There’s not much more in life that I enjoy than watching an entire city find redemption in the form of their favorite football team beating the odds to get to the Super Bowl. In New Orleans, we have just that, with a huge population of fans suffering through just about every possible calamity on and off the field, especially in recent times, with a franchise seemingly in disarray after Hurricane Katrina crushed the entire landscape of the Gulf Coast.

So it is with great joy that I was able to watch the Saints march into the Superdome earlier tonight and overcome a tremendous Vikings team that showed heart from start to finish, to win the NFC championship and book a trip to Miami for the Super Bowl.

This is the finish that every fan of the game wanted to see throughout most of this season, with two high flying offenses squaring off against each other in what looks to be a championship game for the ages. It marks the first time since 1994 that the top seeds in both conferences advance to the championship, and pits two of the league’s top quarterbacks in Peyton Manning (son of Saints legend Archie Manning) and Drew Brees.

Let’s not forget the fact that both defenses are equally talented in their own right, with plenty of opportunistic playmakers to create turnovers and keep opponents off the board. On paper, the advantage seemingly would lie with the Colts, although the Saints clearly have demonstrated a knack for getting stops when they need them the most.

All of these story lines will be broken down to their every detail in the coming weeks, and your’s truly will certainly add to that as well, but for the time being, I don’t think I could have asked for a better finish to this season than the game we’ll be privileged to see two weeks from now. Congratulations to New Orleans and Indianapolis, and let the fun begin.

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