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New Orleans coach Sean Payton played to win — and it worked

 
By Berry Tramel | Published: February 8, 2010    Comment on this article Leave a comment

We should have seen it coming in pregame, this shocker of a Super Bowl. A franchised defined by bags on heads and a city defined by a Biblical flood found absolution, beating Peyton Manning and the Colts 31-17 Sunday night.

photo - Saints head coach Sean Payton celebrates after winning Super Bowl XLIV in Miami on Sunday. AP photo
Saints head coach Sean Payton celebrates after winning Super Bowl XLIV in Miami on Sunday. AP photo

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And it started with the coin flip, when the newly-elected Pro Football Hall of Fame class, including Russ Grimm, Emmitt Smith and Jerry Rice, stood sentry.

That’s NFC royalty at its finest, representing three Super Bowl titles each for the Redskins (Grimm), the Cowboys (Smith) and the 49ers (Rice), all from 1982-95, when the National Conference ruled the land.

Those days have been gone for a decade, and the Saints were expected to go the way of the rest of the modern NFC crowd.

Since the 2002 Buccaneers, the NFC had won only one Super Bowl and needed the Giants’ upset for the ages to get that one. Meanwhile, the AFC has been turning out stately winners like the Patriots and Steelers, and Manning’s Colts were expected to join the two-time club.

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