Photos: Green Bay Packers' Super Bowl hopes dashed as Tampa Bay Buccaneers take NFC title

The Packers’ gut-wrenching 31-26 loss to the Buccaneers at Lambeau Field had been over for less than an hour Sunday, and Aaron Rodgers was searching for words in the face of another NFC Championship Game disappointment.

Get the latest postgame updates after Aaron Rodgers and the Packers fell to Tom Brady and the Buccaneers 31-26 in the NFC Championship Game at Lambeau Field.

Green Bay Packers fans inside Lambeau Field are amped up for Sunday’s NFC Championship Game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who again has his team a win away from the Super Bowl, explains how he’s a different man than he was when he led Green Bay to the title after the 2010 season.

The menu will be a little different at Brian Kopp’s house Sunday.

When Tampa Bay destroyed the Packers 38-10 in Week 6, Buccaneers linebacker Devin White recorded 10 tackles, three tackles for loss, a sack and two quarterback hits.

No team has ever played a Super Bowl in its home stadium, but Tom Brady and the underdog Bucs (13-5) can do it by winning the NFC championship game against the Packers (14-3) on Sunday.

Teams that have defeated an opponent by at least 20 points in the regular season, then played that team again in the conference championship game are 13-3 all-time.

The Battle of the Bays might well be decided by what Mr. Six Rings does against the Packers' defense, or what the 2020 All-Pro Rodgers manages versus the Buccaneers' D.

“He was a really, really humble man, and I definitely appreciated that humility,” Aaron Rodgers said of Ted Thompson, the former Packers GM who died on Wednesday.