{"id":815023,"date":"2026-03-16T08:04:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T08:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/815023\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T08:04:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T08:04:23","slug":"saints-qb-tyler-shough-throws-td-at-baseball-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/815023\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints QB Tyler Shough throws TD at baseball game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Savannah Bananas: Saints QB Tyler Shough throws TD at baseball game<a class=\"gnt_bc\"\/><\/p>\n<p>March 15, 2026, 6:07 p.m. CT<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Banana Ball came to New Orleans, and none other than <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/new-orleans-saints\/350\" data-autotag=\"84b23fc0-f769-4d65-9d38-018c62e4efd7\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">New Orleans Saints<\/a> quarterback Tyler Shough stepped in as a guest star in front of a sold-out crowd at the Caesars Superdome. The Savannah Bananas exhibition team entertained tens of thousands of fans over the weekend, and when they rolled out on a reconfigured field that turned the gridiron into a baseball diamond, Shough took over for an appropriate halftime show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Shough took the field with some nice pop from the crowd, and his back-shoulder throw for a touchdown prompted an even bigger roar. He&#8217;s already begun to win over fans after going 5-4 in limited action last season, <a href=\"http:\/\/saintswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/touchdown\/2026\/02\/05\/tyler-shoughs-stunning-debut-season-earns-him-coveted-fan-vote-award\/88528336007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">earning their vote for the Pepsi Zero Sugar Rookie of the Year award<\/a>, and a place of honor <a href=\"http:\/\/saintswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/saints\/2026\/02\/07\/mardi-gras-saints-qb-tyler-shough-krewe-of-pygmalion-parade\/88571707007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on one of the most popular parade floats this Carnival season<\/a>. It&#8217;s cool to see him get more opportunities like this to give fans in Louisiana something to cheer about. Now he needs to follow it up with a lot of touchdown passes in real NFL games in the fall.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"gnt_em gnt_em__lp gnt_em_gl gnt_em__el\" href=\"http:\/\/saintswire.usatoday.com\/picture-gallery\/sports\/nfl\/saints\/2026\/02\/05\/tyler-shough-saints-rookie-year-2025-season\/88534393007\/\" data-t-l=\"\u2691g:l|l|c|view gallery:inline promo\" aria-label=\"View Gallery - LOOK: Best photos from Tyler Shough&#039;s New Orleans Saints rookie year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img class=\"gnt_em_gl_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/87549095007-2248450208.jpg\" data-gl- decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\"\/><\/a>Expert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:8|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/picks\">Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2026 saintswire.usatoday.com. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Savannah Bananas: Saints QB Tyler Shough throws TD at baseball game March 15, 2026, 6:07 p.m. CT Banana&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":815024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2076],"tags":[95878,7,896,55,2572,2571,6,397,15505,96128,95882,96129,95906,113342,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-815023","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-orleans-saints","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-new-orleans","11":"tag-new-orleans-saints","12":"tag-neworleans","13":"tag-neworleanssaints","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-saints","16":"tag-sstssportsnflsaints","17":"tag-sstsnsaints","18":"tag-tagamerican-football","19":"tag-tagnew-orleans-saints","20":"tag-tagoverall-positive","21":"tag-tagsavannah-bananas","22":"tag-tagsports-news","23":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116237819277397541","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815023","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=815023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}