What's crazy about this is the fact that Brett Favre grew up as a Saints fan. His Super Bowl win was against the Patriots in the Superdome. So he won his Suoer bowl in the stadium of the team that he loved and still did. Then there was this game in the dome, so his final playoff game was against the team he loved and in the exact same stadium that he won the Super bowl in. Even after all the bountygate stuff came out. He would still cheer for the Saints through his career, even this season. He still loved the Saints after this game despite the fact that they were beatening him up. He still does love the Saints to this day, even when all the bountygate stuff came out. When he heard about the bountygate, he responded by saying, "it's no big deal. I'm sure everyone does it. The football that I played through my career involved hard hits all the time", which exposes the Vikings for the hypocrites that they are as they also had a bounty program. The hypocrisy becomes even bigger when you remember the fact that Vikings fans used to hate Brett Favre for the longest time and hated that he kept torching them, and they used to pound him all the time and enjoyed watching him get beaten up. I don't agree with everything Favre has said or done, but he is a real class act; even with the most recent thing he did wrong, he went back and corrected his mistake and he handled getting pumbled with maturity

People hate on Favre cause of his tendency to lose his cool in big pressure crunch time situations and ends up making bad decisions that lead to INTs... they try and act like he was not that good and overrated but I dont see why some folks say things like that. Thing is Favre was damn great, he was so good in his peak that he won MVP 3 years in a row 95 96 and 97 the only player to ever win 3 years in a row. Led his team to 2 SBs for the 96 and 97 seasons winning the first and losing the second and could've made it to 5 SBs but because of a bad decision late in the NFC championship 3 different years with the 2009 championship loss definitely the most unfortunate because the heart and the toughness he showed throughout the game all while never advocating for flags like many QBs do. Who knows if they had called a penalty on that incredibly dirty high low hit that sprained his ankle the drive would've continued instead of the pick and at the same time one could say had he handed it off to AP half a second later to connect they would've scored right there but instead AP of course let the ball drop down.

The Best Playoff game in my opinion

Who’s watching right before third edition today?

As a Vikings fan this kills me

The bountygate hit on Favre was real, so many late hits trying to intentionally injure him. Vikings really should have won this game, the whole game was epic but controversial as well which makes it so memorable to this day

How do you fumble 6 times

Favre could have won more rings but damn with those int!!

11:09 THIS ISN'T DETROIT, MAN! THIS IS THE SUPER BOWL!

Favre is stupid for that INT literally all he needed to do was run and slide and take that chance of a field goal more than likely longwell would’ve made it

I’m a Saints fan. I was 15 years old and my mom got tickets for us to go to this game and re-watching today, I do not remember it being such a hectic game. We were killing Favre but not more than the Vikings were killing themselves. This game came down to who wanted it more. This was the heavy weight bought of the century. Vikings have gotten their get back a few times on us since then but have unfortunately not been able to get to the big game. The football gods are real

It’s kind of suiting that Brett Favre’s last pass was a pick

Adrian Peterson always came up short in big games like this one.

5:03 was the play from the Chris Simms interview

They had to run the ball, call a timeout with 3 secs and attemp the fg

Now that you look at it,as much at first I was like that’s football but now rewinding this,they literally was trying to take him out

Crazy that this was only AP’s 3rd season

Our secondary apart from Winfield was a liability that whole year, with the loss of Ced Griffin on the OT kickoff MannThing and CO. would have torched them. I had also forgotten how many BS calls the refs made this game, those along with 5 TO’s pretty much gift wrapped the game. Such a painful rewatch!

*Hot take:* this game would have been a double-digit win for the Vikings without all those turnovers!

Vikings' fans tears still flowing nicely since 2009. LOVE it. Now tell me all about a fluke play and I'll tell you all about 4 SB losses and an empty trophy case. Cry for me.

3:00 was the moment

I feel like there had to be something wrong with the balls in this game. Like maybe they were over-filled with air because I've never in my life seen both teams fumble so much.

Were the rules different back then? Why did a field goal end the game in overtime when they had the first possession?

Only if brat had better players

Watching this now in light of everything that came out about Bountygate, I am sick to my stomach. With his family watching, they intentionally hurt him. Even when it was all reported years later he still gave them credit for playing well and winning. He is more of a man than any of those people who got rich for injuring him

Vikings loss because of turnovers.

AP was a big reason we lost that game!

Vikings should’ve won... but should’ve

That fake pass interference call at the end where the TE fell and the reviewed catch that stood was just awful

A lot of people will say the bounty gate won the saints the game but nah it was all the fumbles the Vikings had!

11:47 Rich Eisen: The Saints win the toss. Because the Vikings called heads and we know "tails never fails!"

This game was one of the most intense NFC Championship games I have ever watched. That 2009 Saints team didn’t go down without a fight. If you played hard, they played even harder. It’s just a shame Brett Favre’s career ended the way it did.

All of you people who claim to be "unbiased" and are siding with Vikings fans, stop it. You're only listening to hersays instead of doing actual research. The Saints defense was NOT the main reason we won the Super bowl, because they were just ok as they gave up so many yards and points. It was the offense that was the strong suite for this team. The Vikings had a bounty program. The Vikings injured more opponents that year than the Saints. The Saints injured the 2nd least amount of opponents that year. Stop siding with Vikings fans, they were *NOT* a clean team; they were actually dirtier than the Saints

So many fumbles by the Vikings, it’s almost as if they were trying to throw the game. Stupid Vikings crossed Favre at every turn.

This is after Farve got off of painkillers.

Favre vs Manning Dammnit

Brett Farve would retire after the 2010 season!!!

Brett Farve=Joe Kapp

12:07 How was that a penalty on the Vikings I swear #12 tears #21 facemask down as he runs by him.

The Saints were literally out to kill Brett Farvera. 😳 🏈

ROLLTIDE

Absolutely disgusting sell job by the Vikings, 8 times throwing the ball away when you’re a far superior team and still in position to win then give it away again. Roger Goodell please learn how to script games good lord

This was a bounty game. They tried to kill Favre. Brett just took it like a man. Never complained

Vikes should've won, those scumbags Saints and their bountygate

Lol you could really tell this was peak bounty scandal 😂😂😂

Im glad the vikes got revenge

This was the “bounty gate year” if that happened today they would take their Super Bowl away. You can see how dirty they were playing

Between the fumbles and the Refs they did not want Favre to win this game

Man this sucks to see The Vikings should have won this game we could have seen Payton Manning vs Bret favre in the SUPERBOWL 44 dream match dam saints

The refs handed saints the game in overtime and they lucky that overtime rule wasn’t in effect at that time where field goal dont win it in overtime on first possession

11:04 Why not run and slide for the first down?...then again, you couldn’t trust whatever the headhunting bounty-motivated Saints did that day either

😂😂😂😂😂 Vikings fans 😂😂😂

The saints are nothing without the bountygate 😂😂😂😂

GO PATRIOTS

Game was rigged