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We are one week away from Super Bowl 45.

7 days. Roughly 160 hours. 9600 seconds.

Tick, tock.

Until two of the NFL’s most well-versed franchises square off for all the Lombardis.  Until two of the NFL’s biggest crown jewels do battle in the NFL’s shiniest palace.  Two old school teams, whose uniforms and colors harken back to generations of greatness, meeting in North Texas under the NFL’s largest scoreboards in the world.

Green Bay Packers.  Pittsburgh Steelers.  The team that was there when it all started.  Versus the team that has won the Super Bowl more times than any other.  The Green and Gold versus the Black and Gold for the NFL’s largest chunk of silver.

Wagering on these two to be successful is as smart as betting on the Super Bowl at BetUS.  They’re gonna be good.  They almost always are. And when you have a combined 9-2 record in the Big Game, it’s hard to argue with the results.

No upstarts here.  Green Bay and Pittsburgh reek of NFL royalty.  Their fans are amongst the most passionate and well traveled in North American sports.  And though they sport between them nine Super Bowl rings, they’re two of the NFL’s most blue collar franchises.

You want history? How’s this for history: when the Steelers came into the league (1933), the Packers won their 4th NFL championship.  When Green Bay was finished destroying teams in the 60’s (5 NFL Championships), the Steelers took over in the 70’s (winning 4 of their own).

You want success? Green Bay and Pittsburgh have 39 division titles between them.  Both teams have made the playoffs 26 times.

You want Hall of Famers?   Green Bay has 21 of ‘em.  The Steelers, 18. Put them together and you could make the meanest, scariest group of s.o.b.’s the football world’s ever seen.

But this is more than just numbers.  This is names.  Guys like Johnny McNally, Ray Nitschke, Paul Hornung, Bobby Layne, Joe Greene, and Jack Lambert.

These teams are the glue that hold the NFL history books together.  They’re the yin and the yang.  The black and the blue.  The iconic G in a cyclinder.  The 3 diamonds in a circle.

And a week from now they meet for the first time in a Super Bowl.

A two seed and a six seed.  Roethlisberger versus Rodgers. Pass versus run.

Defense versus more defense.

One team will walk away with another championship. 

This is the NFL’s big-boy table.  The high rollers V.I.P. you better have rings if you want in on this shindig, extravaganza.

Because when you think excellence, well it’s hard to top these two.

Love ‘em or hate ‘em, they know they’re damn good.

Next week, one of them will simply add to their legacy.

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