Dave2112
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I guess it's time to take the bags off the heads now, huh? 😀
With no one giving them a real chance and spending two weeks explaining what "perfect storm" would need to happen to actually beat Peyton Manning and the Colts...the New Orleans Saints won a championship for not only a team or a franchise, but for an entire city that many predicted would never return.
It was bittersweet, seeing the Saints there...because they defeated my beloved Vikings to get there. But, the Saints have always been my 2nd favorite team, and that's by a pretty close margin.
What made this particular game a tad bit difficult for me to watch wasn't deciding who to root for (I do like the Colts a lot), but not having anyone to root against. No Cowboys, Steelers, Bears or Patriots to watch go down...hopefully. No polarizing Good Team/Bad Team thing for me this year. But in the end, you gotta stick with your loyalties, right?
And, regardless of the final score (31-17), the game was far closer than the numbers would lead one to believe. The Colts played well, Peyton was a constant threat. But the Saints defense stepped up, and we finally got to see Drew Brees as the elite QB he really is.
There was a certain moment that changed this game. An onside kick attempt (successfully recovered) to start the second half....
THE....BALLSIEST...CALL...in Super Bowl History. I mean, you don't call that play when you're ahead, let alone down four and facing the possibility of giving the league's best QB a short field to make that deficit even larger. At the very moment that play happened, I said to myself "The Saints just won this game."
Ah, to be on Bourbon Street right now. 😉 What a party for the city of New Orleans, especially with Mardi Gras right around the corner!
Congratulations to the New Orleans Saints, the long-suffering and utterly loyal fans...and a city that REALLY needed this. There are very few cities in which the football team is SO closely tied to the community (Green Bay, Baltimore maybe), and this victory is going to be celebrated for quite some time.
GO SAINTS!!!!!
😀
With no one giving them a real chance and spending two weeks explaining what "perfect storm" would need to happen to actually beat Peyton Manning and the Colts...the New Orleans Saints won a championship for not only a team or a franchise, but for an entire city that many predicted would never return.
It was bittersweet, seeing the Saints there...because they defeated my beloved Vikings to get there. But, the Saints have always been my 2nd favorite team, and that's by a pretty close margin.
What made this particular game a tad bit difficult for me to watch wasn't deciding who to root for (I do like the Colts a lot), but not having anyone to root against. No Cowboys, Steelers, Bears or Patriots to watch go down...hopefully. No polarizing Good Team/Bad Team thing for me this year. But in the end, you gotta stick with your loyalties, right?
And, regardless of the final score (31-17), the game was far closer than the numbers would lead one to believe. The Colts played well, Peyton was a constant threat. But the Saints defense stepped up, and we finally got to see Drew Brees as the elite QB he really is.
There was a certain moment that changed this game. An onside kick attempt (successfully recovered) to start the second half....
THE....BALLSIEST...CALL...in Super Bowl History. I mean, you don't call that play when you're ahead, let alone down four and facing the possibility of giving the league's best QB a short field to make that deficit even larger. At the very moment that play happened, I said to myself "The Saints just won this game."
Ah, to be on Bourbon Street right now. 😉 What a party for the city of New Orleans, especially with Mardi Gras right around the corner!
Congratulations to the New Orleans Saints, the long-suffering and utterly loyal fans...and a city that REALLY needed this. There are very few cities in which the football team is SO closely tied to the community (Green Bay, Baltimore maybe), and this victory is going to be celebrated for quite some time.
GO SAINTS!!!!!
😀
