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  1. There will be plenty of parking available as they will all come out of one car.
    11 points
  2. Backstory first... I'm sure some of you have heard this story before, so I apologize for repeating. One late evening while @SteelBunz and I were cleaning up after working on the house during one of the MSHB trips (Katrina) I got a call from my stepmother. I knew right away something had to be wrong for her to be calling so late and my fears were confirmed when she told me that my sister's best friend and really more like a member of the family, was killed during a firefight in Iraq. The whole family was devastated. Roger was an incredible young man, very dedicated and true to his family, friends and country. But worst of all he left behind a young wife, son and newborn daughter. Today, during the Chiefs’ Salute to Services halftime show, Roger's son will be presented with a national scholarship. Alaric was eligible to apply for the scholarship since his father was KIA but it was Alaric and mom who did the hard work applying, interviewing, and ultimately being the nationwide senior they chose.
    9 points
  3. I'm going to give it one more week, then take a few months off.....
    9 points
  4. Why yes stevegrab I am.
    8 points
  5. I have done the following: 1. Wore a genie outfit for the first time 2. Played Chris Moneymaker poker online with some buddies 3. Played Mystery Husband with my wife 4. Went and got a SuperCut 5. Ironed my Victory Pants 6. AY2FDCBM 7. Tried to come up with One Song. Failed. 8. Tried to enjoy some new crock pot recipes. Spit them up. Left a bad taste in the mouth. 9. Bought some new furniture. My wife likes Bears. 10. Opened a kegg of beer. 11. Went to Spain. Found some bunny love. 12. Looked at a couple of well rounded beakers. 13. Fell in love with a panda. 14. Became a sarge in the army. 15. Styled my hair with a little San Francisco flair. 16. Wrote a poem. Or 352 of them. 17.Explored a cave in the New England area. 18. Watched a little Scooby-Do 19. Tried a pack of extra large trojans. Too big. 20. Went to the beach and became a bum for awhile. 21. gg whomp 22. 23. Wore a hat one of the Czar's of Russia wore in 1945 24. Make a Film 25. Did some squats to tighten my bunz 26. Cleaned some riffraff outta my garage 27. chargerzed up my phone 28. Ate some grits before I got kicked in the shins 29. nuked a burrito in the microwave 30. Painted my bedroom aqua
    8 points
  6. Most fans, most owners, and most players are getting put in to the middle of something they have no interest in being a part of. If you love football and stop watching because of the protests, you are allowing yourself to be victimized. You are letting them win. Ain't no one taking football away from me. I'll give you my remote when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
    8 points
  7. Has anyone in real life ever mentioned that you make simple conversations feel like a root canal?
    7 points
  8. There is no section 241 in Allegiant Stadium, host of this year's Super Bowl: https://blog.ticketiq.com/hs-fs/hubfs/las+vegas+raiders+seating+chart.jpg?width=1800&name=las+vegas+raiders+seating+chart.jpg
    7 points
  9. How about "Dallas is going to the SB..... They'll be in Section 241, rows 6-8."
    7 points
  10. Here's a list that encompasses not only the commissioners on paper, but also the guys who do the dirty work of keeping everything up-to-date, including collecting funds. In addition to those already mentioned above. I apologize in advance if I miss someone. Thank you for all that you do, gentlemen. @skylive5 @t-bone65 @ptheoret @Caveman_Nick @Def. @pokerboss @flemingd @Big John
    7 points
  11. Guys, talking things out and being considerate is not allowed around here. Try throwing some passive aggressive comments clearly directed at others and keep bumping old topics to reignite petty squabbles. Simply put, don't be better!
    7 points
  12. Do you realize that you are the one who ALWAYS injects the politics? What is it about the concept of no politics or religion on a f*cking fantasy football site that you don't understand? You are the major culprit in this. In fact, you're the primary instigator. If I were a mod, you'd take a vacation. You've been doing this like forever. Not appreciated. I'll say it plainly. You are a PIA when it comes to injected your politics into the threads. I come here to get away from that sh*t. @DMD
    7 points
  13. Definitely an Eagles fan seeing as how he spelled his city wrong.
    7 points
  14. Picked up Van and should park it down by the river now.
    7 points
  15. Might be worth the $10 so I know who to avoid....
    7 points
  16. The fantasy football gods are going to smite you for your cockiness. Sorry man. Better luck next year.
    7 points
  17. What's up with having to click a heart to like someone's post? Kinda ghey.
    7 points
  18. I don't feel sorry for them at all. I hope they don't win a single game and Dean Spanos catches crabs.
    7 points
  19. As an African American I'm claiming Kyle Shanahan as the coach for the black squad. I don't want Todd Bowles on my sidelines
    6 points
  20. He is just living up to his name.
    6 points
  21. Bunch of old grumpy farts in here now.
    6 points
  22. He is going to get a shot before that game that would make Keith Richards jealous
    6 points
  23. I'm making a real effort to be civil with everybody.
    6 points
  24. 6 points
  25. Spoken like a jilted owner who's getting roasted week 1.
    6 points
  26. I am not really interested in an extended conversation about this, but generally speaking this whole issue was one of where your choices affect others. There are very few absolutes in science and medicine. But there are risks and benefits. The risk of getting covid is much higher in unvaccinated. The risk of spreading covid is higher in unvaccinated if you are infected. This is not as pronounced as the risk of not being infected at all. Vaccinated people can spread the virus if they happen to get infected, just less so as they clear the virus faster. PCR test and rapid antigen tests can help but PCR catches about 80% of infections and rapid antigens even less, 66% or so. So they aren't necessarily a substitute for vaccination, say getting a rapid antigen test to enter a stadium or concert, you will still miss 1/3 infections. Vaccination is quite protective against getting COVID, and strongly protective against severe disease. Some people cannot get vaccinated due to allergies, too young, or some don't get as much boost because they are immune suppressed, on chemo drugs, etc. The long and short of this is that the unvaccinated are far more likely to have the disease, and more likely to spread it. The other people cannot fully protect themselves, although the risk is greatly reduced with vaccination. When your choices affect others, then I think the claims of persecution better be very convincing because you are putting others at risk. I don't think there is a blanket statement that can be made here, it depends on the risk and what we are talking about. But we don't let people smoke in public places, or drunk drivers drive how ever they want even if they feel persecuted. You can take this too far as well, such as keeping children out of schools for years to where they fall behind and the cure is worse than the disease. A little bit of common sense needs to be employed too.
    6 points
  27. I hate them all the time.
    6 points
  28. You guys need to set up a podcast and get your true feelings out in the open. Maybe your first guest could be a therapist? You could attract 10's of listeners and possibly be sponsored by Xanax or failing that, Klonopin.
    6 points
  29. 6 points
  30. This is just some form of Fantasy God punishment for me. I need to reflect on all my negative posts to stevegrab or something.
    6 points
  31. This guy should consider writing a book.
    6 points
  32. Keep in mind I am a SME on this topic, and in the top 1% in the nation as voted on by my peers. I say this not to be arrogant or avoid a counter argument or to say anyone is wrong because I'm an "expert", but to stress that I spent 17 years in the field. My replies are not based on stuff flying around social media or the biased media or so-called "news" outlets (e.g., ABC, NBC, Fox, CNN, etc). They are based on my experience and knowledge accumulated over those years studying viruses, social dimensions of a disaster, pharmaceutical intervention and continuity management. There is no hidden agenda outside of providing the honest facts. And this post isn't just a reply to LordOpie; it's for everyone in this thread. If society had let the virus burn out to begin with, we wouldn't have mutations. It would never burn out unless caught within the first 24 hours, and those exposed were placed in quarantine immediately. Even then, I doubt it would. For a virus to "burn out" requires a certain set of attributes. One of those is how infection occurs. Respiratory viruses are quite difficult to control given the nature of transmission. One infected person can expose hundreds simply by walking through a mall. However, a virus like Ebola can "burn out" because of its transmission method. It primarily passes through infected body fluids. This makes it harder to infect larger populations. The reason you see it hit so hard in Africa has to do with the sanitation infrastructure, wastewater infrastructure, and how bodies are handled after they expire. In a first world country, Ebola would have a difficult time spreading around. This virus is one that becomes endemic within a population. As many are aware, this is a coronavirus. And coronavirus is one of five viruses that cause the common cold along with the rhinovirus, respiratory syncytial virus, influenza and parainfluenza. We use the term "flu" colloquially because most of the colds we get hit with come from influenza. The reason why we have seasonal flu / seasonal flu shots is the same reason we see COVID-19 spawning off all these variants. Each year, the flu mutates a lot. It is a sloppy replicator and can make thousands of strains within a single season. And health officials have to guess which strain will become the dominant strains for the upcoming flu season. These strains are what is used in our flu shots. How they do this is relatively simple. During the spring and summer months in the Northern Hemisphere, officials monitor the fall and winter flu in the Southern Hemisphere. They pick the dominant strains, and big spam uses them in the seasonal flu shot. Coronaviruses aren't as sloppy when they mutate. So we see a few different variants. The media, social media, and the average person see these variants and think the worst of it. Here's the thing, once a virus is established in a population, it can become more contagious but rarely becomes more deadly. But keep in mind that is not a hard rule. However, I am somewhat confident that IS the case with this pandemic. So, in my professional opinion, SARs-CoV-2 is now, and forever, part of our society (endemic). It will be just like the flu. Constantly circulating, mutating and requiring seasonal vaccinations. Children weren't at risk to begin with but now they are. Children were always at risk. The initial wave of the pandemic showed that children under the age of 18 made up 8.5% to 9.5% of the cases (depending on the source you check). While there were fewer deaths and more mild cases compared to other age groups, keep in mind that there are far less people on this planet under the age of 18 than over the age of 18. There is a significantly larger population of people infected in the over 18 range which means larger percentages of people coming down with the disease. So, on the surface it looks like kids are less affected by it, that's not really the case. There are many reasons why we are seeing these spikes in children now. I need to call out that I do not know all of them. But what I do know I will share. The primary reason is that during the initial first wave, everyone was home. This limited the circulation of the virus. Adults had a very low chance of bringing it home. As things open back up, we started to see a slight increase in cases across all age groups. It wasn't as severe because people (for the most part) continued with social distancing and wearing masks. Once the vaccines hit and people started getting them, social distancing and mask wearing plummeted, and once in-school classes started last spring, we saw spikes in the disease. This is because of many factors. For one, adults who never received a vaccine, didn't social distance or wear a mask, and/or lied about being vaccinated contracted and brought it home to kids who then went to school and spread it. Now, with 80% of the adult population receiving at least one shot, the virus, much like water, will flow to the lowest point (the path of least resistance) - unvaccinated kids. This is the nature of an infectious agent. To clear up some misconceptions: You can still become infected after receiving the vaccine, or re-infected after already having it. The vaccine is meant to mitigate against severe disease presentation from the vanilla SARs-CoV-2 virus and has the ability to prevent it from taking hold in one's body. Today, if you are exposed to the Polio virus you wouldn't have a chance of spreading it because the virus replication is static. It doesn't really mutate. Therefore the Polio vaccine is pretty ironclad. However, as mentioned above, the coronavirus is somewhat sloppy (though, not nearly as bad as influenza) so it will constantly mutate. You will have some protection from the variants but it will take the body a little long to get it. So you can spread it. Bottom line, the vaccines work, are needed, and should be taken. More on that in a bit. Masks. The standard argument is that masks don't protect a person from the virus. Here's the thing, masks aren't designed to prevent one from catching the virus. Unless you are in a bio-level 4 protection suit, you can still catch the virus through a mask. The issue (I have) is how the anti-mask news media / social media present the argument. Masks are a mitigation, not a preventative measure. If I remember correctly, an unmasked person has a 15% higher chance of contracting the disease. That's pretty significant. Masks are part of an overall systemic approach to reducing one's odds of contracting the virus when added to social distancing, washing hands and getting the vaccine. Masks serve two purposes - 1. Limit the chance for exposure, and 2. Limit someone from spreading it by blocking respiratory droplets entering the air. The virus primarily travels in respiratory droplets. Even store bought or home-made cloth masks do very well against these droplets. So the argument that a virus can easily slip through the gaps in the fibers is not exactly true. The virus by itself, yes. Even then, atomic attraction will pull most of the virions into the fiber. However, the virus doesn't travel through the air by itself. It needs the droplets to do that. Keep in mind I'm only speaking on how it travels through the air since I'm making a point on masks. It can still be caught from surfaces. People who say their freedom is being taken away are flat out wrong. This is a public health crisis and not some debate on constitutional law. The government cannot enforce masks ubiquitously; however, they can when it comes to the government's domain. The vaccines. Oh boy, here we go, right? I'm only going to speak on the two mRNA vaccines since they have the most inaccurate "news" around them. These are not some new vaccines that haven't been tested in the way everyone who is opposed to them may think. The mRNA technology has been around since the 1980s. This technology uses synthetic mRNA that enters our cells, and instructs these cells to produce a protein. This is normal cellular function. The mRNA leaves our systems within 24 hours. It does NOT alter our genetic make-up. Once it leaves our systems, our cells stop producing the protein assigned to it. The only thing that was new to them was the synthetic mRNA that was built to produce the spike protein on the virus. In 2010, BioNTech, Pfizer and Moderna began working on mRNA based treatments. When the pandemic hit, all they needed to do was pivot from the existing synthetic mRNA they were testing to the COVID-19 one. This is why it seemed to develop so fast. But in reality, this is 30 years in the making. That being said, these vaccines are the first to be successful. The mRNA technology has been successfully used in other biotech applications other than vaccines. All vaccines, medical procedures, surgeries, etc carry risk with them. None are 100% safe. As far as these go, my professional and personal opinion is that these are safe. There will always be a small percentage that experience negative effects. So using those numbers to push an agenda that the vaccines are dangerous is, at a minimum, disingenuous. I say all of this as someone who did have an adverse reaction related to the Moderna vaccine. After I received my second shot on April 3, 2021, I was rushed to the ER roughly 8 hours later. My heart went into afib. The top half of my heart was beating rapidly (200 times a minute) while the bottom half was just quivering as it tried to catch up. It was a strange and disturbing sensation to say the least but it didn't hurt. I could feel it in my chest and stomach. Not enough blood was circulating in my body so I kept fainting. After an hour in the ER my heart reverted to normal rhythm. They released me and I made an appointment with a cardiologist. He is now part of my normal doctor visits. As time ticks by, I experience it less and less but still need to remain on blood thinners to prevent strokes. Apparently, blood can pool in the chambers of the heart and begin clotting while in afib. Once normal rhythm returns, the heart can eject the blood clots causing strokes or pulmonary embolism. Turns out, the vaccine itself didn't do this. The vaccine had put a strain on my system after the first shot. And I do remember having a few instances at night of my heart racing while trying to sleep. Once the second shot hit my system, it placed more stress on my system. Turns out, I have (since birth) defects with all of my valves, and because I have high blood pressure (that is treated btw), my left ventricle is slightly larger and the chamber walls thicker. Both of these heart problems combined with the strain on my system triggered the severe afib. My cardiologist believes I've had afib issues for a while now, but because they were mild in presentation I didn't feel or notice them. But the vaccine helped identify these issues. So now, I'm scheduled for an ablation later on this month to prevent future episodes of afib, and we will talk about when I need open heart surgery for the valves. After all of that, I still champion these vaccines. My girlfriend works for one of the two companies making the mRNA. She has taught me so much about Big spam. I'm less cynical about them.
    6 points
  33. Happy 4th Year sober for me and that other thing
    6 points
  34. often NEP thrive on defense. Didn't 5-10 defenders opt out. Last year they were deprived of talent and they never really addressed it. not only did brady walk into Evans, Godwin, Howard, Brate, Ronald jones...but they brought in fournette, a brown and gronk. I am not sure brady has had as many solid options in his career.
    6 points
  35. You are on every one of my teamsTypically drafted at or near round 14Week 1 was freaking hazy27.3 points on my bench made me crazyWeek 2 you were a starter, 1.4 points was a complete fartrerYou've been stashed away for bye weeks and flexYet your best-ball value still turns necksTonight you went for 28.5, my high stakes team is still aliveHowever, you bring me so much damn painI benched you for a Gallman, named Wayne
    6 points
  36. If the Minnesota defense doesn’t practice, would anybody notice?
    6 points
  37. What a kick in the F'in nuts. Here is a guy who has true skin in the game. He isnt a keyboard warrior wetting himself to show how anti racist he is. Hes a guy that donated millions of dollars to his impoverished community , many of which are black , and hes getting dragged through the mud royally because he felt the kneeling was disrespectful to the flag even though he agreed with the reason. Tons of NFL players on twitter blasting him even though most of them probably haven't done a fraction of the charitable work this guy has done. A shame to watch a good man get swallowed up in an internet shark tank
    6 points
  38. News Bulletin: Kyler Murray just admitted to Banner University Medical Center Emergency Room in Phoenix with an uncontrollable erection.
    6 points
  39. LordOpie, you wonder why you rub people the wrong way and people say that you're one of the reasons why many have left this board. I'll tell you. It's instances like this thread where a guy is just sharing info that he had, which obviously turned out to be true and pretty damn specific btw, and you brow beat the guy for not wanting to give his source until he thinks he's the one being a jerk. Info like that can be like gold in fantasy football, but you're too wrapped up in your own ego of being Lord of the board to see that. If I were him I'd never feel like I should share anything I'd "heard" with this board again. In fact I've felt that way myself for a good number of years here and had I not still had a good amount of folks still here that I've built a relationship with then I'd have left right along with all of the others. Now I find myself regretting it half the time I do post something on the main board. This place used to be able to police itself for the most part, but at some point that became frowned upon and long time Huddlers started getting banned for calling people out. So, yeah, rather than call you out for being a complete ass, I took the "passive aggressive" approach and tried to encourage the guy to share info when/if he's able to get it. But if you think I'm afraid to speak my mind in an open forum then you don't know me very well at all.
    6 points
  40. Was that added before or after the words 'insufferable dullard?'
    6 points
  41. Directly from NFL Memes
    6 points
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