There have been some classic NFC Championship games over the years, from thrilling to controversial to mind-boggling.
Below, we've broken down five of the best NFC Championship games in NFL history.
5. Tampa Bay Buccaneers 31, Green Bay Packers 26 (2020)
Aaron Rodgers vs Tom Brady was the storyline heading into this showdown. It was Brady's first season after leaving the New England Patriots and he wanted to prove to the world that he could win without legendary Pats coach Bill Belichick, while Rodgers wanted to prove himself to be better than Brady.
The teams traded scores for most of the first half: Mike Evans caught a Brady TD pass for the first score, Rodgers then marched his team 90 yards and threw to Marquez Valdes-Scantling for a TD, the Bucs answered through a 20-yard Leonard Fournette run, then Mason Crosby hit a field goal to make it 14-10 Bucs.
With 30 seconds left in the first half, Rodgers threw an interception to Sean Murphy-Bunting. On the ensuing drive, Brady converted a fourth-and-three with a pass to Fournette and followed that up with a 39-yard TD strike to Scotty Miller to make it a 21-10 game at the half.
Green Bay got the ball to start the third, but an Aaron Jones fumble gave the Bucs the ball at the Packers' eight yard line, and Brady immediately threw to Cameron Brate for the score to push Tampa's lead to 18. Then, things got interesting.
The Packers answered with a 75-yard touchdown drive. Brady followed that up with an interception, and Green Bay went on a seven-and-a-half-minute TD drive to make it 28-23.
Then Brady threw another interception early in the fourth quarter. On third-and-five of Green Bay's next drive, Shaq Barrett made a clutch sack that pushed the Pack back 10 yards to their own 14, forcing a punt.
Brady threw his third pick of the night on the following drive, but it did not matter because the Bucs' defense made some stops and the teams only scored a field goal apiece in the remainder of the game. It wasn't pretty, but the game was entertaining as it finished 31-26, Bucs.
4. New York Giants 15, San Francisco 49ers 13 (1990)
A physical Giants team denied San Francisco a third straight NFC title and a shot at a historic three-peat, knocking Montana out of the game when the 49ers were up 13-9 with 10 minutes left on the clock.
Bill Parcells' men got the ball back, but were stopped on a key third down and one. Then, on fourth down, Parcells called a fake punt.
With only 10 men on the field for the play, the Niners could not prevent a long run by Gary Reasons that set up another Giants field goal and cut the deficit to a single point.
San Francisco tried to eat up the clock, but Giants nose tackle Erik Howard made a key play, fighting through a double-team to knock the ball out of running back Roger Craig's hands with his helmet.
Lawrence Taylor fought through two blockers to catch Howard's forced fumble in mid-air, giving New York's offense the ball at their own 43-yard line. QB Jeff Hostetler completed passes to Mark Bavaro and Stephen Baker to take the Giants into Matt Bahr's field-goal range and from 42 yards out the kicker made his fifth the day as time expired.
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3. Seattle Seahawks 23, San Francisco 49ers 17 (2013)
In the first of their back-to-back NFC Championship wins, the Seahawks washed away a 10-point 49ers lead to beat the reigning conference champions.
Colin Kaepernick improvised one of the great TD passes in playoff history - a jump-toss to Anquan Boldin - but will also be remembered for fumbling twice and throwing a pick to end San Francisco's final three drives.
The Legion of Boom shut down Kaepernick for the most part and when the Niners had one last chance to win the game with the ball inside Seattle's 20 with 30 seconds left, the Niners' QB chose to test Seattle's shutdown corner, Richard Sherman. Kaepernick's pass to Michael Crabtree in the end zone was deflected by Sherman and intercepted by Malcolm Smith, locking up the win for Seattle.
2. New Orleans Saints 31, Minnesota Vikings 28 (OT) (2009)
In this closely-contested Championship Game, neither team ever led by more than seven points and the score was tied on four different occasions.
Adrian Peterson's third touchdown tied the game for the Vikings, who had a chance to win it at the Saints' 38-yard-line with 19 seconds left in regulation.
However, Brett Favre's final pass of the game was intercepted by Tracy Porter, sending the game into overtime. New Orleans ultimately won the game thanks to two penalties against the Vikings' defense and a two-yard run by Pierre Thomas on a fourth-and-1 play, which set up Garrett Hartley's game-winning field goal.
The Saints subsequently defeated the Indianapolis Colts in the 2010 NFL Championship, with Porter's pick-six of Peyton Manning securing the win.
1. San Francisco 49ers 28, Dallas Cowboys 27 (1981)
An iconic moment in the sport's history 'The Catch' was the six-yard touchdown completion Joe Montana made to Dwight Clark at the back of the endzone on a crucial third down late in the game.
It marked the birth of the San Francisco 49ers dynasty under Bill Walsh and stopped the great Dallas Cowboys, who had become known as 'America's Team', from prolonging theirs.
Dallas took a six-point lead at Candlestick Park on a Danny White-to-Doug Cosbie 21-yard hookup, leaving the Niners just over five minutes to respond.
Walsh confused a Cowboys defense prepared for Montana's passes by calling some sweeping runs before two clutch catches in traffic by Freddie Solomon and Solomon's 14-yard run on a reverse got San Francisco down to Dallas' six-yard line.
On third down, Montana rolled right before he was encircled by three Cowboys defenders.
But the legendary QB floated a pass that initially looked like it was headed out of bounds to a spot where only Clark, sliding back into range after abandoning his original route, leapt to make the iconic two-handed grab.
The 49ers' defense still had to make a stop after the Cowboys, who got the ball back at their 25-yard line with two timeouts and 51 seconds left, cranked up the tension when White hit Drew Pearson for 31 yards on the first play of the drive.
But the Cowboys QB lost the ball on the next play after getting hit by defensive end Lawrence Pillers and Jim Stuckey scooped it up to punch the 49ers' first ticket to the championship game.
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