The New Orleans Saints won their first Super Bowl with an upset 31-17 victory over the Indianapolis Colts in Miami.

在迈阿密举办的美国橄榄球超级杯大赛上，新奥尔良圣徒队31：17大胜印第安纳波利斯小马队，首次赢得超级杯大赛。

Highlights - Saints 31-17 Colts

Drew Brees hit a record-equalling 32 passes for 288 yards, with touchdowns（触地得分） to Pierre Thomas and Jeremy Shockey.

And cornerback（侧卫，角卫） Tracy Porter returned an interception¹（拦截，窃听） from Colts quarterback Peyton Manning 74 yards for another score to seal victory.

Garrett Hartley kicked three field goals of over 40 yards as the Saints came back from 10-0 down early on.

Indianapolis, who won the NFL title in Miami just three years ago, went into the game favoured by five points.

They were soon up by 10, after kicker Matt Stover, the oldest player in Super Bowl history at 42 years and 11 days, hit a 38-yard field goal（射门得分） and Manning found receiver Pierre Garcon for a touchdown after a withering² 96-yard drive.

But the Saints hit back with 13 unanswered points, 23-year-old Hartley slotting kicks of 46 and 44 yards before half-time as New Orleans dominated the second quarter.

Coach Sean Payton then wrenched³ the initiative with an audacious（无畏的，鲁莽的） gamble for a short kick-off to start the second half.

New Orleans came out with the ball from the ensuing（接着发生的） melee⁴（混战，格斗） and Brees - voted the game's Most Valuable Player three years after he was allowed to leave his old team San Diego as a free agent - hit Pierre Thomas for the go-ahead score.

Denied the ball for 70 minutes, including a lengthy⁵（漫长的，冗长的） half-time that included a performance by The Who, Indianapolis looked sharp as they drove for a touchdown on the ground from Joseph Addai.

But veteran Stover could not match Hartley's exploits, fading wide left with an attempt from 51 yards early in the fourth quarter.

New Orleans went up by seven with the score by tight end Shockey, followed up by a two-point conversion⁶ from Brees to Lance Moore.

And Porter secured the victory by punishing a poor decision by Manning, who tried to force a throw to favourite target Reggie Wayne in the face of heavy pressure.

Manning, who grew up in New Orleans, as his father Archie was quarterback for the Saints, left the field disconsolate⁷（郁郁不乐地） after tasting Super Bowl defeat for the first time in his storied career.

It was an emotional victory for the Saints, a team who went 20 years before recording⁸ their first winning season and a further 23 before appearing in this, their first NFL title game.

The team's resurgence⁹（再现，复活） has been seen as a mirror of the rebuilding of the city of New Orleans after the devastation¹⁰ of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

"We just believed in ourselves," said Brees. "We knew we had an entire city and maybe an entire country behind us."

As he lifted the Vince Lombardi Trophy¹¹, New Orleans owner Tom Benson said: "Not only the city but the whole state of Louisiana is back and this shows the whole world."