Super Bowl XLIV Final Look Back – NFL Football

One last look at Super Bowl XLIV in Deep Into Sports’ newest column.

Who Dat?

As the football season came to a close with the glitz and glamour of a broadway production showcasing the NFL’s best, the Big Easy, known for it’s party atmosphere and Texas Hold’em coaching styles, led a team back by promising and rebuilding the confidence and strength in New Orleans. Standing tall and proud, the confident, calculated coach and the stong arm PhD quarterback led a team that was poised to take it all with a mental breaksown of X’s and O’s.

The Saints are known as the gamblers, taking a chance when given. Why not lay it all on the line for the big return with an onside kick and cornerback T. Porter cutting off a pass route for a interception that led to a 74-yard score as well as the lead, or wide reciever L. Moore and the coaches risking a two-point conversion to go up by seven playing for a tie if the Colts scored? Front office moves took a quaterback with a shoulder injury that some thought he would never come back from and a coach who plays a three-man defense stunt for all the marbles, just like the gamblers on Bourbon Street. Jim Caldwell played chess, never streaking or moving his pawns for upfield cross patterns and routes designed to confuse the gambler. With the valor of the defense J. Freeny led the warriors across the board with guts and determination. The accurate breakdowns of the Saints’ defense led to two scores and a field goal, cutting the air with tight spirals that P. Manning threw for 333 yards, finding the elusive D. Clark seven times for 83 yards. J. Addai pounded out 77 yards, rushing down the field while carrying tacklers and scoring a touchdown to help control the clock for a total of 29 minutes, a minute less than the Saints’ offense.

The guard of arms rained confetti in Miami with 228 yards to 8 recievers as M. Colston’s 83 yards led the way. P. Thomas danced like he was on Bourbon Street through the Colts’s defense for 30 yards. Although this game had many twists and turns and melodrama, it showcased something the League has been missing, a competive rivalry, a battle of wills on both offenses. Seconds clicked and the game of render began with passing and running plays to knock the oposition on there heels. A team wins and loses together but individuals who we call “playmakers” arrive through hours of studying playbooks. Countless reps hold the honor of becoming the one who changed the game. The Saints as a unit showed us how, and this is how you win. Each member became a playmaker, not just a player, by remembering why we study and practice.

As we learn there is power in numbers, as the shape of a new political world takes form, America is asking, “Who dat?” As new faces enter the political arena everday in hopes of leading, taking gambles by calculating the moves for the laws and future of tommorow’s economy and issues we face daily, America is still asking, “Who dat?” As a result, do we come together for the common cause when we are on the brink of depression, with half of the year done and a new budget set for review as one of those strategies that will jump start the economy? Democrats see this innovation and the Republicans sit and wait, calculating every situation with a counter-equation. This is our moment to become playmakers and bond as a unit, going into history as the ones who did it, the who dat’s with a voice from state to state. We send our gamblers to speak for us and lead our government.

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