What about Bob?

Call this a road game for the Giants if you will. But Sunday's NFC Championship Game will be played on grass grown in New Jersey.

That's right. The turf at Lambeau Field was grown at a sod farm called Tuckahoe Turf Farms in New Jersey, not far from Giants Stadium. The farm is located between Atlantic City and Philly, and it supplies grass for several well-known stadiums, including Lambeau and Fenway Park.

Tuckahoe grows mostly Kentucky bluegrass and ships it to stadiums from Green Bay to Cleveland to Boston to New York. It's supplying the grass for the Mets' new stadium, which opens in 2009.

The soil is apparently better than most when it comes to drainage.

Several years ago, when covering a Jets-Packers game at Lambeau, one of my editors, who is a freakishly devoted Packers fans, asked that I bring him back some Lambeau dirt. I wasn't sure how I could get my hands on said dirt, but lo and behold, it was being sold in small containers at a place called the Titletown Brewery. It cost $10.

I'm fairly certain the editor still has the dirt.

The editor still gets a kick out of our phone conversation several years back, when Mike Ditka was coaching the Saints. I made a "Cheese League" swing in training camp by covering the Packers, Vikings, Chiefs and Saints, all of whom practiced within hours of one another. When I pulled into LaCrosse, Wisc., where the Saints were training, I was on my cell phone with the editor when I pulled up to my hotel. He went to college in the area.

I noticed a fairly large river nearby. I said to the editor, "Hey, what's this river?"

He laughed uproariously.

"Try the Mississippi."