Live Craziness Tonight

Oh Brett, what are you doing?

Brett Favre, at loggerheads with the Green Bay Packers for some time now over his desire to un-retire from the NFL and play for the team, is just 90mins away from landing in Wisconsin.

According to multiple sources, Favre will not attend tonight's scheduled practice at Lambeau field. The practice is a 'family night' and has been sold out for some time now. Instead, it is likely that he will (attempt to?) take part in Monday's 1pm session of Training Camp.

Commisioner Roger Goodell has apparently re-instated Favre, or at least expressed that such a move is imminent to both sides. Although Sunday is not technically a working day in the NFL's calendar, it seems that Goodell has either accepted Favre's reinstatement papers, or will do so early tommorow morning.

Stay tuned. That's all we're saying...

Live Football tonight

Hallelujah. It's been a long 6 months for most of us. Sure there's the draft, and there's Free Agency, and hey, Brett Favre did his bit to keep things interesting. Once we even watched CFL, things were that desperate.

But nothing compares to seeing the NFL live - even in a preseason game.

Tonight the Indianapolis Colts and Washington Redskins will contest the Hall of Fame matchup in Canton, Ohio. The game follows the induction of Darrell Green, Art Monk, Gary Zimmerman, Thurman Thomas, Andre Tippett, and Fred Dean into the Hall of Fame in Canton. That ceremony was held yesterday.

It's easy to doubt the value of preseason games to players - seeing as how most starters will play a quarter at most - but to the average fan (or manic obsessive like wide-right), there is nothing like the excitement that starts to build around this time of year.

For UK viewers, the game is live on Sky Sports 2 at 1am.