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It’s Memorial Day weekend! The fam and I are heading to the hills of Fargo, as kiddo is participating in the T.J. Hockenson Youth Football camp on Sunday morning. I’m not sure if we’ll have visual access to the action at the camp, but if we do, I’ll post some videos on our Twitter page and on here. If we don’t, I’ll try to get kiddo to do a little write-up after the camp. Either way, we plan to have a good time.
A funny little story. I have a 2014 Honda Accord that I drive for my business, it’s a great little car with a 6 speed manual, I bought it 2-3 years ago for $12,000, and have put over 100,000 miles on it with zero problems. Even though it has quite a few miles on it, it runs perfect and is in immaculate condition. Last week, it started making a faint rattling sound that I couldn’t diagnose, so I took it to the dealer for a look-see. They told me the transmission is shot, and would cost $16,000 to replace and that it can’t be rebuilt. I think the guy was sober, too. I was fully prepared for sticker shock, and I still got sticker shock. They also said that they could only give me $200 for the car on a trade in. LOL, they must think I’m stupid. I’m looking around at other options. Lesson: never take your car to the dealer unless you have Elon Musk money.
Vikings & NFL News
At Vikings.com, they study film of rookie DL Caleb Banks.
Yahoo Sports shares some opinions about the status of the Vikings’ search for a new GM.
The NFL acknowledged that their Monday Night Football experiment was a mistake, and will end the double-headers, per Yahoo Sports. I almost fell out of my chair when I saw that the NFL admitted that they made a mistake.
Media Selection
A good discussion between Shawn Ryan and Tulsi Gabbard. Enjoy!
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Has McCarthy gotten hurt recently?
Just making sure our QB is ready.
In case you were wondering…
I for one was not wondering.
Thank you for thinking of us/me anyway.
NLNVF is a man with too much free time
Quiet mile-markers like this are a big deal to me.
Football junkie, it helps to break up the offseason.
We’re roughly 2 months from the start of training camp.
I am so ready to be hurt again
I must say, my love for the NFL seems to wane a little bit more every year. They don’t represent my core beliefs and tenets anymore. The woke ideology they pursue makes me want to throw up.
I also don’t agree with the woke ideology the NFL has adopted as of late.
I don’t agree with much of what Roger Goodell has done as commissioner of the league.
I’m aware of the PR machine that the NFL has become – charging for sponsorships like ‘Salute to Service’ and ‘My Cause, My Cleats’ and letting the public think it’s done out of altruism is gross – Though emphasis/support given to our troops, paid for or otherwise, I don’t have a problem with. They don’t get enough support. Would love to see the NFL have a ‘Salute to Law Enforcement’ but the universe would implode.
None of the above will stop me from watching the NFL.
I watch Vikes games in tune with Paul Allen & Pete Bercich – so whatever the tv broadcast is trying to put out there, I don’t hear it.
Sunday mornings I’m watching Fantasy Football Now on ESPN2 usually – not a bunch of fluff/woke pieces there. Usually just information relevant to who’s hot, who’s not. Who’s starting. Injury reports, etc. I have a multiscreen setup in my living room (3 screens) so I’ve got Sunday NFL Countdown on another screen (muted) and a local channel on the 3rd screen (also muted).
I’m in Lincoln, Nebraska so I’m close enough I get most Vikes games locally – I also have NFL+ Premium for RedZone as well as the radio calls of every game.
I haven’t bought a piece of Vikings gear in years – most of what I’ve received are gifts. Few jerseys in the closet (Favre, Carter) and I’ll likely never buy another. Mainly because I can’t wear a jersey of a kid younger than me – it feels weird to me. I don’t know why. Occasionally I’ll buy a piece of Vikes memorabilia off EBay.
My point is it’s relatively easy, for me, to ignore most of the woke nonsense that the NFL has adopted in recent years. Not all of it – can’t ignore the painted end zones, the ‘stop hate’ on the back of helmets – which carries the same impact as a fucking land acknowledgment. But most of the bullshit I can ignore.Timely use of the mute button as well as the option to listen to radio calls during national broadcasts (MNF, SNF, TNF) makes this possible for me.
I’m too much of a football junkie to give it up – and supplementing it with college or local high school ball won’t cut it – I’m already a rabid fan of both.
Quite the set-up you got going on there. How do you get the PA broadcast? I mute the game, and just watch it without any commentary for the most part. Don’t watch any pregame shows, halftime shows, or postgame shows either.
I have gotten the radio feed a few times.
I tried to watch the game on TV or online and listen on the radio but they never match up. Either the radio or the video is behind the other one.
Got ya… I’ve looked to try and stream KFAN on-line during games too.
Unless you’re doing it thru a licensed NFL broadcast, or you’re within range of a Vikes affiliate via terrestrial radio you won’t find it.
NFL has the great paywall to negotiate.
its one of my favorite features about NFL+ Premium.
it also helps that I got the deal near the superb owl – they offered a year for $59.99, down from the normal $99. So it costs me $5 a month and I watch it a ton in the offseason.
I have that on my streaming NFL app on the TV. Just tried it on mt computer and when I tried to sign in, It didn’t recognize my email address. Weird.
Try the ‘Backup E-mail’ address you have that you keep secret from the wife.
#grin
You mean [email protected]?
Not that one, I thought it was our little secret.
#smirk
Plus PA makes a one yard gain by the Vikings like a huge deal.
His calls can get very frustrating for sure.
With NFL+ Premium you get 24/7 NFL Network, RedZone on Sundays, Game replays – including ALL22 aaaaand live home or away radio broadcasts of each game, in some cases the option for a national radio broadcast is there as well.
You can stream on multiple devices so on Sundays I watch RedZone on my SmartTV and then from the NFL app on my phone I stream the PA/Bercich radio call – and send it to my Alexa.
Non-Vikes games I’ll find the game on the app and go between home and away radio broadcasts.
Yup, it’s all pandering. Both sides should be pissed, because the NFL doesn’t give 2 shits about the issues they claim to support. The only reason they support those issues is because it is more profitable for them to do so. They’d worship the devil if it would make them an extra buck.
Logical, 10 games is a small sample size.
Kind of expected this is someone that is “part” of the organization would say.
But makes me wonder, if 10 isn’t the number, what is?
Yeah, McCarthy didn’t look like a pro QB to me last year. He was pretty bad for being in the second year in a system. Folks can say he was hurt his first year, but that just took all the pressure off, and he should have spent his whole time mastering the offense. Instead, he looked like a rookie. I think this is what KOC saw. I guy who should have been a lot better and farther down the road at that point, not really running the offense very well.
I’d like to see a couple seasons. Caleb Williams looked like refried dogshit in year one, last year was a much different story.
Year two is generally the year you see the greatest jump in a QB’s growth. Year one, everything is mostly a blur. The game is too fast, too complicated, and too hard. NFL offensive schemes are way beyond anything they’ve ever imagined. This is why I thought McCarthy would be pretty good this year. A whole year to learn about the NFL, and how the Vikings scheme worked.
Even I have enough sense not to wear a shirt like this to a kids event. What a dumbass.
What does the front say?
Offspring.
it was nice of them to put his name on the back
It does seem rather ‘un-smart’.
Shame him.
Post that shit on X.
hashtag the shit out of it with TJ’s camp
dude has a phone in his hand, decent chance something he follows catches it if he’s scrolling.
This doesn’t even seem possible
https://x.com/statfax/status/2058334802391322982?s=46
Seems not real.
Thats an average of losing
25 to 0.5 every game
I know, I want to check to make sure it’s accurate. It doesn’t seem believable.
Been a Cub fan for over six decades. If ever there was a team to set records like this, it surely is the Cubs.
430-8 sounds worse than 41-0.
Doesn’t make me feel any gooder though.
I just looked, that’s not accurate. Never mind, I got duped.
Cant be real. Orioles lost something like 20+ games a few decades ago. But i am too lazy to fact check
Cool dude!
https://x.com/skoloholics/status/2058551989806551476?s=46
You work hard to have a lot of special moments with Kiddo.
Kudos to you.
We’re having a good time, even if we are in Fargo
Is that what’s called a “q-tip” haircut? You and I are both in the “remember when” category of scalp hair.
Not sure what they call it. Must be a new thing.
Kiddo has hair!
So do I, on my chest
I went retro with my jersey selection.
At theT.J. Hockenson football camp!
Makes me wonder if he had a choice in the matter.
Maybe he has a sense of humor.
hope everyone had a nice day today.
Bears as in the NFL type? ewww
Beets, um no thank you.
Battlestar Galactica? I never really got into that show. Saw it a few times not interested enough to make it part of my schedule.
Otherwise nice and quiet today, recovering from a hectic week.
I went for a run this morning & got lost. Must’ve been all these hills in Fargo.
Had that happen and tried to think of it a ‘An Adventure’ and not as the beginning of a bad horror movie.
LOL, I wound up next to a field for the NDSU agricultural research facility. I didn’t have my glasses on, so I couldn’t read my phone to pull up the app. I made it eventually, ran a little further than expected, but I had fun. Good way to start the day, almost ran a 10K
Wish I could remember his name, IM doc in Grand Forks, did med school there, was from MT. He was about my age. I was rounding with him and he had a funny anecdote about waiting to see the Red River Valley as he drove east on I-94 to interview at UND.
The only valleys around here are the drainage ditches
My ex-father in law lived just down the street from the Red River, it would flood regularly but his house was elevated enough it wasn’t a major issue for him.
They would talk about how it was possible to canoe/kayak from Winnipeg/The Whiteshell to their house and points further south.
Kyle Busch died from ‘severe pneumonia’.This is especially concerning to me as I have had pneumonia twice and was told that each time you get it getting it again become more likely.
Plus will all his resources and access to medical greatly outpaces the rest of us. Part of the reason I Power Walk on an indoor track that I pay to access instead of just walking around the neighborhood.
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/nascar-kyle-busch-cause-death-revealed-family
Does seem like it got pretty far down the road before he got medical attention.
I believe it is called Galloping Pneumonia.
‘a particularly nasty type of infection fulminating and often called “galloping pneumonia”‘
https://dynamicchiropractic.com/article/45400-the-diagnosis-was-correct-but-the-patient-died
Do you honestly think he has access to better healthcare than the rest of us? I do not.
He was on the track and radioed in asking that a Dr meet him because he ‘needed a shot’.
Yeah I believe that is better access then most of us have.
That’s really not much different than the plethora of med spas around that will give you an IV of toradol and NS for $100…
Right, because the majority of Americans have access and funds to benefit from ‘Med Spas’.
That is your counter argument??
I guess I had it when I was an infant, haven’t had it since. Thankfully.
My Grandson has had it like 4x now.
And he hasn’t even started school yet.
Yikes
Yeah some issue with him ‘aspirating’ that causes it. Drs hope that they have a handle on it now.
‘Food aspiration occurs when food, liquid, or stomach contents accidentally enter your airway and lungs instead of your stomach. It is often caused by swallowing difficulties (dysphagia) and can lead to serious lung infections like aspiration pneumonia.’
It is pretty common in dementia patients, I worked with a number of people over the years who died from pneumonia caused by repeated aspiration. We all aspirated from time to time, we just call it, down the wrong tube but it can cause illness.
Are you saying that my grandson has dementia??
#joke
Well, you are ancient, so maybe your grandson is old?
‘And he hasn’t even started school yet.’
He doesn’t live in Arkansas.
Found the page where I saw the 20% discount for military members at Outback:
https://www.military.com/discounts/outback-steakhouse-military-discount
I think that offer expired.
‘May 23 through May 27, 2019′
Holy shit… I feel foolish now.
You’re allowed to use age as an excuse once passed 70.
I have been using that excuse for decades now.
Laughing… got a call from one of my guys yesterday asking me a bunch of questions about the Middle East. He’s been re-assigned to cover that area, and wanted to know my contacts, area’s of concern, assets in-place, etc. Spoke with him for well over an hour. For some reason I was having a good day, and really gave him a lot.
Just missed the MET Galla by a week or so.
Thank God.
I had to look up Met Gala, had no clue what it is. Yeah, would have zero interest in seeing that.
Yep.
A bunch of self absorbed freaks imo.
I believe JJ (WR) attended this year.
Yep, with Burrow.
Pomp & circumstance I guess.
I guess to be popular, you show up.
Funny. I just ran the VIN decoder on my Honda Accord, it was manufactured in Ohio. My GMC was manufactured in Mexico. LOL.
A lot of hondas are built in Ohio (Marysville i think), and a lot of nissans in Tennesee.
Interesting. I know Nissan built a plant north of Jackson MS (Canton, I think) when I was living down there, friggin huge place.
Ya’ know, if I was single, I’d let Tulsi Gabbard turn me down.
Read that her husband has bone cancer. Tough times.
That’s terrible, screw cancer. I lost both my parents to cancer.
Indeed… it does GF.
For all you military types out there, Outback is offering a 20% off Heroes Discount May 23 through May 27. 20% off is pretty good.
Australia is a long drive, though.
So we went to Outback for lunch and they said the 20% discount was last week. I tried to find the ad I saw on my phone, but couldn’t. They have a standard 10% military discount though, so we got that. Still kinda bugged me I couldn’t find the 20% discount I know I saw this morning.
I tried to find it as well but their website only list the 10% discount.
Thought maybe it was a local/Florida thing.
https://www.outback.com/offers/military-mates
Yeah, I know I wasn’t hallucinating, but couldn’t find it on my phone. Wouldn’t have posted it here if I hadn’t seen it. Haven’t searched for it since getting home. Watching the Brooks Koepka group playing the 3rd round on ESPN+.
Hey GF, quick online search for 2014 Honda Accord rebuilt transmissions provided the following. That said, I wonder how a rattle cannot be repaired. I had a guy that had a small shop in Seffner FL, who was the most fair, honest, and reliable auto mechanic I’ve ever known. Retired Air Force guy. Died 3 years ago. I sure miss him as a person and a mechanic.
https://reman-transmission.com/transmissions/honda/accord/2014
Thanks! It says they have a manual for just over $3,000, that’s a lot more palletable than $16K.
The tranny is definitely out, there are metal shavings in the trans oil. None of what they said makes any sense. I have a buddy who owns a transmission shop in town, I’ll give him a call on Tuesday & see what he thinks.
My first thought is that they just don’t want to deal with it so they are quoting you a ridiculously high amount to get you to go away.
Entirely possible. Either that or the service guy is on crack.
Maybe both.
I don’t want to put a ton of $$ into it, because it has 220,000 miles on it, but it’s in pristine condition and the motor purrs like a kitten, so I don’t want to junk it, either.
That link NVF posted up top has a used tranny with only 95,000 miles on it for $3,200. I’ll talk to my buddy on Tuesday & see what he thinks. He owns a transmission shop in town.
‘Lesson: never take your car to the dealer unless you have Elon Musk money’
Dealerships treat customers/suckers like cows that need to be milked as frequently as possible.
I got my wife a used BMW Z4 hard top convertable 12 years ago for her 50th bday. It was a 2012 with 18000 miles. Got it for $30K. She now has 92000 miles on it.
3 years ago she was getting a pinging in the engine took it to a BMW shop and tbey recommended a new engine, along with a list of everthing else she should do. No way a BMW with that low of mileage should need a new engine. So she took it to her mechanic, he looked at the list and laughed. He said the recommendation of struts is the only valid thing. So he did that, changed oil while “flushing things out” (whatever that means). And the pinging went away. We stay away from dealers
Unreal. That should be a crime.
I just found a remanufactured transmission in Maple Grove MN for $2,300.
The dealer told me that they searched and searched but couldn’t find a used transmission. I’ve been looking for 20 minutes online & have found 20 of them. Maybe they just searched in their desk drawers for one.
I wouldn’t want anything that came out of their ‘drawers’.
My old Tacoma was having engine problems so I took it to the local dealer as I had just gotten out of the Army so I didn’t know a local mechanic.
They gave me a laundry list of repairs that needed doing after an $89 ‘inspection’. I asked a neighbor who recommended a good mechanic who replaced the spark plug wires and solved the problem.
I went back to the dealership to get my $89 back and they finally admitted that ‘a few of their mechanics get creative’ and gave me a full refund.
Wankers!!
Unreal. Get creative?
Yeah, $1,600 worth of creative.
I have little doubt that they are encouraged by the management to exercise their ‘creative side’.
That garbage should be prosecuted as fraud.
Yes they do.
I know someone in the car dealership business. Dealers make a large percentage of their money on shop work.
You’re supposed to use that left pedal when you change gears, not just when you start rolling in first. That grinding noise you heard when you forced it into second, third, etc was little pieces of synchromesh. Sheesh!
Happy memorial weekend. Here in Jackson, we had the remains of a WWII pilot returned this week. He was shot down during a dog fight in the Pacific. But not before taking down a few Japanese fighters, per the story told to his family by another pilot that was in the fight as well. His remains were identified, using DNA testing, in 2025.
Our local funeral home made the arrangements with the military to have his remains transported back to his home town of Jackson. The remains flew into MSP airport yesterday morning and the transport back to Jackson was given an escort by each counties law enforcement between Minneapolis and Jackson.
Lt. Ruth will be laid to rest this coming Friday. With full military honors and a possible flyover in a plane Lt. Ruth flew while training.
Wow… great story JV. Great when folks do things like this. All honors to a brave hero.
That’s an awesome story.
Very cool
Great story, thanks for sharing.
Good morning, SKOL!
FTP!
Morning FL. we are in the middle of a much needed rainy stretch. But yesterday was dry and windy so i got 18 holes in. First round of the year i felt comfortable. Only 2 crappy shots. Shot an 87 (par 70). Could have been better but i dont think i made any 8-12 foot putts. Yet most of my 20+ foot putts i put to within a foot. Better than mowing the lawn……
Hey PA, nice that you got out and played 18. Good score in the wind too, for sure. Putting comes and goes. One day you have it, the next day you don’t. Watched Brooks Koekpa drain every putt on Thursday and shoot an 8 under par round, then yesterday his putter was cold. Still shot two under though.
This is one of my favorite stories.
In 1990, Lee Trevino called the shot that won him the 11th U.S. Senior Open title.
“Jack has a habit of peeking on these, sometimes gets ’em a little right,” Trevino said on national television as Nicklaus stood over a 4-foot par putt on the 17th hole.
Nicklaus, making a late run at Trevino, had to sink the putt to keep his chances alive.
But, as Trevino predicted, the putt went a little to the right, just enough to catch the lip of the cup and spin out.
“Trophy,” Trevino howled, grabbing his golf cap and pulling it down over his ears.
“Give me the trophy!”
The bogey-6 dropped Nicklaus two shots back with one hole to go.
I was watching the tournament on TV when this happened. I’ll never forget it. Trevino calling the shot on live television.
Lee Trevino was my mother’s favorite golfer – Until Lefty Mickelson came along. But she loved Lee.
She even sent him a fan letter when he was struck by lightning – a story I didn’t know until after she had passed away.
I liked Chi Chi Rodriguez when I was a kid, I didn’t follow golf but he made me laugh.
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