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Cowboys vs Packers: Historic franchises at war once again

Updated Mar. 4, 2020 3:39 p.m. ET

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The Dallas Cowboys and Green Bay Packers will be adding another playoff battle to the history books on January 15th. Thoughts and feelings on the game.

The Dallas Cowboys will host the Green Bay Packers in the divisional round of the NFL playoffs on January 15th.

This will be a rematch from October 16th 2016, when the Cowboys defeated the Packers 30-16 in Green Bay.

The Packers and Cowboys are two of the most popular and well known sports franchises in the entire world. Both teams always draw good ratings no matter how competitive they are in that particular year.

In this case, Dallas was the best team in the entire NFC in the regular season and the Packers finished the year off with six consecutive wins to claim the NFC North title. The hype around both teams are near all-time highs right now.

I wouldn’t be surprised if this game gets close to breaking the ratings record for the second round of the playoffs. I also expect AT&T Stadium to have a new Cowboys game attendance record after this game.

When two historic franchises go toe to toe in a win-or-go-home matchup with a chance to be one step closer to the ultimate goal, the Super Bowl, the storylines write themselves:

The Cowboys and Packers have played 34 times before this meeting, both teams winning 17 and losing 17. That includes the seven times that they have squared off in the playoffs, the Cowboys winning four and losing three.

Game number 35 in the all time series and playoff matchup number eight already has insane hype leading into it, and rightfully so.

One thing is for certain, a historic non-divisional rivalry is only going to grow stronger after the battle that is set to take place this Sunday.