Happy Humpday and welcome to Skoloholics. I heard Caleb Williams will not play this Sunday, turns out his leg is fine, the problem is he broke a nail. I see punter Brett Thorson pulled his hammy as well, and the Vikings Signed Johnny Hekker to the practice squad as an insurance policy. Soldier field is such a dump, I am surprised there weren’t more injuries, to be honest. I can’t wait until they move to Hammond Indiana. Everyone enjoy your day and remember the golden rule; be kind to each other and show everyone respect.
Vikings News:
https://www.vikings.com/news/nfl-power-rankings-top-10-after-gritty-victory-at-chicago
it’s Thorsday!!!
Todays Injury Report.
Both teams with 3 DNP but it is still early in the week.
https://www.vikings.com/team/injury-report/
Aaron Jones is hurt?
9ers poach Naquan Jones from the practice squad, Vikes resign Jonathan Harris to take his place
Got a DL after losing a NT.
295 vs 313 vs 6’5″ vs 6’3″
“Take his place” probably the wrong words.
Fill the empty spot on the practice squad??
Hey guys, thought I’d pop in and just give my thoughts on the game this week. I had tickets, but had my wife sell them to one of her clients. I’m still in Myrtle Beach with my sister.
That Bears game was something. Bad weather, tough sledding for both teams, and yeah the Bears only mustering 3 points after scoring 59 in week 1. Some ugly football there, but I liked the outcome of course.
I think we’ll beat Tampa. I think Flo will get on Mayfield and force him out of the pocket. He’s not going to be great. KOC needs to get the ball to the playmakers, and I don’t mean Kyler. I want him to be a damn QB. I think we win 24-17.
Good to hear from you. I hope your sister is doing better.
Thank you PA. She’s bedridden, so there’s a lot of fundamental biological challenges with that. I try to keep her occupied, and her spirits up. She does like doing puzzles and Word games like Wordle. She likes board games too like Scrabble. She’s good at them too. She also hates to lose. I think that runs in the family. Grin.
How could someone thumbs down this?
I got a feeling its one of the rouge folks that dont post anything but vote on specific things or peoples posts.
You’re doing God’s work with your sister. Hope for the best.
Miss your takes – personally think the Bucs are past their prime and we should smoke them.
You need to “pop in” more frequently. I don’t [post much anymore but do look in here once in a while and often wonder how you are doing..
Perhaps, time permitting, you could again post more often. It’s a small community and every poster matters, and all contribute. And you were certainly one of the heavy lifters.
Stay healthy and take care of yourself.
Hey JR, I have a lot going on, trying to care for my sister, while also trying to be a decent husband. I spend 5 or 6 days with my sister, go home to Tampa for a few days, then come back up to Myrtle Beach. My wife is getting a bit fed up with the arrangement I must say, so I told my brother we need to split the duties. Maybe 4 weeks on and 4 weeks off or something. His wife isn’t all that keen on that idea though, and my sister isn’t leaving her home. It’s a struggle.
I’ll try and pop in a little more frequently. I hope all is well with you and yours.
Prayers to you and your family.
Hopefully your brother will help out.
When my dad passed in Tampa, my siblings each took turns.
I flew down once a month for a few days.
Im sure your sister is comforted by the fact that you are there.
It has been a nerve racking/exciting season so far.
Trying maintain my ‘hope for the best but expect the worst’ mantra but 2-0 in the division is a fine way to start the season.
Glad you are doing well, tell the Mrs I am sorry about A&M last week.
Oh man… she was pissed about losing to Kentucky. I mean fuming. I was like “I think I’ll get some iced tea and sit out on the porch.”
Beating GB and Da Bears in the first two games is massively significant. Just have to keep up the good work, and I don’t see us losing to Tampa.
‘I don’t see us losing to Tampa’
Obligatory #nojinx
Laughing…
Sorry to hear that NV hopefully it gets better soon and can make it to a game
Agreed all around
Bit of a wild story causing a stink here locally in Bismarck. I took the GF and her daughter shopping at Costco after work last night, it was later, and we figured we would eat at one of the better known Mexican restaurants since its great food and it was close. We had a great time, good food as always, some drinks, and the waiter was awesome and let us try one of his personal favorite house tequilas which was fantastic. Find out this morning via BoomerBook that this morning, ICE raided them and detained two of their staff. One being his nephew. I have no idea if that was our waiter or not but I hope not because he was a good dude, was kind and knowledgeable and seemed passionate about the business, food and the drinks and was super kind to us.
Of course the owner is claiming the two people detained have all the proper paper work and have worked here legally for years etc. I want to believe that’s true but there’s two sides to everything and I’m not going to form a strong opinion until I know more. Sucks either way. All good people that iv interacted with there.
Sometimes things in the news strike close to home and go from hypothetical to practical in a hurry.
Comments on the Facebook post are sane and nuanced of course…lotta white women complaining and “Trumps America, you voted for this” blah blah blah.
I find it hard to believe that ICE could get away with arresting anybody without cause. I know they are not perfect. There’s likely some sort of issue with their citizenship.
You would think, but the fact its not really public record so you can verify makes it hard. Thats my assumption.
I sort of had a strange thought thinking about this.
Where i live you can’t walk across the street without running into a probable illegal.
Now I have never been to Bismarck, but just didn’t think of it as a place to have many illegals. And as such, not much ICE action.
There’s a surprising amount of Latinos, specifically Mexicans in the “bigger” cities. And Bismarck and Mandan have an ABSURD amount of Mexican restaurants, like too many for the size of our area. ICE isnt normally here, I think they just swung through to do their thing.
If Kyler doesn’t get hurt again, should Kevin O’Connell bench Kyler Murray?
A. After 2 losses
B. After 4 losses
C. After 6 losses
D. Never
Yes.
B. After 4 straight losses.
Depends on if he is the cause of those losses.
Is he throwing Ints everywhere? Constantly fumbling? Scrambling and running into defenders vs executing the plays??
Or is the Defense getting run out of the stadium (not likely but possible)??
Are special teams giving up turnovers and long returns (always possible)??
Are RB and WRs fumbling over and over again (we have been there before)??
While very thoughtful post. You know Vikings fans since Kirk0-CHA1NZZ are hashly divided on this topic. Every W/L is either fully on the QB or 1000% not lol. Logic be damned! Shit is BLACK AND WHITE!
EggSlusher is back, and in full egg mode
Obviously everything that occurs in a game does not fall squarely on the quarterback, kicker, etc. I can say definitively that I’m in the camp of SoCal.
If Murray is throwing interceptions, has wide open receivers, but decides to check down or throw it out of bounds, that is an issue. All of that compounded on each other is a catastrophe, but if it happens in multiple games then you have to think about going back to Wentz.
Reasonable take
I do not think that will be an issue. He will get injured again, and we still will see all 4 QBs this season
B
We saw 11 plays. Tough to base a decision off that right now.
But, I do remember seeing one of those 11 where a receiver (TE I believe) was crossing the middle, wide freaking open about 10 yards downfield, and Murray either chose to roll out to the R or was forced to roll out and evade the DE coming in, and threw incomplete because by then the receiver was covered.
Not sure if the play was designed for Murray to roll out, parallel the receiver and then throw it, but he was wide open before the rollout occurred and before he was pressured.
Made me question his ability to make good choices.
Sounds like how I feel about some of our kids…..
Said every parent ever…
Don’t matter, he’ll be hurt again soon
I just seen we’ve lost the last 4 out of 5 times vs the Vikings. That really stings.
Any time I’m tempted to have a little sympathy for a Packers fan, I remember the history. Here’s one for you:
I remember when fans of your team told us that RB Eddie Lacy was going to eat our lunch (haha). It was incessant. Aaron Rodgers + Eddie Lacy = doom for the rest of the division. So obnoxious.
He played 60 games and got 6 TDs his whole career. In 2024 he was arrested for DUI with a BAC of .325
I don’t feel bad. Sorry, it’s not personal, you might be a great dude. I just hate the team you cheer for.
I wonder how many of those the Vikings were listed as the underdogs going in. Doubters gonna doubt… hell there’s a lot of those doubters around here.
EggSlusher is back, slushin’ around
From the Mythical Words Up Top.
‘I heard Caleb Williams will not play this Sunday’
Maybe that is because the Hammond Bores play on MNF??
I guess the only shot he has of playing on Sunday is if he’s traded this week!
You got me, but I am correct, he will not play on Sunday.
I just renewed my passport (which will be good for 10 years) and it was weird for me to list my sister as my emergency contact instead of my parents (they’ll almost certainly be gone before my passport expires).
Also, I had to list my occupation and employer. I have two jobs, kind of (self-employed plus part time work at my church), and it was weird to think that either of them might still be relevant in 10 years.
10 years is a long time.
on thing we know for sure, over the course of the next 10 years…..the Vikings will NOT have won a Super Bowl
Somebody woke up and chose negativity from his lake house this morning.
If the Vikings somehow make it to a SB and the game is within reach at halftime, I fully expect Jesus to come back before the end of the game
unless they’re playing the Bills in Denver.
Rec for ‘Sum Of All Fears’ reference.
You got it. He was a true fan.
His books were ‘must reads’ back in the day.
You mean, like, he would have some way of dividing the crowd at the concourse and be able to move to the front of the line for a stall in the restroom? Last time I had to do that at halftime I practically gave birth before I got to a toilet and 3rd quarter was almost over.
I was speaking eschatologically. I don’t think that’s a strong suit for most atheists.
you’re thinking of moses….dividing the sea of people for a bathroom stall
Or, we’ll all be dead because of AI. That’s what I’ve been hearing lately anyway.
There’s always a “the world is ending” boogeyman. I think the last actual threat of the world ending was the nuclear arms race, and mutual assured destruction seems to have that under control.
global warming
deforestation
AI
(yawn)
But if the scare you enough they can control you.
e.g. CoVid.
2 Timothy 1:7
This is nothing like covid.
You are right, CoVid was real just exaggerated.
Keep yawning. This is different. When people that work for these companies come out and say things could go bad, I’m listening anyway.
I just renewed my passport too even though I don’t travel. I legitimately hate traveling, but my wife said I needed to renew it for various reasons.
The post office then lost it. It remained lost in the mail system for about two months. I never checked tracking because I didn’t care that much, but then I realized I should have gotten my new passport by that point, so I finally checked tracking.
It made it to St. Paul and no further. I started a lost mail claim. Wonder of wonder, they did eventually find it after looking for about two more weeks.
I have heard other people complaining about lost mail, too. The USPS is failing us.
I’m surprised the USPS is still around, frankly. They have the backing of the federal government (which is why, I suppose), but that allows them to be terribly inefficient, operate at a net loss, and still survive.
UPS/FedEx/etc would all do just fine without the tax drain competition.
Did you know the USPS has a SWAT team? Using FedEx, UPS, etc is actually illegal unless it is for time sensitive things or only periodically. There have actually been businesses raided for solely using FedEx.
I had no idea, but it makes sense (purely because it means the USPS costs us even more)
USPS is not supported by your tax dollars.
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) does not receive tax dollars for its normal day-to-day operations. [1]
How USPS Gets Its Funding
Minor Exceptions
Don’t expose my ignorance!
I’m honestly shocked when I hear of grown ass adults not having a passport. Not that the subject comes up often, but still shocking.
I have one that I got back in the 80s.
It has been expired for decades now, have never needed it or used it.
I’m 52 and have never had a passport. I have no reason to have a passport so why spend the money to have something I will, more than likely, never use?
Yep. I agree.
I do have one, but I haven’t used it for 10 years plus. Still renewed it because my wife and I are discussing taking an overseas trip.
But in MT’s defense, he was born Canadian, so I could see any person not born in the US, but are now citizens, thinking this way.
I had one, last time I used it was to go to Guatemala to pick up my now 24 yr old daughter. I probably should get another one in case I decide to flee the country.
Yep.
If the DSA nuts get elected, fleeing the country is on the table for me.
I don’t have one, never had a need, don’t plan on leaving the country in the near future and If I do, it will be planned out in advance and ill just go get one?
I got one for the first time at 53 years old. Just renewed it online today.
I never needed it before then. I could not afford to travel anywhere but Canada, and they allowed a drivers license when I was going to Quetico via the Boundary Waters.
I only got one because we became empty nesters and could finally afford to vacation again. Still only been to Mexico and the Caribbean via cruises. Probably go to Ireland and Italy at some point in the next few years.
i have shipped over 500 packages (baseball cards) in the last 5 months and never had one single issue THANKFULLY
#nojinx
Do you have, like, a baseball card business?
i have a little side hustle buying and selling vintage baseball cards, yes. It kind of exploded more than i thought it would and now i’m constantly buying and running card shows. It’s honestly be a BLAST
so THAT’S how you afford those lake homes
let’s just say for the amount of money i have spent, i SHOULD be making more….but i am getting better at it and building a solid reputation and now people contact me to sell me their collections etc.
sounds fun
i mean, if you like baseball
He’s a Twins fan.
He needs something to do besides watching them lose year in and year out.
I ship books every day via USPS and it is surprising how few go astray. They push giant masses of mail and packages through their system continually and they do a fairly decent job.
What is the most valuable book you have shipped?
I shipped a book to Germany that was $500+ that went via USPS. It’s been a few years ago, but if I remember correctly the postage price was over $50. And yes, the dude received the book no problem.
What was the title?
I think the most valuable book I have is maybe Halloween III Novelization, which goes for about $60 on ebay.
Is that a book based on the crappy 3rd movie in the series that should have been its own standalone thing?
Yepper!
It was Zellen-Studien Heft 4-6 (German for the Study of Cells). It was published in 1900 in Jena, Germany.
Someone should make a movie about that book!
I’ve got some weird obscure theology or philosophy book that’s a first edition and was printed in the 1890s
I think that’s likely to be my most valuable, but I don’t know what it’s worth
Maybe it’s Augustine!
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
Couple years back I needed a part for my ice auger. Eskimo is based 50 miles north of me (I’m in Eau Claire, Wisconsin). They don’t stay open long enough for me to finish work and make the drive, so I ordered the part.
4 days later I’m getting tracking that the part was transferred through a USPS distribution center in PHOENIX FREAKING ARIZONA, on the way back to Wisconsin.
I didn’t get the part in time to take the auger on a fishing trip………
The quickest way between two points is a straight line through Phoenix!
Are you sure that’s not Albuquerque?
I was impressed how quickly and efficiently my renewal was processed and enjoyed taking my own picture at home…I posed like Jared Allen after a sack.
Their instructions for taking a picture reveal that they get a lot of stupid selfies submitted that could never work.
I took a perfect picture in front of a light gray wall. They auto-rejected it, and a prompt reminded me to take my picture in front of a white wall.
There were many warnings to not alter the picture at all.
So I painted my wall and took another picture. I would never dream of opening the file in photo editing software and making the wall lighter artificially.
It is a LONG time. I had a completely different life 10 years ago.
10 years ago, fivefingers was keeping you in line!
A coworker talked to me about “Kane” footwear yesterday, so guess what ads are now popping up on my feeds?
“Kane Footwear.”
The all-knowing IT eye is really pretty scary.
that reminds me: I need to grab my wife’s phone and talk out loud about all the things I want for Christmas
“Why am I seeing all these Sydney Sweeney ads?”
PS not that you lived here we are in GJ CO now, drove over from Moab yesterday. It has been a nice vacation. Beautiful here.
Glad it was a good one!
I drove through Grand Junction twice. I saw a band in Denver and drove to Salt Lake City to see their show again the next night. We were booking it on the way through GJ the first time, but on the way back to Denver we stopped and stretched our legs. The scenery was beautiful.
What happens when a co-worker discusses the new line of condoms?
Wednesday is Hump Day…somehow loses its meaning once you are retired. 2 in a half months into my retirement and am certainly NOT bored. Miss the people a bit, but not the work so much.
GOING TO TAMPA this weekend for the Vikes game, SKOL!!!!
Awesome !
Enjoy the game! Hopefully you get great weather and no lightning delays
Another day, another party…
I overslept today. I have some sort of weird illness. It started off as an intestinal thing Thursday, a general malaise until Monday and then turned into a very sore throat last night. So far only slight sniffles.
Maybe I got a COVID variant.
Of course I came to work so I can get everyone else sick.
Naw, they should be fine. I am off in my own little corner and can avoid everyone.
lick all of the utensils in the kitchen and put ’em back in the drawer
You should’ve called in sick..
I take pride in being a trustworthy “sick” person at work when it comes to calling in sick. When I call in sick, I just say, “I won’t be in today. I’m sick.”
You can tell the fake sick people because they are always like, “I don’t think I can make it in today. I got a bad headache last night around 9 PM. Then I couldn’t sleep at all. I didn’t fall asleep until around three in the morning and then I kept waking up. I tried to get up around five, and then something in my back popped, so now I have a headache and a sore back and I haven’t slept, and I feel a bit nauseous, too. I took my temperature and it is around 102, and now I started coughing. My throat is a bit sore. I think I even blacked out once or twice while showering. Hopefully, I can make it in tomorrow…”
The fake sick people always sell it too hard. If you know the person well enough, you can usually figure it out, too. You can say, “Okay, they are sick. What day is it? It’s Tuesday. Monday Night Football went into overtime last night. That person spent the whole game drinking beer and eating a gallon of cheese dip, so now they don’t feel like getting out of bed…”
back in the day, I was usually sick on Mondays if the Vikings played the late afternoon or evening Sunday game. It was pretty consistent, imagine that.
And for sure Tuesday if they played the Monday night game.
But other than that, I was an extremely loyal and dependable employee.
I generally don’t care how much time people at work waste or how much they goof around as long as they do their work efficiently, accurately and dependably for the customers.
Very few folks put in a perfect 40 hour week. Got to let them blow off some steam somehow, or they can burnout.
But I do get annoyed when the people who can’t work efficiently, accurately and dependably screw around.
Back in the day when we did billing amongst our related companies, we devised a formula for the billing and a portion of that formula factored in an inefficiency %. I think it was close to 20%.
What really woke me up was I worked “part-time” for awhile and realized I was actually doing more work that the “full-time” people.
The Internet is great. So many unrecognized comedians!
Funny thing I have never called in sick. I haven’t missed a day of school or work since I was 12, never skipped a class. Yes, I am odd. Now I would sooner drag myself in to work with my extremities gangrenous than call in sick.
PS I am actually very healthy. Although I’m known to exaggerate, the above paragraph is true.
I kind of like getting sick nowadays because it gives me a guilt-free reason to do nothing.
It doesn’t happen enough!
If I am sick I usually am enjoying my sick day by lying in bed with either an upset stomach, headache, or, most likely, both.
We’ve been chuckling about KOC’s “commitment to the run”, but so far the Vikings have 62 rushing plays vs 44 passes. We can attribute some of that to the weather in Chicago last Sunday, but still.
Let’s see what the ration looks like in Tampa this week.
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Happy Wednesday,
LOL, there’s something comforting about these same 4 gifs in order every wednesday
It’s what keeps this rock spinning around sol.
Nah, God does that 🙂
“This is how I Mountain Dew it”
First!!!! FTP, FTB and FTL. We are Kings of the North. First place all season, so far
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Skol! 🙂
Cream of the crop!
Rise to the top!
King of the North!
SKOL!
FTP!
Maybe don’t show Rob Stark’s picture
I sure hope we don’t get ‘Red Wedding-ed’.
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