Let’s hope after 4 years we have more successes to talk about other than “at least he’s not Biden.”

Grouse you are 100% correct, and that’s reflected in comments on IDO over the years and comments you hear from others in society. Seems like every time school is late or cancelled I’ll hear someone at work say “they cancelled school for THIS??” I understand that unexpectedly having kids at home is a big challenge for a lot of people, but oftentimes I feel like that’s all that matters to some. I think some (not all) people that got wound up about school closures during Covid weren’t worried about in-person learning or social interaction, they were upset that they had to figure out a way to take care of their kids during the day. Again, I get it. The only thing that should really matter is the safety of the kids and not putting them in a risky situation in the cold/snow etc.

JoeMX1825 wrote:

Biggest W of the season sofar… another big game by Jiricek! and Ohgren with a sneaky good game…

Let’s hope we get The Thrill back this week!

Again, no one remembers beating Dallas on the road in OT after flying there that morning on the first game without KL.

Flew home from a weekend in Vegas and didn’t expect to see the news of a win in Colorado. Awesome to hear.

Rip that sounds like a great time!

Eelpoutguy wrote:

did ya ever drink it right out of the carton, then put the empty carton back in the fridge? Because I never did.

Straight out of the cow, and also the tank. Talk about whole milk…

Must be the farm kid in me because I’ve drank milk my whole life and love it. I actually get anxiety thinking about if we ran out and I couldn’t have it for supper.

I guess count me in the large quantity of eggs crowd. So much that my LDL cholesterol levels were high when the VA drew blood on me in December. That’s my conclusion anyway. Hard-boiled eggs are a huge go-to for me, especially when I’m doing outdoor training multiple days a week in the summer and don’t care to have a cooler with an ice pack, I’ll just bring several of those. Add in eggs for supper a few nights a week in the summer because we have so dang many (we have chickens) that on some days I’ve probably eaten 8 eggs a day and 12-18 a week. Gonna try and slow that down a little bit.

As others have said, I have a scoop or two with measurements on there, and that’s all I use. Quick and easy.

I’m in agreement with your excitement Joe, I think it’ll be fun to watch, I just worry that this tournament is going to make a bad injury situation worse for them.

After reading the article I would say the title of this thread is off a bit. Currently a state senator from Iowa is proposing this. As we see plenty in the political arena, politicians propose things all the time that gather headlines but ultimately go nowhere.

The link posted by hop307 is a pretty interesting read though and does make a good case for those wanting to do this.

TheFamousGrouse wrote:

Can I just say now how unenthusiastic I am about the idea of Brodin, Ek, Faber, and Gus playing multiple games in a meaningless PR stunt?

I’ve been thinking the same thing Grouse. I don’t really get into the exhibition or non-season games in baseball, basketball, or football, but normally I enjoy the chance to see different players team up and/or display their skills. This year, however, it just seems like a horrible time. The formula for the Wild this year seems to generally be ice time=eventual injuries. So throw those 4 players, who ironically have all been injured already this year, put in more ice time just seems like it’s going to somehow lead to some sort of fatigue, tweak, or outright injury.

Steve Root wrote:

KOC a was a linebacker coach before he got this job. He’s in over his head, week after week.

Kevin O-Connell a linebackers coach? He’s been offense his whole career.

I cannot overate how awesome I think it looks with a full moon on fresh snow. Crazy bright at night with trees casting shadows on the white snow. Something that not every part of the country gets to see.

Well homers unite then

Beast wrote:

buffalo vs vikings…battle of super bowl losers..

As a lifelong Twins, Wild, and Vikings fan (you could even throw the wolves in because they play in the state i pay taxes to) i would love the experience of losing a super bowl.

fishthumper wrote:

I like how everyone is talking about the Vikings next game and even beyond that, like tonight game is a given. With this Vikings team no game is a given. All depends on what Vikings team shows up to play. Hope its the better one.

What are you basing that off? I’d say between this website, conversations at work, with family and friends, and national media coverage, I’m not seeing many look past this game. Not to say it doesn’t happen but I don’t get that vibe.

Well Fleury is just illness right? If so hopefully it passes soon.

I’ve heard a couple ex-pro football guys talk about how good that loss might have been for them. How with the team winning 8 or 9 in a row, film sessions are a little lighter and teams get more time off on a “victory Monday. ” It was said that after that loss it gives them a chance to really look at where things went wrong again. A win and all that came with it would’ve been great but if it got something out of their system, like jitters, great to have that in what was a playoff preview with high stakes but still just a regular season game.

I’m either entirely missing what a lot of you are getting at or I’m the only one who saw them beat Dallas on the road the day after Christmas without KK. Faber with a sweet wraparound goal in OT.

gim wrote:

Haha, they cracked a joke about that too.

Dallas has also been floated as an option since the espn crew will already be there covering the cotton bowl.

The jokes about a playoff game finally being played in Dallas and it’s not the cowboys write themselves.

Looks like the long-awaited Jiricek call up has finally happened.

Good. The Wilfs just spent more on tickets for their own fans than the Pohlads have on their own team this offseason.

Another take from the threads resident least articulate hockey fan:

I want Fluery back next year,i think? I know the bell has been rung and it’s known as his retirement tour. Last year he played more and thought he started to become more of a liability in net, but he’s having a good year, and to come off the bench and give up nothing tonight was huge. He’s still got some play left in him and obviously the team loves him. I know it’s unlikely to happen but if Wally still needs time I’d be glad to have Flower back a year.

I missed far too much of that game putting kids to bed but followed the first period and a half on Twitter, so based on what I read and later saw that was a pretty cool roller coaster comeback win. Anxious to hear more on Faber though, and I didn’t catch why Gus was pulled, hoping it was just Hynes figuring it wasn’t his night, I know he (Gus) was on the bench at the end.

I agree. We’ll see how He does next week. But he did much more then get the Vikings through this year, he played great. Bass pundit your last paragraph is way too extreme and based on literally one pretty bad game while ignoring the rest of am entire season.

Matt Moen wrote:

Darnold might have cost himself a lot of money. If throws up a stinker in the first round all the talk of a big extension or free agency signing will be over.

I was thinking the same thing. My thought process all season has been that they should wait and see how Darnold’s season ends to finalize a plan because that could dictate a lot. Franchise tag could be around $40 million, but to resign a guy who played QB like that last night could be $20 million or less. If the front office does think like that it’s crazy to think that finishing the season on a bad note or two could have cost Darnold $20 million or more a year. We’ll see what happens in LA.

CaptainMusky wrote:

Not even remotely close in my experience. I get so many posts on FB for things I am not remotely following, not relevant to me or where I live and not counting all the ads, etc. I spend far more time on Twitter than on do on FB and its night and day different. Yeah, I will get ads here and there, but nothing like FB.

Yeah you’re right in that regard, I was more commenting on the bot situation. Agreed that FB is full of ads. I went through a phase last year where every day I was seeing ads for Upper Michigan snowmobile trials. Twitter/X does seem to be the platform with bots. I’ll see a tweet about the Vikings and the 2nd comment on the tweet will be some scantily clad woman wanting you to click a lick to speak to her privately haha.

Twitter/X is the same or worse.

Reef W wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Dan wrote:</div>
If that’s true, him spending time at a primarily Psyops base is irrelevant.

I don’t think it’s “primarily” psyops, Liberty (formerly Bragg) is gigantic. Conspiracy theorists are always shocked when someone in the army spent any time during their career at the largest army base though.

That’s what I’m getting at. People are trying to force some correlation where there is none. And it’s usually so it lines up with whatever they want the truth to be. For more examples see…. well, most of the posts in this thread.

Thoughts from this thread’s least hockey-articulate member:

Not that long ago the Wild went like 17 periods without anyone besides Kirill scoring. I would say their recent week or two without him, starting with beating Dallas on the road without him and continuing through beating some good East coast teams, they’ve played better as a team.

So they did ok with KK but it was because he carried them. Maybe it took his injury for them to step up and be a better whole team.

That is absolutely not the post I was trying to quote.

troutbum wrote:

Here is the cyber truck renters manifesto.
This dude was a verified armed forces bad ass.

Around 15 minutes they read email from him

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The article I just read said the New Orleans driver was in human resources and IT while on active duty. If that’s true, him spending time at a primarily Psyops base is irrelevant.