The Packers and Cowboys are both 9-1 after victories today. The Packers took care of Carolina at home 31-17, while Dallas won a thriller against Washington 28-23 at Texas Stadium.
Green Bay and Dallas both play on Turkey Day, the Packers against the Lions and the Cowboys against the Jets. Then, a week after that, the Pack and Cowboys play each other in a special Thursday night NFL Network extravaganza. Needless to say, if each team wins on Thanksgiving, that subsequent game becomes ginormous beyond all previously known notions of ginormity. In fact, that game would likely decide home-field in the NFC (assuming nothing wacky happens to either team afterward).
As a long-time Viking fan, it pains me to have to give props to the Pack. But I have no choice. The team is playing great. Brett Favre looks like the Favre of five or six years ago, before the annual retirement talk began. The defense is spectacular, especially that secondary with Al Harris and Charles Woodson. And the Packers have even found a good running back in Ryan Grant. Dallas looks good too - especially when Terrell Owens runs wild as he did in scoring 4 TDs against Washington today - but in a head-to-head between the two, my money is going to have to be on Brett and the boys. Dallas better hope the Packers don't win home-field throughout the playoffs, cause if they do, there will be an Ice Bowl redux up in Lambeau. And the one thing you don't want is to have to face Favre in the cold, with the Packers playing the kind of defense they've been playing.
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