Who Dat MVP

You win some you lose some! Either way, I'll brag a little bit when I win and always admit I was wrong when I lose. Several weeks ago I had decided this week's blog would be about the Super Bowl's most valuable player. Like always, thinking I know what I'm talking about I started the blog about the Colts Quarterback Peyton Manning. That's what I get for thinking and starting the blog a week early. Now I have to start the blog over and admit I don't know what I think I do. I just want all you Saint fans to know I give credit when credit is do but the risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision so I made my selection a week earlier and threw destiny out the window.
I still think Peyton Manning is one of the best QBs I've ever seen. He, Joe Montana and Tom Brady are in a league unto themselves. A step down is Dan Marino and John Elway. I have not forgotten about Bret Farve but his penchant for big turnovers knocks him out of the running. Now before all you Cowboy fans starting throwing your Miller Lite cans at me I'll tell you right now you have no right to claim anything close to quarterback greatness.
All this brings us to the real subject of this weeks Laywell's Lamp, Super Bowl VLIV MVP Trophy. After forty two seasons the New Orleans Saints won a Super Bowl and the games MVP trophy was awarded to their quarterback, Drew Brees. Four and a half years after New Orleans was engulfed by despair when the levees broke during Hurricane Katrina, confetti has fallen on the NFL Saints. As the owner of the Saints raised the Lombardi Trophy above his head the most valuable player award was given not to Peyton Manning but to Drew Brees. It was only a few years ago that Brees receiver a shoulder injury so sever that doctors said it could not be repaired. Lots of NFL teams passed over Brees in the free agency market because of this injury and the fact that most thought Drew Brees was not tall enough to take a team to the Super Bowl. He has proven to everyone including me he is a very good quarterback but just how good is he really? I don't think he is in the league with the likes of Joe Montana, John Elway, Tom Brady, Dan Marino or Peyton Manning but next year we may find out. The Saints have 29 players who become free agents at the end of this season with 11 of those 29 becoming unrestricted free agents. Next years Saints team will only be a shell of what the world saw this year, which will force Drew Brees to run for his life next season.
OK so Peyton Manning didn't win the MVP Trophy and Drew Brees did, big deal! This blog is about who I think should have won the trophy not who did. Neither QB gets the award from me. I think the Saint's coach, Sean Payton should have won the award. With the Saints trailing by four points and kicking off to the Colts to open the second half, Coach Payton called for an onside kick. That play had to have been the most gutsiest play of any Super Bowl and for that reason I award the MVP Trophy to Coach Payton. If the play had failed the Colts and Peyton Manning would have had a very short field and probably increased their lead to eleven points. Somewhere on the Saints sideline there had to have been a Nun or two hollering Who Dat at the top of their lungs because that play was surely an act of divine intervention.
No more Sunday games for seven months, what am I suppose to do watch golf. I don't think so! September can't come soon enough. I have no clue who will win next years Super Bowl's MVP. Maybe it will be Peyton Manning because most of his supporting cast are under contract and will return again next year. Maybe next years MVP trophy will go to the Cowboy's equipment manager, anything is possible.