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We got our first snow of the year last night. It wasn’t much, but enough to get the kiddo’s excited. They’re outside……..wearing shorts.
A big game for the Vikings tomorrow against the Baltimore Ravens. Kickoff is at noon, the game thread will post at 11 am. SKOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh, and this is crazy.
Vikings and NFL News
From Yahoo Sports, Ryan Kelly is closer to returning to the field, while Theo Jackson heads into concussion protocol. Wow, if things keep trending in the right direction, the Vikings might have their entire starting O line on the field together for the first time soon.
A Vikings vs. Ravens week 10 game preview from Vikings.com. Also, the final injury report for the Vikings and Ravens.
Mac Jones will start again for the 49ers as Brock Purdy continues to deal with a toe injury, from NFL.com. Also, the Raiders fired their special teams coordinator. I’m relatively certain that the Raiders’ problems run much deeper than the play of their special teams.
CBS Sports looks at the QB chaos around the NFL.
Harrison Mevis, the “thiccer kicker”, weighing in at 245 pounds, will be kicking for the Rams this weekend, per Yahoo Sports. That’s a big fella, he’s even bigger than our punter. I know how thicker is spelled, that’s how they spelled it in the article, for some reason, not my fault.
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We haven’t played Mr. Ballen for a while, here you go!
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Falcons moving the ball efficiently on this drive. Got it first and ten at the 19 yard line with 2 minutes left.
Game thread is up.
Grab it while it is still on the main page. #grin
Let’s go! Decently healthy.
Wow, that run by Taylor.
I have Pittman & Downs starting for me in FF today, they’re still asleep. Damn. I’m playing kiddo, too. He’s in second and I’m in third. I needed a win today.
Penix started out very well, but he’s 9/21 for 141 yards at the moment with 6 minutes left in the game, and now 5 points behind.
Falcons have passed up two chip shot fields and gone for it on fourth down. Failed both times. Also missed a field goal and an extra point. That’s 10 points they’ve left out there today.
I suspect it will come back to bite them in they ass.
They are 3-5 currently for a reason.
I meant the Colts… my bad. Olditis.
Sauce Gardner with the interception drop. Penix was lucky there.
Clear push off by Pitts there but the pass was still incomplete. Falcons are doing pretty good though so far.
‘Falcons are doing pretty good though so far’
As long as they keep KC out of the game. #grin
I hate the sideline reports, always useless and dumb.
Same. I watch games on mute mostly anyway, but hit mute as soon as I see or hear a woman with a mike in her face.
So does my wife BTW.
Mute is the way to go.
So the Ravens are a road favorite, so Vegas thinks they are about a touchdown better than us since home field is generally worth about 3 points?
The Vikings are still a 4.5-point underdog in this one, while the over/under for points still rests at 48.5
Talk about crappy clock management, both teams had all 3 timeouts left.
Crappy interception by Jones too. No idea what he was thinking there.
Yup, bad.
Well I had a splendid morning round. Played 9 holes and shot 38. Chipping and putting were very strong today. Hit the ball off the tee decently, and hit my irons and seven wood decently. I was really good around the greens though. Was playing with a young college kid who shot 40 on the front. He went on to play the back, and I took the car to get gassed up, and head home. I’m showered now because I was very sweaty. Watching the Falcons game, sort of. Have it on, but not really watching it.
Daniel Jones is having a really good game in the first quarter.
Nice work on the 38….showed up the college kid.
He was a good kid. Hit the ball a long way. Just wasn’t quite as sharp with his chipping and putting as I was. We had fun. Nice relaxed round. I hit my first tee shot with a 3 wood and nailed it down the right side with a little draw. Even the starter said “nice shot”. Then this kid gets up and hits his 3 wood 30 yards past me. Grin. I had 150 yards to the green, and hit a nice hybrid about 20 feet short of the pin. He missed the green from 120 yards, and bogeyed. I made par. It was a great start to the round.
Very nice nine – actually, 38 is always great. “Really good around the greens” is always the key to low scoring.
It really is JR. I had one of those days where the chips were coming off the blade very pure. Got up and down nicely.
Made chili yesterday. It turned out very good. No beans for me.
Reheated chili is the best. Today we get an early game, so 13 hours of football coverage.
I see Ole Miss won again, sitting at #7, they have a shot at making the playoffs. I sure as hell hope so.
Too bad that have that Ass-Hat of a coach Lane Kiffin.
Sorry can’t root for that.
Game thread is set to post at 11 am, I double-checked to make sure it posts to the front page this time.
I’m putting a new stereo in my pickup, I haven’t done this since 1993 or so, I’m getting there. Had to buy $200 worth of adapters so that my steering wheel controls & all that stuff work. Went with a Pioneer deck, can’t wait to have it installed & try it out.
AFA wins 26-16.
Since Army won 13-12 that only leaves the Navy vs Notre Dame.
Oh well, ‘Two out of Three Ain’t Bad’ according to Meatloaf at least.
Love these dogs…
‘Belgian Shepards’ or ‘Belgian Malinois’?
I suspect the later.
https://inkopious.com/blogs/articles/belgian-shepherd-vs-belgian-malinois-what-are-the-differences
Aggies recover a muffed kickoff. They have the ball at the Missouri 17.
Aggies march down the field and score a TD to go up 38-17. 2:36 left in the game.
Missouri with a 45 yard TD run to make it 31-17 with 6:45 left.
57 yard run up the middle for an Aggies TD. 31-10 with 7:40 left in the game.
Love the old man here…
We were doing some work in our shed and my wife was whining about something so I told her that she sounded like a democrat. She didn’t think I was funny.
Laughing… that’s very funny to me VP!
You are either very brave or very dumb.
The Teacher might have let be get away that, maybe.
Probably the latter
This is a total BS call…
For what?
Using his helmet apparently. Terrible.
‘Low man wins’.
They all lower their helmets, the defended it on that play.
I totally agree. This was just a normal football play. The league effed this up big time.
At least the Vikings didn’t get a penalty. I don’t care about the fine since it is not my money.
What a bunch of shit
Aggies with a 48 yard WR screen for a TD! Up 21-0 now.
Indiana’s game winning TD… spectacular throw and catch…
That catch was unbelievable. I was watching the game and was surprised they called it in until they showed the replay. Wow!
Same… the QB got hit by two guys on the throw, and then this spectacular catch to win the game. Crazy.
Impressive body control by that WR.
Aggies force a fumble and take it back to the Missouri 2 yard line. Two plays later they run it in for the TD. Aggies up at the half 14-0.
Missouri misses a field goal on 4th and 10, but wait! Aggies offsides! 5 yard penalty. Does Missouri retry the field goal? Nope. They go for it on 4th down. Incomplete pass, Aggie ball.
Always take the points.
Hmmmmm…
Okudah to IR? He just had a concussion, it must be really bad.
Dunno. Thought that was his malady too. IR? Weird.
RB to active roster….Aaron Jones not playing?
Gonna play 9 holes tomorrow morning at 8. Gonna be in the mid 70’s to start, probably be around 80 when I finish. Monday the temps are supposed to start getting cold.
Aggies score first. 7-0.
A&M and Missouri underway. Each team with a possession and a punt. 0-0. A&M starting their second drive at their own 10 yard line. Missouri defense looking pretty strong so far.
Indiana TD!
By a toenail in the end zone.
Indiana and Penn State coming down to the wire. Penn up 24-20. Indiana has the ball at the Penn 7 yard line second and goal.
3rd and goal now, 41 seconds left.
Drunk driver that killed Khyree Jackson and his 2 friends is pleading down to a 3 year prison sentence.
Apparently every person you kill is only worth 1 year in prison. Taking into account she’ll probably get out early on parole, it’ll end up less than a year per kill.
This makes me sick.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46894146/driver-caused-death-khyree-jackson-pleads-guilty
That’s horrible
Confusing. She ‘plead guilty’, ‘will likely serve 3 years’, ‘prosecutors will ask for 5 years per count’, and ‘will be sentenced 4 Feb’.
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/drunk-driver-pleads-guilty-crash-killed-vikings-khyree-jackson
Army wins 14-13.
Texas Tech up on BYU 26-7.
So far so good.
#nojinx
I love this bit…
Dang it, I am not getting BYU-Texas Tech due the Disney/ABC/ESPN feud with YouTube TV.
According to Pocahontas it is Trumps fault.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/elizabeth-warren-called-out-washington-post-blaming-trump-over-monday-night-football-blackout
Bummer – one of the main reasons I chose to do the ESPN streaming app bundled with NFL+ was because of potential disputes between YT (or any streaming provider – HuluLive, Fubo, etc) and ABC or any other broadcast provider.
Not impacted by their money-grubbing bullshit. It’s all a rip off – but I’m not watching a dark screen and cussing.
I am watching Army-Temple, not as good but not bad either.
And I have the BYU-TT games boxscore up.
It is not as if I am in a ‘sports desert’.
She’ll be really happy if he gets his wish and the new DC stadium is named for him…..
heads will burst
Always love it when Liberal/Woke heads explode.
DJT is excellent at causing that to happen.
No reason to be sorry GF. Real life often happens.
Thank you for the tread.
And of course FTPs.