"Of all the possible outcomes imagined in the days leading up to the NFC divisional playoff game at Lambeau Field, this one seemed the least likely to occur.

A dominant performance by the New York Giants.

A desultory one by the Green Bay Packers.

But occur it did, and so the Packers' march to Super Bowl XLVI and back-to-back championships ended not with confetti falling from the rafters at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis but with the grim realization that a 15-1 record in the regular season meant, for lack of a better word, squat.

It ended with a surreal scene: the Giants celebrating their 37-20 victory Sunday in a half-filled stadium as disbelieving fans filed silently out of Lambeau and into a night that suddenly seemed much colder."