Former SMU Player Converts Key Play For Saints in Super Bowl Win

February 8, 2010  

By Robby Gillespie
rgillespie@smu.edu

In only his first season in the NFL, New Orleans Saints kicker Thomas Morstead earned a Super Bowl ring after the Saints beat the Colts, 31-17, Sunday in Miami.

Morstead executed an on-side kick at the beginning of the second half, which led to a New Orleans touchdown, giving the Saints the lead for good.

At SMU, Morstead earned All-Conference USA honors, after leading the conference in punting and ranked ninth in the nation with a 44.6-yard punt average.

The Pearland, Texas native was a fifth-round draft choice of the Saints, 164th overall, in the 2009 NFL Draft. He was the second punter taken overall.

Morstead becomes the first SMU alum to earn a Super Bowl ring since Dale Hellestrae did it in 1996 with the Dallas Cowboys.

Click below to listen to a Daily Mustang interview with Thomas Morstead before he headed to Miami for Super Bowl XXIV.

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One Response to “Former SMU Player Converts Key Play For Saints in Super Bowl Win”

  1. Will Kamp on February 8th, 2010 8:29 pm

    Wohooo!!! Go SMU ALUMS!!!

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