Can the Saints win it for New Orleans?
Let me just get this out of the way, if the Saints win the Super Bowl, then the celebration that’ll come after will be bigger than Mardi Gras.
And since Super Bowl XLIV will be their first ever trip to the Super Bowl for the New Orleans Saints, anything they celebrate from this point forward will be nothing compared to the way this city will celebrate if the Saints win the big game.
In case you didn’t get that, the New Orleans Saints are going to the Super Bowl for the first time in franchise history. Hosting their first NFC championship game, the Saints defeated the Minnesota Vikings 31-28 to earn a trip to Miami.
They will play the Indianapolis Colts, a team that has a knack for playing and winning Super Bowl championships in Miami. Of course, for a city that has been able to overcome adversity, don’t expect the Colts’ history in Miami faze these Saints fans one bit.
Especially Drew Brees.
”Four years ago, they were hosing this roof,” as Saints coach Sean Payton put it, referring to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. ”This is pretty special for this city.”
The Saints went 20 years before they had their first winning season, and 33 years before winning a playoff game. Only the Detroit Lions, at 44 consecutive years, have missed more Super Bowls than the Saints.
Against the Vikings, it did look like the Saints were about to miss another trip too.
Faced with fourth and 1 from the Minnesota 43 in overtime, New Orleans opted to go for the first down. Tailback Pierre Thomas took the handoff and leapt into the air, not knowing where the Saints season might land.
When referees spotted the ball, the Saints had a first down, and a few plays later kicker Garrett Hartley hit a 40-yard field goal for the winner to send the Big Easy into a frenzy.
The win turned back the Vikings and the 40-year-old Brett Favre, who was aiming to become the only ”hired-gun” quarterback to lead his team to a championship in his first season with a team.
”Brett Favre is a great story,” Saints linebacker Scott Fujita said, ”but the New Orleans Saints are a better story.”
With a record crowd of 71,276 chanting the team mantra ”Who Dat! Who Dat!” the Saints secured their date with destiny, a date with Peyton Manning and the mighty Colts. They have already overcome a hurricane, can they overcome another hurricane Manning will bring this Sunday?
I am rooting for exactly that.
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