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I’m sitting here watching the Steelers @ Browns Thursday Night Football game. Divisional games are always hard to predict, especially when you have crazy weather like the heavy snowfall they had in Cleveland for the game. Neither team is moving the ball much, as passing the ball seems rather difficult. The Browns are up 10-6 in the 4th quarter as of this writing, but the Browns are driving. If they get 7 here, it’ll be tough for the Steelers to come back. We’ll see by morning. I am happy to see Jameis Winston resurrecting his career, and it was pretty neat to see our old pal Cordarrelle Patterson still playing ball.
The Vikings are preparing for their next game, as they travel to Chicago to take on the Bears this weekend. On paper, the Vikings should be able to get a win, but we all know how difficult it is to win on the road in Chicago, especially for the Vikings. I expect another stressful game where the Vikings do their best to give us all heart attacks. Beyond that, it’s hard to say.
Vikings News
Vikings.com has a Vikings @ Bears week 12 preview, they also have the most recent Vikings @ Bears injury report.
NFL News
Fox Sports looks at the 2025 NFL draft order, and ponders what the Cowboys should do if they possess the first overall pick. I mainly chose to share this article because it mentions the Cowboys sucking so bad that they might land the first overall pick, it makes me happy.
From NFL.com, Kevin Stefanski is to remain the head coach of Cleveland in 2025. I’ll believe it when I see it. The Browns organization has a habit of ditching their head coach every couple years, I see no reason to expect them to deviate from their standard operating procedure.
The Seahawks are still without power after a ‘bomb cyclone’, per NFL.com. Weather people & their stupid names. Bomb cyclone, good grief.
Media Selection
Bomb cyclone.
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No Brock Purdy or Nick Bosa for the 49ers Sunday vs FTP.
https://sports.yahoo.com/49ers-qb-brock-purdy-de-nick-bosa-out-for-week-12-game-vs-packers-212636189.html
Broncos-Chargers is replacing Browns-Bengals in Week 16 on Thursday Night Football.
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/nfl-flexes-upcoming-thursday-night-football-game-first-time-ever
My father-in-law told me last night that Wisconsin has lost a lot of hunters. I don’t know where he got his data and I didn’t look it up. It makes sense however. People aren’t having as many kids so it is hard to replace old hunters. For example, in my wife’s family most of the 6 kids hunted at least some of the time. Now, her oldest sister doesn’t hunt nor do her 2 girls. The next sister was an avid hunter until she got married. Now she does not hunt, nor do any of her 3 kids. One of my kids hunts. Her brother was an avid hunter until he got married and moved out west. Now he does not hunt nor do his 2 kids. The next sister does not hunt and she has no children. The youngest sister rarely hunted and she does not hunt now and her 2 girls are too young, but I expect that maybe only one would hunt, as the other is a girly girl. We need someone to shoot all of these deer.
I suspect that it is like that all over the country, some worse that others.
As the woke virus infects the education and the teach that ‘animals have feelings too’.
Therefore killing them is bad, even when they are overcrowded and starving to death.
I remember when driving on the AF Academy was hazardous due to too many deer. AF officials hired professionals hunters to cull the herd. The outrage and protests were fun to watch but kind of sad at the same time.
Animals are more important than people apparently.
Another issue is that if you don’t own hunting land, it is harder to find a place to hunt. While there is public land, I’ve heard horror stories about hunting around a bunch of people. One guy heard a bullet buzz past his ear. If my mother-in-law ever sells her land, I’m sure I will be done hunting.
Maybe a new regime at the Dept of the Interior will lighten up on the rules for hunting on Federal land.
i Won’t hunt public land. My buddy has about 150 acres here in minny. W hunt elevated stands and we know where everyone is. The elevation makes you shoot at a down angle.
PA has over 1.5 million acres of publicly owned state game lands. They provide roads, parking areas and trails. i use the slot in the spring to access nice fishing areas. While I never hear of issues during hunting season, not sure I would go fishing then!
Smart.
I am currently arguing with liberal Christians online. This explains my drinking problem. The liberal Christian believes it is God’s will to take money from one set of people (the Wealthy) and give their money to the poor – thus, of course, absolving the liberal Christian of any responsibility of caring for the poor as Christ commanded…
To be fair, I admittingly could and should do more to care for the poor in my community…but I can’t stand the mindset that it is governments role to redistribute wealth and indeed it is mandated by Christ Himself…
Time to pour another Pendelton.
Sounds like socialism. Concept that has always worked well.
Yes, I have determined that most liberal Christians are indeed socialists.
Well, it’s convenient as a “liberal Christian” to just say government is responsible and not them as individuals.
What one man calls socialism is what another calls being neighborly.
Thatcher put it simply, “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money”.
That’s only because real socialism has never been tried. It has always been a corrupted version.
Remember that old saying, “There’s no free lunch?”. Me either.
Of course it is, it is run by people.
Correct.
Finish off the Wild Turkey & Mt. Dew !!
Deus Vult?
Well, they think so.
Worked with a couple lib IM docs a decade ago. Both in the $350K range, always argued that we should pay more in taxes for the poor etc. One day I overheard them discussing their taxes. One admitted with questionable write offs and his LLC’s that he only paid $25 in taxes for the year. He joked that he thought $0 was too little. The other doc freely admitted she had to pay $250.
Libs are libs for everyone but themselves.
Yeah, those folks are annoying.
God gives the church directives to care for the poor. He doesn’t give the government directives to care for the poor in the New Testament. Government is essentially there to keep law and order, protect the population and punish lawbreakers.
Truth has been declared.
MSNBC article said ‘Laken Riley’s killer never stood a chance’.
Best response on X was ‘No matter how much you hate MSNBC it is not enough’.
And ‘Lanken Riley’s killer now a victim per MSNBC’.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/msnbc-headline-laken-rileys-killer-never-chance-sparks-backlash-absolutely-sickening
Poor guy….BUT HAVENT YOU HEARD??? IMIGRANTS ARE MUCH MORE LAW ABIDING THAN THE AMERICAN BORN CITIZENS!!!!!
Quit your racist fear mongering! @The Teacher would be ashamed@
He was just being ‘Neighborly’?
I guess I need to report to ‘Reeducation Camp’.
Thank you for pointing out my many flaws.
You are welcome, that is what assholes do.
‘The first step to fixing a problem is recognizing that you have a problem.’
Thank you for helping me on so many first steps of my long, difficult road of road to redemption.
I’m sure where he’s going there will be some cellmates waiting.
Inmates that prey on Women are one stop above ChoMos and one step below Snitches.
Of course some gangs are fine with the first two and might protect him.
I’ll hope for the worst.
Happy Friday!
FTP!
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Wife playing hooky with the mutts today…… I’m jealous.
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I wonder how they got here.
https://www.si.com/nfl/vikings/news/ex-viking-linval-joseph-s-minnesota-home-among-latest-targeted-by-international-thieves-01jd7vky34zh
FJB let them in with an assist from Cackles and Tampon Tim??
I can’t get this hooked up, can anyone help me?
That’s one big battery, better call Freezey (I know, low hanging fruit).
I got you…..
put car in reverse.
step on gas. hard.
repeat until hitch is lodged in bumper
pull away double birds up….
🖕😎🖕
Open rear windows. Loop a rope through car’s backseat that is attached to ball hitch.
Give us something harder next time!
perfect…this is the way.
Get a full sized truck with a hitch.
The scary thought, is I have seen people try similar. I passed a car on the interstate pulling a trailer and it looked like the receiver hitch was about to be pulled right out of the unibody construction. Just because a hitch was installed, doesn’t mean you pull anything with it.
But in your case; cut the car in half, weld the front half of the car to the front of the trailer. Self propelled dump trailer, or a dump truck to the laymen.
Giants released Daniel Jones…..
Man our defense was so bad two years ago we made him and Mac Jones look like Tom Brady and Peyton Manning in their primes.
Surprising.
Thought they would keep on the roster for the rest of the year first.
Maybe doing it now spreads out the hit a bit more?
My guess is that it’s the injury guarantees.
Don’t want to pay that out for practicing.
I guess that there will be less chance of injury with him cut then there would be as a 3rd string benchwarmer.
I think he actually went to 4th string, but Jones called his agent about the legality of all that. Then asked to be cut.
‘Cut me Mick!’
Doing it now means the whole cap is hit for 2015 season. If they waited until 6/1, they could spread the cap over 2 years. Cap hit is only about 20 million
2015?
Neat accounting trick.
#grin
Dead Cap Hit for 2025 is $22 million.
Kirk’s dead cap hit for the Vikings in 2024 is $28.5 million
Petty cash.
Thank you for the knowledge.
WTF……
Shocking
Weird. Some major turmoil in those NY locker rooms.
It’s because they keep lying about where they actually play.
Karma biting them on the butt?
Maybe we should pick him up as a back up. I think he’d be an upgrade over Mullens.
Certainly better than Rypien.
Have to wait until after he clears waivers, don’t want that contract.
Not a bad idea. Sign him for the minimum for the rest of the year
The Cowpies will sign him and have him start the Thanksgiving game against the Giants.
I read it was a mutual agreement.
Maybe he was hoping to catch on somewhere.
Lots of QB needy teams out there.
I will be hunting during the game Sunday so that should relieve the stress somewhat. It will depend on how good my phone reception is out in the woods if I will get the scoring alerts or not. Hopefully the Vikings don’t make me mad or I may just have to shoot everything I see. Watch out squirrels. Here I come.
Don’t think those shotgun slugs will leave much squirrel.
Granny Clampett will be upset.
Not if you shoot ’em in the tail and let ’em bleed out…….
Squirrels around here have a lot of tail.
A family of them lives in the trees behind us, we see them running along the fence lines between properties. Have seen up to 4 at one time.
They have as much tail as they do body.
There’s a family of 6 flying squirrels living in one of my deer stands. I’m gonna have a LOT of company tomorrow morning when I start my hunt.
Make sure to protect your nuts.
If he wanted to ‘bedazzle’ himself why not buy the glitter and do it at home?
I guess if you want to be flamboyant you want people seeing you do it???
If you hit a squirrel with a 12 gauge slug, there ain’t much left. However, I will be hunting with a 30 06. However, I have a hard time hitting a deer, so the squirrels aren’t too afraid of me.
But if they are not afraid of you then they don’t move which makes them easier to hit.
Logic for the win!!
Brilliant!
Hit a red squirrel with my Winchester 30-30 a long time ago. Sitting on a tree since 4:30 AM, trying to be quiet, and the damned thing had been chattering at me for hours. 9:00 am, finally hit threshold. not much left other than a few pieces of fur and his paws.
Deer hunting is for naps (for me). Damned squirrel would not let me sleep.
So you shot a squirrel for ‘chatting you up’?
It might have been a nice piece of tail.
Well Plaid.
You mean Granny, I don’t remember her ever being called Grandma.
Yeah I fixed/edited that a minute after I posted it.
Not sure why you are still seeing the pre-edit comment.
Ok I tried refreshing and there it was, cudos on catching it.
The edit feature helps to make me look smart occasionally.
Bowbunch with the Genius Pick last night. He was the only one to pick the Browns over the Steelers.
Silver lining for me is I only lost five confidence points, at least.
I watched a bit of the game. Kind of fun to watch with it snowing that hard.
And I threw 8 points on it. When you miss a week you gotta bet big on some upsets. Only a couple behind freezey now.
how’s the view
I am very impressed…I didn’t think Cleveland had a chance….
I put 7 points on Pittsburgh last night…..I am such a loser.
I wanted to pick them, but didn’t have the balls to do it.
Cleveland sucks.
I seem to remember I picked the Steelers with nary a qualm. If I knew it was going to be a snow bowl, I might have gone differently, though.
Steelers will also have a game coming up where Russell Wilson reminds everyone that he is not the Russell Wilson of old anymore. He is just old Russell Wilson.
I was happy to see Jamison Winston playing, though. I still think he is a hoot for that whole “eating Ws” thing…
Winston is hilarious. He had the whole TV crew making snow angels after the game last night.
Maybe we can pick him up next year, as a gap QB.
JJ will be ready to go. My gut tells me Daniel Jones will be the backup.
He should go pretty cheap, after Daboll pretty much embarrassed him in front of his teammates.
Might even give the Vikings a discount as a thank you.
Well, he should.
Beware the knee…
#nojinx
Daniel Jones
I was on the fence, but figured the Steelers have been pretty good lately.
I almost went with the Browns. I thought the Steelers would come out flat after that big win against Baltimore just four days ago.
GM
FTP!
SKOL
Picked the Vikings in the pick ’em thing. But I still think the Bears could easily win.
Was fun watching the game last night. Football in the snow is the best football.
Almost December, and the Vikings look to be preparing us for another playoff disappointment.
Happy Friday!
I ended up putting the hockey game on instead which was a good outcome as well.
But what if they don’t disappoint us. If, and it’s a big if, the Vikings make it to the superb owl, I don’t know if I would be able to watch the game. I may have to record it and watch it after it is done.
Same here. I will be a total mess if or when the Vikings ever make it to the SB again, because I will be thinking in my mind that this would be the ultimate Viking way. Make it to the SB and then be embarrassed by a lessor team. They have done it 4 times already.
I will watch it but not bet on it.
I am 0-4 on SB bets, I have finally learned my lesson.
I’m 62.
Im watching it.
Never going to see another one.
Im also going to take the next two days off for partying or crying.
I am good with that. If they make a run I will enjoy the ride while expecting failure.
I am off work all next week, it’s been a few years since I have taken a full week off.
Same.
Enjoy yourself!! I would recommend starting with a 3 day bender.
Today at 4PM, our local high school is playing in the state championship. I will be going downtown to watch it. It may be a late night.
Good Luck! Those HS games are so fun.
We have a Junior that has 8 D1 offers so far. More than likely going to either Iowa as a TE or Penn State as a LB. However, he broke his ankle 2 games ago and had to have surgery.
At least he is a Junior so he has a year to recover and hopefully do well enough to keep those D1 offers.
TGIF, amirite,
SKOL
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Yeah thanks, I for one am pretty happy as it is Friday and I have the day off (Monday as well, so I’m looking at a nice extended weekend).
On our way to Sopron in the old country, day trip do some shopping for the upcoming holidays. Some things I want for the holidays can only be bought in Hungary, glad to spend a few hours at home.
FTP & FT*
SKOL
Have a nice Friday, everybody!
Enjoy your weekend!
Thanks!
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Will you be having a turkey sandwich on Thursday, to help us celebrate the spreading of disease and stealing of land?
That has not happened anywhere in the world at any time except here. We should be ashamed of what someone did that we have only a tenuous connection to.
But if they make you feel guilty then they can get more money out of you, government, nation.
Of course I’ll help honor those old traditions, looking forward to the turkey sandwich.