What can you say about the Green Bay Packers and Brett Favre? For the past few years almost everyone was wanting to run him out of town and force his retirement but Favre hung in there. The Packer hung in their and began rebuilding the team after the failures of Mike Sherman the former head and General Manager. A position that was given to him by Ron Wolfe with his retirement. The last Packers head coach and General Manager was Vince Lombardi and Mike Sherman is no Vince Lombardi. But then again who is?

Not long ago many wanted the head of the Packers Ted Thompson for his obvious poor draft selections that they proclaimed was going to ruin the Packers. Some become downright vocally hostile because he would not draft Brady Quinn out of Notre Dame. The same Brady Quinn that has more TV time with endorsements that playing.

Now the Packers are 14-3 with an impressive dismantling of Mike Holmgren's Seattle Seahawks even after Green Bays Grant coughed up the ball twice to hand the Seahawks a 14-0 lead. The Packers did not panic while many of the Packer faithful just watched in disbelief at what was unfolding before their own very eyes.

Lets face it the Packers are a very young team but they are also extremely talented and athletic. More so than even the Super Bowl teams in 96 and 97.  You could call this the no name Packers because frankly the only player that is recognizable is Favre. Favre is a true player and student of the game like Montana, Unitas, and a host of others before him. He not only shows his determination to win but he has also been ignited by the youth movement on this Packers team that has made him appear to be youthful. Reality is it is still the same Brett Favre that many have always seen just with a much better supporting cast that wants to prove to Favre that they are worthy to be wearing the Packer green and gold. For many it's just not a uniform it is a symbolic meaning of the history of the NFL.

This game did not rest on Favre arm or his ability to make the come back it was simply Favre is now part of a team a team that wants to win. A team that has the pieces of the puzzle to win and a coach that has proven he can overcome some of the frantic fans that when things go not as planned suddenly are bouncing off the walls demanding change.

The Packers this year have been a team that has been resilient and at times showing they are capable of showing their youth as they did in the last Bears games. A team that did not want to play in the game because of the cold and felt they had nothing to lose at that juncture anyway since they had the #2 seed safely secured.

For the Packers the media spot light with grow brighter if they win next week against the surging Giants and put Favre front and center and the old field general that has lead his team by just being himself.

Seatle @ Green Bay - Green Bay wins because Seattle already has had their best playoff game.

Giants @ Dallas - Tony Romos 15-minutes are up Giants pull the upset.

Chargers @ Colts - a close game that the Colts make comeback and win.

Jaguars @ New England - Moss and company score but the Jags offense rises to the occasion and New England cannot stop Garrard. Jags pull the upset of the year.

This was sen to me from friend of mine that was produced the Times Picayune. Take a look if you like. Its well done

http://www.nola.com/photos/t-p/index.ssf?2008BCSshow/

Everyone and their brother made a big deal out of the speed that the SEC posses and the lack of it at Ohio State. Another slap that people took was the fact that Ohio State was 0-8 against the SEC going back to games that were played when many a sports writer and average Joe were just kid's still squeezing zits. This game was not about those things or where the game was being played or the other chants of playoffs, plus one, or which teams were deserving or not deserving.

This game came down to talent. Which team had more talent and were able to execute the best or when it mattered most. Ohio State has speed and they have athletes and they have one of the best coaches in college football with the vested one. They are a sound team that won their conference with just one loss to a surging Illinois at the time. LSU did not beat them with the long run. The long run of the night belong to OSU and Beanie Wells when he peeled off a 65 yard game burner through the LSU  defensive front and got passed the linebacker it was over. That is when speed was a factor and he ran faster than any LSU player on the field. So the speed was equal, the coaching was titled toward OSU.

But the athletes, the depth, the skill players tilted toward LSU that is what won this game. LSU we could argue probably has the most depth of any college football team in the nation and with another very sound recruiting class coming in that will continue for the foreseeable future until the shinny foil comes off the wrapper and it usually does at one time or another.

But until then LSU is National Champions built on having the best players in college football that just happen to be talented.