The Saints Win The Super Bowl! WHO DAT!

Wow! What a game! An instant classic in Miami has given the New Orleans Saints their first Super Bowl in team history.

Take nothing away from Peyton Manning, he played a solid game, but tonight, solid was not enough for Drew Brees and the New Orleans Saints defense who were spectacular and out of this world. The first half definitely favored the Colts. The Saints started slow and the Colts started fast. In their first 2 drives, the Saints could only get 1 first down while the Colts got a field goal and a touchdown. It looked like it would be ugly.

But it wasn't. The Saints were able to go down the field and kick a field goal, bringing them to within 7. The Colts got the ball and back and on a key 3rd down play. Manning threw a perfect ball over the middle to a wide open Garcon. After Garcon dropped that pass, it was all Saints. From that point on, they outscored the
Colts 28-7.

But if that was the moment that stopped the Saints momentum, there would be another play that would really get the Saints believing they can win the game. That moment was the start of the 2nd half when, down 10-6, they did the unthinkable. An onsides kick.



Off the hands of Hank Baskett and recovered by the Saints! I can't help but feel bad for Kendra. Poor smokin' hot babe married a useless receiver. Hank was useless with the Eagles, and he was harmful to the Colts.

The Saints would go on to score a TD on that drive but the Colts would get the ball back and retaliate with a TD of their own, giving them a 17-13 lead.

The Saints got a FG on their next drive, got the ball back and scored what would turn out to be the game-winning TD.



The Saints would go for 2.



But it was not over. Peyton Manning had plenty of time to drive down the field and get a game-tying touchdown. Only Tracy Porter, the man who picked off Favre late in the 4th quarter of the NFC title game, would strike again. Here is the shocking clinching moment of Super Bowl XLIV.



Peyton Manning decided to make it interesting one last time, though. He drove his team inside the 10. On 3rd and goal, they ran a questionable draw that lost a couple of yards, leaving the Colts with 4th and goal from the Saints 5. A TD would force an onside kick to extend the game. A stop would ensure victory for the Saints and no worries about the greatest comeback in Super Bowl history. Here is the 2nd shocking play that clinched the Super Bowl for good and sent the few parts of the city that were not into mass hysteria after the Porter INT, into mass hysteria.



Great call by Nantz and congrats to the Saints on winning the Super Bowl!

The goat, if you are going to name one, is Jim Caldwell. With 4th and 11 at the Saints 34 yard line up by 1, he had a choice to make. He could have chanced 42-year old Matt Stover kicking a 51-yarder field goal in the biggest pressure situation of his life, gone for it (including a possible fake) and if you fail, it saves the additional 7 yards of the missed field goal, or he could have just punted it. Caldwell went with the least wise option and trotted out Stover. He predictably missed. Then, with the Colts driving on their last ditch attempt down by 2 TDs, on 3rd and goal from the 3, he inexplicably calls a draw. Why not throw it with one of the greatest QBs of all time? Instead, he gave it to an awful running back who was having a good game. But Addai was true to his usual form in that situation and lost 2 yards. 4th and goal followed and that was instantly followed by the Saints taking 2 knees to celebrate their first Super Bowl in franchise history.

I'll have the NFL highlight package video with local radio announcers up later tonight or tomorrow.

Congrats to the Saints on winning an instant classic of a Super Bowl and congrats to Jahri Evans for being the first Bloomsburg University student to win a Super Bowl ring!