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Brett Favre is getting his wish. The NFL league office will announce later today that Favre will be reinstated to the Green Bay Packers, but that reinstatement will not officially take effect until 1 p.m. ET Monday.Commissioner Goodell waited for both sides to come to some sort of an agreement. But when they failed to do so, in the end, Goodell felt if Favre wanted to play football that he should be given the right to do just that.Once Favre has arrived at Green Bay training camp, sources tell FOXSports.com the team will ramp up efforts to trade him. In...

In Pennsylvania, McCain Tells a New Version of Heroic P.O.W. Story -- Subbing the Pittsburgh Steelers for the Green Bay Packers July 10, 2008 5:37 PMYesterday in Pittsburgh, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., professed his love for the Steelers to KDKA-TV. Watch HERE. Asked what first comes to his mind when he thinks of Pittsburgh, McCain chuckled, "the Steelers.  I was a mediocre high school athlete but I loved and adored the sports but the Steelers really made a huge impression on me particularly in my early years." And then McCain told a rather moving story about his time as a...

The Green Bay Packers' general manager and coach don't plan to grant Brett Favre's request for his release. If he does rejoin the team, they told The Associated Press this morning, it won't be as the starting quarterback. And Favre is unlikely to accept a backup role, GM Ted Thompson and coach Mike McCarthy acknowledged in their first public comments since the 38-year-old Favre demanded his release this week.

GREEN BAY, Wis. - Green Bay Packers running back Noah Herron thwarted a would-be burglar by hitting him with a bed post during a break-in at his home. Brown County Sheriff Dennis Kocken said Tuesday that the break-in happened late last Friday and the injured the intruder remained hospitalized but is expected to recover. "Noah Herron used necessary, reasonable and justifiable force in protecting his life and property," Kocken said in a statement. "Herron, the victim in this random home invasion, is cooperating with law enforcement." Herron, 26, missed all of last season with a knee injury. Chief Deputy John...

Upset that his 7-year-old son wouldn't wear a Green Bay Packers jersey during the team's playoff victory Saturday, a man restrained the boy for an hour with tape and taped the jersey onto him. < snip > Kowald, contacted later Wednesday by the Portage Daily Register, said the incident happened in a joking manner as his son challenged him by saying he wouldn't root for the Packers. When he tied the boy up, the youngster was laughing as his wife took pictures.

Okay, now he has done it.......

MADISON, Wis.—Mention Wisconsin and the average person thinks of the Green Bay Packers, cheese and cold weather. Some state lawmakers and the Department of Tourism want to change that image. They're trying to come up with a new state brand to explain why Wisconsin is a good place to visit, live and do business. "We are the Green Bay Packers. We are a great agricultural state. We are America's Dairyland," said Rep. Steve Wieckert, R-Appleton. "But we are more than that." An Assembly committee is expected to vote Thursday on Wieckert's plan to require the Department of Administration to study...

(The Packers are piling up victories at a Lombardi-like pace. With a stout defense and ageless quarterback, it's starting to feel like '96.) Green Bay, WI - No one has to explain to Green Bay Packers fans the fleeting nature of greatness in the National Football League. There was Super Bowl XXXI and another close call and then Ray Rhodes and Mike Sherman came and went and Brett Favre's hair turned gray before our eyes. LeRoy Butler and Gilbert Brown and Ron Wolf retired. Darren Sharper went to Minnesota. Reggie White died. This isn't en-Titled Town. There are no style...

1. The New England Patriots as Hillary Clinton... "The greatest of all time" or so the "experts" wonder aloud? (And many would disagree...) The most organizational strength of any of the field. Complete with "philandering quarterback who'd rather knock up a girl, and leave her for a new Supermodel" - ready to take up residence as "first lady" and whose calendar would be well... blank, thus allowing him to remain "in play" pretty much 24/7. Team Hillary is also willing to stoop to classic Belicheck cheating levels like videotaping the visiting team's signals, or even planting ONLY the questions that...

I watched HBO's Inside The NFL this week and they aired a piece about a group of Packer fans that have been making trips to Brett Favre's hometown of Kiln, MS to help rebuild houses destroyed by Katrina. It was mostly a feel-good piece, but I really enjoyed it. This group has made about twenty trips to Kiln to help rebuild houses. I can't remember the exact number, but I think they said they've helped about 44 families rebuild. While I was watching this story, I couldn't help but think this is what's right with America. People helping other people....

GREEN BAY, Wis. - Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre will return for his 17th season, Favre told the Sun Herald in Biloxi, Miss., on Friday. "I am so excited about coming back," he told the newspaper. "We have a good nucleus of young players. We were 8-8 last year and that's encouraging.

Super Bowl I Super Bowl I Quarter 1 2 3 4 Tot Chiefs 0 10 0 0 10 Packers 7 7 14 7 35 Date January 15, 1967 Stadium Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum City Los Angeles MVP Bart Starr, Quarterback Favorite Packers by 14 National anthem University of Arizona and University of Michigan Bands Coin toss Norm Schachter Referee Norm Schachter Halftime show University of Arizona and University of Michigan Bands Attendance 61,946 TV in the United States Network CBS and NBC Announcers CBS: Ray Scott, Jack Whitaker and Frank Gifford NBC: Curt Gowdy and Paul Christman Nielsen Ratings CBS:...

Tee Bee over at Guide to Midwestern Culture has been keeping an eye on the story of the Packalope, whose distinctive headgear has been banned from Lambert, I mean Lambeau Field because his antlers, according to Green Bay officials, fall under the "anything that can be used as a weapon" category." The ban was announced in August. The Packalope, whose real name is Larry Primeau, has had a tough go of it recently. Visiting his web site, I learned Primeau's wife passed away last November. The Green Bay Packers have had a terrible 2005. Does this have anything to do...

A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day Free Republic made its debut in September, 1996, and the forum was added in early 1997.   Over 100,000 people have registered for posting privileges on Free Republic, and the forum is read daily by tens of thousands of concerned citizens and patriots from all around the country and the world. A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day was introduced on June 24, 2002. It's only a small room in JimRob's house where we can get to know one another a little better; salute and support our military and our leaders; pray for those in...

He's human, really. And that's hard to remember. This is Brett Favre. Gunslinger. Competitor. Fighter. Champion. Favre has started an NFL record 225 straight games at quarterback for the Green Bay Packers. Heading into the 14th year of The Streak, Favre drives on as the records, his coaches, the opponents and his teammates fall by the wayside. He walks gingerly on feet that ache and an ankle that's killing him. His head has at least one gray hair for every one of the 379 sacks. This is Brett Favre. Survivor. The kid transplanted from Mississippi's Rotten Bayou into Vince Lombardi's...

An anonymous wise man once said, "the only good preseason is a finished preseason...with, like, no major injuries." Perhaps our undercover wise man fails to quite stand alongside Longfellow for etymological elegance, but he was most assuredly on point in the case of the 2005 Washington Redskins. Roughly four days hence, what transpired over the past four weeks will be but a fleeting memory--the casually discarded satin prelude to an evening of intimate revelry. Ahem. Bottom line, the 2005 preseason was a good one. And that's all I have to say about that. When we last left the real Washington...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (May 31, 2005) -- The Green Bay Packers will retire Reggie White's number at halftime ceremonies of their home opener against the Cleveland Browns on Sept. 18. Team president Bob Harlan said he had told White before his death last December that he wanted to add his No. 92 to the retired numbers listed in the north end zone at Lambeau Field. "He was thrilled. He kept saying what an honor that would be," Harlan said. White, who suffered from a respiratory ailment, died Dec. 26 at age 43. He joined the Packers in 1993 in one...

GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) -- Brett Favre has stood on top of the National Football League for nearly two decades. The Fenton native has won three MVP awards and earned a Super Bowl ring while leading the Green Bay Packers to the world championship in 1996 at the Louisiana Superdome. Packed with a bank account the amount of which most people can only dream, the 14-year veteran looks invincible -- with the world in his hand. But the father of two daughters has faced some of life's most trying times during the last 17 months -- from the loss of his...

Brett Favre isn’t sure whether Javon Walker cares what he thinks of his receiver’s holdout, but just in case, the Green Bay Packers’ quarterback made it clear. “If Javon wants to know what his quarterback thinks, and I would think he might, I’d tell him he’s going about this the wrong way,” Favre said. “When his agent tells him not to worry about what his teammates think and all that stuff, I’d tell him I’ve been around a long time and that stuff will come back to haunt you.” Favre, 35, expressed his disappointment with Walker during a telephone interview...

OSHKOSH, Wis. - It's a choice that could give pause to some Green Bay Packers fans. A judge ordered a woman convicted of theft to decide whether to spend 90 days in jail or donate her family's Packers tickets next season to charity. Sharon E. Rosenthal, 59, took more than $3,000 from labor union accounts before she left the organization, according to a criminal complaint. She was sentenced Friday in Winnebago County Circuit Court on one felony count of theft. Judge Scott Woldt offered her the decision to either serve the jail time or donate her family's four seats in...

OSHKOSH, Wis. (AP) It's a choice that could give pause to some Green Bay Packers fans. A judge ordered an Appleton woman convicted of theft to decide whether to spend 90 days in jail or donate her family's Packers tickets next season to charity. Sharon E. Rosenthal, 59, of Appleton, took more than $3,000 from labor union accounts before she left the organization, according to a criminal complaint. She was sentenced Friday in Winnebago County Circuit Court on one felony count of theft. Judge Scott Woldt offered her the decision to either serve the jail time or donate her family's...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) - Green Bay Packers wide receiver Robert Ferguson temporarily lost feeling in his legs Sunday night after a vicious clothesline hit by Jacksonville safety Donovin Darius... ...Darius hit the defenseless Ferguson across the neck, stunning the crowd and infuriating the Packers with 4:41 left in their 28-25 loss to the Jaguars. Darius was ejected. Ferguson, according to teammates, was knocked unconscious. He gave a thumbs-up as he left the field on a stretcher, but didn't regain feeling in his legs until he'd left for a hospital for X-rays and further evaluation, coach Mike Sherman said. ...Darius...

From Powerline.com "Actually, my mom recieved a recorded message from Brett Favre supporting Bush. Reference was made to todays win vs the Redskins. I would imagine this is playing all over Wisconsin." Apparently courting athletes was part of the Rove strategy for the last 72 hour push. Of course it looks like Favre was trying to lose today with 3 interceptions today. This could actually be big in Wisconsin

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — President Bush could not resist a fresh opportunity to tease his opponent about fumbling the name of the Green Bay Packers' field. In fact, Bush went out of his way Saturday to create the opportunity. [snip]Notably absent from Bush's speeches Saturday was any mention of Osama bin Laden, who turned up in a videotaped message a day earlier. White House communications director Dan Bartlett said the president did not intend to bring up the topic again, after responding sharply to a Kerry attack on Friday night. "We made our point. We had to set the...

BUSH MAKES UNSCHEDULED STOP: LAMBEAU FIELD: President Bush gets his car in front of Lambeau Field, the hallowed stadium of the Green Bay Packers, to shake hands and get his picture taken —- Kerry, earlier in the race, referred to the stadium as Lambert Field.

Action 2 News has learned Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry will campaign once again in Northeast Wisconsin. Senator Kerry will be in Appleton this Saturday for a political rally inside Roosevelt Middle School, 318 East Brewster Street. Doors open at 7:30 a.m. The event is free and open to everyone. Al Gordon of the Kerry-Edwards campaign says people don't need a ticket, "just come on down." Senator Kerry was just in the Green Bay area Monday and Tuesday, and had a campaign rally at Lawrence University in Appleton on October 15th. President Bush is also rallying in our area Saturday...

She says that like it's a bad thing. In a Boston Herald article ("Kerry steeling himself for visit to Heinz territory", 1/23/2002), Teresa Heinz Kerry revealed her true feelings about the Packers loyalists. She mentioned that, at the 1996 Super Bowl, Green Bay Packer fans were "partying harder than anyone she had ever seen". "I've never seen fans drink so much," she said.

18 straight pre-election Redskins games have predicted presidency By Nate Bloomquist nbloomquist@greenbaypressgazette.com John Kerry’s strongest ally in the battle for the White House could be the Green Bay Packers. A 72-year-old connection between how the Washington Redskins and their predecessor fare in the game before a presidential election and the election’s outcome puts the Packers in Kerry’s corner. The Packers play the Redskins at FedEx Field on Oct. 31; the election is Nov. 2. If the Redskins lose or tie the game before the presidential election, the party in the White House gets ousted. A Redskins win is a win...

Susan Lampert Smith, a columnist for the Wisconsin State Journal in Madison, was sprawled on her couch in Mount Horeb on Sunday afternoon, like so many others in her state, watching the Green Bay Packers and looking forward to a nap. Suddenly, as she tells it, the phone rang and her friend Mary was on the line. "John Kerry's at the Main Street Pub watching the Packers," Mary told her. "I just thought she was pulling my leg," Smith told E&P Monday. Smith had written a column for that day's State Journal challenging the pointy-headed Kerry to visit a small-town...

WASHINGTON (AP) Note to presidential candidates: When in Wisconsin make sure you get your legendary sports figures' names correct. Democratic nominee John Kerry has gotten some grief, in Wisconsin and nationally, for referring to Lambeau Field as ``Lambert Field'' during a campaign appearance. Vice President Dick Cheney was quoted as saying, ``The next thing is he'll be convinced Vince Lombardi is a foreign leader.'' President Bush offered Kerry some advice during an appearance in Wisconsin this month. He said: ``If someone offers you a cheesehead, don't say you want some wine. Just put it on your head and take a...

MILWAUKEE, Sept. 14 -- Forget soccer moms and NASCAR dads. The most important demographic in these parts transcends gender and geography -- it's Green Bay Packers fans.Both candidates are targeting them with the ferocity of a Brett Favre bullet, but only John F. Kerry has fumbled the name of the hallowed grounds on which the Packers play, the frozen tundra of Curly Lambeau Field. At a campaign event last month, the Democratic presidential nominee called it Lambert Field -- a slip of the tongue carried on television, in papers throughout the state and on ESPN's Web site. That's akin to...

Candidate tries to regain footing after Lambeau Sept. 14 - Forget soccer moms and NASCAR dads. The most important demographic in these parts transcends gender and geography -- it's Green Bay Packers fans. Both candidates are targeting them with the ferocity of a Brett Favre bullet, but only John F. Kerry has fumbled the name of the hallowed grounds on which the Packers play, the frozen tundra of Curly Lambeau Field. At a campaign event last month, the Democratic presidential nominee called it Lambert Field -- a slip of the tongue carried on television, in papers throughout the state and...

The Battle for Wisconsin by Stephen F. Hayes 09/06/2004, Volume 009, Issue 48 Green Bay JOHN KERRY may have lost Wisconsin last Wednesday. Lambeau Field is arguably the most historic sporting venue in the United States. Opposing players long for the opportunity to play there. It's the Mecca of American football. Every American male over the age of 4 can finish the description of the field made famous by the pseudo-thunderous voice of ESPN's Chris Berman: "The Frooooooozen Tunnnnnnnndra of . . . " Lambert Field? That's what John Kerry called it during a stop last week in Green Bay....

You'd think that the Democratic Candidate for President of the United States would be more sensitive of other religions. Multiculturalism is the mantra of the Democratic Party, and they are never more moral than when they are castigating Americans for their lack of cultural and religious sensitivity. So it was quite a shock when John Kerry, visiting the Holy City of Green Bay, did rename and thus blaspheme the Holiest of Temples of the Frozen Tundra... Now, I myself am not an adherent to the religion of Cheeseheadism, but I have great respect for the followers of the aforementioned religion,...

Thank goodness that we have John Kerry on the stump to distract us from ... John Kerry on the run from his Viet Nam narrative. In yet another cringe-inducing moment regarding sports, Kerry managed to goof up the name of one of the NFL's shrines in its home city (via Kerry Spot and a number of laughing fans at Keegan's last night): On Wednesday, Kerry made his third visit to Green Bay, Wis., this year and made it a point to focus on the main thing the city revolves around: football and the Green Bay Packers. ... Unfortunately, during the...

THE FROZEN TUNDRA OF... LAMBERT FIELD? [08/26 08:05 PM] Steve Chaggaris of CBS News reports: On Wednesday, Kerry made his third visit to Green Bay, Wis., this year and made it a point to focus on the main thing the city revolves around: football and the Green Bay Packers... As he was taking questions from the audience, he referred to the legendary Packers stadium, Lambeau Field (which has been called that for 39 years) as "Lambert Field." If the voters catch wind of that gaffe, it could take Kerry another three visits to Green Bay to make up for it....

Rivera Thankful For Trip To Middle East by Adam Woullard, Packers.com posted 07/13/2004 For 16 weeks a year, Green Bay Packers guard Marco Rivera puts his body on the line each Sunday, going to battle for his teammates and coaches. But, having recently returned from a trip to the Middle East, Rivera says the week of June 19-24 that he spent with the real soldiers is one week in his life that he will never forget. After catching the short flight from Green Bay to Chicago, Rivera flew nearly eight hours to London. From London, he was in the air...

Posted on Mon, Jan. 12, 2004 Fans never gave up hope By JIM NOLAN nolanj@phillynews.com IT WASN'T cheesy. But we'll take it. If the 2003 Philadelphia Eagles proved anything yesterday, it's that they're as tough and resilient as the people who root for them. Neither wind (SW at 13 miles per hour), nor cold (25 degrees, 13 wind chill), nor dark of night (fourth and 26, down by three points with 1:12 to play) could stop the gutsy Eagles from edging the Packers, 20-17, in overtime at the Linc. "Nobody gave up hope," said Eagles coach Andy Reid, summing up...

<p>CHICAGO - (KRT) - They used to call someone like Brett Favre a "man's man," back when guys didn't have to talk about their feelings or take Lamaze classes or know how to make chicken artichoke soup with fresh tarragon. Modern enlightenment has rendered the "man's man" invisible, or at least forced him to cover up with a sarong.</p>

Bring it on, Cheeseheads! We love Brett, hate the Packers By WILLIAM BUNCH bunchw@phillynews.com AP The always dangerous Brett Favre LOVE the man. Hate the town. OK, let's drop the atty-tude for about 10 seconds, and give some props to Green Bay Packers' QB Brett Favre. All of America - yes, even us - loves the spunk of this future Hall of Famer and his Hollywood-ready saga. It was Favre - in case you've been living in a spider hole outside of Mosul recently - who took the field 24 hours after learning that his mentor father had died of...

The newspaper guy on the phone from the Philadelphia area was just being honest, not threatening. I had asked him what he would say to Green Bay Packers fans who want to go to Sunday’s game in Philadelphia wearing green and gold. His response: “You might as well put on a sign saying, ‘Beat Me Senseless.’” He didn’t laugh. He didn’t even chuckle. He was just trying to be honest. You know there will be some Packers fans who will show up Sunday in Philly. Some may paint their faces. Some may wear Cheeseheads. Some may wear Brett Favre jerseys....

Posted Jan. 03, 2004 Game forecastFans attending Sunday’s playoff game against the Seattle Seahawks will be greeted with temperatures in the low 20s and perhaps some snow. According to WFRV meteorologist Dave Miller, the game time temperature will be about 22 degrees with a northeast wind blowing at 10-15 mph. There also is a chance of snow. “There is a front going through the southern part of the state where they expect some snow,” said Miller. “And we could get a couple of inches here. The big concern right now is for those traveling south after the game.”   Packers...

There is no place anywhere like Lambeau Field and no fans anywhere like Green Bay fans and no energy any place on earth like the two come together for an afternoon of fun and games. And if the Packer team is a good one and if the game is an important one and if the weather is inhospitable to all but the locals -- because Lord knows they can handle anything -- then you have the makings of epic outdoor theater. On December 31, 1967 -- in the memory of the mind variously yesterday and a third of a century...

It was announced on local t.v. this evening, that Brett Favre's Dad has died.It was not known if he suffered a stroke or heart attack while driving in his car in Kiln, Miss.The Packer organization has not announced if Brett will play in the Monday night game. It will be announced tomorrow.Our prayers go out to the family.

'I don't know who taught him to fly, but they didn't tell him to check the gas'. A 25-year-old man is facing several charges after his plane, reported stolen from an airfield in Maine, crashed into a Montérégie field yesterday morning. The man, a Livingston, Me., resident, suffered only minor injuries in the accident. He had been flying a Cessna without a pilot's licence or flight training, said Constable Manon Gaignard of the Sûreté du Québec. For unknown reasons, the man left a private airport, near Turner, Me., about 6:30 a.m., running out of gas three hours later above St....

Members of the Pack sport it on their jerseys too, but I can't find the logo on packers.com. I imagine it has to do with the frozen tundra's renovation. This inquiring Eagles fan wants to know. Please describe it. All the words I can read on it (on TV) are "Lambeau Field" but there must be other writ.

<p>A 14-year-old boy was found dead in a home that was being rented to Green Bay Packers wide receivers coach Ray Sherman. Police said they responded to a 911 call from the home Sunday afternoon. The boy, who authorities did not identify, died from an apparent gunshot wound to the head, police said. An autopsy was scheduled for Monday.</p>

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*** USELESS VANITY THREAD *** And thus begins the official end to the season of 20 NFL teams as the 12 survivors jockey for their post-season slots this weekend. AFC East Team W L T Miami 9 6 0 N.Y. Jets 8 7 0 New England 8 7 0 Buffalo 7 8 0 AFC North Team W L T y-Pittsburgh 9 5 1 Cleveland 8 7 0 Baltimore 7 8 0 Cincinnati 2 13 0 AFC South Team W L T y-Tennessee 10 5 0 Indianapolis 9 6 0 Jacksonville 6 9 0 Houston 4 11 0 AFC West Team...