Happy Tuesday, and welcome to Skoloholics. Buffalo was able to outlast the Rams 37-34 last night. I watched the first half of the game and it was quite the back and forth. It looked like the last team to score was going to win it.
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The Vikings have a bye this week, so who is everyone tuning in to watch?
The Bears travel to Atlanta to face the Falcons, and the Packers host Dallas.
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Skoloholics Pick ‘Em League Update #????
I don’t know what week it is. I don’t know what day it is. All I know is waking up, cornfields, work in between, more cornfields and going to bed. Things will look better in another week. I actually hope it rains Thursday, so I can get a break and only deal with regular work. It will feel like vacation!
Apparently, there were football games this week. I don’t even know what a TV is right now either. There is only corn, corn and more corn. Most corn I have ever seen in my life, and I’ve seen a lot of corn.
Bowbunch has taken the lead. Did he have the lead last week? I can’t remember. I think not. But we do not need to worry about this. Soon, Bow will take to the woods to hunt and forget all about pick ’em league as he battles elk and bear and mushroom-hunting hippies who demand he hugs animals rather than eat them. They will then show him the way by hugging a bear and dying hippy deaths. Mourne not for them, however. It’s how they wanted to go, one with nature as bear poop.
PA is in second place. Again, my memory is fuzzy, and I’m not going to actually to research to confirm, but I think PA has steadily been moving up in the rankings, as well. Do we need to worry about him? If PA stands for Pennsylvania, I honestly don’t know. Does anyone know anything about Pennsylvania? What even is it? It is one of those states that has no identity. It is never mentioned by anyone. Is there any state that is more bland? Maybe New Hampshire?
Mjolnir remains steady in third, and he is only five points out of first place. Five points is easy to make up. All he needs is one coin-flip game to flip in his favor while the people ahead of him took the other team. Like that Jax/Eagles game. I heard that game flipped in the final seconds. Speaking of flipping, I think I finally figured out how to avoid the failure of that first pancake. I must let the pan heat up more to an even medium temperature. It is difficult to display that amount of patience, however. The need for pancakes overrides all rationale.
Peterplaysbass is in fourth place. He can see the podium on the right and the abyss on the left. He is lukewarm, biblically speaking. Will he be spit out or pick a temperature? He’ll know that reference…
JacksonVike slips to fifth…or did he return to fifth? These are questions for stat nerds. All I remember is that he used to be in first. I wonder what it is like to taste those dizzying heights of success and then be mediocre? We could probably ask Nelly Furtado about that…
I am in sixth place. I can live with that. I was in the bottom of the standings at one point Sunday, but I clawed my way back up a smidgen.
Surly and DE are tied for the bottom spots. They are not in a hopeless position, however. One decent week and they could be back up in fifth or thereabouts. Plenty of weeks left for that.
Everyone got the Bears and Cowboys games wrong. Honestly, the Cowboys should just disband at this stage. How do you lose to the Bucs with Mayfield out? The Bucs were running a rookie QB according to Google. What team would get beat by a rookie QB or backup that handily?
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Don’t answer that…
Everyone got Houston and Cinci right and that is it. It looks like it was a tough week on everyone. Very few gimmie games. Then Giants and Redskins tied, so all those points were negated. I only had three points on that game, so not a huge loss for me.
We had two Iconoclast Picks. DE was the only one to take the Eagles over Jax and he was almost a genius for it! Surly was the only one to take the Chargers over Denver. Man, what happened to the Chargers? They were supposed to take the leap with Harbaugh, and they are going backwards.
We didn’t really have an Genius Picks. The closest we get is the Ravens/Falcons game. Me, Jacksonvike and Peterplaysbass took the Ravens. I honestly have no idea how that game went in my favor. It appears Lamar Jackson was out. I had no idea that was the case. Like I said, all I know is corn right now.
We had two Traitor Picks. Me and DE were the only ones to take the Saints over the Vikings. I just figured our luck was going to run out sooner or later. We know the Vikes aren’t going undefeated. The percentages will nick them at some point.
No one has to worry about being a traitor this week. Bye week, baby! Which Viking will embarrass the organization this time?
I’m going with Reichard. He’s going to get arrested for soliciting a hooker while tripping on LSD. He seems the type…
I won’t be able to watch any of the early games this week as we are traveling an hour and a half away to a small church to help out on Sunday morning. Then since we will be close to my cousins house, we are going to go out to eat lunch with her. I don’t expect to get home until the late games start. I haven’t looked at the schedule, but I suppose since the Packers are playing Dallas that will be a late game. Yuck. If that is the only game on, I will watch it but I won’t enjoy it. I may either read or take a nap while it is on.
Hopefully the travel and church and lunch will be nice.
I’ll be skipping football this week. My parents are prepping to sell their home (been there 43 years!) and my sister and I will be spending the afternoon helping to organize their stuff.
It is going to be a long week, no Viking game to start getting stressed about.
This is where we need NLNVF to bring up a topic unrelated to football to stir us up. I just hope he is doing ok after the passing of his sister.
Looking at NFL standings, is the NFCN the strongest division in football? Or does the NFCW take the crown? I dont think the Vikes are better than SF…..yet. but i dont see any North team as bad as the Cardinals. Bears might be better than the Seachickens, once Williams is back.
I am looking forward to us going into November UNDEFEATED!
Currently the Vikings are seeded #1 in the NFC and FTP, the Loins, and the Bores are seeded 5, 6, 7 respectively. That’s all 4 NFCN teams in the playoffs!
I don’t know what happens to an image when it gets posted here as a thread cover, but it seems like part of the problem might be choosing too small of an image to begin with. Here’s one to try if you care to attempt a swap, JV:
That looks better, thanks
Hey, cool! 🙂
Good morning!
I missed the MNF barn burner because my 17 year old dropped a 100-pound plate on the tip of his finger at the gym.
The emergency room experience is one I’d rather not revisit.
FTP
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Ouch.
This is why I don’t lift weights, not good for your health.
That sucks, reminds me if you don’t wear steel toe boots, whatever you drop lands on your toe. If you wear steel toe boots it lands right behind the steel toe.
I dropped a 15 pound weight on my toe once as a kid, and that pain was monumental. I can’t imagine a 100 pound plate on a finger.
He was a little shook up at first, but handled it well. Fortunately it only fell half the height of the plate (from being on the bar of the legpress to the top rim pinching his finger on the bar)
and if you drop toast on your boots, it lands butter side down