"Hey I'm sure when Peyton Manning was growing up he always wanted to throw the TD pass that gave the Saints a Super Bowl win. Now he has"At the same time, I'm not really interested in hearing idiot talking heads reduce this to performance under pressure and guts and whatever. Sean Payton made great decisions, Drew Brees was Drew Brees, Peyton Manning was Peyton Manning + one dumb read, and Tracy Porter made a fantastic play. One good team beat another, and a great player made a bad decision - it happens. Someone had to win, right?
With that said, I spent a couple days in New Orleans last week and it's hard not to be really happy for those people, who are just completely insane about this Saints team.
Oh, and this is unrelated, but I'm headed to Los Angeles tomorrow, so I'll just point this out now: Just in case anyone is wondering, Sarah Palin is still fucking retarded.
Addendum: Chris Berman just said that the Saints decision to go for it on 4th and goal from the 2 didn't work out. Really?? Did he not notice that they got the field goal anyway as a result of the Colts' shitty field position that resulted from the decision? If there was one thing that confused me about that sequence, it was the Colts trying to run out the clock rather than trying to go get points of their own.