The amazing thing is not that the Green Bay Packers and Pittsburgh Steelers won their way to the Super Bowl on Sunday.
The amazing thing is that these two storied franchises have never before squared off in the biggest event in American sports.
But there they'll be two weeks from yesterday in Big D -- OK, technically Arlington -- playing for the Lombardi Trophy atop the home field of the franchise they each had at least a couple of their most enduring victories against ... the Dallas Cowboys.
And the Steelers still remarkably resemble those 1970s teams that bested the 'Boys by four points in both the 1976 and 1979 Super Bowls (a.k.a. the 1975 and 1978 seasons).
Pittsburgh can still trot out a Steel Curtain defense. Or didn't you see the Pick Six interception that put them up 24-0 against the New York Jets, not to mention the fourth-quarter goal line stand that basically locked up the 24-19 win?
There's also Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger's remarkable imitation of Hall of Fame quarterback Terry Bradshaw, who won four Super Bowl rings.
Let Big Ben win again this season and he'll have three in six seasons, which still won't match Bradshaw's four in six, but will tie him with New England QB Tom Brady for most among active quarterbacks.
As for that four-game suspension Roethlisberger served for conduct unbecoming an NFL player at the start of this season, hey, Ben doesn't appeared bothered by it so why should we?
To quote him after the game, a wide smile across his face, "God is good."
On the off chance that the Almighty might not care about who wins the Super Bowl, the Packers have an amazing quarterback of their own in Aaron Rodgers, who led his team to a 21-14 victory over the Chicago Bears that seemed so much easier than the final score.
Carving up the vaunted Bears defense with ridiculous ease on the opening drive, Rodgers moved the Packers on top 14-0, then attempted to play keep away the rest of the day.
Yet the play that will surely endear him to Cheeseheads the world over is a pass he threw that Chicago linebacker Brian Urlacher intercepted and was racing for the end zone with before Rodgers tackled him.
Rewarding their quarterback's hustle, the Green Bay defense denied the Bears any points after that play, then hung on for the victory against Chicago third-team quarterback Caleb Hanie.
Said Fox analyst Shannon Sharpe of Rodgers' effort, "He just made Packer fans forget Brett Favre."
Ouch. But quite possibly so true. Though Favre's legacy is self-destructing over disgusting off-field behavior, he's still the last Packers quarterback to win a Super Bowl and the only one other than the marvelous Bart Starr, who guided Green Bay to victories in Super Bowls I and II.
Yet let Rodgers win this one and the Packer Nation will undoubtedly put Favre in its rearview mirror for years to come, uneasy about his private life and unhappy over his leaving them for first the Jets, then rival Vikings.
Still, the quarterback who suffered the most on Sunday was Chicago's Jay Cutler, the former Vanderbilt star.
It's probably not fair, but Cutler is already being questioned for heading to the sidelines for good one series into the third quarter, his knee apparently too damaged to play.
Since entering the NFL in 2006, Cutler has always seemed to have trouble winning over coaches, the media, teammates, whomever.
Now this, however unfair.
"He hurt his knee and he was out, all right?" Bears coach Lovie Smith explained to the media during his postgame press conference. "He couldn't go and we moved on. There's nothing else for me to tell you on that."
But Jacksonville running back Maurice Jones-Drew couldn't wait to cut up Cutler on Twitter, tweeting: "All I'm saying is that he can finish the game on a hurt knee ... I played the whole season on one."
Everybody's different. Every injury is different. Hopefully, Cutler will return good as new next season and lead the Bears to another deep playoff run.
But for this year we'll have Cheeseheads challenging Terrible Towels for the biggest sports prize we have.
Maybe it's because I believe in karma, but two weeks out I'll take the Packers over the ruffian Roethlisberger, 24-21.
And should that happen, look for "Brett Who?" buttons to blanket Wisconsin like the latest blizzard.