{"id":792007,"date":"2026-03-04T18:43:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T18:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/792007\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T18:43:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T18:43:13","slug":"saints-not-selected-to-play-in-the-hall-of-fame-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/792007\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints not selected to play in the Hall of Fame Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It had been speculated since Drew Brees was announced as a member of the 2026 class of the Pro Football Hall of Fame that the New Orleans Saints could play in the Hall of Fame game in Canton. Unfortunately, that will not be the case, as it was just announced that the Arizona Cardinals and Carolina Panthers will be playing on Thursday, August 6, at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Saints last played in the Hall of Fame Game back in 2012, losing to the Arizona Cardinals 17-10. This would have marked their 6th appearance in the game had they been selected to play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Even though the Black and Gold will not be playing, plenty of Saints fans are expected to be headed to Canton to see Drew Brees get enshrined on Saturday, August 8, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It had been speculated since Drew Brees was announced as a member of the 2026 class of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2076],"tags":[7,896,55,26949,401,15548,2572,2571,6,397],"class_list":{"0":"post-792007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-orleans-saints","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-new-orleans","10":"tag-new-orleans-saints","11":"tag-new-orleans-saints-preseason","12":"tag-new-orleans-saints-news","13":"tag-new-orleans-saints-schedule","14":"tag-neworleans","15":"tag-neworleanssaints","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-saints"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116172384142815419","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}