Daily Links – 02/09/2010
After disastrous interception vs. New Orleans Saints, Peyton Manning a man of few words
As a kid growing up in New Orleans, Peyton Manning surely dreamed of throwing the touchdown pass that won the Super Bowl for his beloved Saints. How many times was he in his backyard a few miles from the Superdome playing catch with his dad Archie and brothers Cooper and Eli and dropping back and firing the pass that brought the Lombardi Trophy to Bourbon Street and started a wild celebration? Manning threw that touchdown pass Sunday night, and it was Mardi Gras on Bourbon Street, but the dream was his worst nightmare. He did it in a Colts uniform.
“Disappointing,” he said.
Rex Ryan will lead New York Jets to Super Bowl XLV against Cowboys in Dallas
They say everything is bigger and better in Texas, so Super Bowl XLV will have an all-time first: The Cowboys will be the first team to play the game on their home field. And their opponent? The J-E-T-S.
Seriously.
Now that the 2009 season is over, it’s time for our annual day-after look at what’s going to happen next season. It would be just the Jets’ luck that after a 41-year Super Bowl drought they finally make the game and then have to deal with playing in Jerry Jones’ billion-dollar palace in Arlington with 80% of the 100,000 fans rooting against them.
Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez reportedly leaves Maxim party with ‘Hills’ star Kristin Cavallari
Last weekend may have been about the Saints and the Colts, but Jets heartthrob Mark Sanchez still managed to steal one show in Miami.
Our snowbird spy says the quarterback had lots of ladies fawning over him at a Maxim bash at the Raleigh Hotel on Saturday, but Sanchez had eyes for only one gal: “The Hills” star Kristin Cavallari.
“He was definitely all about Kristin,” the source dishes. “They even left together at the end of the night.”
New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees says Super Bowl win was a ‘responsibility’ to fans
When Drew Brees woke up a Super Bowl champion, he turned to his wife and asked, “Did yesterday really happen?”
The Super Bowl XLIV MVP probably is going to have a lot more of those mornings as he and the Saints celebrate their first championship in the franchise’s 43-year history. Just Monday, Brees accepted his MVP award, made the traditional trip to Disney World and flew to New York for an appearance on “The Late Show” with David Letterman.
All because the Saints, once the misfits of the NFL, stunned the Colts Sunday night, 31-17. The team party lasted until the wee hours in Miami and the celebration in New Orleans may last weeks. After enduring Hurricane Katrina and its devastating effects, still felt in the city, the folks in the Big Easy deserve a good time.
Little moments add up to huge Colts loss in Super Bowl, with Peyton Manning at the center
Peyton Manning is the best closer in pro football now and one of the best of all time, in the last minutes of a half or of a game. But Sunday night, he was like a closer throwing a walk-off home run to lose Game 7 of a World Series.
An onside kick changed this game between the Colts and the Saints. But the interception that Manning threw to Tracy Porter of the Saints decided it.
Manning doesn’t rush the passer, doesn’t play in that soft Colts secondary. It certainly wasn’t Manning who treated that onside kick like a live hand grenade the way his teammate Hank Baskett did. It doesn’t change the fact that it is Manning who gets tagged with the “L” on this one. Same as he would have gotten the victory and the Pete Rozelle Trophy as MVP of the game if he’d brought the Colts back.
The Shutdown Corner interview with New York Jets’ D’Brickashaw Ferguson
The fine people at Gatorade hooked Shutdown Corner up with an interview New York Jets offensive lineman D’Brickashaw Ferguson. Here is that interview.
MJD: First, congratulations on your first Pro Bowl. How was that for you?
D’Brickashaw Ferguson: Very fun. I enjoyed that a lot, man. I really did.
MJD: So tell me honestly. During the whole game, the commentators on TV are trying to sell the idea that you guys really care you and you really take this game seriously, but on a scale of one to 10, where 10 is the Super Bowl and one is a game of Scrabble with the neighbors, how much do you really care about winning the Pro Bowl?
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