The NFC Championship

On Sunday at 2PM CST, for the first time since December of 1941, the Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears will be playing a playoff game against each other.  These are the two winningest teams in NFL history, with Green Bay having won 12 NFL titles and the Chicago Bears franchise having won 9 NFL titles.

While each of these teams has had very dominant eras in their history, it was always a situation where only one of these great franchises was good, while the other was down.  Take the recent history of the Bears as being dominant in the 1980's (winning a Super Bowl in the 1985 season), while the Packers were very poor from the early 70's until the early 90's.  The Brett Favre era starting in 1992 ushered in a decade and a half of dominance for Green Bay (Super Bowl seasons in 1996 and 1997), but a very poor era for Chicago.

This is the longest running rivalry in the NFL with Chicago having won it 92 times, and Green Bay winning it 83 times.  The two teams have tied 6 times.

On Sunday, this rivalry which started in 1921 will have a very special 182nd meeting, with the winner advancing to Super Bowl 45.