The nail-biting will start at 7.35 tonight when the All Blacks look to defend their phenomenal record at Eden Park as they host the British and Irish Lions.
The ABs have not lost at the venue since 1994 and it took some witchcraft from the French team to score the "Try from the End of the World" to unseat the All Blacks that day.
The Lions prefer route one, but the tourists have been getting better with each outing. Impressive wins against the Maori and the Chiefs have seen the anxiety levels creep up across the country. And both coaches have added to the hype with some well-directed pre-match barbs.
But if rugby does not float your boat, well, you could always watch some boats floating.
Racing in the 35th edition of the America’s Cup is scheduled to resume at 5.12am tomorrow (New Zealand time).
Team New Zealand leads Oracle 3-0 (the winner is the first to seven) and seem to hold a comfortable advantage out on the water in Bermuda. But we have been here before, right?
Remember what happened in San Francisco four years ago? The Kiwis led 8-1, only for Oracle skipper Jimmy Spithill to engineer one of the great comebacks in sport to help his team win 9-8.
That very inconvenient fact has the whole nation more than a little paranoid that Spithill may have cooked up another miracle during the five-day break.
America’s Cup chief executive Sir Russell Coutts had some comforting words for edgy New Zealand fans in an interview with German magazine Yacht.
"We have seen so many exciting races in the challenger playoffs, it is unfortunate that this is not the case in the finals," he told the magazine.
"The Kiwis clearly have the better package."
