Sunday afternoon in Miami, Fla., the most overrated team in professional football will meet the most underrated. Vince Lombardi, Tex Maule, Frank Gifford, Gale Gillingham and other Green Bay Packer types will receive a comeuppance: if the Oakland Raiders don't give the AFL its first Super Bowl victory, they will come damn close.

It is impossible to come up with any accurate comparison of the two teams personnel. In the case of the Packers, publicity and familiarity have spawned a mistaken aura of superiority. In the anonymous world of the offensive line. Forrest Gregg Jerry Kramer, and Bob Skoronski stand out over Oakland's Harry Schuh and Bob Svihus largely because of the tremendous exposure they have received in their decade in the pros, most of it with a championship team. But that doesn't mean a rising star can't be as bright as a falling one, or that the youngsters haven't been opening holes as big as their Packer counterparts' this season.

The best example of the Packer mystique that blurs objective analysis just as the Yankee pinstripes used to do is fullback Chuck Mercein. Since he started for Green Bay in its playoffs, no one has mentioned that he is the worst fullback in either the NFL or the AFL. The glory days of Taylor and Hornung have blinded people to the fact that Anderson plus Mercein is not a running attack.

Solid Raider Lineup

The beauty of the Oakland Raider lineup is its solidity. With Clem Daniels injured, the Raiders have no spectacular individual performers (as Kansas City did last year), but more importantly they have no weaknesses. The front four of Davidson, Keating, Birdwell, and Lassiter may not dominate the game but they will hold their own up front. Middle linebacker Dan Connors is not as ostentations as the Pack's Ray Nitschke but he does the job. And Oakland's defensive backfield is every bit as good as Green Bay's! Willie Brown, Kent McLoughan, and Dave Grayson are quick, man, quick. Lance Alworth and Don Maynard had some success against Oakland, but they are the only ones, and Green Bay has no receiver who resembles them. The only player in the game who can match Maynard's moves is Oakland's Fred Biletnikoff.

At quarterback, Daryle Lamonica personifies Oakland's humble, inconspicuous approach to this game. If there is another man as cagey as Lombardi, it is Raider boss Al Davis, and he has his team laying low. They will be psychologically ready when the time comes. In any case, Lamonica couldn't play worse than Dallas's Don Meredith did two weeks ago. We are betting he will be spectacular. If the game is close and low-scoring, as it should be, then Oakland's edge in both punting and place-kicking will also be important.

If the game is devoid of the breaks and flukes that make sports interesting. I think the score will be Green Bay 20, Oakland 10. But throw in a key interception by Grambling's Willie Brown and Ike Lassiter's recovery of a Mercein fumble and the final comes out, Oakland Raiders 23, The Pack 17.