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Will Packers-Falcons be the highest-scoring playoff game of all time?

Dale Zanine / USA TODAY Sports

Sunday's matchup between the Atlanta Falcons and Green Bay Packers will pit two of the NFL's four highest-scoring offenses against each other with a trip to the Super Bowl on the line.

Prepare for a light show, NFL fans. Those in attendance will surely be treated to fireworks in the Georgia Dome finale.

But, will the NFC Championship game be the highest-scoring game played in NFL postseason history?

Keep in mind, the Week 8 Falcons-Packers game ended in a high-scoring 33-32 battle. Aaron Rodgers threw for four touchdowns and Matt Ryan responded with three touchdown passes of his own. The teams combined for nearly 700 yards of offense on the day.

The last time the NFC foes met in the playoffs, nine touchdowns were scored in a 48-21 Packers shootout win back in 2011.

Rodgers and Ryan were the quarterbacks on that day as well, and they helped produce six touchdowns by the time the game reached halftime.

So, their last playoff meeting resulted in 69 points, and that game did not include all-world receiver Julio Jones, who recorded a 300-yard game this season.

The precedent has been set between these two, and recent history plays in favor of an all-time shootout as well, as both the Packers and Falcons last scored less than 30 points in Week 13.

They'll likely have to both score more than 40 points in order to top the output produced in the 2010 wild-card playoff game between the Packers and Arizona Cardinals that ended 51-45, but with their offenses operating at record levels and their defenses prone to surrendering points, Sunday's NFC Championship game promises to light the scoreboard ablaze.

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