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I'm Mitch Album of the Detroit Free Press, and this is the sports reporters podcast.

One of our favorite weekends of the year are the conference championships leading to the Super Bowl.

We've got it coming up this weekend.

We'll talk a little bit after this part about Philip Rivers and some

basketball. But let's start with the two big games on Sunday. And the one that's certainly got the

star power is Tom Brady and Aaron Rogers facing off in Lambeau Field. Finally, Aaron Rogers gets

his home game to go to a Super Bowl and seems pretty confident,

pretty Zen.

But Tom Brady is saying, you know, we're not a bad road team.

We were just saying before the show started, if Tom Brady somehow wins this game or

leads Tampa Bay to a win and they go to the Super Bowl, what does that do to his already greatest of all time legend

that he goes to a new team that hadn't been in the playoffs for God knows how long

and takes them all away the Super Bowl?

I don't even know how to measure that.

What it does, actually,

and to use a very popular football reference in regard to pass receiving it gives

them separation it's separate it gives him a little bit more separation from whoever else you want to put up against him

namely the guy who he grew up idolizing Joe Montana and other contemporaries, such as Peyton Manning,

his longtime rival. And the guy that if he beats him, he will have beaten Aaron Rogers.

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