Some-time sports fans across the nation will be relieved to hear that Roy & HG will again call this year's footy grand finals.

The ABC has announced that the irreverent commentators, who made sport make sense to everyone but proper fans (who after all can look after themselves), will again revive their Festival of the Boot program on Newsradio. The pair will call the AFL grand final on Saturday, September 28, and the NRL decider on Sunday, October 6.

Back for the big games: Roy and HG.

This year's Festival of the Boot theme is "A Shot in the Arm" – a reference to the controversial drugs programs that saw AFL's Essendon Bombers banned from the finals series and the NRL's Cronulla Sharks also under investigation.

HG Nelson - aka Greig Pickhaiver - told Fairfax there's been plenty to celebrate on and off the field in both codes in 2013: "So much has happened just in rugby league - going the grope came back into fashion, certainly thanks to the Burgess boys, English-style. Kids have been running amok at all levels. It brings us back to the great themes of rugby league: peace through violence and harmony through brutality, things which have been understood around the world. You only have to think about Syria."