NFL Playoff Schedule 2012: Tom Brady and Eli Manning on Rematch Collision Course

Eli Manning and the New York Giants spoiled Tom Brady and the New England Patriots' perfect season in 2007.

This year Eli and the Giants went into Foxborough and snapped the Patriots' 20-game regular season home winning streak.

Needless to say, if any teams deserves a shot at revenge on another, it is the Patriots on the Giants.

New England won its first playoff game since the 2007 AFC Championship Game this weekend against Tim Tebow and the Broncos.

The Giants won their first playoff game since the Super Bowl XLII win last weekend against the Atlanta Falcons and kept their Super Bowl dreams alive with an upset win over the Green Bay Packers.

Now they travel to San Francisco to take on a 49ers team that beat them once already this season, while the Patriots host a similar Ravens team that beat them in the postseason at home two years ago.

But the common theme in both these games is proven quarterbacks versus unproven quarterbacks.

Could Joe Flacco and Alex Smith lead their teams to the Super Bowl? Absolutely. Is it more likely to be because of their respective defenses? You bet.

The same cannot be said for Brady and Eli. The two remaining Super Bowl MVP signal callers in a postseason that started with four former Super Bowl MVP quarterbacks, are going to wind up doing this same dance for the second time in five years.

Aaron Rodgers and Drew Brees aside, no quarterbacks have meant more to their two teams than Brady and Eli. It would only be fitting if they were the two vying for the Lombardi Trophy in a record-breaking year for QBs across the league.

On Championship Sunday, look for these two respective quarterbacks to do what they've done all year and carry their teams to victory and a Super Bowl appearance.

2012 NFL Playoff Schedule

AFC Championship Game - Baltimore Ravens at New England Patriots - 3 p.m. EST - CBS

NFC Championship Game - New York Giants at San Francisco 49ers - 6:30 p.m. EST - FOX

Super Bowl XLVI - Lucas Oil Stadium; Indianapolis, Indiana - TBD vs. TBD - 6:25 p.m. EST - NBC