NFL Super Bowl XLIV: New Orleans Saints Champions [Blu-ray]

I knew in advance that this was going to be a film highlighting the Saints 2009 championship season, so I was not expecting the entire Super Bowl broadcast. I gave this Five stars because of the quality of what was presented. Each game was adequatley covered with suffcient plays to give the viewer the feel of the game, although some games had plays shown out of order to drive home a point. The picture quality is superb, with multiple angles shown for key plays. But the real treat is the sound. From local Saints announcer Jim Henderson's calls ("It's good!!!! It's good!!! Pigs have flown, Hell has frozen over, the Saints are in the Super Bowl!"), to Coach Payton calling and predicting plays and making insighful comments (describing the on sides kick to referees before the start of the game and encouraging young kicker Garrett Hartley to kick the game winning field goal in the Vikings playoff game "You belong here"), to Scott Fujita egging on Peyton Manning ("Hey Peyton, I can eat Oreo cookies faster than you"), to Reggie Bush on the sideline predicting a Piere Thomas Super Bowl touchdown on a screen pass and celebrating as if he had scored himself, to the post-game celebrations. Everything presented is of five star quality.The only problem is it leaves you wanting more. I would have liked more highlights from each game and was disappointed in the brief segment of the Saints history, which quickly showed Archie Manning having hard luck and fans wearing bags over their heads. You do not feel the pain and frustration brought on by the stumbling Saints of old. Nor do you get to relive the truly great moments. No John Gilliam returning the opening kickoff of the team's first game for a touchdown. No Tom Dempsey kicking his game winning record setting 63-yard field goal.The extra segments also leave you wanting more. But a review should review what is present in the film and not harp on what is missing. You get the key plays of each game of the Saints spectacular season with pristine images and the exciting calls of the local radio broadcasters. It's a film Saints fans can and will watch over and over again, particualrly during the summer when there is no live NFL football to watch.

For $8, you couldn't have asked for more with this DVD. But just so you know, this is more-or-less a documentary-style overview of the season -- you don't get any full games from the season. Aside from the tacky intro about Hurricane Katrina at the beginning of the DVD, this is a great way to relive everything about the season.A few of the more uneventful games are omitted for the sake of time, I guess, but you get the best highlights. From the unlikely comeback at Miami at the beginning of the season to the 38-17 dismantling of the Patriots on Monday Night Football, the DVD has you covered.The DVD extras are the only part of this DVD I would say are lacking. There's a pretty gloomy feature on one Saints player, footage from media day before the Super Bowl and The Who's halftime performance (which is not nearly quite as good as I remember it being when I drunkenly saw it live at a bar on Decatur Street). Not a bad DVD for the price, but diehard fans may want to check out a DVD of the Super Bowl in its entirety to supplement the documentary.

I just got this title in on Tuesday, and in the two days that have elapsed I've watched this blu-ray disc 3 times already.It's really well written, and is split up into 3 main segments. The first is a prologue that profiles the history of the team (briefly) and sets up the Katrina and post-Katrina struggles of the city and the team. The next segment includes a significant amount of high definition highlights from the regular season and playoffs. They don't skimp on the highlights either - they do a great job of telling the story of each individual game, supported by lots of highlights and game film with the unforgettable calls of Jim Henderson and Hokie Gajan of WWL Saints Radio.The last segment highlights the Super Bowl. A good amount of player interviews put the game's significance front and center, and you are then immersed in Super Bowl XLIV. After a brief conclusion, Saints fans are treated to scenes from the Super Bowl victory parade on "DAT Tuesday" during "Lombardi Gras."There are a decent amount of special features - highlighting Jabari Hargrove, Sean Payton, Deuce McAllister, and Jeremy Shockey. There's also significant Saints coverage and interviews from Super Bowl Media Day.All in all, it's worth every penny.

Just what i wanted, just the right balance between the in match action and the sideline banter, it manages to build up each game and then convey the brilliance of each and every one of them. Sometimes the length of the match highlihts for particular games are not very long which can be frustrating and if i had one main problem with the DVD, it would be that in most games the highlights only include key touchdowns and not every score, this can be fairly confusing and in the regular season takes away some of the magic, however these are made up for by the rest of the movie.The playoffs and then the superbowl are shown in good detail which is good and also, these stages contain lots of sideline footage and other extra film, this obviously ends up with the magical moment of the Neq Orleans Saints winning the Superbowl, i believe that this is captured well and the aftermath of the superbowl on the whole is shown very well.Overall, i think that this product is Brilliant for its price and is a must buy for any Saints fan. WHO DAT!

I finally got round to buying this for my girlfriend it was the first Super Bowl that my girlfriend watched and she has been hooked on the saints as you may know this season hasn't been great for them so wanted her to think of the good times this Christmas thinking it was the actual Super Bowl game buy it wasn't this is every bone crunching tackle every super play over the whole season and post season defiantly worth 70p hell I would even pay 10 quid for this looks great in blue ray too

Great season review of the saints march to the Super Bowl ! A really great insight as well as to what the saints mean to the people of new Orleans

Great for NFL fans

in questo blu-ray, ricco di extra, rivivrete la stagione del team di new orleans, dalla prima gara stagionale fino al trionfo del superbowl.durata circa 1 ora e 20 minuti, ma con oltre 40 minuti abbondanti di filmati extra. la qualità delle immagini è fuori discussione, come sempre la NFL FILMS cattura le emozioni di questo sport duro e spettacolare.consigliato a chi ama il football americano.

Tutta la serie di questi dvd è eccellente. In poco tempo si ripercorre la stagione delle squadre che sono arrivate al Superbowl, con splendide immagini e ottimo ritmo! Il rapporto tra il racconto e la lunghezza del dvd in modo che sia fruibile è eccellente!