In an elimination game, it was the Giants, not the Packers, who looked like true champions. Despite New York being on the wrong side of several questionable officiating decisions, Big Blue kept their composure and didn make that one costly mistake that would have allowed Green Bay to put together a comeback. The Packers, however, folded time and time again when handed a chance to take control of the contest, turning the ball over four total times.The late Wellington Mara was the man behind the NFL's huge revenuesharing system that for years allowed smallmarket teams to compete with bigmarket teams. In the early 1960s, when his Giants had a rich localTV deal, Mara agreed to a plan under which the league would negotiate a national TV deal that all teams would share equally. The irony is that the Giants were only a middletier team financially for much of the past two decades because they played their games in the Meadowlands, a lowrevenue facility.

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