NFL Network debut America’s Game: 2009 New Orleans Saints on Wednesday, Sept. 8 at 9:00 PM ET. NFL Films-produced Emmy award-winning series will be aired the night before the Saints kick off the 2010 NFL season against the Minnesota Vikings.
NFL Network’s newest episode America’s Game: 2009 New Orleans Saints will unveil the inside story of remarkable Super Bowl-winning season told by Drew Brees, Head Coach Sean Payton and Jonathan Vilma.
Super Bowl MVP Brees, linebacker Vilma and head coach Sean Payton recount their memories and inside stories about the Saints 2009 season that was capped off with the first Super Bowl win in franchise history. The one-hour America’s Game features exclusive video and sound of the Saints during team meetings, practices, games and inside the locker room leading up to and following Super Bowl XLIV.
Find out what Sean Payton did to make him think Brees would sign with Miami instead of New Orleans as a free agent, see previously unseen video from practice of the on-side kick that was successful in the Super Bowl, learn what pass in a commercial impressed Vilma about his quarterback and about the must-have item Payton never commands a sideline without.
Pitt, who has done extensive community work in New Orleans, lends his voice as narrator to “America’s Game: 2009 New Orleans Saints” to help tell the story of the season. Frustrated with the lack of progress in rebuilding the Lower 9th Ward, where thousands of homes were destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, Pitt established the Make It Right Foundation to build 150 green, affordable, high-quality design homes in the New Orleans neighborhood.
Below is a sampling of quotes from “America’s Game: 2009 New Orleans Saints:”
“I felt like this is where I belong, to be a part of not only the rebuilding of an organization, but also a city and a region.” — QB Drew Brees on his decision to sign with New Orleans in 2006
“I’ve never to this day heard the Superdome louder than that moment. That’s when you knew that no matter who we were playing that day, they didn’t stand a chance.” — Brees on the 2006 win against Atlanta in the first home game following Hurricane Katrina
“It was magical. You could feel what that game meant and what it symbolized. New Orleans was coming back.” — Brees following the Atlanta win
“Somewhere between ‘Teenage Wasteland’ and ‘Pinball Wizard,’ we decided that this was going to be the time to run this.” — Head Coach Sean Payton on halftime decision during Super Bowl XLIV to call the onside kick, “Ambush”
“You knew it was more than just us winning a game. All of New Orleans won this.” — LB Jonathan Vilma on winning the Super Bowl
“If we-as a team and as a city-can be world champions when nobody ever thought we could, then man, we can accomplish anything.” — Brees on winning the Super Bowl
“America’s Game,” which won an Emmy Award for best sports series, delves deep into the story behind the making of Super Bowl champions. Each episode is a 60-minute documentary (available in high definition) featuring key members of the winning team telling behind-the-scenes accounts from their championship season. With classic NFL Films action combined with news clips and photos, highlights from team radio broadcasts, footage from inside team meeting rooms, sideline audio and other exclusive features, “America’s Game” provides an epic and intimate portrait of championship teams, in one groundbreaking series.
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