If you like the NFL, then this is Super Sunday.
A conference championship and a chance to play on Super Bowl Sunday are on the line, and these two games feature four of the best and most productive quarterbacks in the NFL.
Both games feature third-year quarterbacks going against veterans who have won Super Bowls.
In the first game Russell Wilson, who led the Seattle Seahawks to the Super Bowl title last year in just his second season, faces Green Bay's Aaron Rodgers, perhaps the best quarterback in the NFL when he is healthy.
Wilson, though, is not your prototypical NFL quarterback. He can hurt you running, and that's what allows him to be an efficient passer. He threw 20 touchdown passes this season. Rodgers threw for 38. But Wilson, the 75th pick of the 2012 NFL Draft, is 41-13, the best record ever by a third-year quarterback.
He has proved many times that the big stage is just another venue for him. He's also is the lowest-paid quarterback playing today because his four-year rookie contract was less than $3 million total.
Rodgers, the 24th pick of the 2005 draft, was chosen by the Packers to replace Brett Favre, something that seemed obvious but not necessarily liked in Packer country at the time, especially by Favre, who played three more years before ending up with the New York Jets.
Rodgers is a prolific passer but is hobbled by a small tear in his left calf muscle. He was obviously slowed against Dallas last week, but he was tough enough to complete 10 consecutive passes and help his team survive and advance.
He will play today but will face an entirely different defensive scheme from the Seahawks than he did the Cowboys, who consistently rushed four guys and laid off the blitz, which gave the veteran plenty of time to make plays.
Seattle has a great defense and most likely will force Rodgers out of the pocket, something the Cowboys did only four times.
What is considered the premier game, Indianapolis at New England, has a couple of quarterback similarities with the first game.
The Colts' Luck was drafted with the first pick of the 2012 draft to replace legendary Peyton Manning, who had missed the previous season with a neck injury.
The Colts eventually released Manning, and everyone knows he signed with Denver, which he made into a contender. But Luck, the only quarterback playing today who doesn't have at least one Super Bowl ring, has established himself already as one of the best quarterbacks in the league.
He completed 27 of 43 passes for 265 yards and 2 touchdowns last week to eliminate Manning and the Broncos in Denver. This will be the Colts' second consecutive road game. Luck wasn't rattled last week, and he shouldn't be today.
The Colts' defense will have to find a way to slow Tom Brady, one of the great success stories of the NFL.
Brady was drafted by the Patriots with the 199th pick of the 2000 draft. To break that down, he was the 33rd player taken in the sixth round.
He became the starter in his second season, and except for an injury-shortened 2008 has been the starter ever since. He and John Elway are the only quarterbacks to lead their teams to five Super Bowls, and Brady has won three of those.
So today features two great veterans against two up-and-coming stars of the game, but the teams most likely to win will be the ones whose defense can take away some of that greatness.
Defense still wins championships.
However, when you take what is at stake and add in these four quarterbacks, what you get is Super Sunday.
Sports on 01/18/2015