“This championship is for you, New Orleans,” Drew Brees shouted after steering the Saints to victory in their first appearance in a Super Bowl. Brees, the New Orleans quarterback, was named Most Valuable Player for completing 32 passes and throwing two touchdowns as the Saints beat the more-fancied Indianapolis Colts 31-17 in Miami.

“I was all meant to be, it’s all destiny,” he said as confetti rained down over Dolphin Stadium after the match. “We just believed in ourselves. We knew that we had an entire city, maybe an entire country behind us.”

Brees had joined the Saints six months after the city was devastated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. In four years, he has led them from being the whipping boys of the NFL to the championship.

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