Tracy Porter, Saints' Defense Make Play of the Year

Filed under: Colts, Saints, Super Bowl, NFL AnalysisMIAMI -- You want to know about Tracy Porter's haircut, which is understandable, and we'll get to that. You can't write the story about the guy whose interception of Peyton Manning won the Super Bowl without addressing how and why he showed up with images of the Louisiana Superdome and the Lombardi Trophy shaved into his head. Or how he missed the team bus to the game because that haircut took so long. We'll get to that soon enough, but we're going to start with the interception, because Porter credits one of the most exciting plays in Super Bowl history to one of the most boring and mundane things a football player does. "It was just great film study," Porter said. "All week, we watched it on film, and on third down, that was a big route for them. They went to it a lot. And when that route came, it was just like I was watching it on film. And when I caught the pick, my mindset was to score. That...