Dear NFL,
OK, now that we have your attention – good game, huh? – there’s a few things we’d like to clear up.
First of all, you may as well get used to seeing us at the Super Bowl. Because about 100 million TV people saw something during the game Sunday night that countless national media “experts” couldn’t see before:
We belong.
By Jay Hart,
MIAMI – The decision that ultimately turned Super Bowl XLIV in the New Orleans Saints’ favor came before the game even started. Sean Payton told his team prior to kickoff of the eventual 31-17 victory that it would go for an onside kick in the second or third quarter.
At halftime, with the Saints trailing the Indianapolis Colts 10-6, Payton made the call.
“We’re running Ambush,” he told his team, calling the onside kick play they’d practiced all week.
Drew Brees grew up in Texas and started playing for pay in faraway San Diego. But he made New Orleans his home and its cause uniquely his own.After 43 years of futility and one of the finest quarterbacking performances ever delivered in a Super Bowl, he made sure there’s no need to ask “Who dat?” anymore.
Thanks to Brees, the answer to “Who dat say they gonna beat them Saints?” is: nobody.
“We just believed in ourselves and we knew that we had an entire city and maybe an entire country behind us,” he said after being voted MVP in New Orleans’ 31-17 win over the Indianapolis Colts. “What can I say? I tried to imagine what this moment would be like for a long time, and it’s better than expected.”
MIAMI (AP) Jeremy Shockey wasn’t in a suite for this Super Bowl. Instead, he was part of the New Orleans Saints’ sweetest victory.
Shockey hauled in a touchdown catch for the go-ahead score Sunday night, helping the Saints beat the Indianapolis Colts 31-17 for their first Super Bowl championship.
And for Shockey, that 2-yard score had to feel like redemption. He was with the New York Giants – in name only – when they won the Super Bowl two years ago, watching that title game from a suite and feeling like an outcast after breaking his left leg and missing their scintillating playoff run.
That essentially set up his trade to New Orleans. This ring, he can say he earned.
MIAMI — Louisiana native Tracy Porter played a crucial role in the New Orleans Saints‘ magical run to a Super Bowl title and their victory over the Indianapolis Colts.
A second-round draft pick who grew up in Port Allen, across the Mississippi River from Baton Rouge, Porter watched the Saints every Sunday with his family and friends. He remembers bags on the heads of embarrassed fans during the franchise’s lean years.
Now the Saints have done the previously unthinkable in large part because of him in a 31-17 victory Sunday.
Porter’s 74-yard touchdown on an interception of a Peyton Manning pass gave the Saints an insurmountable two-touchdown lead late in the fourth quarter. In the NFC Championship Game, Porter’s late interception against Brett Favre stalled the Minnesota Vikings‘ potential game-winning drive.
Saints QB Drew Brees was selected as MVP of Super Bowl XLIV after leading his team to a 31-17 win over the Colts, and the first NFL title in franchise history.
Brees completed 32 of 39 passes for 288 yards and a pair of touchdowns with no interceptions in the victory.
Brees hit TE Jeremy Shockey on a 2-yard touchdown pass in the fourth quarter to give the Saints the lead.
The Saints trailed the Colts 10-0 in the first quarter and tied the Redskins (Super Bowl XXII) for the largest rally in Super Bowl history.
Miami Gardens, Fla. — The New Orleans Saints have won Super Bowl XLIV.
They beat the Indianapolis Colts 31-17 here at Sun Life Stadium in South Florida.
Saints quarterback Drew Brees was 32-of-39 for 288 yards and two touchdowns.
But it was the big 75-yard interception return for a touchdown by cornerback Tracy Porter that sealed the deal.
“I studied and knew their tendencies,” Porter said. “I just jumped around and the ball went right into my hands.”
By KAREN CROUSE
MIAMI — Jonathan Vilma and Jeremy Shockey formed a bond during their first few weeks of college that has become almost familial, their football careers a double helix intersecting here and in New York and in New Orleans.
Almost 10 years after meeting as newcomers to the University of Miami, Vilma, 27, and Shockey, 29, have come full circle. As players on the New Orleans Saints, they spent the week leading to their Super Bowl XLIV showdown against the Indianapolis Colts training on the Miami campus and changing in their old locker room and scheming to achieve what they pulled off in their last college game together: a championship.
“Our friendship has been strong and will remain strong for a long time,” Shockey said.
By Pat Yasinskas
MIAMI — For the past year, and especially over the past few weeks, we have heard a lot about the past decade.
There have been all-decade teams named by numerous media outlets and one by the NFL. Those have been all-star teams patched together from across the league. And when people talk about the 2000s, they usually talk about the New England Patriots and Indianapolis Colts as being the best teams of the decade.
That is understandable because those teams have won a bunch of big games and were the closest things we’ve seen to modern dynasties. But instead of looking back on the past decade, let’s spin it ahead to the next.
“Hopefully, in a few years, people are talking about the New Orleans Saints as the team of the next decade,’’ New Orleans center Jonathan Goodwin said.
The Saints as the team of any decade? Yeah, their history isn’t that great and Sunday marks the first time this franchise has been in a Super Bowl. But give it a little thought and maybe Goodwin’s wish isn’t that far-fetched.
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