The days of 55-10 Frisco over Denver seem like a lifetime ago. Remember that period from the Raiders 38 Skins 9 through San Fran crushing Miami, Bears over Pats, Giants and Washington punish the Broncos. Now the trend has reversed. Giants/Pats and last year with Pitt/Cards, provided us terrific nailbiters. Yesterday this thing looked ticketed for a possible overtime until Tracy Porter's pick six to ice it for New Orleans 31-17. Obviously that was a key play in the game as was the decision by Saint's coach Sean Payton to try for the successful onsides kick to begin the 2nd half. From my chair, there are plays that evaporate into oblivion but in football, fall into the "what if" category. It's 10-zip Colts, and the Saints had just settled for a field goal after a Dwight Freeny sack on 3rd down stymied a potential TD drive. On 3rd & 4 from their own 28 with about 8 1/2 minutes to go in the half, Manning throws a perfect dart to Pierre Garcon for a 1st down. But he drops it. Sustain that drive and the entire complexion of this game may have changed. The subtle beauty of football.
The New Orleans game plan to eat up clock to keep Peyton Manning and that offense on the sideline was brilliant. It was even more so when they did it via short passes rather than run which may have caught the Indy defense off guard. Drew Brees was nothing shy of magnificent tying a Super Bowl record with 32 completions. Well done & all hail the champion Saints.
As for the halftime show featuring The Who, I actually enjoyed it. When they opened with The Pinball Wizard and cut it short into Baba O'Reily I was a little ticked because I'm not a "medley" guy, but they pulled it off. I liked the fact they didn't try to sneak some obscure songs in and went with their powerhouse tunes which originally featured the late drummer Keith Moon & masterful bassist John Entwhistle. Who Are You, See Me Feel Me from the Tommy rockopera and Won't Get Fooled Again. Well done by Pete Townsend, Roger Daltry and a top flight band behind them.
On today's show, we'll recap the game and the season along with the college hoop scene including that misery in Corvallis where the Beavs just flat whipped the Ducks.
FYI....the winner of our Super Bowl contest is Rob who had New Orleans 31-23 outpointing Todd who had Saints 28-21 by one point. Mr. Matt was right there at 29-23. Just 7 people total went with New Orleans. Well done.
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very useful article. I would love to follow you on twitter. By the way, did any one learn that some chinese hacker had hacked twitter yesterday again.
Great game but you must have had too many frostys to have liked The Who. I know they are 60 something but that was embarrassingly awful.
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