Destiny Fulfilled

So I'm not as big of a fan as the average football lover but when it comes down to the Super Bowl, I tend to put my five cents in along with everyone else. This year I couldn't tell you the stats of the two teams vying for the championship but I do know that "destiny" played a big factor in the win. That along with the fact that the New Orleans Saints is the typical story. Here you have a team, the Saints, who had everything against them and you had a winning team (Colts) that looked more like a line-up of All-Star players. At the helm of the team was Peyton Manning, arguably the best quarterback in NFL history, a slew of more experienced players and a record of having won a Super Bowl in the past. Yet the New Orleans Saints, a team that knows all too well about rebuilding and beating odds, (recovering from Katrina) had too much against them and still they did what many didn't think possible... They brought the franchise back to its former glory. The Saints were down 10-0 in the first quarter and came back to tie the game by the second half before tromping the Colts and taking the lead in the third quarter to win the game.

Leading Saints quarterback and now Super Bowl XLIV MVP, Drew Brees said it best, "This was meant to be. It's all destiny." Call it a destiny fulfilled that no one thought would be realized. What's even more amazing is the connection between the Saints and Manning's father who was the Saints starting quarterback in his day. And yet the Saints went Marching in on a a blaze of destiny and now Super Bowl glory, capturing the win with a 31-17. Oh when the saints, go marching in...