Brees is accurate and has a talented group of wide receivers. Pierre Thomas, Reggie Bush , and Mike Bell keeps the defense honest in respect to guarding both the run and the screen pass. Bush has raised his intensity level of play in this post season. The Saints have a better group of running backs as the rushing offense is a weakness for the Colts, since they average just 81 yards per game on the ground. New Orleans are the more balanced team on offense, but Indianapolis has the quarterback with the Super Bowl experience.
However, Indianapolis will need to get some production out of its running attack. Manning is the best in the game today at reading a defense and getting his team into the best play for that situation. Reggie Wayne is the leading receiver for the Colts and he and Manning have a great chemistry that brings the best out in both of them.
Both defenses have their strengths and flaws. Indianapolis had the NFL best 14—2 record, winning seven games by less than a touchdown, [4] on their way to earning their second Super Bowl appearance in the last four years. Once again, the Colts boasted a powerful offense led by time Pro Bowl quarterback Peyton Manning , who threw for 4, yards and 33 touchdowns during the season, with only 16 interceptions, earning him a Under the protection of Pro Bowl center Jeff Saturday and the rest of the line, Manning had been sacked just 13 times during the regular season, the fewest in the NFL.
His top targets were veteran receiver Reggie Wayne and tight end Dallas Clark , who both recorded receptions and 10 touchdowns. Wayne led the team with 1, yards, while Clark was second with 1, Running back Joseph Addai led the Colts' ground game with rushing yards and 10 touchdowns, while also catching 51 passes for another yards and 3 scores. Freeney led the team with Behind them, the Colts had a solid corps of linebackers featuring Clint Session and Gary Brackett , who each recorded 80 tackles.
Pro Bowl safety Antoine Bethea led the secondary with 70 tackles and four interceptions. Under their new coach Jim Caldwell , the Colts started off the season with 14 consecutive wins before suffering their first loss to the New York Jets , 29—15, a game in which Caldwell made the controversial decision to rest his starters after the team took a slim lead rather than keep them in to play for a chance at a 16—0 season.
Indianapolis finished the season at 14—2 following a loss to the Buffalo Bills , in which they rested their starters and went on to advance to the Super Bowl, making them perfect in all their games in which their starters played all four quarters. Senior offensive line coach Howard Mudd retired following the game. Indianapolis' first opponent was the Baltimore Ravens, a 9—7 squad that had advanced to the divisional round by blowing out the New England Patriots 33—14, forcing four turnovers from their all-pro quarterback Tom Brady.
Against the Colts however, all they could manage was a field goal on their opening drive. Indianapolis built up a 17—3 first half lead with a Matt Stover field goal and Manning's touchdown passes to Wayne and Collie.
In the second half, the Colts survived two interceptions from Baltimore safety Ed Reed on one drive, one of which Reed fumbled, and the other which was called back by a penalty. Stover, who spent 18 years with the Modell franchise , finished the drive with his second field goal to make final score 20—3, as their defense put the game away by forcing two consecutive turnovers. Their next opponent was the Jets, who had made the playoffs in part due to Caldwell's decision to bench his starters in their Week 16 meeting.
This time, the Colts would have to mount a comeback, as New York built up a 17—6 first half lead. Yet Indianapolis would step up to the challenge, scoring 24 unanswered points. First, Manning completed three passes to Collie for 80 yards, the last one a yard touchdown completion to cut the score to 17—13 at the end of the half. Arizona was coming off a 51—45 overtime win over the Green Bay Packers in which they racked up yards against a defense ranked second in the league in total yards allowed.
However, although Arizona scored on their first play of the game, New Orleans dominated the Cardinals with 35 points in the first half. First, Lynell Hamilton scored on a 1-yard run. Then, Sharper recovered a fumble from Arizona, setting up Brees' touchdown pass to Shockey. Following a punt, Bush scored on a franchise playoff record yard run. In the second quarter, Brees added two more touchdown passes, one to Henderson on a flea flicker and the other to Colston that was set up by a Will Smith interception, giving them a 35—14 first half lead before adding 10 more points in the second half on a Hartley field goal and Bush's yard punt return.
Bush racked up all-purpose yards, while Brees threw for yards and three touchdowns. Their opponent in the NFC championship game was the Minnesota Vikings , led by time Pro Bowl quarterback Brett Favre , who had thrown four touchdown passes in their divisional round win over the Dallas Cowboys. Even though the Saints' offense could only muster total yards, their defense made up for it by forcing five turnovers.
Additionally, the Saints outgained the Vikings in punt and kickoff return yards to The key play of the game occurred late in the fourth quarter with the score tied 28—28 and the Vikings driving for a potential game-winning field goal. With less than a minute left, they reached the Saints yard line. But after two runs for no gain and a penalty that pushed them back to the 38, Porter picked off a pass from Favre to send the game into overtime.
After New Orleans won the coin toss, Pierre Thomas' yard kickoff return set up a play, yard drive that ended with a game winning yard field goal by Hartley, sending the Saints to their first ever Super Bowl. All four of the Super Bowls in between had one team that played all three rounds two of which were wild-card teams , with three of those teams including the Colts in Super Bowl XLI winning it all.
Play-by-play announcer Jim Nantz and color commentator Phil Simms were in the broadcast booth, with Steve Tasker and Solomon Wilcots serving as sideline reporters.
With an average US audience of The telecast drew a All advertising slots were sold out on February 1, , six days before the game. FedEx also stated that they would not buy ad time. Also for the second straight year, one of the Big Three American automobile makers — General Motors — did not have a commercial in the game.
Ford had one commercial for the Ford Edge featuring Mike Rowe. Frito-Lay's Doritos brand, in turn owned by PepsiCo, had four consumer-created advertisements scheduled.
The first three ads — running in the first quarter — featured a sly dog using an anti-bark collar to his advantage to steal a man's Doritos, a fast-handed boy defending his Doritos and his mother from a potential suitor, and a man faking his death for free Doritos.
The fourth ad, featuring an angry gym rat who was overprotective for his Doritos being stolen, aired in the fourth quarter. Mars Chocolate returned three years after its controversial Snickers ad that was protested by gay groups with two men kissing one another that was pulled one day following the game see Super Bowl XLI: Commercials. The commercial — winner of the annual Ad Meter survey — featured veteran actors Betty White and Abe Vigoda playing full-contact backyard football.
Other advertisers for included Homeaway Inc. Three advertisers in particular raised eyebrows with their choice to advertise during the Super Bowl. One new advertiser, Focus on the Family, [21] aired a commercial featuring Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow and his mother that elicited criticism from some women's groups who demanded CBS cancel the ad because they claimed it would be divisive, under the impression that it would mention Tebow's mother was advised, for health issues, to abort her son Tim, but she chose to give birth to him.
In the first quarter, CBS aired the advertisement, which had not been pre-released to the public. One proposed sponsor, ManCrunch, a gay dating site that bills itself as a place "where many many many men come out to play," had expressed interest in purchasing a second advertisement. The ManCrunch advertisement would have depicted a male Green Bay Packers fan and a male Minnesota Vikings fan reaching into the same bowl of potato chips at the same time and, after a brief pause, begin to passionately kiss.
ManCrunch's ad, which has since been released to the public, was initially put on a waiting list before the network outright rejected it due to it violating CBS's broadcast standards. ManCrunch immediately accused CBS of discrimination. Some observers suspect that their advertisement was an attempt at ambush marketing and free publicity.
Another ad for Bud Light which was rejected showed workers stripping down for a charity clothes drive in exchange for free beer. All of the rejected ads were shown on YouTube. Among other rejected or modified ads were one for Electronic Arts' Dante's Inferno , which had to be edited for content the closing phrase, originally intended to read "go to Hell," was replaced with "Hell awaits" , and GoDaddy's originally planned advertisement.
On radio, Westwood One had the national English-language broadcast rights to the game in the United States and Canada.
Marv Albert play-by-play and Boomer Esiason color commentator called the game for the network; it was the last broadcast Albert would do for Westwood One, due to his desire to focus on his basketball coverage duties. Aircraft of the th Fighter Wing perform a flyover during the singing of the National Anthem. The instrumental for the songs "Misguided Ghosts" and "Playing God" off Paramore's latest album Brand New Eyes played during the introduction of players and during an excerpt of Drew Brees' patronage to the city of New Orleans.
The Colts entered last, as they were the "home" team, to "Won't Get Fooled Again" by The Who, which coincidentally would be performed by the band during the halftime show.
Retailers had ordered much more New Orleans Saints merchandise prior to the game than they had ordered Colts merchandise. The Saints won the toss and chose to receive, but their first possession resulted in a punt after going three-and-out. The Colts offense took the field for the first time, with the ball spotted at their own 27 yard line.
The Colts put together a drive that went 53 yards and resulted in a yard field goal by kicker Matt Stover. Following the game's first score, Courtney Roby returned the ensuing kickoff to the New Orleans 26 yard line. Approaching the yard line, Roby swooped into a dive and appeared to fumble the ball, but he was ruled down by contact. This time, the Saints managed to get a first down with a yard completion from Drew Brees to Reggie Bush , but they were eventually forced to punt again.
Punter Thomas Morstead pinned the Colts back at their own 4-yard line with a yard kick. Indianapolis responded with a yard scoring drive, tying the record for the longest drive in Super Bowl history. The Saints' next drive carried over from the previous quarter. Full Play-By-Play. Full Site Menu Return to Top.
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