Tuesday, Jan. 25: 12 Days until Super Bowl XLV

There are just 12 days until the biggest sporting event in America and the AFC & NFC title games are still fresh on my mind. So many potential cool match-ups could have come from this past weekend. However, the Packers versus the Steelers is probably the best one. These are two of the winningest teams in the history of the NFL.

After all, the trophy that these teams will be competing for, was named after the great Green Bay coach, Vince Lombardi. Green Bay is also kind of the grandfather of the NFL, as they lay claim to the first two Super Bowl titles in history. They later won another with Brett Favre (which seems like a distant memory with everything surrounding him as of late), but they have only been back once, and that was the next year. Ironically, that title game was in 1997 and three years later the Patriots, the team Green Bay beat 35-21, started their own legacy.

The Steelers are the team that everyone knows they are good, but they never become the "flavor of the year", like New Orleans was last year and the Colts seem to be every year. Pittsburgh can become the first franchise to have won at least one Super Bowl in the at least four of the six decades the NFL has been in existence, at its current state. They seem to always be lingering around. Both Terry Bradshaw and Ben Roethlisberger have one big thing in common, they both were not particularly great quarterbacks, but they had great talent around them and each had defenses that were extremely good.

This match-up between these two titans of the NFL world has been a long time coming. This game, however, will be a battle of youth. Because while we will hear about Lombardi and Noll, or Bradshaw and Favre, or the Steel Curtain and the Minister of Defense, ultimately new legends will be talked about on February 6 that fans will be talking about for a long time to come.