GREEN BAY, Wis. - The biggest cheer at Lambeau Field came for a play more than a thousand miles away that got the Packers into the playoffs.
Ahman Green had a 98-yard touchdown run and Brett Favre completed a hard week in which he buried his father to lead Green Bay to a 31-3 rout of the Broncos.
But it was at the two-minute warning when Arizona completed an amazing last-second comeback to beat Minnesota and give Green Bay an improbable NFC North title that the place went wild.
"I've never heard a crowd cheer that loud for a two-minute warning before," linebacker Nick Barnett said.
The Packers, who had little hope of playing into January only moments earlier, celebrated wildly on the sideline after the crowd, listening on radios, broke into frenzied elation over the fourth-down TD.
Favre sauntered over to the stands and twirled his right arm around as if whipping up the crowd with a rally towel.
Instead of going home, the Packers host Seattle and former coach Mike Holmgren on Sunday. Green Bay won the first meeting 35-13 on Oct.5.
Green set a franchise record with 218 yards rushing and ran for two scores, giving him 20 and breaking Jim Taylor's record of 19 set in 1962. He ran for a team record 1,883 yards this season.
Favre finished with the most touchdown passes (32) in the league for a record-tying fourth time. The only other QBs to lead the league in TD passes four times were Johnny Unitas (1957-60), Len Dawson (1962-63, 1965-66) and Steve Young (1992-94, 1998).
The Broncos sat seven starters, including quarterback Jake Plummer and running back Clinton Portis, after clinching an AFC wild-card berth last week, but it was no cakewalk until late.
With the Packers clinging to a 10-3 lead, Green rumbled 47 yards to set up his 2-yard TD run. Adrian Madise returned the kickoff 83 yards to the Green Bay 12, however.
After a goal-line stand by the Packers, Green broke free for a franchise record 98-yard touchdown, the longest by the Packers and the longest against the Broncos.
"I told the guys in the huddle, "Hey, let's get out of here to give us some room to punt,"' Favre recounted. "I hadn't even turned around from my fake and Ahman was crossing the 50."
