Green Bay Packers vs. Chicago Bears: Old School Football and Glory Days

The Green Bay Packers are now one game from a run that has taken them from sixth seed in the NFC to the threshold of the Super Bowl.

And it doesn't get any better than this: Green Bay vs. Chicago for the NFC title.

This is pure old school. 

This is Lombardi and Halas.

This is the old NFC Central, Black and Blue Division.

And this, Cheese Heads is, Aaron Rodgers—the man who has so effectively replaced the old king, that Favre guy.

Yes, this is young Aaron, who dismantled the Atlanta Falcons like a youngster breaking apart a huge structure make of Lincoln Logs. He was the guy with the heavy sledge hammer banging dents in that pep rally jalopy the Falcons drove.

This was Rodgers throwing for more yards in a playoff game than that other guy, that old No. 4, what'shisname?

It was Rodgers who was near perfect with a 31-for-36 masterpiece that blew hot air on Matty Ice.

It was Rodgers making his bid to write a new legacy for these new-age Packers who will now go against an age-old foe in Chicago with nothing less than the NFC title at stake, and oh yes an appearance in Super Bowl XLV in the Palace That Jerry Built down there in Dallas.

This is the Packer team that drove virtually every Atlanta fan from the Georgia Dome by late in the fourth quarter and left the Cheese Heads there to gloat and plunder. They simply turned the place into Lambeau Field south.

It was the worst smashing of Atlanta since General Sherman.

It was thorough, convincing and not as close at the final 48-21 score indicated.

This was all Packers and very little Falcons.

"This was probably my best performance," Rodgers admitted after the mayhem. "This just feels so good right now. The stage we were on, the importance of this game."

This 12-6 band of Packers has now bagged themselves an Eagle and a Falcon, bad days for birds of prey.

Now Soldier Field becomes the setting for yet another chapter in the NFL oldest rivalry.

The theme is redundant—two teams so very familiar with each other. Chicago won 20-17 in their first meeting then Green Bay took a 10-3 decision in Week 17.

If you are a believer in momentum, and who isn't, then the Pack has a train-load of it when they head for the Windy City.

Chicago isn't bad either.

Two teams, two classic franchises, one Super Bowl berth at stake.

Could it get any better?