1.  Until Green Bay came along, either one of these two teams was going to win the Super Bowl.

2.  An amalgam of these two teams would be frightening.

3.  And all this talk about exacting revenge when these two teams meet again in the playoffs was positively striking in its assumption.

4.  And it perfectly illustrates the disparate directions of these two teams.

5.  And if these five teams continue together, the NL West could pass the AL East in spending habits.

6.  And the thing always to expect when these two teams meet in the playoffs is the unexpected.

7.  And so they passed in the night, these two teams headed in different directions.

8.  Before these three teams play a game, though, a couple of points should be made.

9.  A blowout seemed impossible considering how close these two teams had played each other during the regular season.

10.  A simple letter like that could have spared these two teams a lot of heartache Sunday.