2014 NFL Tournament of Champions: Super Bowl of Super Bowls

It's been about a month in the making. I put forty-eight teams into a gauntlet of simulated battles on a virtual gridiron. Forty-six of them have fallen. Now, only two teams from the late '90s remain. Only one of them can claim the title of Greatest of All Time.

On one side, we have The Greatest Show on Turf, a team that earned a first round bye, took out a couple of old-time classic teams, then beat the top seed in the tournament to make this stage. On the other side, we have a team that fell a couple spots short of a bye, but won three of its five games on the road.

Since we're into the championship round, I'm going to step up the standard of proof. This round will be a best-of-five simulated series, with the "clinching" game being the official result. Since we're playing this game in Arlington at JerryWorld, weather isn't really a factor. All simulations are once again provided by WhatIfSports.com. Let's play.

Building the Greatest Team of All Time

The fun argument in the NBA today is all about who is the greatest. The best player right now or how different players from different eras compare in terms of who is the greatest of all time. We do it with teams as well. It makes for some fun debates and if you have the technology to build these all-time teams to see how they stack up, more power to you.

Julius Erving takes flight over the rim. For reals.

I'm no stranger to building all-time teams. For a few years now (though we've had a long hiatus from this due to a lack of overlap of free time on our schedules), my friend Nathaniel and I have been breaking out an old classic in NBA Live 2002 for the Playstation 1. Amazingly, we still have one that works and works pretty well. A few years ago we decided to undertake a quest to build a team of the best players we could assemble up to that point (so obviously, this is pre-LeBron, and guys like Kobe and Tim Duncan weren't quite what they are now) from all-time teams the game and already assembled. Thus, the Aurora Possums were born.