Brees led New Orleans to its first Super Bowl victory ever and won MVP.
Tracy Porter returns Manning's interception for a touchdown late in the game.
Megan Fox's Motorola phone commercial
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Let's give some long-deserved cred to New Orleans quarterback Drew Brees. He flat out outplayed Peyton Manning on the NFL's biggest stage. He tied the Super Bowl record with 32 completions, and only had 7 incompletions. He threw for 2 touchdowns and was ruthlessly efficient in the second half, leading the Saints to 25 second half points. (They were down 10-6 at halftime.)
In the weeks leading up to the Super Bowl it had been Peyton this and Manning that. It was all about how great of a quarterback Peyton was and if he should be considered one of the all time greats. All the NFL analysts said the key to a Saints victory would be if they could keep Manning off balance with their confusing blitz packages. And, in a way, the game was won by Tracy Porter's interception return for a touchdown. The Saints brought an all out blitz on Manning's right side, Peyton looked to Reggie Wayne over the middle and Porter jumped the route. But it should not be forgotten that it was Drew Brees who won the game, and not that Peyton Manning lost the game.
Everyone knows the commercials are an integral part to the Super Bowl. And for a bunch of guys who take football very seriously, at the super bowl party we probably paid more attention to the commercials than the game itself. And in the spirit of teenage boys, the collective winner of this year's funniest Super Bowl commercial was the Motorola phone commercial starring Megan Fox in a bathtub. It wasn't just good because it had Megan Fox, the hottest woman alive. It was hilarious to my friends and I because of the implied actions of "Timmy," the boy that locked himself in his room with the picture of Megan Fox in a bathtub that she had distributed using her phone. (about 15 seconds into the commercial) Our humor is incredibly vulgar, but to us there was nothing funnier. We actually rewinded the commercial and watched it 5 times so everyone got the joke.
Now on to the other big entertainment portion of the Super Bowl: the halftime show. This year's Super Bowl continued with the tradition of having geezer rock bands perform at halftime (think Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen) because of the scarring Janet Jackson Justin Timberlake wardrobe malfunction in a past one. The Who performed with Pete Townshend still showing a knack for multiple guitar windmills. The stage set-up and visual effects were awesome and I liked how they didn't waste time in between songs talking to the crowd. But The Who performing during halftime embarrassingly shows the generational gap between them and the average NFL fan. My sister hadn't even heard of The Who before, and my nanny who's a big fan, said they were being made fun of for their possibility of having Alzheimer's. "Whoooooo are we? Who, who? Who, who? I just really wanna know whereeeeeeeee are we?"
Lastly, the Saints tied the Super Bowl record for biggest deficit overcome to win. The Saints trailed 10-0 early in the game.
The onside kick to start the 3rd quarter was the first onside kick in a Super Bowl attempted in a quarter other than the 4th. The successful onside kick by the Saints was a huge momentum boost for them.
And finally, the Super Bowl become the most watched tv program in US history and surpassed the 1983 MASH finale with over 106 million viewers.
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