NFL's Super Bowl on February 7, 2010

On January 19th I posted my forecast about which National Football League teams would be playing in the Super Bowl and who would win it on my Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?ref=name&id=1075776281 .

I said the New Orleans Saints would beat the Indy Colts. Last evenings Super Bowl was a very exciting game with the first half belonging to the Colts as they scored first and second with the score at 10 for the Colts and 0 for the Saints.

The second half, as it turned out, belonged to the Saints. They opened the half having  to kick off to the Colts, but wait - The Saints pulled off a surprise onside short kick. The ball traveled the required 10 yards and when the ball was touched by a Colt's player who could not catch it, the ball was up for grabs. A Saint's player got to it next, but it looked like he couldn't hold onto it either. The pile of players grew over the ball, to what looked like the entire 22 players were on top of the ball. I think it took close to 10 minutes for the ref's to get down to the bottom of the pile and decide that it was the Saint's ball. From then on things went from bad to worse for the Colts.

With score at Colts 17 and Saints 16 the Saint's offense hogged the playing field, not letting Payton Manning and his offense back on the field for long periods of time. The Saints scored to take over the lead and kept the Colts out of the end zone when Saint's Tracy Porter intercepted a Manning pass and took off for a 70+ yard run to the end zone. The game wasn't  over yet as there was more than 5 minutes left to play in the game, however, the score looked good for the Saints who now were ahead by 14 points, 31 to 17. The Saints defense played well for the rest of the game and the dreaded Colt's offense couldn't get the job done and the score ended up 31 to 17 to the Saint's delight!

Drew Brees won the game's Most Valueable Player award with 29 of 32 (91%) pass completions, 288 passing yards and 2 touchdowns. Payton Manning stats were 31 of 45 (69%) pass completions, 333 passing yards and 1 touchdown.

Congratulations to the Saints for their first Super Bowl win and since on January 19th I picked the Saints to win I can brag that I knew they'd win all the time!

Stay tuned for my next blog.

Don V the Jazzman