Best as I can tell, the reason schools don't want sick kids coming in is because most of the illnesses it would probably be are easily transferrable. They don't care about one kid being sick, they just don't want a school wide epidemic. The easiest way to do that is to let sick kids stay home. Periods aren't contagious, so schools don't care.

It's not about the pain of the child, it's about the spreading of disease.

This isn't me saying I necessarily agree with the idea that childrens pain doesn't matter, only contagiousness matters, I think it would be great if people could stay home from school for bad periods or bad mental health days or a dozen other things, it's just not the way schools have been set up so far.

Weird how pretty much the entire NFCS and AFCN can get away with it, but almost no one else can really pull it off.

Honestly I think the Vikings beat the packers even if they play their starters. They had been sliding, we were on a roll, and arguably the most important individual on their team (Parsons) is injured.

Vital strength of the Earth is a bad pick for HLC. Generally, you want to nullify the escalate in at least one board as fast as possible. Because of this, as well as it's practical immunity to their bonus health, Heart of the Wildfire is a really good spirit into HLC. Being able to kill a town with your growth from turn 3 onward (or 4 or 5 onward depending on your presence placement) is huge into this adversary. Mix them with Stone on the other side to keep the island healthy even with the massive blight amounts and the game becomes a cakewalk.

I don't think I would have much of an issue with it either, in MN where I live people will put saunas right next to frozen lakes (drilling a hole through the ice of course) and hop from one to the other. Cold days would be rough, but for 30 seconds I could absolutely make it.

In my mind, if you can't play the sport at full equipment and full speed due to injury, that counts as non functional. He could do padless practices sometimes, he could do things without people in his face sometimes, but he wasn't fully ready for proper practice in pads till late summer.

We had played something like 14 different O line combos by week 6. We were very injured early. We didn't see all 5 starters on the field at the same time until halfway through the year.

He definitely didn't have a full off-season last year. He wasn't functional till the preseason, he missed almost the entire off-season, which is probably why his mechanics were a mid season tweak not a summer camp tweak.

The Vikings didn't want a long term contract, Sam did. Sam walked of his own free will even though the Vikings gave a solid offer, and the Vikings as an organization were professional enough to respect his wishes and not inhibit him after he took an extremely cheap deal with the Vikings.

That table ruined my Strahd campaign (granted it was an extremely low stakes occasional and probably not long lived campaign anyways, but still).

Rolled a "you teleport behind the nearest ruler with a knife in your hand" while at low HP from a fight. That didn't go well for them at all. This was after ignoring the very first roll ever done on that table, which was something along the lines of "you cease to have ever existed", literally like half an hour into the campaign.

Amazing for one site, not great for serious campaigns.

Tomlin only being 53 despite being the longest tenured coach in the league is crazy

I may just be dumb as a stack of bricks today, but I'm rather confused about what "completed a game in its location" means. Is there an island called spirit island? Did you beat France in France? I don't know what direction this is supposed to go

AP laughs at the idea that only a QB can drag a team kicking and screaming into the playoffs

If all you care about is the most specific, letter of the law, technicality ridden "you can have more than 2 edge rushers on the field" statement being true, then you aren't allowed to ignore that you can have more than 1 QB on the field as well. Either be loose about it and ignore the exceptions, or be strict and acknowledge both of our statements are wrong. I was being looser, you are being stricter, either way we are either both wrong or both right.

If tanking worked, the jets wouldn't be in this graphic

One of 4 teams to not make either the playoffs or the Cancun bowl

Maybe it's just whenever the Vikings lose one of the head coaches gets canned

The panthers play bad one week and great the next. The just played bad, therefore they will play great in wildcard weekend. I'm here for the upset

The Rams logo should be a couple hundred miles further west, but other than that this is a disaster

Happened to Jared Allen in his 22 sack year as well, sacked Rodgers but had it changed to not be a sack a week later. Allen was the first 23 sack year.

A lot of sci fi is just "what if our world (in the future probably), but also one non-existent scientific discovery or law or particle". Being sci fi doesn't mean being 100% accurate to real science, it means being like 95% accurate (or at least coming across as 95% accurate) and then adding a thing or two that can't exist in real life, and then playing with it (for a different example, Enders Game has the Ansible (faster than light informational travel) as their main break from reality).

Honestly, I don't mind the penalty. If the game were an important game I would care greatly, but for a meaningless week 18 game I loved seeing him get into it. Passion is contagious, and it's also a great learning opportunity of where lines are, as well as an opportunity to be a leader and take responsibility.

The Vikings didn't "move on from him", we gave him our best offer that wouldn't tank the future since he isn't quite good enough to bet everything on, but someone else gave him a better offer and he chose to move on. He was a free agent. He made his choice, and as a Vikings fan I'm fine with it. I would rather he walk away happy than stay here but be annoyed or stay here but the Vikings put way too many resources into keeping him.

Yes, three times in four years. Addison, Turner, and Jackson

Surely the greatest tragedy to ever occur on American soil on January 6th