Fox to use Favre-Cam during Vikings-Packers game

Let's do it again, this time with Favre-Cam. Yes, Fox will have a camera dedicated to catching Brett Favre every minute, all game long on Sunday.

The first time the Minnesota Vikings and Green Bay Packers met this season was on a Monday night and was pumped up (as if it needed to be) by the effective hype of ESPN and its cast of thousands. It was, of course, a hit with viewers.

This time the game is on Sunday afternoon, on Fox and it's in Green Bay. So there's a little less manufactured hype (well, except for the Favre-Cam) but even more emotions.

Enough that Fox prevailed on the NFL to move the game from its early spot to the 1:15 p.m. time frame, taking the national spotlight from the Giants and Eagles.

Terry Bradshaw will have a taped pregame interview with Favre, and we wouldn't normally hype this except Bradshaw was particularly critical of Favre's preseason equivocations about if and where he might play this season.

"I'm tired of it," Bradshaw said on the season's opening weekend after Favre had come out of retirement (again) to sign with the Vikings. "I wish it would go away. . . . I'll be glad when he's retired and moved on because I'm really fed up with him."

This shows the pull of television, that Favre is sitting down with Bradshaw.

Oh, and, before the game in Minnesota, Bradshaw said, "I just don't understand Brett Favre. Once I said he was the best quarterback I've ever seen and I still believe that. He told us he was retired not once, but twice. It might have been three or four times. I lost count. . . . Why does it bother me so much? Because I watched him cry and say he had no more to give us and I believed him."

It's possible the pregame will be better than the game. But will anybody cry?

Another big NBA voice

Kevin McHale, the former Celtics star and former Minnesota Timberwolves general manager and coach, has joined NBA-TV and TNT.

McHale modestly says he doesn't want to "mess up" the chemistry of the TNT crew of host Ernie Johnson and analysts Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith or step on the toes of Chris Webber and company on NBA-TV.

One thing McHale gets is that Johnson will make him a better on-air personality.

"Ernie has a great sense of timing," McHale said. "He's got a really good sense of rhythm." McHale said before getting the job he did a mock show with Johnson, an audition exercise that showed McHale what makes a good sports studio show. "Ernie made it very easy, real fun."

So far, so Yankees