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On Sunday, the two Super Bowl LV teams will be determined through the AFC and NFC Championship Games.
In the AFC, the Buffalo Bills will take on the Kansas City Chiefs, while on the NFC side, the Green Bay Packers will do battle with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. And both games promise to be good ones.
But what are some of the best championship games since 2000? That’s a question recently pondered by Bleacher Report’s David Kenyon, who ranked his version of the top 8.
Interestingly, the 2011 NFC Championship Games between the New York Giants and San Francisco 49ers — arguably one of the best old school games in modern NFL history — earned only an honorable mention.
But the Giants did earn the No. 6 spot for their 2007 NFC Championship victory over the Green Bay Packers at a frozen Lambeau Field.
In this 2007 matchup with Eli Manning’s Giants, Brett Favre and the Green Bay Packers held a 10-6 halftime lead. The offenses traded scores to begin the second half, and a Mason Crosby field goal locked the score at 20 apiece early in the fourth quarter.
Really, the Giants gave the Packers every opportunity to win.
Lawrence Tynes missed two field goals in the last seven minutes, including a 36-yarder as regulation expired. Green Bay won the overtime toss, too. But on the second snap, Giants cornerback Corey Webster intercepted Favre in Packers territory. It was the final pass of Favre’s career in Green Bay.
Tynes hit a 47-yarder and sent New York to Super Bowl XLII, where the Giants ruined New England’s perfect season.
What a game it was. What an upset it was. What a season it was.
The 2006 AFC Championship game between Payton Manning’s Indianapolis Colts and Tom Brady’s New England Patriots earned the top spot on Kenyon’s list.
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