GREEN BAY, Wis.— There is a stretch of bricks and concrete in the tunnel at Lambeau Field, light with age, worn from decades of football players walking over them in cleats. The materials were brought over from the previous Packers' venue, City Stadium, and laid in when Lambeau Field was built in 1957. They stretch towards a marker which tells everyone who passes, they are walking over the same bricks as every member of the Packers' 13 championships.

The Panthers won't come over those bricks or out of that tunnel today. The visitors' route at Lambeau is famously a claustrophobic tunnel under the belly of the stadium, winding with sharp corners from the locker room to the field, too tight to allow Derrick Brown and A'Shawn Robinson to walk side by side.

But as the Panthers make the

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