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Dang it, the Packers got a lot better yesterday. Jerry Jones traded Micah Parsons to our hated rivals in exchange for two first round picks and DT Kenny Clark. If Parsons manages to stay healthy, this will go down as a major win for Entitled Town. The NFC North is going to be the best division in football, and there likely won’t be a close second. Yikes. I think Jerry Jones is senile….or stupid…..or both.
Who won the Micah Parsons to Green Bay trade?
- Depends whether he stays healthy (56%, 10 Votes)
- The Packers (39%, 7 Votes)
- The Cowboys (6%, 1 Votes)
Total Voters: 18
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From VIkings.com, KAM and KOC weigh in on the Minneapolis tragedy prior to yesterday’s press conference.
Vikings.com also looks at how Carson Wentz and Max Brosmer can support J.J. McCarthy in the Vikings QB room.
Adrian Peterson is to sign a one-day contract with the Vikings in order to retire in purple, per YouTube. I love this, AD made this team a lot of fun to watch, even when the team had little to no passing game.
NFL News
ESPN hands out grades for recent trades around the NFL.
Details on the Micah Parsons trade from NFL.com.
From Bleacher Report, an “unnamed NFL exec” (eye roll) calls Jerry Jones and the Cowboys idiotic for the Micah Parsons trade. I put zero stock in these ‘unnamed NFL exec’ stories.
Media Selection
This is a great interview, I have a ton of respect for both of these guys. Enjoy!
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GBR!
😂😂
A good win by Nebraska. A nice bonus with Taylor… LOL!
Woo hoo! It’s still Friday!
Isn’t Saturday better than Friday??
Fridays are my day off…so no, not for me. 🙂
Plus Friday night ushers in the weekend.
Colorado and Coach Prime go down to Georgia Tech 27-20.
I don’t mind it at all.
Sound familiar?
Wonder where the line is between a repair and a replacement.
If you repair 90% of the roof can it still be called a repair and not a replacement??
I have never heard of Tarleton St but they are giving Army all they can handle so far.
10-10 2 min left in the 1st half.
Bring in the Marines…
Do they even have a football team?
Army defeated 30-27 in 2 OTs.
They need a better kicker the sooner the better.
Looks like it will be a long year for Army.
Parsons seems to be a more rush the qb guy, not great at run. Curious to see how teams play him early in the NFCN.
Laughing…
Any news on the Vikings and a CB?
Nope… picked up a 6th safety though.
Lol
Got kiddo out of school early, on a hiking trip. Gonna hike near Killdeer this morning, stay somewhere tonight. Wife is out of town reffing volleyball.
Have a great time GF. Labor Day weekend. Enjoy!
Good trip so far.
Oreos and Pringles.
That is a good combo.
I have to say, we never regretted pulling our kids out of school for fun trips as a family, and we never took vacations without our children until they had moved out.
Time well spent.
Oh, wifey and I have taken kid-less vacations. Only a couple, but still. Worked great for us.
Amen brother
Drive fast and take chances, indeed…reclining the seat during a highway road trip is strictly verboten in my vehicle lest the lap belt crushes the spleen and the shoulder belt decapitates you.
I don’t really give a shit about seatbelts either
you can time travel?
I drive fast
This is cool…
On the surface, cute as hell. In reality….that yards gonna be COVERED in bird shit lol
Laughing… next level perception there!
Pick him up
Gonna be a lot of teams trying to snag him, price will be high
He is an impressive player for sure, but I think we have 6 safeties on the roster right now…
well our best safety cut his ween off, so let’s get this guy!
Laughing… so hard… you have a point freeze.
I think it was his balls he cut off
can he play gourd?
Sign all the safeties!
This is singularly impressive…
Holy cow, that doesn’t even look like it is physically possible. Amazing!
Take that over Twins BB.
Laughing… ya think?
Pretty dang impressive indeed.
Jesus she can cover some ground, that was fun.
Incredible
Making our way to Flushing, NY for a night at the US Open tennis tonight.
Behave yourselves.
I’ve always wanted to get to flushing meadows and watch the men’s final, maybe someday I’ll make it
In the end, Pretty much every President ever, knew how to spend taxpayer money to their political advantage. Trump knows how to “make” money to the taxpayer advantage.
That is what businessmen do, they make money.
He is just making money for the country instead of himself or a corporation.
Yep
This is good for the country:
While it is true that DOGE removed lots of people from the social security database, the actual resulting fraudulent payment information is much harder to come by….
If anyone has a link to such information please share.
“Lots”… 11 million is a shit ton more than “lots”.
Odds are, they just spend the money elsewhere, and the National Debt keeps climbing.
Social Security has to be secured, and getting 11 million people off the rolls is a very significant start. $20B a month is almost a Trillion dollars over four years.
Pretty sure this is about protecting the Social Security budget.
They also need to amend the rules to get people who are legally on the roles (but really free loaders) off the roles.
And to DE’s point, just look at the Navy’s cost overruns for the new submarine programs, carriers and ship building in general.
There seems to always be a host of “good reasons” to spend money.
Which is why bringing in $17T in new business over 7 months, while simultaneously working to defund fraudulent programs, AND garnering $30B a month in tariff revenue is smart.
We didn’t get to a $37T debt overnight, so we won’t solve it overnight. That said, we’re off to a roaring start.
I’m in favor of scammers on any level face mandatory jail time.
You’re going to need to build a shit load of jails.
Do we have a time and day for the Fantasy Football draft yet?
THE GINGER JESUS!!!
Carson Wentz, once a Vikings fan, now diving in as Minnesota’s backup QB
Cool article, but I am so looking forward to what JJ can do for us at QB.
Wentz sucks, but less than Howell at least
Don’t see how he can get acclimated to be QB2.
KOC got Dobbs up to speed enough to start in like 2 days. Wentz has been in the same system in LA. He’ll be fine to stand on the sideline and watch JJ light it up.
That’s not exactly right Bow. What KOC did was give the play call to Dobbs that was on his wrist band, then tell him where to go with the ball. It worked well enough for a couple games, then Dobbs just proved he had a somewhat limited ability to learn and run the offense.
So he can do that for somebody to start but he can’t get Wentz ready to stand on the sideline in 2 weeks?
I didn’t say that. If Wentz is needed before he really has a decent understanding of the offense, KOC will utilize the same methodology. Sean McVay was the originator of this methodology when he was in Washington. He took it to the Rams, and Goff said “yeah, sometimes I listen to him, and sometimes I just blow him off” in an interview. Goff failed to execute the offense as designed, and then he was traded to the Lions.
Think Dobbs problem was just as you say “limited ability” and it wouldn’t matter if he was here 2 days or 2 years.
Yes. Remember what KOC ultimately wants to do, is run his adaptive route passing offense. This is where the receivers read the defense, and alter their routes mid flight. Some of these adjustments are easy, some are more complex. In the end though, you need a QB with great processing ability to see the defense, anticipate the receivers adjustments, and make an accurate throw.
Wentz?
He was QB to (or 3) in Kansas City last year and in SF the year before that. He has a couple weeks to learn scheme (very similar to SFs) and personnel.
Maybe LA the year before KC?
Yeah. Too bad we don’t have any offensive coaches on our team that were also offensive coaches with McVay….
Yes in LA, my bad.
Not bad, just human like the rest of us. And your batting average is better than most all the rest of us.
‘your batting average is better than most all the rest of us’
I didn’t know we were keeping track.
And thank you for the grace.
Not for a few weeks anyway
Man, I thought giving Micah $47 million a year was bad on its own, but good lord. $28 million in dead hit for Kirk last year sucked and he was a whole lot better than Clark.
Couldn’t happen to a better team.
Under his current contract, love has an almost $75 million cap hit in a couple years.
that’s a lot and he always dominated the Vikings iol, particularly Bradbury
dominating bradbury is the name of your sex tape
Makes me feel a little better. I was pretty upset at them getting Parsons.
They have to win the SB this year or it won’t matter and they don’t have a roster and QB to win the SB. After this year, the cap hits are going to get stupid and now they don’t have the draft capital to keep building the team.
FTP
Parsons:
4 yr, $188 million, $136 million, guaranteed.
YIKES #2.
We need this now, more than ever. The Western world is being torn down by Islamic activists. American flags being torn down in New York city and replaced by Palestinian flags.
https://video.search.yahoo.com/video/play;_ylt=AwrFPljov7Fo3C4.gDf7w8QF;_ylu=c2VjA3NyBHNsawN2aWQEZ3BvcwM1?p=toby+keith+songs&vid=dd4881f21c43f9befa02da9ddab34a07&turl=https%3A%2F%2Ftse3.mm.bing.net%2Fth%2Fid%2FOVP.yk4xKuwXUOTHS09GPCczxgHgFo%3Fpid%3DApi%26h%3D360%26w%3D480%26c%3D7%26rs%3D1&rurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DZua8MJxnAwE&tit=%3Cb%3EToby%3C%2Fb%3E+%3Cb%3EKeith%3C%2Fb%3E+-+Courtesy+Of+The+Red%2C+White+And+Blue+%28The+Angry+American%29+%28Lyric+Video%29&c=4&sigr=ttkCUeYVQcsA&sigt=qhpZdurIgU6R&sigi=Wb5V0884xilR&fr2=p%3As%2Cv%3Av&h=360&w=480&l=194&age=1656680419&fr=mcafee&tt=b
Freedom is not free… Toby Keith captured it perfectly.
Patton:
“The object of war, is not to be a poor dumb bastard who dies for his country. The object of war is to make the other poor dumb bastard die for his.”
We’re going to use their guts to grease the tracks on our tanks.
Absolutely…
Obviously Patton was a controversial figure, but make no mistake, he was right about war. War is an ugly thing, but when evil rears its head, you have to get ugly.
If they would have listened to Patton, there never would have been a Cold War.
And MacArthur in the Pacific.
Absolutely right Bow.
This is always one of those interesting topics of debate that we will never have the answer to…could the western Allies have defeated Russia in total war at the end of WWII…probably…in the real world of conscription and politics and massive loss of life…probably not.
Napolean won every battle of his Russia campaign.
NYC?
Aren’t there any tough Americans left in that city?
Deep blue apparently believes it’s their right, and a freedom of speech and freedom of expression issue.
We need to recognize these activities as anti American, and address them appropriately with legislation.
While I agree with your sentiments, Justice Antonin Scalia disagreed with both of us.
I don’t think even he would accept Muslims insisting the Constitution must be replaced by Sharia law in this country JR.
No, was referring to flag burning and the right to do so. He was for sure a stick constitutionalist.
Just because you have right, doesn’t make it right. That is my personal view of flag burning.
Mine too. To me, burning the flag is akin to biting the hand that is feeding you.
But as the lawyers at work used to tell me, there’s right and wrong, and then there’s what’s legal and not.
Yep
That song still gives me the chills….You remember how much shit he got for that one and for the Taliban Song?
Woke liberals suck.
‘Woke liberals suck’
They probably swallow as well.
It still gives me chills too. Met him at one of these events years ago and I thanked him for his support. His reply was “No… I’m here to thank YOU for your service to our country”.
The best answer I have found to ‘Thank you for your service’ is to thank them for their support.
Appreciation is always welcome.
Happy Friday everyone. Slept in a bit today after not sleeping well the night before.
Watched the Rodents win last night and Boise St lose so Collage Football is officially back.
Nice. We pulled off a surprise softball championship last night. There are two divisions of E men’s here. We finished 3rd or 4th in our division. We had to play the winners of both divisions last night and beat em both them won the championship 26-14.
Congrats.
‘won the championship 26-14′
Sounds like a real ‘Pitchers Duel’. #grin
Well, our pitcher is pretty bad ass.
He caught a line drive to end the first game, tagged a guy out at home to win the second game and struck a guy out to end the chipper.
My brothers favorite memory was starting a ‘triple play’ by catching a line drive on the mound and throwing to 2nd, catching the runner off base, and the 2nd baseman throwing to 1st to compete it.
Damn I miss him, gone too soon.
That sounds pretty awesome. It’s beer league, but it’s still fun and when we get to beat cocky teams it just makes it all the better. I’m lucky to have a team with great guys that are out there for fun. Winning is more fun than losing of course, but we have a good time no matter what. I might be getting on the older end of this thing, but should have a couple more years in me.
I’ve seen pitchers throw some crazy stuff even in slow pitch. Can’t throw with velocity but angles and ball rotation.
I go for height and placement. I love when they let the first one go. We start with a 1-1 count and all fouls are strikes. You let the first strike go, I’m throwing you something you have to swing at and foul or pop out.
This is kind of long at 15 minutes, but Dave Portnoy’s verbal assault of pop music/Taylor Swift is hilarious.
“It sounds like something out of Disney Land in Japan or something.” LOL!!
Basic premise of these videos is a famous drummer hears a popular song that they’ve never heard before without the drum track and they try to come up with the drum part. Chad Smith playing 30 seconds to mars is another great one.
Damn, that music is hard to listen to. I’ve never listened to one of her songs in its entirety, I don’t think I ever will. Gross
I realized I have never listened to one of her songs either.
Sad watching some males gush over her, her music and lean into the hype.
They need their Man Card revoked IMHO.*
*I would probably have mine revoked for some of the things I have done as well.
She sucks, cut her.
-Ben
I assume she does.
But then I am not sure since I have never listened to her..
(do I get extra credit for avoiding the obvious oral sex joke?)
You would have… but, no.
I enjoy listening to her music. I don’t gush over her, mind, and have never purchased a song/album, but it is catchy. She’s laughing all the way to the bank at the Tay Tay haters.
Me too….I am not a Swifty but I enjoy many of her songs.
Endorse cackles makes you punchable.
Pres yanked her Secret Service detail…now is your chance to show up on her porch with a dozen roses and recite a heartfelt poem, chief! (or maybe do the Lloyd thing with a boom box and “in your eyes” from the Say Anything movie)
How close can I get with my 7 mag? Asking for a friend….
No! That would support the Libs assertion that Political Violence is coming from both sides.
Just let her slowly drink herself into oblivion.
I like that he didn’t just say “it sucks” but he actually talked about how it has no structure, no key changes, and his disdain for the “talking solo” is gold.
Some songs are really good imo. But I have strange music tastes.
She is also extremely talented and a marketing genious.
Tom Scott and the LA express was the first album I purchased. I think the second was Blood Sweat and Tears.
Mostly listen to hard rock or classic rock, but I have enjoyed a lot of pop music as well.
Shake it off is catchy, and I always like songs with a decent saxophone part.
I saw people joking about Hitmans potential injury, read something online that might make sense since they are being vague and its not Football related (he’s playing week 1, bet on it), some speculate a minor complication with a vasectomy which can be painful for obvious reasons. If it was something serious I feel like that would have been disclosed and or he wouldn’t have been at camp at all. We’re good, you old doomers.
I have never understood why any man would voluntarily neuter himself.
I’m not doing it
after 3 kids it felt like the lesser of two evils
Same.
3 was enough.
I schedule mine a week after thing #3 was born.
My wife did it since we were over max out of pocket. Just had to get it done before the end of the year and it was free.
Your wife did your vasectomy? Hard core!
Wasn’t it just yesterday that you praised your wife as a snake slayer?
Yeppers.
LOL, good for her. Killing a rattler with a shovel is tough even if you’re not phobic.
I scheduled mine the day after second child was born.
Did not want my wife on a medication long term if possible.
What was the other option, get a John Wayne Bobbit job?
Vasectomy is not neutering, by strict definition.
Laughing… OK MT. Think of it as a perspective.
I was chuckling, too…didn’t think very many men would volunteer to be neutered/have an orchiectomy, either!
Me either, I’ve always just pulled out
I can do one better, I am so revolting it never gets put in.
This has turned out to be a hilarious conversation. I’m just catching up.
I also have resisted getting a vasectomy. Getting one just feels like a weird thing to do. I dunno.
Couple more years and Harrison Smith is going to look like Brett Favre did when he joined the Vikings
while that is OBVIOUSLY major speculation, if it was an ingrown toenail, or his appendix burst, i feel like they would say something along those lines…
but since his peepee hurts, maybe that’s why they are being so vague
Thats why it added up to me. It is of course, pure out of thing air speculation. I dont think he’s seriously hurt, and he will be on the field for MNF
I woke up not happy about the Parsons trade to the Packers. Reminds me a bit of the Jared Allen trade, and I hope it doesn’t work out that well for the Pack. And hopefully they miss Kenny Clark more than they realize.
Jerry Jones is not my favorite person right now.
Jerry Jones is just one of many reasons to hate Texas.
I can’t hate Texas, way too many good things and people there.
I can and do hate the Dallas Cowboys and am glad that they have Jerry Jones as an owner, they deserve each other.
You are way more rational than I am. And I am sure there are wonderful people in Texas. I just do not know of any.
Was stationed there for several years.
Then visited my Daughter there and went back again for her wedding in Houston, a total dump. Even there I met lots of good people and ate lots of great food.
Plus it is hard for me to hate on a Red State especially when they were fighting so hard against FJB and his open border.
This coming Thursday night, the Eagles will host Dallas to kick the regular season off. I don’t like either team.
That’ll be a fun hate-game, I guess.
Dislike both teams, but I will root for the Eagles, since they are not the Cowboys.
Drew Pearson Pushed Off
Eff Norm Green
Herschel Walker trade
so many reasons to hate Dallas…..
Eagles hate is more memorable for me with Birk’s last game as well as the Case Keenum NFCCG
I’m a little young for the Pearson push off
The beauty of that NFCCG is we can’t say a single bad call cost us the game.
Or missed field goal
zackly
Good thing we got Will the Thrill now. We’re good.
I can’t wait for the color commentary that gets brought up by the stats team.
“No team has ever lost a game lining up for the game winning FG after having both a pick-6 and fumble recovery-6 in the same game…”
remember when we beat the Giants with a pick-6, punt return TD and kickoff return TD? I think we won 24-21. 3 non-offense TDs and a FG vs their three TDs (all on offense, IIRC)
2004? 2005?
I remember that, Brad Johnson was QB
Good memory, I had to look it up…November 13, 2005.
#nojinx
F**K Norm Green auto rec!
Both fan bases are insufferable. Biggest difference I found. You could walk around Dallas with a Skins hat on and you would get comments from Cowboy fans. You do that in Philly and you’ll get killed.
Exactly….I hate the cowboys…their fans are smug and entitled, but I went to a game there with my family a few years ago and we were treated very well by the locals and the cowboy fans and we were all decked out in purple.
I have never been to a game in Philly, but everything I hear says you are in danger if you go wearing the opposing teams colors.
This is why I hate the Eagles more, although I hate the Cowboys too.
I have seen some media now claiming the Packers may be the best team in the NFC.
oh please. Jordan Love is a slacker.
Is Parson young the way Allen was young in 2008 or whenever?
Yes skinflute he is still young, was still on his rookie contract
blast.
26 y.o.
Read a funny story about this trade from a Cowboy fan. He opined Jerry figured out the Cowboys can’t beat the Eagles, and he hates the Eagles so much he traded Parsons to the the Packers so they could
Laughing… now THAT’s funny JR…
i’m whatever about the trade for Parsons.
He’s a very good pass rusher, we have a very good O-line. This is why we beefed up the trenches.
I don’t feel bad for cowboys fans, as they are generally insufferable, but i do feel bad for one of my friends who is from dallas and has grown up a cowboys fan. i can’t blame a guy for literally growing up in the city, and continuing his fandom. And i do legitimately feel bad for him about this.
And those first round picks are likely to be in the bottom half of the round both years.
Yeah, but Dallas could trade their 1st pick and the puker pick to move up to very near the top of the draft. And if Dallas stinks and is already near the top of the draft, then those late 1st rounders could be awesome 2nd picks.
I like that the pukes have given up their first round picks, at least.
Very true
I’ve gone from 229.5 lbs in April to 207.3 this morning, and darn it if I can’t just lose 3 more lbs. I feel like all momentum has ceased.
Kind of like my Vikings fandom.
Gratz!
That is decent work.
Give yourself a break. Maybe you should weigh 207.3
thanks! yeah, maybe. the sad thing is, it’s been significant work to maintain 207-ish all week. I’m tired of skipping meals.
vow renewal is in late Sept, so that’s a month of keeping myself under 210. now that it’s not so hot out, maybe I’ll go for a daily bike ride and allow myself to eat a little more.
That’s great progress – congratulations. Burn more calories, can eat more.
Sometimes the scale can be misleading. For example, have seen folks go on an exercise program, lose weight and then start to stale, At that point their bodies have started to put on muscle from the exercise and muscle has more weight. So the weight is sort of ‘good’ weight at that point. Kind of a balance.
yeah, that makes sense. I haven’t been exercising much, just eating less.
started with portion control, then intermittent fasting. my routine now is to not eat until 4pm, then turkey lunchmeat and pico de gallo as a snack meant to discourage over-eating at dinner.
it feels like the first 10 lbs were almost easy, the next were noticeably more difficult, and now every pound is a battle.
maybe I’ll look at the scale less and just focus on more exercise. I’d like to be less militant about food, but I also don’t want to spend the 2nd half of September playing catch-up.
Thanks for helping me think through my thoughts, fellas.
Intermittent fasting and limiting processed foods was huge for me.
It takes time, be patient with yourself.
And biking is a great workout. I see too many seniors that lack the leg strength to stand up on their own. I am trying my best to avoid that as long as possible.
My dad turned 76 this summer and was diagnosed with Parkinson’s a few years ago – he can still stand on his own (but he ran marathons and still “jogs” today).
Some of their friends have almost no ability to move around and do things to live life, which is sad and a little scary. I’m hoping I’ll at least be able to putter around until the very end.
I’ve always like to eat, including sweets, and never walked away from a few beers either. So given that, had to exercise especially with age. Now I was so stubborn about that, that I keep running even when I shouldn’t have and had to get a knee replacement.
Have know learned thru lots of trial and error, all things in moderation. There just is no way I can really diet, but can limit the “bad stuff” – if I eat like a pig one day, go light the next day or so. And with exercise, sensible daily workouts. No need to kill myself, but regular strength and cardio.
Listen to your body.
Good luck.
Good advice here about moderation and listening to the body. Thanks! 🙂
very good advice.
The moderation is the thing I used to really struggle with. I now take a beat and think about how I will feel if I eat/drink too much.
Same here, I like to eat what I want, therefore, I stay very active. Coaching, the kids has been an absolute blast and it’s gotten me into better shape. I do all the countless sentences with them, even when they’re being punished, that way they can’t bitch about being tired.
Are you an English teacher?
Neat on the vow renewal!
Today I weigh 3 pounds less than I did on my wedding day in 1989.
It took time, but I am down 50 + pounds from my max weight from 15 years ago.
Thankfully I have a great doc that told me to try and lose 10 pounds each year vs dropping the BMI chart in my face(had that happen once), and to keep working out. Took me 4 years to lose the last 30 pounds. Finally I had my annual yesterday and while the BMI is still 27, all the bloodwork is good and he told me to maintain. No reason to lose anymore weight. 6’4 and 222 works for me.
62, no medications yet. His only prescription for me was the Mediterranean diet and keep exercising(I row daily, lift a bit, and DDP yoga are my go to workouts)
Started the Mediterranean diet in April. did mostly keto/low carb prior to that, but the Blood Pressure and Cholesterol were both creeping up each year. I still do mostly low carb, but the focus is veggies and protein. Works for me, but every body is definitely different.
Still will get my bread pudding at the Renaissance Festival next week, and have a few beers.
That’s a cool journey. Sounds like you’re doing things correctly. My goal was 25 pounds in 5 months, which felt (and still feels) very do-able.
I was 185 at high school graduation, and 185 four years later. Then a desk job and wife and house and kids saw a slow ascension from 185 to 230 this year (I’m 44 years old, 6’1″ and 5/8ths [yes, the 5/8ths matters!]).
I thought 199 would be really fun to see, but I’m very happy being under 210.
I need to look into specific foods to avoid and target, but mostly what I’m doing now is focusing on protein & veggies and trying to avoid carbs. Beer is weekends-only now.
(sigh)
Enjoy your bread pudding! you’ve earned it!
Monty Python Auto Rec.
DDP yoga has been almost transformative for me. I rave about it a little too much. Thanks Surly and others (NoDakRube?) that first mentioned it on here.
It is a game changer. I really want to be able to golf in my 80s. Not sure I will golf still, since I have a love/hate relationship with that stupid game, but I want to have the ability if possible.
Really great stuff there Surly. Big congrats. More folks should follow your lead.
Good for you!
Don’t get too discouraged.
Metabolic rates tend to be more about your genetic make up than personal choices. God made you the way you are.
Ha ha, thanks. That’s inching closer to “big is beautiful”, which is only a step away from “fat is healthy”, so I’ll take your encouragement with a grain of salt.
The cycling will help for sure. Your body naturally fights weight loss by slowing down your metabolism. So the activity is needed to get the weight loss moving again. Also, pat yourself on the back for your success so far. Many people start, then give up. Stick with it.
Ah, that would explain the slowed progress with weight loss. Alright, bike, it’s you and me now.
It wasn’t meant to say that at all.
LOL, I know. I just saw an opportunity to make fun of woke losers and took it.
God did indeed make me the way I am (or at least the way I’m meant to be), and that’s 6foot+, 200lbs+, broad, strong, and handsome. and humble!
The humility part is completely evident… grin.
You’ll hit plateaus. Worry more about how you look and how you feel than about what the scale says, sounds like you’re doing a great job.
Thanks old friend
I worry more about how my clothes fit, now much stomach I am carrying, etc.
Started wrestling in HS at 190 lbs and was 165 by the time I graduated. I weighed 165 for my marathon 15 years later. Once I got out of the Army I got out of shape but am back on an exercise routine and am eating less.
Nice work, ppb!
thanks, doc
Dallas sports are in a downward spiral….
I cant imagine the wolves trading Ant for nothing and then the Vikings trading JJ for what the packers traded for him
Oof.
Didn’t we give more to Carolina for Thielen than we got for him a year ago (or whenever)?
Thielen was cut, I believe, and signed as a FA with Carolina.
It was a cap space move by KAM.
Oof indeed.
idk, i also don’t really care
First from NYC.
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Micah won the trade.
He got what he wanted.
Out of the Jerrah Circus.
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