“It’s always special when you go to Green Bay”

I’ve got a dollar that says ESPN and the rest of the national pundits spend the next week fawning over next week’s Sunday night game.

Not that the Dallas Cowboys visit to Lambeau Field for a game against Green Bay isn’t a big game. It definitely shapes up as a key game, even at this early date.

But both Al Michaels and John Madden left me queezy as they signed off of NBC Sports’ coverage of tonight’s Sunday Steelers/Browns tilt by gushing about the “special”ness of every trip to Green Bay.

Next week will also be the first nationally-televised Packers regular season, prime-time game since Brett Favre was traded to New York. So I’ve got another dollar that says the Favre-less Packers-fest hype gets nauseating coverage as well.

Hopefully the announcers all realize that this game can stand alone on merit alone without much of the soap operatic side stuff. If Dallas beats Philly Monday both teams will be heading into the game undefeated. While it’s too early to say, it could ultimately be a game we look back at in December as having had playoff implications.

Hopefully it can do so without forcing many of us to run repeatedly to the bathroom with swooning-announcing-induced vomiting.