Then the question will be asked: "Who is or who was the best ever All Black?" When the comparisons are made between Colin Meads and Richie McCaw, there will be much more to consider than a Colossal Pine Tree and a giant Kurow Kauri.
Both were battered and bruised by their love of the game and while, at times, Richie was more Scarface McCaw, Meadsie wore his Te Kuiti two-step sprig marks like train tracks up his King Country back.
Yes, I am over the pre-match and post-match banter and all us couch coaches can hibernate until we hikoi to Japan - but sometimes stats speak for themselves when considering the question that will be asked like no other in our sporting history.
McCaw played more than twice as many tests as Meadsie, the most by any player - and 109 of those as captain are a record. His 130 wins are also a record.
But for here and now, the two "Bro Blacks", Carter and McCaw - who stood side by side through 200 tests and three World Cups - are surely worthy of higher honours.
Chances are Sir Richie will slip away from all the hoopla for a few weeks and seek solace high up over the Southern Alps in his glider, the other joy in his life - where he can laugh as loud and as long as he wants.
My magic World Cup moment came off the field soon after the awards ceremony when Sonny Bill Williams handed his winning medal to young Charlie Lines, who was tackled by a security guard when he tried to enter the field of play in the wake of New Zealand's 34-17 win.
"He was only 8 and the other fella was a full-on man, so it looked like he would break his ribs or something," Williams said.
Williams, who has a winner's gong from 2011, says this medal was in a better place than hanging around his own neck.
How cool was that - and how cool will that kid feel at school today? And how many medals, or indeed William Webb Ellis trophies, do we need?
Random acts of kindness and consideration have been the hallmark of this team right through the campaign and it is this that will have long-term benefits for tomorrow's generation as much as it will winning back-to-back Billy Ellis Cups.
This hallmark must be accorded to the coaching staff, none more so than Steve Hanson probably the most "Kiwi-As" coach we have ever had at All Blacks level.
Hanson had every trick up his sleeve and we got the treat of back to back World Cup wins; not that he is making a big deal of it going by his post-match winning words
"We are ordinary people who can play rugby reasonably well. Life is too short to be serious all the time," he said. And so it is with our own lives. We can get back to breathing normally, now the boys have brought home the bacon in a week where we surely found out too much bacon is not good for the heart.
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Tommy Wilson is a best selling author and local writer.
