The Most Substantial Happenings In The Indy and New Orleans Super Bowl

By Gil Rojas

For the third straight year, football fans enjoyed a competitive Super Bowl game that has often left fans disappointed after sitting through many blowouts in recent years.

Now, the Indianapolis Colts were heavily favored to come away with the victory at the Super Bowl, but, much to everyone's surprise, the New Orleans Saints won instead. This was largely due to the fantastic way that Drew Brees and the rest of the Saint's offense performed in the game; however, their defense did equally as well when dealing with the Colt's quarterback, Peyton Manning.

Let's take a look at a few of the top stories from Super Bowl XLIV. If you missed out on the game, here are the things you should know about.

He started off a little shaky, but once that passed, Drew Brees had an almost perfect game. He began it by only getting three completions from the first seven attempts, but then he went on to complete 29 out of the next 32 attempts. He finished the game with an impressive total of 32 completions out of 39 attempts with 288 yards, no turnovers and 2 touchdown passes.

These statistics are truly superb and, of course, Brees received the award for giving such an efficient performance as a quarterback in this Super Bowl.

Perhaps just as impressive was the performance of the young Saints kicker Garrett Hartley, who made all three of his field goal attempts. Having successfully made kicks from 44, 46, and 47 yards, all of these were integral to the team's victory, and extremely clutch considering that the Saints trailed the Colts when he made two of his kicks.

And finally, when the game was over, Peyton Manning did something that you just don't see in the Super Bowl. The quarterback for the Colts did not offer congratulations to or even shake hands with any of the players on the Saints team - he just quickly walked off the field.

It's customary for the losing team's players to congratulate the winners, so many are calling Manning's act one of poor sportsmanship. Drew Brees, on the other hand, said that he understood Manning's frustration and doesn't hold anything against him for it. - 31493

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