When you think of teams from the NFC, a few teams invoke any sort of discernible feelings from Patriot Nation.
The Giants are probably at the top of the list. They are regionally close, many older New England football fans perhaps used to be Giant fans, and maybe still are, and they are 2-0 against the Patriots in Super Bowls. The 49ers (the Bill Walsh versions, not the current ones) are the model Bob Kraft claims he tried to copy when he bought the Patriots in 1994. The Packers beat the Patriots in Super Bowl XXXI and everyone around here would love to see a Tom Brady-Aaron Rodgers duel in the Big Show.