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Saints Win Super Bowl XLIV |
 Saints QB Drew Brees hoists the Lombardi Trophy after a 31-17 win over the Colts in Super Bowl XLIV (Getty) |
The New Orleans Saints beat the Indianapolis Colts in Super Bowl XLIV in Miami on Sunday, 31-17. New Orleans QB Drew Brees was named the Super Bowl's MVP after completing a Super Bowl record-tying 32 passes for 288 yards and two touchdowns.
No team has ever lost to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the regular season and went on to win the Super Bowl the same year, but that curse was lifted on Sunday night in Miami, Fla. when the New Orleans Saints defeated the Indianapolis Colts 31-17 in Super Bowl XLIV.
New Orleans came into Sunday's game as an underdog and after falling behind early in the game, the Saints overcame a 10-point first quarter deficit to come out on top, which tied for the biggest comeback in Super Bowl history.
Touchdown passes from quarterback Drew Brees to running back Pierre Thomas and tight end Jeremy Shockey, along with three Garrett Hartley field goals put New Orleans in position to win the game. Hartley's field goals were all longer than 40 yards and he became the first kicker in Super Bowl history to make three field goals of that length in a game.
The Saints also gained momentum after head coach Sean Payton made a risky decision to open the second half with an onside kick. Payton's call paid off as the kick was executed to perfection and New Orleans never looked back after that.
The defense also helped out, as they did all season long for the Saints, when cornerback Tracy Porter picked off a Peyton Manning pass with 3:12 remaining in the game and returned it 74 yards for a touchdown to secure the victory.
Even though the Colts' offense put up 432 total yards in the game, defensive coordinator Gregg Williams and the Saints held them to only seven points in the second half after giving up 10 points in the first half of play.
Indianapolis put the first points on the board after a Matt Stover 38-yard field goal. Later in the first quarter, Peyton Manning connected with Pierre Garcon for the game's first touchdown. The Colts scored their only second half points in the third quarter when Joseph Addai finished off a 10-play, 76-yard drive with a four-yard touchdown run.
The Saints' number one ranked offense finished the game with 332 total yards, and 288 of those yards came from the arm of Brees. Brees also completed 32 passes and added a pair of touchdowns to compile a 114.5 QB rating. After this impressive performance, Brees was named the Super Bowl MVP.
Although this year's Super Bowl was played in Miami for a record-breaking 10th time, it was a game of many firsts. The Saints victory in Super Bowl XLIV was the first of the franchise's 43-year history. The come-from-behind win also marked the first time that a team took a three-game losing streak into the playoffs and came out as a Super Bowl champion.
The second loss of the Saints' three-game skid at the end of the regular season was a 20-17 overtime upset to the Bucs. Tampa Bay's win over New Orleans was one of their three victories of the 2009 season.
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Comments
jiggyjoe
1:25am, February 8, 2010
Funky Munkey
2:56am, February 8, 2010
DLS5492
Go Bucs!!!
8:02am, February 8, 2010
JoeG31581
11:07am, February 8, 2010
pinkstob
1:57pm, February 8, 2010
nwinters40
2:04pm, February 8, 2010
bucfan47
This reminded me of the Pats/Giants. The Giants were not the better team, but they won the only game that matters. It's still kinda funny for me personally, when I look back many years from now, I'm still going to think of the Pats that season, although the Giants beat them. Kinda funny.
3:24pm, February 8, 2010
pewterpirate99
I was wondering how long it would take for some schmuck to brag about how our Bucs beat the Super Bowl Champs. Get over that, the sun does shine on a dog's ass some days and the sun was shining all over the Bucs that day. The bottom line is that we ONLY won 3 games all season, only 3 out of 16 and that's nothing to hang your hat on. Not when you go 3-13.
4:48pm, February 8, 2010
davdar
10:31pm, February 8, 2010
bucfan47
What I'll remember most is how for the majority of the second quarter, the Drew Brees led offense kept Manning on the sidelines and chewed up nearly the entire second quarter, and that for me, was one of the deciding factors in the game. Many people want to blame the SuperBowl on Peyton Manning for the late-game interception, but had they scored on that drive, there's nothing throughout that entire game that told me Drew Brees would not have led the Saints back down the field for either a TD or at worst, a last second FG, given the kicker was on-fire during the game.
The Colts defense simply had no answer for Brees, who deserves much of the credit. Completing 32 passes is for a 82% completion rate is just sick...When you combine that with one QB spike and a dropped ball by Colston, that pushes him up to 87%. When you think of it that way, it's not hard to imagine the Colts, even with one of the greatest of All-time, they didn't have a chance in that game. They really didn't.
1:50pm, February 9, 2010
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