Saints Contain Colts To Capture Super Bowl for New Orleans, America
Written by T Reginald Sykes, Monday February 08 2010
Come on, be honest. You wanted the Saints to win yesterday's Super Bowl.
Unless you are a Colts fan, you wanted the Saints to win. It was a win that may have gone beyond the game for all Americans.
Did the city of New Orleans need this win?
Of course not. Let's put this in it's proper context. It was just a football game. The box office in New Orleans can't improve. They sell out all the time. Nobody lived or died because of it.
Do you think Louisana's unemployment rate will suddenly nose dive?
Hardly. But if any NFL city deserved this, it would be the Saints if only for the morale of a great American city.
For this one moment in time we neutral fans climbed abord the Saints bandwagon. America united behind the city of New Orleans after Katrina and Rita devastated Louisiana. .
The game was in Miami but it was almost a Saints home game.
Truthfully, any stadium outside of Indiana would have served as home turf for the Saints. That Saints bandwagon was full and the Colts were well aware of it.
So, I had black and gold pom poms hanging off my Joe Montana poster and my neighbors in Raider Nation dangled beeds off their spiked collars...we were all Saints for a day.
And I'm suer that somewhere in the French Quarter, Cheeseheads, Cowboys and Hogs are celebrating the Saints victory.
I'm willing to bet that even Archie Manning was out on the party circut last night. Peyton would never have to know. I can imagine his anguish, trying not to celebrate his franchise's championship.
As for the game, itself, the lack of downfield passing suprised me. Both teams dropped safties into the next zip code and the covers corner as best as could be expected. There were no huge plays on offense for either team.
Both quarterbacks stayed upright and fired darts all game long. Drew Brees and Peyton Manning combined to set Super bowl records for completionswith 64. Yet the only big play came on Tracy Porter's 74-yard interception run for the game breaking touchdown.
New Orleans got very litle from their running game, Brees handed off only 18 times and the Saints got less than three yards a pop.
Breese won this with the patience of a chess master and the accuracy of a marksman.
Although he only averaged 7.4 yards per completion, he only failed to connect on seven of his 39 pass attempts.
This was probably the greatest exhibition in Super Bowl history, although maybe not the most exciting. I'm sure the Saints and their nation are happy with the out come.
Congratulations to the New Orleans Saints...Well done, indeed!
Now America can get off your bandwagon.
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