All of a sudden Tony Romo and Jessica Simpson don't matter anymore. That's right. All it took was one day and Terrell Owen's tears and all the gossip about the infamous "Mexico" trip in the world have been forgotten. Nobody cares about the Dallas Cowboys. They care about two teams that the Cowboys owned in the regular season: the Packers and the Giants.

In their first meeting, Brett Favre dissected the Giants porous secondary, and made Michael Strahan look decades removed from his single season sack record. And that was before the Packers found a running game.

Sure, Eli, the worse of the young Manning brothers, has made strides. And you could even say he's looked just as good as Peyton. But that's where the trick can get you and turn this whole thing into something ugly.

Eli Manning is not his brother, and he is definately not Brett Favre. More importantly, however, is that Eli is not going to be what gets in the way of Favre and his formidable Packers' quest at the Lombardi Trophy.

And to be honest, it's not really that fair.

All season long we were toyed with by Manning and his erratic decision making, his sporadic flashes of greatness, only to be eroded down to that label that only the likes of San Fransisco's Alex Smith have come to enjoy. He's just an average quarterback exceeding in ridiculous environments at just the right time. It means nothing.

Take a look at Green Bay. Their lone obvious weakness on offense all season? Their rush attack. After Ryan Grant
s resurrection from two first quarter fumbles and ascension into 200 yard bliss, well, I think that's finally been put to bed. This just in: Green Bay can run the ball.

And what we're all finally going to bear witness to this coming Sunday, is not the second coming of a playoff hero named Manning. Not a surprising post-season raid of an average team. But simply a dominant team, lead by their ancient leader, mowing over the competition as they steam roll to the Super Bowl.

I just have two huge problems with the inevitable outcome of this game.

First, that there will be no Manning versus Manning title game. And that would have been so Madonna-like to end the season.

And second, that Brett Favre (as the experts call it) will end his magnificent season, and quite possibly his career, in defeat to the undefeated New England Patriots.

Tell me, folks, what's sadder than an NFC Championship hosted in Lambeau ultimately being meaningless?

The answer is nothing.