Super Bowl XLIV: Saints versus Colts

The New Orleans Saints – with a bit of help from the Minnesota Vikings (5 turnovers!) and the refs – won the NFC Championship Sunday night, 31-28, in overtime. The team heads to the Super Bowl for the first time in its 43-year existence. They face the Indianapolis Colts, who earlier in the day, defeated the pesky New York Jets, 30-17.

The game will be held in two weeks. Expect to hear these memes ad nauseum:

• Peyton Manning, the Colts QB, is playing against his hometown team.
• Peyton is playing against the team where his father, Archie Manning, spent the majority of his career.

And so on.  And don’t forget the “will he/won’t he” speculation surrounding Brett Favre. Of course, that will go on from now until the first kickoff in the fall.

Coming up this weekend will be the Pro Bowl. I guess the folks in charge decided that having two weeks between the division championship games and the Super Bowl was too much. Um, OK, except that any Super Bowl participant won’t be playing.

I’m pulling for the Colts. You can vote for your team in the poll to the right.