Minnesota Vikings Discussion- Wednesday SkolAsylum: 09 Jul 2025

Scott Studwell

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Vikings Discussion & Random Thoughts

I guess it’ll only be random thoughts up here until training camp, because there won’t be much Vikings news or football news to discuss until then, unless someone gets arrested or something.

We had a baseball game tonight with the kiddos tonight, then one of the other coaches and I hung out and played ball with our kiddos after the game. We had a blast, but now it’s really late & I’m tired, so this will be brief. Also, I dove for a fly ball. I probably shouldn’t have, because now my neck hurts. Oh well, God didn’t install a slow gear in me. I didn’t die.

Vikings News

Andrew Van Ginkel landed at number 88 on the NFL’s top 100 of 2025, details from Vikings.com.

From SB Nation, Dallas Turner lost $240,000 in a bank fraud scheme.

From Yahoo Sports, Kirk Cousins says he wouldn’t have left Minnesota if he’d known that Atlanta was going to draft Michael Penix.

NFL News

From NFL.com, Dak Prescott expects to be a ‘full-go’ for camp and he’s not worried about building rapport with George Pickens.

Some dude placed a $25,000 wager on the Raiders winning the Super Bowl, and will win $2.5 million if they do, per Yahoo Sports.

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Here’s a messed up story for you. Enjoy!

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No longer New Vikings Fan
9 July 2025 8:14 pm

Night guys, up in 6 hours. Thankfully, we have coffee in the morning, with some Jimmie Dean sausage and pancake sammiches.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 July 2025 8:36 pm

The Mexican fixing for you or are you buying pre-made?
Thinking I already know the answer, you are spoiled.

DE Viking
9 July 2025 6:46 pm

Wilfs giving $500k.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  DE Viking
9 July 2025 7:01 pm

Kudo’s to the Wilf’s. Tragic what happened and the losses and needs of the populace are massive.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  DE Viking
9 July 2025 7:15 pm

Good of them, they have no connection to that area.
The stories coming from that disaster are heart wrenching.
Even more so with kids involved.

One counselor, A teenaged girl was holding on to several kids. Something floated down the river and hit them and two kids got dislodged. Their bodies were found downriver.
Now that teen has to live with the memory of failing to be able to hold onto all of them. Not her fault but feelings are not logical.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
9 July 2025 7:48 pm

A terrible, and traumatic event for a young girl to deal with. It will haunt her forever as you said. No matter how many people tell her “it wasn’t your fault” she will never “feel better” about it.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 July 2025 8:23 pm

The house next to ours was a Rest Home for awhile. I used to play chess to an old man who’s room opened up right on the street next to us. He was in a wheelchair.
One day there was smoke and moaning from his room. I ran over and he was in his wheelchair on fire. I was like 10, my first thought was ‘take people out of burning building’. I couldn’t move him as the wheelchair was locked in place. After a minute of trying I ran for the nurse, she was just finished calling 911.
I went out the other entrance and some other neighbors were spraying him down with a hose right outside his door. First I thought ‘why didn’t think of that’. Then I thought, evacuating him didn’t make sense cause he was on fire not the building.
He was filling his lighter, spilled some fluid on himself, and it caught when he used the lighter. He didn’t make it. I blamed myself, still do sort of.

No longer New Vikings Fan
9 July 2025 6:29 pm

Anti-Israel activists vandalized multiple homes owned by members of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents last week, accusing the regents of complicity in “genocide.”

On the night of July 3, at least four of the 18 board members had their driveways vandalized with spray paint and had fake blood smeared across their property, according to the University of Wisconsin System. A UW System employee’s home was also targeted.

Vandals wrote “Regents are complicit in genocide” and “UW BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS” in red spray paint on the driveways of two homes in Madison. Airhorns were also used and left behind at both residences.

Hopefully the Supreme Court pulls its head out and rules student visa’s can be revoked by the State Department (as is the actual law) and we can deport these Hamas lovers, who think they can do shit like this without consequences.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 July 2025 7:12 pm

They will get there eventually.
If SCOTUS won’t do it then Congress can pass a law making it obvious that the State Dept can.
They have time until the mid-term.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
9 July 2025 6:00 pm

Elderly neighbor (80s) just fell in his front yard.
Multiple people came to assist him, find out if he was ok, he banged up his arm/shoulder a bit, both he and his wife were a bit shaken up. Got him up and into the car and his wife taking him to the local hospital (they preferred that to calling 911), The Teacher offered to drive him but his wife insisted she could handle it.
Hope that they are both ok.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
9 July 2025 6:07 pm

Awesome that so many folks were there to assist. Obviously falls get more and more dangerous as we age. Hopefully just bumps and bruises, and no fractures.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 July 2025 6:10 pm

My Mom fell on a trip to India, got left behind for surgery and rehab.
Their medical system is way different than ours.
She opted out of any more overseas trips after that.
All of her falls since then have been in Merica.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
9 July 2025 6:21 pm

I took a number of hard falls in my career, and I can distinctly remember being able to get up, and keep going quickly. Last year I fell in our kitchen, after slipping on some water on the floor (son came in from the pool and walked through the kitchen still wet). I was surprised at how hard that floor felt as I face planted, and it took me a few minutes to get up. I was sore for weeks.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 July 2025 7:21 pm

Slipped on some ice shoveling snow this last winter.
Neighbors came over to check on me then too.
I told them I only injured my ego.
I did feel it for close to a week afterwards though.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
9 July 2025 7:52 pm

Again, having people who care and come check on you is really awesome. You could have hurt yourself very badly, and if so, you would have had some real help available. Glad you weren’t hurt seriously.

No longer New Vikings Fan
9 July 2025 5:34 pm

I saw a comedy skit somewhere online where the comedian said the Dem’s need to be careful, because the Right has something they do not.

Rednecks…

Guys driving pickup trucks, drinking beer, and yelling YEE-HAAAA with loaded shotguns.

Made me laugh.

No longer New Vikings Fan
9 July 2025 4:56 pm

Scottish Open coverage begins at 3:15 a.m. tomorrow on ESPN+. I will be up watching Justin Thomas, Rory, etc. My wife asked me to make sure she is up at 4 a.m. She is training an IBF Pro for a show in a few weeks. He’s really looking good (she says) and tomorrow she intends to make him puke. Body builders…

norseman1
norseman1
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 July 2025 5:12 pm

How’s the field shape up? Most waiting til next week?

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  norseman1
9 July 2025 5:27 pm

Scheffler, Rory, Morikawa, Schauffele, Justin Thomas, Adam Scott, and Tommy Fleetwood are probably the biggest names. Lots of European players of course. Solid field at the Renaissance Club, which is no pushover, but not excessively brutal. Getting used to the time change, and over jet lag is probably the goal. Definitely a good warm up for Royal Port Rush and the British Open next week.

norseman1
norseman1
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 July 2025 5:38 pm

Got some Golf Channel coverage tomorrow. That’s it.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  norseman1
9 July 2025 5:42 pm

Yeah, I like having ESPN+ because they show a lot more of the golf going on than the TV broadcast.

manly-purple
9 July 2025 3:38 pm

My wife just received this in an email from Walmart notifying us of a recall:

We have been notified that Mondelez Global LLC has initiated a Recall of RITZ Peanut Butter Cracker Sandwiches due to an undeclared allergen – peanut. The affected product includes individually wrapped packs that may be incorrectly labeled as cheese variety even though the product may be a Peanut Butter variety.

Say it ain’t so!

Lol

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  manly-purple
9 July 2025 3:41 pm

Seems l like 70-80% of food recalls are for labelling.
There might, conceivably, possibly something in your food that could possibly leave us open to a lawsuit. Got to recall that.

manly-purple
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
9 July 2025 7:24 pm

Yeah it’s crazy. Send all the recalled ones to my family.

No longer New Vikings Fan
9 July 2025 1:27 pm

The sedition of the left is extremely dangerous to the country, law abiding citizens, and law enforcement. The political left’s conduct and speech is completely aimed at inciting people to rebel against the authority of our laws. They are now overtly calling for people to be killed, especially law enforcement. There must be some legal path forward to prosecute this behavior. This vitriolic and vile call to violence must stop.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 July 2025 2:23 pm

They don’t care about consequences, they only care about political power.
They are praying that this will get them there.
I don’t see it but they can FAFO.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
9 July 2025 2:46 pm

This is true SoCal. I believe Trump was elected because the Nation saw this effect clearer than they have in a long time.

NoDakRube
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 July 2025 3:08 pm

Enough of this politics talk. Let’s talk about something much more important….golf.

NLNV since I started paying attention to making sure by left shoulder hits my chin in the back swing I have been hitting the ball better. In the last week I have shot both an 85 and an 86 (on a slope 123). All is not perfect, I have also shot a 91 and a 93…but as you may recall, I couldn’t break 90 last year to save my life and now I have shot a couple in the mid-80s. One of my problems now is that with getting the left shoulder to the chin does encourage an inside out golf swing – which is good – but now I sometimes get stuck in hook mode.

Anyway….

NLNV, if we ever cross paths, which is unlikely, lunch is on me.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  NoDakRube
9 July 2025 3:22 pm

NoDak, I’m very happy to hear that my somewhat simple swing method has helped you play better. I believe if you finish your backswing (shoulder turn) and then focus on swinging inside out, your body will pretty naturally accomplish a suitable golf swing.

I also believe rhythm is very important. I say the word Alabama in my swing on every shot including putts. This keeps my rhythm on every shot very consistent.

Again this is just my personal methodology.

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 July 2025 3:25 pm

I was tought 1,2,3. Count 1,2 on your backswing and 3 you release.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  bowbunch
9 July 2025 3:38 pm

That obviously should work. I say “Ala” on my backswing, then “BAM” and my downswing… and Ahhhh as I finish (more or less). That backswing thought though is important. When you get anxious over a shot, you naturally tend to shorten the backswing and increase the tempo of the downswing. My dad used to say he tried to perfectly time hitting the ball between his lurch and his lunge.

You have a methodology that you can use to help time your swing, and synch it up. Most folks I know, do not.

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 July 2025 4:01 pm

I also remember my golf coach telling us to swing 85-90%, never 100%. He was a drunk and an arrogant jerk but I did learn some things from him. The best one was short chips. Just imagine an underhand throw. As a softball pitcher it really helps me and I will stand on the fringe and make fake underhand throws to where I want the ball to land. When you step up to the ball on a short chip, it’s basically the same motion. Take a couple practice throws and then step up to the ball and do the same.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  bowbunch
9 July 2025 4:25 pm

Nice… I’ve never had a lesson, and I have never seen how I swing a club. I used to fat the hell out of short shots though, decelling, or whatever. About 5 years ago I started just shifting my hips a little on my short shots and I started making great contact. That’s when my wedge play took off, and I started making the game a lot easier on myself. Just a little tiny bump into my back hip, and my hips and body naturally returned back as I went through the ball. Also a good flat left hand going down and through… no cupping! That’s my secret on chips and pitches.

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 July 2025 5:49 pm

Inside of 30 yards just think of the shot as an underhand throw. Sounds weird, but definitely works.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  bowbunch
9 July 2025 6:05 pm

Regardless of technique, good chipping and pitching makes a huge difference in scoring. If you struggle with these shots, find a technique that works.

NoDakRube
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 July 2025 3:38 pm

I know my swing tempo is way to fast, my back swing is nice and slow but once I initiate my swing, everything is moving way too fast…I have tried working on the tempo but it just doesn’t seem to work for me.

So, I would be “Al-a” on my take-away but just “bam” on my swing.

Hit a 3 wood 245 slightly uphill slightly into the wind today. I could have never done that last year. Granted, it is a bit dry and the fairway is cut pretty short, but still. I started looking for it 20 yards before the green and found that it had rolled all the through the green to the back edge.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  NoDakRube
9 July 2025 3:43 pm

Have to admit I have distance envy. Bow can kill it a mile too. I’m happy at 70 I can still hit the ball pretty far. I don’t worry about it too much though, because I know how far each club goes. I have added almost 15 yards to every club by incorporating a lot more wrist cock than I ever have, but it’s become very consistent. So I’m comfortable with playing a shorter club for a longer shot now. In other words I trust it. If I’m 125 out, I can hit a hard 9 iron and know it will get there.

NoDakRube
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 July 2025 3:44 pm

Yep, nothing wrong with that.

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 July 2025 3:57 pm

I just have the biological benefit of being tall, skinny and flexible. At 6′ 6″, with a tall torso and long ape like arms, I have a naturally long swing radius.

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 July 2025 4:11 pm

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  bowbunch
9 July 2025 4:29 pm

Kinda weird, but catchy. Starts talking about a list, ends up talking about poor people going to war.

bowbunch
Admin
9 July 2025 12:44 pm

Shared this the other day, but thought I’d share again. You can get ahold of them through their website or Facebook page as well.

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KFEY93
Reply to  bowbunch
9 July 2025 12:48 pm

Would I need to purchase an out of state permit/license to participate in this if I won?

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  KFEY93
9 July 2025 12:53 pm

Nope. It’s on a ranch so it’s not actually wild bison. It’s right outside Billings. I think if you decide to drive they would just give you some money instead of a plane ticket. It’s a great organization that gives a lot of meat to veterans.

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  bowbunch
9 July 2025 12:53 pm

I think if you didn’t want to actually shoot the bison they would just take care of it and take one to a butcher for you if you so chose.

KFEY93
Reply to  bowbunch
9 July 2025 1:01 pm

Nice! I might throw my hat into the ring, why not right?

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  KFEY93
9 July 2025 1:21 pm

Somebody’s gotta win and worst case it’s a small donation to a great charity.

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  bowbunch
9 July 2025 1:21 pm

When you win, let me know and I’ll buy you a beer while you’re in Billings.

KFEY93
Reply to  bowbunch
9 July 2025 1:26 pm

I’ll hold you to it – cheers 🍻

benjammin
Admin
9 July 2025 12:18 pm

4th most touchdowns in NFL historyhistory, but overrated, lol

DE Viking
Reply to  benjammin
9 July 2025 12:20 pm

I think it’s called Buddy Ryan syndrome.

Mjolnir
Reply to  benjammin
9 July 2025 12:20 pm

Best hands in the history of the game

🔨🔨🔨

NoDakRube
Reply to  Mjolnir
9 July 2025 2:34 pm

He had very, very good hands, but so did Thielen, and so does Jefferson.

Hard to say if his were “the best”, but very, very good for sure.

DE Viking
9 July 2025 12:04 pm

“Earlier today, Dr. Kevin O’Connor asserted the physician-patient privilege, as well as his right under the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, in declining to answer questions from the staff of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform regarding his service as Physician to the President during the Biden Administration,” reads the statement.

Not shocked.
Interesting at what information the Committee thinks they can get.

Derby Skol
9 July 2025 11:50 am

4th of July derby in the books. 2nd place finish with a shattered bell housing on the transmission.

1000002698
No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  Derby Skol
9 July 2025 11:55 am

Must have been an amazing ride. Congrats!

manly-purple
Reply to  Derby Skol
9 July 2025 11:56 am

Nice. Looks like more shattered than just the bell housing.

Derby Skol
Reply to  manly-purple
9 July 2025 11:57 am

The whole car is toast, but in terms of reusable parts just the bell on the transmission got wrecked.

DE Viking
Reply to  Derby Skol
9 July 2025 12:07 pm

Yeah.
It’s a demolishin derby.
That’s what supposed to happen.

Interesting hobby you have.

Demolish cars.
Re-use parts to build the next car to demolish.

Derby Skol
Reply to  DE Viking
9 July 2025 12:12 pm

It’s a good winter project in the insulated shop at the farm. Better than building in the summer when it’s hot and I want to be at the lake.

manly-purple
Reply to  Derby Skol
9 July 2025 12:09 pm

not a bad result at all

Surly Viking
Admin
Reply to  Derby Skol
9 July 2025 11:59 am

Awesome job. Great pic as well.

Car looks a bit rough…..

JacksonVike
Reply to  Surly Viking
9 July 2025 12:04 pm

Most of it will buff out.

Derby Skol
Reply to  Derby Skol
9 July 2025 12:07 pm

Transmission thought it was a dog and tried to roll over.

1000002695
MT Viking
Reply to  Derby Skol
9 July 2025 12:22 pm

You weren’t in the parade!

KFEY93
Reply to  Derby Skol
9 July 2025 12:42 pm

Congrats! Little dudes got a sweet John Deere hat I see too!

Mjolnir
9 July 2025 11:41 am

Scrolling through the thread and this made me laugh out loud and I needed the laugh today.

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Mjolnir
Reply to  Mjolnir
9 July 2025 11:42 am

The best cat I ever knew, and Goose’s best good buddy, Monster – passed away on Thursday.

RIP Monster

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bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  Mjolnir
9 July 2025 11:44 am

Bummer, sorry for your loss hammer. That looks like my wife’s cat. Maybe I can just give you ours since I hate her.

Mjolnir
Reply to  bowbunch
9 July 2025 11:46 am

Lol. I’m good. The laugh was enough. I’ll miss him – but he HATED me

freezeyface
Reply to  bowbunch
9 July 2025 11:53 am

you shouldn’t hate your wife

manly-purple
Reply to  freezeyface
9 July 2025 11:57 am

Also shouldn’t give her away

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  freezeyface
9 July 2025 11:57 am

The wife is alright, but the cat that pees on my clothes every other night is getting old, but the problem is I think my wife loves the cat more than me.

freezeyface
Reply to  bowbunch
9 July 2025 11:58 am

i’m glad me and my mrs freeze have the same feeling of, the minute our cat pees anywhere but the litter box, she is GONE

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  freezeyface
9 July 2025 12:04 pm

Nobody else is affected, just me. She leaves my wife’s and kid’s things alone and only pees on my stuff.

DE Viking
Reply to  bowbunch
9 July 2025 12:10 pm

She is big mad at you….

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  Mjolnir
9 July 2025 11:56 am

RIP… losing a four legged friend is never easy.

manly-purple
Reply to  Mjolnir
9 July 2025 11:56 am

Looks like the cat we lost last year. No fun. Blessings on the household.

MT Viking
Reply to  Mjolnir
9 July 2025 12:04 pm

Sorry to hear that, Mjolnir. Losing a pet sucks.

FloridaSKOL
Reply to  Mjolnir
9 July 2025 1:37 pm

RIP Monster. Sounds like he had a good life.

Surly Viking
Admin
Reply to  Mjolnir
9 July 2025 11:42 am

The Hammer!!

How are things?

Mjolnir
Reply to  Surly Viking
9 July 2025 11:45 am

Just a guy pushing a rock up a hill …..

Surly Viking
Admin
Reply to  Mjolnir
9 July 2025 12:01 pm

Man, that is so accurate. I am 61 years old, and this feels like my reality as well. Work and life both.

Mjolnir
Reply to  Surly Viking
9 July 2025 12:18 pm

I’ve taken a lot of comfort in Sisyphus – bought a large wall hanging that I see daily on the way out of the house.

The struggle is the reward.

‘We must imagine Sisyphus happy…’

Albert Campus

“The Myth of Sisyphus’

Surly Viking
Admin
Reply to  Mjolnir
9 July 2025 12:55 pm

‘We must imagine Sisyphus happy…’

That is actually very helpful for me.

KFEY93
Reply to  Mjolnir
9 July 2025 11:44 am

lmaooo

DE Viking
Reply to  Mjolnir
9 July 2025 11:50 am

Keep pressing forward.
Things should go your way at some point.

DE Viking
9 July 2025 11:11 am

I hope the “experts” predict doom for the Vikings.
That’s a sure sign the Vikings will be better than the expectations.

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  DE Viking
9 July 2025 11:12 am

Well, he does have something hanging between his legs so that means he knows what he’s talking about.

DE Viking
Reply to  bowbunch
9 July 2025 11:15 am

Apparently.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  bowbunch
9 July 2025 11:16 am

Well Plaid.

So if he was a Trans does that mean he/she/it has less annoying takes then a actual Lady?

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
9 July 2025 11:18 am

Interesting question. If Kay Adams had a dick, would her opinion matter more to the old misogynists?

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  bowbunch
9 July 2025 11:45 am

Not necessarily… you have a dick.

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 July 2025 11:47 am

Did you just assume my gender?
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No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  bowbunch
9 July 2025 11:57 am

Laughing… men are men, and women are women. Pretty simple stuff Bow.

manly-purple
Reply to  DE Viking
9 July 2025 11:18 am

I don’t know how this guy still has a job.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  manly-purple
9 July 2025 11:25 am

Causes controversy and brings attention to the channel?

DE Viking
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
9 July 2025 11:51 am

He’s also a known Bears fan.

Derby Skol
Reply to  DE Viking
9 July 2025 11:53 am

He predicted the Bears to win the division last year too if I remember correctly.

DE Viking
Reply to  Derby Skol
9 July 2025 12:17 pm

I believe that is correct.

Surly Viking
Admin
Reply to  Derby Skol
9 July 2025 12:56 pm

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
9 July 2025 10:24 am

Finally an interesting Golf Story.
It involves drunks, fights, players thrown into a water hazard, and even Canadians.

https://www.outkick.com/sports/golf-course-fight-pond-canada-video

Surly Viking
Admin
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
9 July 2025 10:31 am

LOL.
I really like the “Bang, Bang, Bang” the non drunk says as he is punching the drunk in the face.
Could have used some batman like overly to make it really fun.

Pace of play is important…

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  Surly Viking
9 July 2025 10:35 am

To make it funnier, the non-drunk throwing the punches is a former NHL player.

Surly Viking
Admin
Reply to  bowbunch
9 July 2025 10:43 am

lol. Did not know that, I just appreciated the form and follow through.
Makes sense, he did grab the drunks shirt, to pull his drunk face closer to his fist.

Nice technique.

KFEY93
Reply to  Surly Viking
9 July 2025 10:57 am

Except his punches are pillow soft enough to not knock out drunk guy that doesnt even know what planet he is on. NHL is weak confirmed.

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  Surly Viking
9 July 2025 11:00 am

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SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  Surly Viking
9 July 2025 10:43 am

The Drunk didn’t even know which golf cart was his and was putting his clubs in someone elses bag.

DE Viking
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
9 July 2025 10:43 am

I watched that earlier this AM.

Kind of amazing that this brew ha ha went on for that long with no ranger coming in to tone it down.

Then the two drunks just ride off to play the hole like nothing happened.

Surly Viking
Admin
Reply to  DE Viking
9 July 2025 10:44 am

Pretty sure once the booze wears off, the drunk will be sore.

DE Viking
Reply to  Surly Viking
9 July 2025 2:19 pm

Yep.
And likely only have a faint memory of what actually happened.
Unless he goes on to the WorldWideWeb to watch himself acting stupid.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  DE Viking
9 July 2025 2:50 pm

Wow DE, I hadn’t thought about that. Imagine one of the stupidest moments in your life being on the Internet forever. Your kids, grand kids, etc all seeing you get your ass whipped, forever.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  DE Viking
9 July 2025 10:47 am

The rangers are usually old guys, and not what one would call “physically imposing”. Lots of courses don’t even have marshall’s. They just let the golfers govern themselves.

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 July 2025 10:52 am

The course probably knew the former NHLer as well and would have just said, hey, you want to pick a fight with a former NHL enforcer? Go ahead and FAFO.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  bowbunch
9 July 2025 10:54 am

Potentially. Ever heard the term “alligator mouth with a hummingbird ass”? This is a classic example of that.

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 July 2025 10:56 am

Unless it was a vacation or something, he’s a member of that course and they know who he is. Plus, it’s Canada and being drunk and obnoxious is just normal and expected.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 July 2025 10:57 am

But he had tattoos.
Everyone knows that tattoos make you tough.

#grin

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
9 July 2025 10:57 am

And racing stripes make your car faster.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  bowbunch
9 July 2025 11:01 am

I guy at work put racing stripes on his Tesla.
Think/hope it was a joke.

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
9 July 2025 11:16 am

That’s pretty funny. I wanna see racing stripes on a Cyber truck now.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  bowbunch
9 July 2025 11:45 am

So buy a Cyber Truck and put racing stripes on it and your dream will come true.
You can afford it I’m sure.

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
9 July 2025 11:46 am

I wish. I would be living on property outside of town if that were the case. The Duramax does just fine though.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
9 July 2025 10:45 am

All my old golfing buddies have sent that to me, as I’m somewhat famous for challenging slow play. I am fond of the phrase “while we’re young” and have shouted that at groups ahead of me a lot. I’ve had more than a couple altercations on the course, to the amusement of my friends.

Surly Viking
Admin
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 July 2025 11:07 am

Slow play is evil.
Course we are playing this season has GPS on all the carts and people get warnings if they are not keeping pace. They also have the ranges telling walkers to speed up if needed.

9 holes is around two hours, even on weekends.

It really is simple. Keep pace with the group in front of you.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  Surly Viking
9 July 2025 11:13 am

I love this. I have a great friend back in D.C. who is my age. Black guy who once played TE at the University of Texas. Great guy, and he has been my best friend for nigh on 15 years now. We have completed 18 holes in under two and a half hours many times. We have been the first group off the tee, and completed our round before the group behind us has finished the 10th hole.

Surly Viking
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Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 July 2025 11:20 am

We had rain on saturday on and off. Wife and I walked 18 holes and finished in just over three hours.

I hate playing in the rain, but the pace was great.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  Surly Viking
9 July 2025 11:31 am

Well you know what they say Surly, you can’t win the British Open if you can’t play in the rain… grin.

MT Viking
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
9 July 2025 12:03 pm

Haha that is hilarious. I love the Canadian accent that comes out when they say GTFO. Something about how they say “f___ing” makes me smile every time.

bowbunch
Admin
9 July 2025 10:10 am

Surly Viking
Admin
Reply to  bowbunch
9 July 2025 10:26 am

I think I love her.

manly-purple
Reply to  Surly Viking
9 July 2025 10:35 am

So processed now.

DE Viking
Reply to  manly-purple
9 July 2025 10:44 am

Yeah, I agree.
On GMF she was a babe.

She looks like an AI bot now.

manly-purple
Reply to  DE Viking
9 July 2025 11:03 am

Yes. Early GMFB. Late GMFB she was already getting the face work done and putting on gobs of makeup.

Surly Viking
Admin
Reply to  manly-purple
9 July 2025 11:08 am

I agree with all of that. Looked better before the fake stuff.

Still like her though.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  bowbunch
9 July 2025 10:34 am

I hate listening to chicks telling me what they think about football. Why do they have to invade our spaces? I have knowledge, experience, and understanding of football from actually being on a field and competing that women can never achieve. Even my wife mutes the TV when the chicks start talking on an NFL broadcast.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 July 2025 10:45 am

I figure that they are every bit as lucid and knowledgeable as most of the ‘experts’ out there. Plus Ms Adams is pretty easy on the eyes.

DE Viking
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
9 July 2025 10:47 am

Yep.
I mean, who really listens to the babes talking football?
That’s like saying you read Playboy for the articles.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
9 July 2025 10:52 am

Being pretty is no reason to pay attention to her. I admit pretty much all the “on air talent” is pretty stupid, and wrong about pretty much everything, but women really annoy me. This is where the “entertainment” aspect of sports entertainment overwhelms the actual athletic endeavor.

This is just my personal perspective of course…

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 July 2025 10:56 am

She’s actually smarter and more knowledgeable about football than about 80% of the “experts” on TV.

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  bowbunch
9 July 2025 10:57 am

I like the gal that replaced Kay too. It helps that she’s a Vikings fan from Commiesota.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  bowbunch
9 July 2025 11:07 am

Sorry Bow, that’s anecdotal blather. There is no authoritative data source to measure that or provide real metrics on it. Just your perception. You don’t know how many staffers are doing work and providing information to her. Sports shows are always heavily produced. She may or may not actually understand offensive and defensive schematics, tactics, execution, and techniques. But when it comes to men on a field, beating each others brains out, she has no ability to understand that.

bowbunch
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Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 July 2025 11:08 am

OK, so if it’s just staffers doing the work for her, why don’t those same staffers do the same work for the idiot former players they put on TV that say shit like Justin Fields is a top 5 quarterback in the NFL?

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  bowbunch
9 July 2025 11:09 am

You don’t have to have played football to be able to understand football.

Surly Viking
Admin
Reply to  bowbunch
9 July 2025 11:15 am

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  bowbunch
9 July 2025 11:16 am

Contrarian as usual, but when it comes down to it, if you have never taken a snap from under center in a real game with other men trying to tear your head off, you can’t understand football at that level. What you are understanding is what you are told. Not really knowing if what you’re told is actually right.

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 July 2025 11:23 am

No, you’re just being ridiculously upitty. There are plenty of successful coaches in the NFL who didn’t play in the NFL. Apparently Belichick doesn’t understand NFL football since he never played in the NFL. There’s more to understanding football than understanding what it was like “having guys try to tear your head off”.

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  bowbunch
9 July 2025 11:25 am

Pat Kirwin definitely doesn’t understand football. That Gil Brandt guy was a total dunce as well.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  bowbunch
9 July 2025 11:40 am

People on TV are there for entertainment more than anything else. They are paid to make things more colorful. They are “personalities” and they are there for you to watch.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 July 2025 11:24 am

I wrestled in HS and never played football other than pickup games.
I guess I am no longer qualified to have an opinion on the game.

Guess I will just have to stick to jokes and sarcasm.

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
9 July 2025 11:26 am

I only played football until 9th grade so I guess it was nice knowing you guys. I’m not qualified to be here. I’m just going to go kill myself.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  bowbunch
9 July 2025 11:30 am

We have to be ‘qualified’ to be here??
I see no evidence of that.

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
9 July 2025 11:31 am

Apparently you can’t comment on football unless you have played at the level you are commenting on.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  bowbunch
9 July 2025 11:37 am

You are really funny Bow.

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 July 2025 11:39 am

I don’t make the rules. Only you do apparently. I can only comment on wildlife management, government environmental regulations and refinery operations, so if anybody has questions about that, let me know, otherwise I guess I need to find a new hobby.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  bowbunch
9 July 2025 11:41 am

You can comment on anything you want. It’s a blog.

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  bowbunch
9 July 2025 11:46 am

Actually, I’m pretty experienced with a smoker too and making sausages if anybody needs tips there.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
9 July 2025 11:36 am

Hey SoCal… no one is arguing opinions here. I’m just speaking my mind, like I always do.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 July 2025 11:40 am

It sounds like no ones opinion here is valid about the Vikings unless they played football at a high level.
That eliminates me.
It is good that I bring so much more to the table.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
9 July 2025 11:49 am

This is just perception. We started talking about female football “experts” and now we have shifted to an argument about folks on a blog and their opinions. That’s what Bow does. he personalizes a discussion and takes it way off course.

Surly Viking
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Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 July 2025 11:10 am

I agree with bow here. She knows the game. Especially from a stats/fantasy football/gambling perspective.

I enjoy her shows. When she interviews players, she is better than most. My opinion.

DE Viking
Reply to  Surly Viking
9 July 2025 11:13 am

Uh oh…

You are going against the self proclaimed expert on all things football.

Surly Viking
Admin
Reply to  DE Viking
9 July 2025 11:19 am

Yep.
Also…

Spoiler
Kirk still sucks

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  Surly Viking
9 July 2025 11:22 am

Rec for the knowing how to properly complete a spoiler post.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  Surly Viking
9 July 2025 11:30 am

Laughing… have to admit Surly, I still don’t know how to use the spoiler…

JacksonVike
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 July 2025 11:36 am

Here you go
Type what you want hidden highlight it and click [+] button

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  JacksonVike
9 July 2025 11:42 am

Thank you. I’ll try it.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  DE Viking
9 July 2025 11:29 am

Well, I do know football, and that’s a fact. You can act like I don’t, but you can’t change reality.

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 July 2025 11:30 am

Your “hot takes” say otherwise.

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  bowbunch
9 July 2025 11:31 am

But you tell yourself whatever you have to to sleep at night.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  bowbunch
9 July 2025 11:34 am

Laughing… you are the one who just spews rhetoric here Bow. Like just now.

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 July 2025 11:38 am

Suuurrrreeee…..

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 July 2025 11:37 am

I think you’re the only one that believes that.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  bowbunch
9 July 2025 11:42 am

So what?

DE Viking
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 July 2025 11:55 am

Well, I do know football, and that’s a fact.

So do I.
And most others who post here.

You are no better than anybody else.
You sure are an arrogant SOB sometimes.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  DE Viking
9 July 2025 12:01 pm

I am somewhat bull headed, for sure. I never said anyone here was somehow inferior. I just speak my mind, and I’m quite civil about it. If you don’t like my comments, you can ignore them. Really simple.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  Surly Viking
9 July 2025 11:51 am

Stats and fantasy points are just the academic analysis that anyone can know with some level of application. I like authoritative data, but playing football on a field is not the same as data analysis. Anyone, and I mean anyone, could do what she does.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 July 2025 10:59 am

Being pretty and stupid is better than being ugly and stupid.
So she is at least a half step above the rest of the ‘on air talent’ out there.
I don’t find her takes any more or less annoying then anyone elses.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
9 July 2025 11:08 am

I just don’t like women acting like they know anything about men, and what men do on a football field.

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 July 2025 11:11 am

Since you didn’t play in the NFL, you are only allowed to talk about high school and college football. Since you didn’t play in the NFL, there is no possible way you could understand what goes on on an NFL field. That or I hope you’re being sarcastic or you’re actually being pretty misogynistic.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  bowbunch
9 July 2025 11:17 am

That is total BS Bow.

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 July 2025 11:30 am

Not even a little bit. I have no problem with just about any kind of joke, but you are bordering on territory of guys I’ve met that said things like “women shouldn’t have jobs”, “women shouldn’t play sports at all”, and “women only can vote because men allow it”. You are actually a bit out of line here. I’m all for free speech, free think, etc, but you really are sounding like somebody from the 40s.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  bowbunch
9 July 2025 11:32 am

but you really are sounding like somebody from the 40s’

Or like 5/Five.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  bowbunch
9 July 2025 11:43 am

So what?

KFEY93
Reply to  bowbunch
9 July 2025 11:48 am

So the decade he was born then?

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  bowbunch
9 July 2025 11:54 am

I’m a person with common sense, and I deal with reality. Sorry I offend your sensitive nature, but I speak my mind.

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 July 2025 11:37 am

That’s what you said. Not my opinion.

Surly Viking
Admin
Reply to  bowbunch
9 July 2025 11:18 am

reminds me of the “He-man woman haters club” from The Rascals…

Surly Viking
Admin
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 July 2025 11:17 am

I really thought Michelle Tafoya did an excellent job for years.

And for years, the good Ponder did a very good job with college football.

DE Viking
9 July 2025 8:21 am

Breaking…
Mahomes is fat.

Via TMZ.com, Kevin Kietzman of KCMO called Mahomes “fat.” Keizman also said Mahomes was an “embarrassment.”

Trainer Bobby Stroupe fired back, with a now-deleted message on Twitter.

“Send me your location,” Stroupe reportedly said. “You obviously need attention. If you want to see what in shape is — go make it through a practice at [training camp] or run hurry up offense scrambling back to back to back plays. You don’t have a clue what it takes. It’s not a look, it’s performance.”

JRobert
JRobert
Reply to  DE Viking
9 July 2025 8:24 am

We should all be so lucky to have a fat QB like Mahomes.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  JRobert
9 July 2025 9:12 am

He showed up last year to camp with a significant “dad bod” and he got into game shape by the start of the season just fine. It’s hard to believe he’s going into his 9th season already though. He’s lucky that he’s been in the same system, with the same team his whole career.

JRobert
JRobert
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
9 July 2025 9:20 am

He’s considered a generational talent and probably the most all around talented guy to ever play the position. So we have some sports ‘analyst’ who probably can’t throw a football across his living room popping off like this.
And some people pay attention to fools like this guy.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  JRobert
9 July 2025 9:27 am

I agree. Pundits gotta pundit. They prognosticate endlessly about stuff, and like the Dem’s, are pretty much always wrong across the board.

DE Viking
Reply to  JRobert
9 July 2025 10:10 am

I know right?

He is no Jared Lorenzen.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  manly-purple
9 July 2025 8:54 am

Yeah he is getting roasted in the DN comments about not being very bright and KAM screwed up the draft pick. So of course he is now a bust/boob*, over reaction much?

*Actually I just wanted an excuse to post this GIF.

DE Viking
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
9 July 2025 9:46 am

She might drop 25 lbs if she got a reduction.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  DE Viking
9 July 2025 9:53 am

As long as she does enough exercises to strengthen her back/core she is probably set for life. Fun bags are enjoyable for years and years.

Northwoods
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
9 July 2025 1:01 pm

She won’t like them much when she’s 70 and they’re knee-knockers.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  Northwoods
9 July 2025 2:22 pm

I don’t know,
She will have a life time of good memories playing, and letting others play, with those by that time.

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
9 July 2025 3:20 pm

My wife looked like that 10 years ago and I’m not complaining now. I’m still a lucky guy.

FloridaSKOL
9 July 2025 6:58 am

Good morning, SKOL!

FTP!

Happy Hump Day!

benjammin
Admin
9 July 2025 6:57 am

JacksonVike
9 July 2025 6:21 am

Wrenage
9 July 2025 6:20 am

We meet again, Wednesday…

Surly Viking
Admin
9 July 2025 6:11 am

GM
FTP!
SKOL!

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  Surly Viking
9 July 2025 8:55 am

FTP Auto Rec.

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Gone fishin'

I'm a dad, husband, Army vet, believer, and a die-hard, life-long Vikings fan from the great state of North Dakota. I've been a Viking fan dating back to 1980, I've been covering the Vikings for nearly a decade, and I founded Skoloholics in 2022. I work in real estate and property management, I love spending time with family, working in the yard, doing anything in the outdoors, and as you can tell from my username, I love fishing. SKOL!!!!!!!!!!

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