Indianapolis Colts v. New Orleans Saints in Super Bowl XLIV
Monday, January 25th, 2010 | Indianapolis Colts, Minnesota Vikings, New Orleans Saints, New York Jets, NFL, Sports
The Indianapolis Colts will play the New Orleans Saints in the Super Bowl XLIV in Miami on Sunday, February 7th. It will be a showdown between arguably the best Quarterback of All-Time – 4-time NFL MVP Peyton Manning – and Drew Brees the leader of the NFL’s top offense during the 2009-2010 NFL season. With both defenses being good and underrated, it shapes up to be one of the most exciting Super Bowls in recent years.
The Colts dismantled the New York Jets 30-17 in the AFC Championship Game yesterday in Indianapolis. Although the Jets jumped out to a 17-6 2nd quarter lead behind the arm of Mark Sanchez, you just knew that the Colts would come back to win after Manning hit Austin Collie for a touchdown pass with less than 2 minutes to go before the 1st half ended. The 2nd half wasn’t even close as the Colts strolled to an easy victory.
The Saints outlasted the Minnesota Vikings 31-28 in Overtime in the NFC Championship Game yesterday in New Orleans. As much as you’d like to say that the Saints “earned” the victory, you can’t help but wonder how the game would have turned out IF the Vikings didn’t commit 5 turnovers and IF any of the 3 questionable on field calls that were reviewed in the overtime period went against the Saints instead of for the Saints. My guess is that we’d be seeing Brett Favre battling Manning for the Super Bowl title in 2 weeks.
We’ll have more on each Conference Championship Games in the coming days. There were so much to digest and analyze there and we don’t want to burn out too soon with overblown Super Bowl coverage…
