With his team trailing 10-6 at halftime, New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton decided to start off the second half of Super Bowl XLIV with an onside kick. How risky was the call?

So risky that no coach in any of the 43 prior Super Bowls had ever tried it.

In the history of the big game, there had never been an onside kick attempted in any quarter except for the fourth. For the unprecedented call to work, two things had to happen: The Saints needed a great kick and they needed someone on the team crazy enough to recover it.

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