Packers. Bears. Lombardi. Ditka. Cheeseheads. Da Superfans. The Lambeau Leap. Bear Down, Chicago Bears.

In all, the two teams have played 181 games against each other. The Bears lead the series 92-83-6.

Improbably, 180 of those games were regular season meetings.

The one and only postseason meeting between the two happened the week after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. Seriously.

This Sunday, these two storied organizations will play their second playoff game against each other.

Because of the way it’s been overused and abused, I try to use it sparingly, but in this case I think the word “epic” applies.

Two really good quarterbacks facing off under the sprawling Chicago skyline against two really good defenses representing the league’s oldest rivals, the Packers and the Bears. What more could football fans ask for?

On Saturday night, the people’s champion Aaron Rodgers turned in one of the best playoff performances in franchise history, if not in the history of the league. He completed 31 of his 36 pass attempts for 366 yards and three touchdowns. He ran for another. His team put up 48 points, a franchise playoff record.

The 81.6 completion percentage was second-best in playoff history among passers who also threw for 300 yards. On his rare incompletions, he was like the most interesting man in the world from the Dos Equis commercial, throwing them just to see how it felt. In the most important situations — on third down and in the red zone — Packer receivers caught every ball thrown their way.

Jay Cutler also thrived in his first postseason experience since his senior year in high school. The fact that he played against a losing team in his game Sunday surely helped, but the Chicago quarterback threw a perfect 58-yard touchdown strike to tight end Greg Olsen on his first pass of the game and ran for a game-clinching score in the third quarter.

Defensively, the Bears held the hapless Seattle offense to 24 points, 14 of which were scored when the game was out of reach.

Green Bay’s squad did its job as well, holding the Falcons’ offense to less than 200 yards and two offensive touchdowns, the second of which came after Green Bay already had a 42-14 lead.  Atlanta’s other touchdown came on a kickoff return, which is hardly attributable to the defense.

Cornerback Tramon Williams, the second-biggest Packer Pro Bowl snub after Rodgers, had two more picks, one returned for a touchdown. In this postseason, he has more catches and touchdowns than big-name wide receivers Anquan Boldin, Reggie Wayne and DeSean Jackson. Go figure.

In the regular season, the two teams split their home-and-home series. Chicago depended on dynamic return man Devin Hester and 18 Packer penalties to win the first one 20-17. Green Bay, playing for its playoff life in week 17, took on the full complement of Chicago starters and won 10-3 after a great punting performance from Tim Masthay.

Now, the Bears’ inability to eliminate the Packers in the regular season is coming back to haunt them.

Earlier this school year, fellow columnist Erik Schmidt bemoaned the sad state of the Wisconsin-Chicago sports rivalries, and he had a point. With all the history behind it, Packers-Bears could be on the same level as Yankees-Red Sox or Lakers-Celtics. But let’s face it: One of the top Packer-Bear moments belongs to the drunk guy at Soldier Field who jumped from the stands and caught a point-after try in 1995. There’s no Aaron Boone walk-off. No duels between Bird and Magic.

But this NFC Championship could change all that.

No matter how it plays out — I have the Packers winning another tight defensive struggle 19-10 — you know George “Papa Bear” Halas and Earl “Curly” Lambeau will be watching.

The teams will take to a frigid Soldier Field — in elements the game was meant to be played in — and like everyone else, the founding fathers of football’s oldest rivalry will revel in every minute of the battle.

And hopefully we won’t have to sit through another world war before the greatest rivalry in pro football sees another postseason game.