GreenDoc Rodgers VS The San Francisco Johnny Ringos

Okay, so the Green Bay Packers play the San Francisco 49ers this weekend in Santa Clara to decide who represents the NFC in the Super Bowl. Big game. Exciting. The thing, for Packer fans (I am one), is that the Niners ate our teams’ lunch on November 12th — and on national television, after a bye week. It was awful. Now they have to go back to California to play this well-coached, really good, ruthless, tough, fast and hard-hitting football team again but with much higher stakes. This isn’t life or death, but it feels like it, and it feels like the Packers are on their death bed before the fight even starts.

Of course, I don’t want to believe that, but if I’m being honest with myself, this NFC Championship might not go well. Makes me think of the movie, Tombstone. You know, the 1993 western film starring Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer and Sam Elliot, Billy Bob Thornton (in a small role) and Lowell from Wings. You know, one of the best westerns ever made.

It’s a film about good guys and bad guys. Kurt is Wyatt Earp, Sam is his brother, Virgil, and Val is Doc Holliday. They’re good guys. The bad guys get pissed when the good guys want law in town but, as one of the main bad guys, Ike, says to Wyatt at a card table early on in the movie, “Law just don’t go ‘round here.” Eventually the good dudes get in a gun fight with the bad guys and end up killing number of…