It takes the Super Bowl to validate greatness in the National Football League. And that fact will never, ever change. But after winning 13 games in the regular season, then destroying the San Francisco 49ers on Jan. 4 and the Carolina Panthers, 30-13, on Sunday in the National Football Conference Championship Game at Lambeau Field, the irrepressible Green Bay Packers are dead on course to thrust themselves onto the list of the more dominant teams of the modern era. The Packers' final opportunity to leave an indelible impression will come in New Orleans in two weeks when the emerging force from the NFL's smallest city will return to the Super Bowl for the first time in 29 years.