{"id":6809,"date":"2010-12-09T12:51:37","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T17:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=6809"},"modified":"2014-05-09T15:32:14","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T20:32:14","slug":"the-two-scotts-say-thumbs-down-on-the-vikings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/12\/09\/the-two-scotts-say-thumbs-down-on-the-vikings\/","title":{"rendered":"The Two Scotts say thumbs down on the Vikings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not surprisingly, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.macleans.ca\/2010\/12\/09\/nfl-picks-week-14-peyton-manning-would-like-his-balls-back-please\/\" target=\"_blank\">two Scotts<\/a> think that the Giants are going to win their matchup with Minnesota on Sunday:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>New York Giants (minus 2.5) at Minnesota<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reid<\/strong>: Favre is listed as questionable for Sunday after being knocked out of last week\u2019s game on his first passing attempt. Of course, no one really expects the Vikings to bring Brett\u2019s crusade for 300 straight starts to an end &mdash; so Tarvaris Jackson has, once again, been sent out to pick up smokes. In a sad effort to convince the coaches he was ready, Jackson even pretended last week to be Favre by tossing three interceptions. No luck. This streak ends at season\u2019s end or with Jenn Sterger moving into Favre\u2019s bungalow. <strong>Pick: New York.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Feschuk<\/strong>: Brett Favre is having an annus way more horribilis than that one the Queen had. With Dong-gate now in the hands of the Commissioner, it\u2019s worth reflecting on the details of the poorly understood NFL Code of Conduct policy. Exactly what does it demand of players like Favre? Here are a few excerpts of note:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;* Players are expected to report ON TIME for all meetings, scrimmages and police lineups.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;* Mandatory snickering in the huddle when the quarterback calls for a \u201ctwo-minute drill.\u201d<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;* If you\u2019re buying prostitutes, make sure you bring enough for the whole team.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;* When getting dressed for a public appearance, players are asked to remember that the penis goes on the inside. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Pick: New York.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not surprisingly, the two Scotts think that the Giants are going to win their matchup with Minnesota on Sunday: New York Giants (minus 2.5) at Minnesota Reid: Favre is listed as questionable for Sunday after being knocked out of last week\u2019s game on his first passing attempt. Of course, no one really expects the Vikings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[180,126,965,179,599],"class_list":["post-6809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","tag-brettfavre","tag-minnesotavikings","tag-newyorkgiants","tag-nfl","tag-tarvarisjackson"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1LP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6809"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25500,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6809\/revisions\/25500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}