems like adding another bureaucracy to my life would be a bad thing.
Still, I have neighbors that currently annoy TF out of me, and are having a negative effect on property values.
1 has a car on blocks in his driveway, and there are about a dozen people living there(# of people is just annoying because of the number of vehicles)
1 does no yardwork at all, and the grass and weeds were over 4 feet high before the city would do anything about it.
1 decided to make their entire backyard a garden. Great, no real issues, except they till right up against our fence. We now have voles. @thanks@
So part of me, the grumpy old man part of me, wants some authority to step in and correct their annoying behavior.
😝 😂 😆
Well at least we can hope that one of those question marks can come up big for us.
This is where they need to build a very solid roster. Because IF one of those QBs lights it up, they will be making more $ soon. If they all fail, the team can draft another rookie and keep building the trenches.
And going 9-8 anyway.
So not in a terrible position.
This is probably the most accurate statement on this “situation”.
Oh I figure both will play at some point during the season, from injury if nothing else.
Wentz will probably get some run as well.
Likely.
Injuries and sucking could even lead to Brosmer…..
Lordy I hope not.
He is more like the QB of last resort when all other options are down and out.
Kind of like last year.
I am not sure Data Expert for the Brownies for a decade is ‘high praise’.
At least Grigson has been neutered somewhat.
Grigson couldn’t manage to build a team around a generational talent
he should join Rick in the unemployment line
Yep.
World Cup was fun to watch last night.
USA should win it all and have Trump present the trophy.
The TDS would be entertaining.
They’ll do well if they get to the round of 16
I think that gets them to the round of 32, but it is soccer, who knows?
Yep.
Knockout round first, then 16.
African American becomes the first trillionaire.
Poor Libs.
Well not Literally Poor due to Fraud.
Mentality they are a basket case….
these just keep coming
These soccer fellas would score a bunch more if they just picked up the ball and threw it in the net.
Touchd… errr, goal!
I should text Brad the US Paraguay match starts in an hour so he can get snacks and watch
He said @he’s been tailgating all day in preparation@
What are they playing? Badminton, pickle ball?
Opening match of the World Cup for the US
Worse. Much worse. Soocer!
First game of the tournament I’m going to watch, hope your boys will do well. USA!
3-0 at halftime, doesn’t get much better than that.
3rd goal was a nice through ball with some good individual effort
Great game, Team USA looked ready and well prepared for the task. Hope they’ll go far in the tournament.
I’m getting in my pool
My sister in law got a pool put in at her SoCal house.
The amount of work and $$$ that went into that thing vs the times it got used, better to just go to a hotel for the evening and use theirs.
I need to get a heater installed, I don’t know about that area but a pool adds a lot of value here in Floridum
Oh a pool adds value in SoCal as well.
But maintaining it plus extra insurance (already astronomical in SoCal) vs how much it get used. Not sure a broken down, nasty pool adds quite as much anywhere.
“Broken down nasty pool” is an apt description when we moved in 4 years ago.
buttload of chemicals and some scrubbing and it’s been blue ever since.
I wouldn’t go out of my way to buy a house with a pool, but we’re going to enjoy this one while we have it.
I did contract with a pool service
SIL is a single mother and used insurance $$ to have one put in. She couldn’t afford a ‘pool service’ and paid the kids 25c a tile to scrub it periodically.
Not that the nieces/nephews are all moved out I doubt that it get much use at all, or much maintatinace.
Probably not the best use of her money, but her decision not mine
I agree, I advised against it but it is what she wanted so it is what she did.
I stayed away from the whole thing, worked hard to help the kids which meant helping the SIL occasionally but otherwise I steer clear of her.
I’m not seeing that.
Id have to spend north of $75,000 to put an in-ground pool in. Along with all the other things needed like a patio, furniture and the annual $3,000 to $5,000 in up keep costs.
Our neighborhood avg house is $450,000.
I don’t see any buyer coming in willing to pay $550,000 because there is a pool, when the avg house is $450,000.
If I had money to burn, a pool is nice.
New pool will set you back 125k here, I wouldn’t drop that either
No “prolific” poster and it’s near 100 comments.
I have been a little busy today.
Took The Teacher in for Blood Tests this morning and now we just got back from the gym.
I will be more ‘prolific-er’ tomorrow, maybe.
Blood tests for funsies or some disease?
She had an appointment yesterday, routine checkup.
Think he was just be thorough aka padding his bill.
And no insults flying around.
Makes you wonder who the real instigator is.
@its childish to downvote someone@
According to the dynamic duo.
Street Cred!
So you feel the need to keep cheap shoting me . OK, that’ll be the way it is.
I gave you street cred 😂
Thank you !
Seems kind of like the abusive husband blaming the wife for ‘making him do it’.
Seems like there is plenty of blame to go around.
In MHO of course.
100
Kirko still sucks!
See if that brings anyone out…
Also, I had a short workday and had more time to argue with all you people that are obviously WRONG
Who is this prolific poster?
NLNVF
JRob called him that and the mob has run with it.
@your mom@
Which one?
Sorry, I had a DRs appointment. Then I played 9 holes of golf for the first time since my surgery. I’ll do better going forward.
Slackerrrrrrrrr
I guess I can make a political post.
I see absolutely nothing wrong with this. For both safety of the one getting the license, and the safety of other people on the road.
This would make heads explode in MN
Why is the text so yuge?
Also, I remember back in the DN days a guy freaked out because fil posted that gif
copy/paste fail
Logic seems to be different for different people.
We used to have Teen Logic and Female Logic (emotion based) and now we have all kinds of Loony Logic.
Like Jazzy Crockett saying that a ‘folding knife is too small to be a deadly weapon’, umm that knife killed someone so by definition it is a ‘deadly weapon’.
You would think as a Lawyer she would know better but due to DEI I guess not.
Who gives a shit about 7 on 7 in shorts and no pads what matters is what they do when they can actually get hit
This ^ its June. I could not care less whats happening right now. Wake me in August
Exactly, ponder looked good in shorts when nobody could hit him
Hell even I look good in shorts sometimes.
This is not football related or even football adjacent.
YOU LIKE IT DONT LIE!
kfey walking into band practice.
You been going through my pool drawer?
Comments are entertaining there.
“Once there are linemen, Murray cannot see where he is throwing”
Can’t be true.
@my.compuuter. stat.machine.mind.says.JJ. completion.percentage.is.low.can’t.be.good.murray.is.miles.ahead.and.a.vet.@
I see SPACE X is up 23 percent since going public this morning.
Did anyone get in at ground level?
Musk will be the first Trillionaire pretty soon.
Pocahontas is big mad.
Mad as it Crazy is what she is.
*gender assumed
Yup about an hour after I predicted it.
I have seldom been so correct.
#grin
Nobody was able to get in at the IPO price of $135, except the insiders.
It opened at $173 to the public.
Dropped to $158.
That would have been the ground level for market investors.
No thanks.
I may be interested when it drops to $30-$40 per share
Not sure it will drop that far.
But under $100 I might get in.
The only revenue generation happens with non Space things.
I just do not see a profitable company for awhile.
But, just like with QB analysis, I am wrong a lot.
Aren’t they making quite a bit of money from government contracts and other companies paying them to launch satellites for them?
Starlink is the biggest money earn for them, and they just raised prices again.
I am sure the government contracts will be more profitable if the mid terms favor republicans.
Also rocket launches and A.I.
I think the government and private contracts will increase rapidly.
They earn money with rocket launches.
But profitability will be tight.
If you are into owning raw stock, I would estimate there are at least 1000 better stocks to own than SpaceX.
Absolutely true at this point.
What about cooked stock?
take and bake stock?
day old stock?
Our new GM is changing a few things up ‘behind the scenes’ it looks like. 4 front office types have left since his hire and he looks to be bringing in people he knows and is comfortable with.
Normal business I expect but as the article mentioned KAM pretty much left people in place when he took over. Some change is good/needed.
https://thevikingage.com/nolan-teasley-transforming-minnesota-vikings-behind-the-scenes
Anyone associated with the upper level scouting decisions the last decade,…..
Totally OK with this.
As it should be.
Good start.
Still won’t know anything about his GM ability until mid season or later in 2027.
The biggest one is Jamaal Stephenson, he was there for 25 years and one of the senior players evaluators. What I don’t understand is why Ryan Grigson is still there, he was a part of KAMs horrible drafts and totally sucked ass as GM when he was with Indianapolis
I guess the question is how much KAM listened to his scouts.
Sure they reported on players, then the coaches added their opinions and then KAM ran the draft. It starts with the scouts, ends with the GM and held together by the coaches.
There was plenty of ‘surprises’ in this draft (and every other draft ever). Do I know better than anyone else? No way, but I have opinions like everybody else.
Yeah scouts do their job, tell GM and coaches what they found, coaches get their say, then KAM would do his numberhumping and make decisions, new GM has total control over the draft and roster according to the wilfs. I think shitcanning the guys KAM brought in as well as the longest tenured scouting exec was a good idea, the Vikings haven’t had a really good draft in over 10 years
Happy Friday yall! Hope your work day is either productive or short so you can get outside. NoDaks gonna be in a cooler windy spell until next weekend. Im going to attempt to mow some very over due grass for my dad in 40mph winds tomorrow.
Yeah…this weather kind of bites…I am going to mow today and then play golf in cold windy weather on Saturday and Sunday.
Still doesnt sound like a bad weekend.
Hopefully leaving early today. Taco Dowler football camp in the morning for my youngest, baseball game in the afternoon for my oldest, then at some point heading to the wonderful Minnesoviet Union to take my kiddo to a Twins baseball camp Monday-Wednesday.
Might be worth the trip for an LA Dodgers baseball camp.
Unfortunately they don’t play until the following week. We even got 4 tickets as part of the camp registration but will probably need to get back for little league playoffs. If his team loses out while we are there I may try to find a way to get home and my wife might stay for a few extra days to go to a game. Part of the registration also included a day at Target field and getting to meet a Twins player, but I think that will also be in two weeks, after we leave. I really wish they would have been more clear about all of it, but they still haven’t explained how the field day works. They said they will let me know today though so that’s nice of them.
Busy busy. As im learning more and more seeing my co workers with kids, nephews and now with the lady friend, kids sports sucks up a lot of time no matter who you are.
I agree the whole Twins ticket meet and greet sounds like a big part of that package but it wasn’t very transparent. Kid me would have been stoked for that.
I’ll be smoking some very overdue grass tomorrow….
I need to make a trip to MT to get some edibles again. Been out since March *sigh*
Handful of recipes out there for Bud butter. Easy enough to make – time consuming but if you prep it’s manageable.
Hardest part is the decarboxylation – gotta break up (do not grind) and bake the bud for a bit. And that….. smells…. well, wonderful actually – but it draws unwanted attention. Unless you live rurally. I make most of my homemade edibles using my dad’s summer kitchen. And the butter is the main thing – my sister and I will use it to bake and freeze weed brownies.
What’s nice about homemade edibles is you can pump up the dosage – a requirement for an everyday smoker like myself. Otherwise the OTC stuff is to tame – and it’s a waste of money.
I buy the OTC edibles, and sometimes just take 2 for the desired effect.
Whomever downvoted Mjolnir….
Marijuana is bad
lol. this was funny. Reefer madness is better propaganda though.
My two drugs of choice are alcohol and caffeine.
Those will do it for me….but too each his/her own!
Most of my life it has been caffeine and sugar for my drugs. Beer is my booze of choice but makes me gain weight, so I will do the vodka soda thing or bourbon on the rocks.
The weed became a thing because it helps my arthritis pain and helps me sleep. I still drink booze, but really try and stay under 2 drinks per week. When I drink booze, I do not sleep as well. When I have nothing, or one THC gummy, the sleep is great.
Getting old is a challenge.
Meh. Street cred.
I’m really too high to worry about downvotes.
I am the perfect amount of high to make some taquitos though.
Taquitos and downvotes, great combo
I second this.
Well im 5MG Tom, 5 is good enough for me, 10mg and Im down for the count, low tolerance and I dont smoke so.
Odds are high KFEY stops in Glendive and visits one of our 9(!) dispensaries.
9? Really…..
I might be driving a car of my soon to be ex-mother in law’s valuables to Gig Harbor, Washington in the next few months – it’s complicated (it always is) might have to plot a course through there as I’ll likely be driving a rental back.
Can’t help being curious about that Big Sky bud.
And hit all 9 shops!
DING DING DING DING, band members and I make a road trip every now and then. Only reason to go to Glendive, ever.
Nice, same here. To be honest, I didn’t wait for tomorrow, actually…
Just walked the dogs on my lunch break. Hard to go back to work.
Im finishing my day at home, sick of sitting in the office cube
Learning curve was steep but my robot mower has now assumed the majority of the lawn mowing duties. I gave up on trying to make it mow the 30 degree slopes so I get them with my bicycle handle weed trimmer, and also don’t make it mow the mixed gravelly weedy grassy areas.
Their customer support is so nice, always asking if my health is good. Must be a China thing.
What brand do you have?
How long does the charge last?
Ive been looking at robot mowers.
Yarbo.
It will mow for about two hours. 21 inch path, with a little overlap each pass. It’s fascinating to watch. However, there were times I wanted to return it the first two weeks but I’m finally getting the hang of it.
After what seems a week of rain, it is going to be sunny with a high of 77 here in western WI. It should be a beautiful day. It will be hard to get any work done.
Everyone take you happy pills and enjoy the day.
We had 95 and 45mph wind gusts last Sunday in Nodak, ended up going to the water park with the lady friend and her daughter. Somehow how stuff didnt blow away.
Montana blows and MN sucks, as we say.
Coming from somebody who lives in a state with no mountains or trees. Please convince everybody you know this is the case though and definitely make sure to do your job as our moat and keep the Minnesotans out of our state.
We got them held up in Fargo….for now.
I was finally able to turn off the AC last night and open windows. Haven’t done that since before memorial day weekend.
Yeah you got the heat we had most of last week. I havent ran my AC since Monday, its been nice. Love cool nights, windows open, sleep like a baby.
AC will be on here in DE until late Sept or early Oct.
What a wuss.
Yup, this past week has been hot and rainy, but the next few days are looking awesome for us in our neck of the woods.
God Help Us !!
Hopefully ‘God Help’ the other team cause they will need it.
#nojinx
But all the online experts said we would be lucky if he would be ready to play to start the season!
I wouldn’t expect KOC to say “he’s not ready” if he is not ready.
Everything is good is the standard line for every coach and team this time of year.
I bet he does very little in training camp.
No need to risk another foot injury.
It’ll be a ramp up im sure. If anything, despite the QB woes, I am excited to see how our defense plays. Im wagering we win numerous games early to start the season because the defense keeps them low scoring.
We know this will be either the best value pick ever, if the guy stays healthy, or another Vikings boondoggle.
Given my Viking fandom, I bet the latter.
I take it his foot amputation went well then
Let’s get the QB controversy started. FTP !!!!
I don’t care who wins and becomes QB1, I’m just glad we’re not paying a QB 45M a year
So much truthiness!
@you are clueless. we need great stats from a QB at a high price to finish 9-8 and one and done every year@
Now way we could go 9-8 with any other QB…….
Oh wait….
“You are clueless”
I do not care either, Murray, JJ, he’ll even Wentz if he’s the best, I just want them to win in the playoffs
FTP Auto Rec.
And it is starting off to be ‘One of those days’ here.
Since I suck at reading NFL tea leaves I will have to find other things to do today.
Mock draft 2027.
Too soon?????
Much too early.
After the Collage Football Championship is the start of Mock Season for me.